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Telefonica furthers its cooperation with Huawei with the signing of a 5G & NG-RAN Joint Innovation Agreement in Shenzhen. The collaboration covers CloudRAN, 5G Radio User Centric No Cell, 5G Core Re-Architect and Massive MIMO innovation projects, aiming to improve the spectrum efficiency and build a cloud-native architecture.
According to Huawei, the 5G Core architecture evolution and research on CloudRAN would be the major cooperation areas between Telefonica and Huawei. With the fast development of mobile internet and IoT (Internet of Things), mobile broadband will penetrate all areas of the society, and the users expect a better blueprint for a better connected world.
Huawei said that future diverse applications which require ultra-high throughput, low latency and massive connection, need a revolution of the current cellular network. Both operators and vendors are seeking ways to increase the network coverage and capacity, reduce the network operation cost by simplifying maintenance, saving energy, and improving efficiency and flexibility to implement new services.
David Wang, President of Huawei Wireless Network
Telefonica has certain insights about the future trends of the mobile network. The cooperation between Telefonica and Huawei will help to build a better connected world.
Enrique Blanco, Chief Technology Officer, Telefonica Group
The collaboration with Huawei in this area allows sharing the true requirements of a global operator as Telefonica, and helping to focus on providing the right solutions on this Advanced Network at the right time.
