The GUIDE business blueprint and innovative solutions that focus on digitalization and carbon neutrality for the future of ICT were released by Huawei at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2022.
At an online media roundtable Monday this week, the global leading provider of ICT infrastructure and smart devices vows to empower the green and sustainable future of the digital economy in the Asia Pacific region.
Forecasts show that over 50% of global GDP will be digitalized this year. As the global digital economy develops rapidly, the demand for digital products and services has exceeded expectations. Huawei’s Rotating Chairman Guo Ping explained that as Shannon’s theorem and the von Neumann architecture continue hitting severe bottlenecks, the industry must explore new theories and architectures to reshape the technological paradigm to achieve digital sustainability.
Huawei has been upholding the concept of “make technology and nature live together,” and has continued to invest in reducing carbon emissions, increasing the use of renewable energy, promoting circular economy, and guarding nature with technology. Huawei is committed to integrating digital technology and power electronics to promote the energy revolution, accelerate the digitization of energy, enable industrial upgrading in thousands of industries, and become an enabler of carbon emission reduction.
By creating synergies between IT and CT, cloud and edge, and cloud and networks, Huawei hopes to help operators go digital and intelligent and achieve new revenue growth. In the Asia Pacific, for example, Huawei’s OneStorage solution has helped one operator cut TCO by 30%.
“Connectivity density and computing power determine the strength of the digital economy, but it should also maintain long-term vitality. So, we need to consider a new dimension, carbon reduction,” Guo said on carbon neutrality.
Huawei currently adheres to a “More Bits, Less Watts” strategy in this area. In addition to improving its fundamental digital capabilities, Huawei has committed to making its products 2.7 times more energy efficient by making breakthroughs in areas like theories, materials, and algorithms. Huawei’s third-generation Massive MIMO products fully utilize the multi-antenna technology to improve energy efficiency by 30% compared with peer products.
As part of its efforts to create a greener and more sustainable digital world, Huawei will increase investment in sustainable green solutions, leveraging clean power generation, electric transportation, and smart energy storage, to support the Asia Pacific region’s goals of cutting carbon emissions, promoting renewable energy, and contributing to a circular economy, according to Jay Chen, Vice President of Huawei Asia Pacific. Through advances like these, the ICT industry is able to help other industries reduce their own carbon footprints.
According to AlphaBeta, a Singapore-based strategic economic consultancy that works with governments, businesses, investors, and other institutions, their report shows that a technology-driven economy could assist in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and recovering the country’s economic losses.
The report states that if fully leveraged by 2030, the country can foster a digital economy that can raise PHP 5 trillion or 101 million US dollars in economic value by 2030. This is equivalent to 27% of the country’s GDP in 2020 alone.
“In Asia Pacific, for Asia Pacific’ is our commitment. At Huawei, we are working closely with carriers and partners from around the world to explore solutions that help make life better, businesses smarter, and society more inclusive. We’d also love to share how our ICT technology is helping make the world a greener, more sustainable place. Together, we can light up the future,” according to Jay Chen.
To support the digital ecosystem in the Asia Pacific, Huawei in 2021 has announced that it will invest US$50M to develop 500,000 digital talents for the region within the next 5 years, and invest US$100M over three (03) years to cultivate the startup ecosystem in the region, including in the Philippines.
Huawei showcased its products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1 of the MWC22 Barcelona from 28 February 2022 to 03 March 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Together with global operators, industry professionals, and opinion leaders, Huawei dive into topics such as industry trends, GUIDE to the Future, and green development to envision the future of digital networks.