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HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Huawei Confidential

Challenges and Opportunities in ICT

Shugong Xu. PhD Director and Principal Scientist

[email protected]

Invited talk in International Conference: "Global ICT industry: changing landscape?

- The future of European ICT R&D“ 19-20 October 2011 Brussels, Belgium

HISILICON SEMICONDUCTOR HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Beyond Voice: Changing Communications

Peer to Peer

2000 ~ 0.7 Billion Cellular users



One to Group

One to All, All to All


Beyond Phone: Changing Behaviors

Personal Expanded Infinite

2000 0.02x traffic

2010 1x traffic

2020 ~ 500x traffic


Beyond Applications: Enriching Lifestyles

2000 ~1000x Apps

2010 ~ 350,000x Apps

2020 ~ 3 Billions Apps

SNS

Entertainment

Education

Health &

fitness

Business

& Finance

SNS

Others Smart X

Apps


Telecom trend: Converging with IT

• Convergence of IT (Information Technology) and CT (Communication Technology) in

Telecom is a clear trend.

• Traditional IT companies are getting into telecom area, including telecom service.

Hardware based (e.g. PSTN)

Owned (e.g. operator owned and operated

network)

Physical (e.g. operator run data center)

Network-based services (e.g. Voice and SMS)

Telco controlled devices (e.g. 2G phones)

Software based (e.g. IMS and SIP)

Managed (e.g. network managed by vendor)

Virtual (e.g. cloud based data center)

IP-based services (e.g. social networking and IM,

Skype, Google Voice)

IT / CE controlled devices (e.g. iPhone,

netbooks)

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IT Trends: Cloud?


What Does This Mean to The Telecom Industry?

Network connections as the

foundation – continuously

expanding the user base

Business transformation –

extending the business scope

Challenges : 270X digital content

100X traffic growth

From pipe to content

From CT to ICT service…..

From people to machines

From voice to data Personal Enterprise

Family

UC media App

Data Center

App Platform

IP + Optical

Cloud-Pipe-Devices

– new architecture of information services

Everything is digital

Everything is online

Telecom needs to redefine itself to adapt to ICT convergence trend


Huawei is Redesigning its Business Strategy to Cover Every

ICT Sector

Lead

in Networks

Expand

in Devices

Establish

in IT Solutions

Extend in Enterprise

Market

Excel in Telecom

Carriers

Brand in Consumer

Market Personal Enterprise

Family

App App App

Data Center

App Platform

IP + Optical


Leverage Expertise in Serving Both Enterprises and

Telecom Operators

Huawei’s

E2E

ICT Strategy Helping operators to become

ICT service providers.

Providing cloud-based ICT

solutions and technical

services.

Optimized enterprise solutions with expertise in the telecom sector

Better help with operators’ transformation through our

understanding of enterprises’ needs

Operator Enterprise


A global company with Centers of Expertise worldwide

120,000+ employees with 150+ nationalities worldwide

15 Regional Headquarters, operations in 140+ countries

20 R&D centers worldwide

Localized operation powered by global resources

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Malaysia

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China

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Hungary

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Mexico

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Bahrain

Germany

R&D center

Huawei Headquarters

Technical support center

Accounting share center ▲

Supply center & Hub ■

Training center

Biding center (Planning) ◆


Challenges means Opportunities

Develop Cloud based services

Expand all around mobility

Cloud

Pipe

Devices

Increase 500x capacity and more

Opportunities

By meeting challenges will we realize new opportunities.

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