The 2024 International Information and Communication Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as "PT Exhibition") was successfully held in Beijing recently. As one of the most influential annual events in the information and communication industry, this year's PT Exhibition put forward the theme of "Promoting the Deep Integration of Digital and Real Technologies to Build New Quality Productivity", emphasizing more on how to accelerate the implementation of technologies and promote the process of new technologies from laboratories to industrial applications.
"Technology landing and application" has become one of the important keywords of this PT exhibition, which is also in line with the current focus of the science and technology community. Even in Silicon Valley, on the other side of the ocean, everyone is looking for national application scenarios that can be effectively implemented for the constantly iterating ChatGPT to support the feasibility of artificial intelligence as a new round of technological revolution. It can be said that the implementation and application of technology have been pushed to an unprecedented height.
ZTE booth at the 2024 International Information and Communication Exhibition
As an important carrier of scientific and technological applications, enterprises undertake the important function of bringing new technology products to the market. At this PT exhibition, many well-known technology companies at home and abroad will display their products and market solutions in the field of communication technology intelligence. Among them, ZTE has brought its products and solutions in 5G-A, artificial intelligence, low-altitude economy, 5G+XR and other products and solutions in recent years to the PT exhibition.
As a leading communications manufacturer in mainland China, ZTE's technology accumulation is obvious to all, and at this year's PT Exhibition, ZTE brought innovative products and solutions in the field of "connection + computing power" with the theme of "Digital Reality Integration and Intelligent Connectivity Symbiosis", and empowered the digital and intelligent transformation of partners in various industries with the underlying core technology innovation.
In the 5G-related connectivity exhibition area, ZTE focused on ZTE's 5G-A and 50G PON technology innovation and application achievements, helping operators comprehensively promote the commercial process of 5G-A and 10 Gigabit networks. It is reported that 50G PON is the key technology to achieve 10 Gigabit broadband, and ZTE has carried out 50G-PON application cooperation with more than 50 operators around the world.
ZTE's digital transformation solution relies on the 5G+PON industrial field network and digital nebula, combined with the Nebula model, to comprehensively help the construction of industrial digital intelligence. The solution has been deployed in ZTE's Nanjing Binjiang Smart Factory, with a 100% networking rate of key equipment in the factory, innovative 5G industrial production integration applications in 24 categories and more than 120 scenarios, shortening the factory's delivery cycle from 20 days to 14 days, and reducing carbon emissions by 29%. Recently, the Binjiang factory has also become the first five-star 5G factory in China to be certified by the Academy of Information and Communications Technology. The exhibition site brought a demonstration of the wide application of 50G PON in the field of industrial quality inspection, helped enterprises automate and efficient production, and released a new generation of flagship products, promoting the leap forward of 10 Gigabit cities and building the cornerstone of future cities.
In terms of the "low-altitude economy", an important application scenario of 5G-A, ZTE has achieved a first-mover advantage in the field of low-altitude economy by taking the lead in the layout of 5G-A key technologies, and has cooperated with operators and governments in more than 80 pilot projects in 25 provinces and cities such as Beijing, Nanjing, and Shenzhen to verify the application of 5G-A synaesthesia in logistics distribution and low-altitude safety and other scenarios. The booth showcased the industry's first 4.9GHz "synaesthesia integration" low-altitude smart park built in Yanqing in the form of live broadcast connection to promote the development of low-altitude economy.
At the same time, the low-altitude economy has become an important area involved in the "new quality of productivity". In order to enhance the thinking and cognition of the market and the industry on the low-altitude economy, on the first day of the PT exhibition, ZTE hosted the "Creating Intelligence at Low Altitude, Focusing on Take-off" Low-altitude Economic Industry Development Forum. The forum not only discussed the challenges and opportunities faced by the low-altitude economy, but also looked forward to the broad prospects of technological innovation and application.
Wang Xiang, senior vice president of ZTE, said that with the maturity of policies, markets and technical conditions, the low-altitude economy will usher in rapid development. He believes that to promote the take-off of the low-altitude economy, it is necessary to focus on the "four mays": digging deep into application scenarios, breaking through technical bottlenecks, building a feasible business model, and ensuring safety and controllability. ZTE is willing to work with industry partners to jointly explore new areas of low-altitude economy, drive development with innovation, and help the industry grow healthily.
In the field of virtual reality, another important scenario of 5G application, ZTE also has a layout. At this year's PT Exhibition, ZTE, together with China Electronics Cloud, Yushang Hemei Group, and Sichuan Telecom, created the world's first 5G-A VR large-space immersive theater project - Jimmy Picture Book Metaverse Drama was also officially released.
It is understood that the Jimmy Picture Book Metaverse drama is adapted from the five classic picture books of the phenomenal IP-Jimmy, and strives to create a Jimmy Picture Book Metaverse World that can warm the hearts of tourists. In cooperation with ZTE, China Electronics Cloud and Sichuan Telecom, Yushang Hemei Group has adopted the industry's latest 5G-A VR large-space immersive theater solution, which can ensure a highly immersive experience for visitors while using lightweight equipment, and the theater can accommodate more than 50 people at the same time, and can receive more than 800 people throughout the day.
At the press conference, Lu Ping, vice president of ZTE and general manager of the industrial digital solution department, said that the metaverse is a representative industry and a new track of the digital economy, and with the development of 5G-A, edge computing, artificial intelligence and other technologies and the further iteration and innovation of XR technology, XR applications with the support of online media integration will play an increasingly critical role in the digital development of the cultural and tourism industry.
In addition, in the current more popular field of artificial intelligence, ZTE is committed to building an intelligent computing ecosystem that is inclusive and prosperous. The intelligent computing exhibition area focuses on the full-stack intelligent computing solution and a series of computing power transmission achievements, and actively promotes the construction of open intelligent computing infrastructure and application ecology in China through software and hardware decoupling, training and deduction decoupling, and model decoupling.
The full-stack intelligent computing solution fully meets the needs of computing power leap, efficient reasoning, and open ecosystem. The new flagship high-density AI server based on OLink's open switching interconnection protocol and self-developed switching chips provides efficient computing power support for parallel training of large models. It supports diversified inference resource pools of GPUs from multiple vendors and mainstream large models, helping users achieve low-latency, low-cost, and high-efficiency inference. The large-capacity box, box, and single-layer multi-track RoCE solutions effectively improve the efficiency of large model training. Servers that are fully adapted to mainstream GPUs support heterogeneous mixed pool training; The eMIG model migration suite can realize the non-inductive migration of models from CUDA ecology to CUDA-like ecology. The panoramic refrigeration solution solves the pain points of high energy consumption, high density, and multi-computing power integration in the intelligent computing center; The Nebulas model helps industry partners apply AI "faster, better, and cheaper".
Wang Xiang, Chief Strategy Officer of ZTE
On the one hand, the core purpose of network, computing and other infrastructure is to reduce hardware costs and improve hardware selectivity, but for the industry, how to better and faster develop a platform based on its own business processes at the software level is very important. It enables customers to quickly build their internal business processes through combination and efficiently realize business construction.
Now, the 2024 International Information and Communication Exhibition has come to an end, and the integration of data and reality and the implementation of technology emphasized at the PT Exhibition will become the direction of industrial development in the future. ZTE's profound technology accumulation and forward-looking strategic layout not only help promote the industrial application of new technologies, but also emphasize empowering the digital and intelligent transformation of partners in various industries through underlying core technology innovation. Looking ahead, ZTE will continue to work with industry partners to drive the development of cutting-edge fields such as the low-altitude economy with innovation, jointly build a new foundation for future cities, and promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy.