Huawei Wins 4 GLOMOs at MWC Barcelona 2023
The annual GSMA GLOMO awards at MWC Barcelona recognize the outstanding contributions of organizations that change how people, communities, and businesses interact and evolve in a digital-first world.
This year Huawei took home four awards. So let’s take a look at the winners!
Huawei MetaAAU: ‘Best Mobile Network Infrastructure’
What it is
- Huawei’s 3rd-gen 5G AAU product comprising MetaAAU and Meta BladeAAU
What it does
- Improves 5G coverage, capacity, and energy efficiency, making it a top choice for TDD deployment
- Enables a greener development path for Massive MIMO as the first-of-its-class solution to introduce ELAA (Extremely Large Antenna Array)
- Boosts network performance
- Reduces energy consumption by 30% compared with traditional AAUs
- Improves uplink user experience by 40%
- Maximizes the value of existing sites in rural and suburban scenarios and achieves continuous coverage
- Improves indoor coverage
- Shortens ROI for operators
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Who’s deploying it
- 50+ cities around the world, with 100,000+ units shipped
Huawei FDD Beamforming Series: ‘Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough’
What it is
- The Huawei FDD beamforming series of products comprising Massive MIMO, 8T8R, and Hertz antennas.
What it does
- Uses an exclusive intelligent beamforming algorithm to flexibly support 4G and 5G beams
- Provides up to five-fold spectral efficiency through FDD Massive MIMO, supporting capacity growth in hotspots
- Tackles issues like 4G congestion and poor indoor 5G experience
- Increases spectral efficiency by three times with 8T8R, compared with 4T4R
- Helps operators build ‘experience-based’ networks with upgraded devices
- Delivers more balanced uplink and downlink 5G user-perceived rates
- Expands mid-band coverage to better coordinate mid and low bands
- Enhances experience across all sub-3 GHz bands, increasing investment efficiency for operators
- Lowers energy consumption
Who’s deploying it
- 100+ operators around the world
Midea, China Mobile, and Huawei: ‘5G Industry Challenge Award’
What it is
- The world’s first 5G fully connected factory in the home appliance sector
- The largest application of 5G in the industry, with the largest number of 5G devices
What it does
- Uses advanced solutions from China Mobile and Huawei to deliver 5G connections across 15 scenarios, and connects all production links with 5G devices
- Uses laser point cloud 3D modeling to support high-precision simulation, allowing indoor 5G private network planning to reach a precision above 90%
- Improves quality inspection efficiency with AI by 10% by using multi-band networking combined with Distributed Massive MIMO to deliver a deterministic uplink capacity of 1 Gbit/s per 1,000 sq. meters
- Improves uplink capacity by 10% using the world’s first FAB pRRU, which features internal beam adjusting capability
- Replaces complex cabling between machines with 5G, improving workplace safety
- Boosts productivity with machines able to operate automatically
- Slashes the time to produce one washing machine to 15 seconds
- Increases the number of products directly delivered to customers by 100%
- Cuts warehouse inventory by 50%
- Reduces labor costs by 30%
Who’s deploying it
- Midea Group in its laundry appliance factory in Jingzhou, China
Huawei RuralLink: ‘Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets’
What it is
- A solution for addressing communication challenges in connecting rural communities (40% of the world’s population is not connected to the Internet.)
What it does
- Uses microwave fronthaul technology in an industry first
- Enables rural sites to share the baseband resources of existing base stations so that independent baseband units (BBU) are not required
- Reduces site power consumption: BBUs are not required and only one RRU and one Channel Expand Antenna are needed to achieve three-sector coverage
- Supplies the entire site with power using just 4 PV modules
- Supports 2G, 3G, and 4G, with 5G evolution possible
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