Orange Group and Huawei have signed a partnership to cooperate in 5G & cloudification. Teams of both companies will work together on these technologies and related use cases, in order to foster 5G innovation on three areas: infrastructure, operations, and ecosystem development.
The companies will cooperate on key 5G enabling technologies, such as:
- Massive MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output)
- Cloudification of the mobile network
- Network Slicing
- 4G and 5G power and channel sharing within spectrum bands
Both partners will also focus on specific 5G use cases such as Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality, Ultra large Coverage for Africa, Energy Efficiency and Fixed Mobile Convergence.
Early this year, Orange has signed a partnership with Nokia to collaborate on 5G, specifically developing services that will allow industries and consumers to take advantage of efficiencies and business models made possible by the as yet pre-standardized next generation network. The Operator also signed similar partnership agreement with Ericsson last year.
Alain Maloberti, SVP, Orange Labs Networks
Preparing network evolution from 4G to 5G is key for Orange. We are happy to collaborate with Huawei on technological challenges that will make augmented and virtual reality future usages possible, as well as increase our mobile network performances such as very low latency and even higher throughput when and where it matters for our customers in Europe and in Africa.
Zou Zhilei, Presidnet of Carrier Business Group, Huawei
We are happy to announce a new step in our long-term cooperation with Orange Group, in mobile technologies and especially with 5G around the corner. Until today this cooperation has led to the successful introduction of new solutions, including 4G and 4.5G; and now we jointly explore the potential of 5G networks in order to make 5G a reality for Orange in the coming years.
