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Russia's Veon Showcases 5G Holographic Call and 5G VR Use Case with Huawei

Russia's Veon Showcases 5G Holographic Call and 5G VR Use Case with Huawei Image Credit: Huawei

Veon (formerly VimpelCom) and Huawei recently demonstrated a 5G Holographic Call in Moscow.

The Moscow Museum exhibition hall was used as the demonstration zone and the dialogue between the speakers was conducted using a hologram - a digitized image transmitted through Mixed Reality glasses (MR) via a 5G network. Holographic communication requires high bandwidth and low latency.

During the demonstration, the companies used frequencies between 26,600–27,200 MHz that had been temporarily allocated to Veon. This spectrum range is within the 3GPP standardized band n258.

A commercially available Huawei 5G base station - the gNodeB - was used to make the holographic call. The base station consists of an active antenna array (HAAU 5213) and a new generation of BBU5900 digital processing module with a 5G board. The radio interface uses TDD mode in the 100 MHz frequency band and MIMO 64x64 technology. One of the first commercially available 5G CPE devices based on the Huawei Balong5G01 chipset is selected as the subscriber terminal, which includes an RF module (ODU) and 5G/WiFi router (IDU).

Veon and Huawei also demonstrated a practical 5G virtual reality (VR) use case using an online broadcast from a 360-degree camera housed in a VR helmet. The technology can potentially be used to enhance user experience in terms of remote travel. For example, Veon customers can visit an operator's shop, acquire a tariff plan, or buy a smartphone, while physically located in the comfort of their own home.

Vasyl Latsanych, CEO of Veon
We simply wish to offer our subscribers an understanding of how such technologies can become an integral part of their daily lives, and how they can simplify and improve their user experience. 

Aiden Wu, CEO, Huawei in Russia
This May 2018, Beeline and Huawei signed an agreement to pursue the joint development of 5G in Russia. Our cooperation has been extremely productive, which today's demonstration has quite clearly shown. 

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