Original title: ZTE has started 6G pre-research in 2019, and key technologies can be applied in advance to stay ahead
21st Century Business Herald reporter Luo Yiqi reports from Guangzhou On the evening of October 25th, during the 2021 Global Analyst Conference of ZTE Corporation, Cui Li, Chief Development Officer of ZTE Corporation, introduced in the Q&A session that in the ten-generation communications industry, the new generation of mobile technology usually starts ten years earlier. Technology pre-research.
Therefore, when the domestic commercialization of 5G technology began in 2019, ZTE started the pre-research on 6G technology simultaneously.
In fact, even from a historical point of view, advance research on the new generation of technology will better help the application of current communication technology.
“Generation is only a conceptual level, and the core must be problem-driven.” Cui Li said. For example, Massive MIMO (Massive MIMO) technology, which is widely used in 5G communications, has actually been used in the 4G era. And can solve the problems in the commercial landing process.
Xie Junshi, executive vice president and chief operating officer of ZTE, also said that ZTE will conduct research on 6G and will strive to gradually apply some key technologies in advance, such as intelligent supersurface technology. “Similar to the early use of Massive MIMO, it can continue to maintain technological leadership.” He continued.
Cui Li pointed out that with regard to smart metasurface technology, its purpose is mainly to solve the problem of higher frequency radiation limitation. ZTE is currently conducting joint tests with operators, hoping to use some of the core technologies of 6G to solve the problems in current 5G network applications, so that the 5G network can have better performance.
“There are two main driving factors for 6G research and development: 5G evolution and communication intergenerational iteration.” Cui Li continued. Specifically, the successful commercialization of 5G will become a good foundation for the development of 6G technology. All innovations are hoped to solve problems. To create value, with the continuous expansion of 5G commercial use, it will better meet the pursuit of cost efficiency and better performance in all walks of life.
In terms of generational iterations, Cui Li said that with the development of 5G applications and the unprecedented growth of the digital society, it will bring about a significant leap in network performance and functions. “At this time, it is necessary to promote iteratively, such as the integrated coverage of the sky, the earth and the sea, holographic communication, all-intelligence applications, AI Internet, perception Internet, etc.. These problems that cannot be solved by 5G evolution require 6G communication. With the promotion of technology in China, as more frequencies are introduced, there will be more anti-jamming coordination technologies, ultra-dense networking capabilities, etc.”
(Author: Luo Yiqi Editor: Li Qingyu)
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