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Huawei and ITU-T Host Video Everywhere Summit to Drive the Video Industry Forward

[Barcelona, Spain, February 21, 2016] Huawei and the ITU Telecommunication

Standardization Sector (ITU-T) jointly hosted the Video Everywhere Summit

2016. The event attracted global operators, industry partners, and industry

leaders from consulting firms. It provided a fantastic platform for attendees to

better understand the trends of the global video industry, and formulate industry

development and business strategies for a robust ecosystem, and develop unified

standards for quantifying the video experience. Attendees discussed what types

of networks are needed to support video services, explored what OTT players

and content providers expect from operators, and held constructive discussions

on how operators should develop video services. Huawei shared its vision of Big

Video and unveiled a new video network architecture that can deliver an optimal

experience.

Zou Zhilei, President of Huawei's Carrier BG, addressing the summit

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Zou Zhilei, President of Huawei's Carrier BG, shared Huawei's understanding and vision of Big Video in his speech. He remarked, "Future video scenarios will go beyond anything we can imagine today. Video will be a part of every industry; it will be a way of life and a completely new experience. We are now a video society."

Video connections make for a closer, brilliant life. Video will connect billions of people and tens of billions of devices, creating a huge market worth US$100 billion. It will become a new basic service of operators. To capitalize on this huge market, operators need to develop competitive advantages in video services from four dimensions: services, networks, video standardization, and ecosystem. Huawei recently unveiled its five Big Initiatives, including Big Video, which will help operators succeed in their digital transformations. Huawei has developed open platform solutions for 2K/4K video, which aggregate content and enable innovation in video services. 4k video will become a powerful driver of network development, carry us into an era where "Network is king", and present a great opportunity for operators to succeed in video services.

To succeed in video services, companies need to make video experience a core competence. Measurement of the video experience is another complex issue. Video is used in many very different scenarios, with very different requirements. The existing video standards were having trouble responding to new demands. So at the last ITU-T meeting in Geneva, Huawei delivered a new video experience standard, U-vMOS, applicable to all H.265 videos. Along with the world's operators and our industry partners, Huawei hopes that this will become the consensus standard for the video industry, as consensus will support rapid growth for 4K video.

Zou emphasized the importance of creating an open industry platform and a flourishing video ecosystem. He said, "The growth of the video industry requires a shared vision and joint innovation among operators, equipment

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vendors, the media, content providers, software developers, and other stakeholders. Together, we can provide end users with the best service experience and achieve shared business success."

Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, highlighted the importance of and shared progress regarding the development of unified standards for the video industry based on user experience. He called for participation from all industry players.

Li Kunlong, Director of Huawei's Carrier Video Service Dept, referred to Huawei's video network architecture that aims to deliver an optimal user experience. This is the first time that Huawei has proposed redefining network architecture with video experience in the industry. The network architecture prototype will be released at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona.

Guests from global operators and video industry partners also delivered speeches at the summit. They shared how industry players can collaborate to accelerate video service innovation, develop unified standards for quantifying the video experience, and usher in a golden era for the video industry with user experience at its core.

MWC 2016 will be held in Barcelona, Spain from February 22 to 25. Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at Fira Gran Via Hall 1 and Hall 3. For more details, please visit: http://www.huawei.com/en/mwc2016

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HUAWEI: Open ROADS to a Better Connected WorldHuawei's theme of "Open ROADS to a Better Connected World" at Mobile World

Congress 2016 is based on Huawei's core strategy of advancing ICT through

building open, collaborative industry ecosystems that generate win-win outcomes.

In the future, the world will be fully connected with people-to-people, people-to-

objects and objects-to-objects connections, interactions and coordination, and

this will drive a new digital business environment creating challenges and

opportunities for telecom carriers. Huawei’s standard for the ultimate user

experience is ROADS which means: Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY and

Social. With its leading technology products and solutions, Huawei is working

together with carriers to deliver an engaging ROADS experience and implement

future-proof strategic transformation to jointly build a Better Connected World.