In recent times, the Internet has been cut off all over the world, some are natural disasters and some are man-made disasters.
After the large-scale outage of the Internet in the UK, Japan and Canada, the United States also cut off the Internet some time ago. Since 2018, after the United States gradually dismantled the Huawei communication equipment, it was thought that it would replace its own products and enhance the stability of communication. Unexpectedly, just a while ago, Verizon, the largest mobile communication operator in the United States, suddenly cut off the Internet, resulting in network abnormalities in major cities in the eastern United States such as New York and Miami .
Moreover, this is not the first time this year. Previously, some American farms had been out of the Internet three times a month, which directly led to the interruption of the contact between farmers and the outside world. In order to improve communication equipment, US operators have switched to Huawei's "old rivals" - products from companies such as Ericsson , Nokia , but the operating cost of has increased sharply by 30%-40%.
If the United States relies on its original strong technological strength and economic foundation, but only feels a little "slight illness and pain" in the network outage accident, then life will not be so comfortable with the "brothers" who dismantled Huawei equipment in the United States.
1. Boycott Huawei caused a wave of network outages
Previously, Rogers Communications, one of Canada's three major operators, experienced a nationwide network outage for several consecutive days. Not only were the companies forced to shut down work and production, but they also dragged important systems such as hospitals and transportation into a shutdown. And this situation is not the first time.
After excluding human cyber attacks, the instability of operator communication equipment became the only explanation. Since Rogers Communications rejected Huawei, it has "married" with Ericsson, which resulted in higher operating costs and more unstable equipment.
In comparison, the UK is not much better. At the beginning of this year, there was also a nationwide outage in the UK, and it lasted for several days. There have been countless sudden outages in the Internet, and there have been at least ten times since 2018.
The situation in Australia is the worst. The frequency and duration of the Internet outage in Australia are no less than that in the UK, and a one-day outage in 2019 caused its retail industry to lose more than US$700 million. Even when the network is operating normally, the network transmission speed of up to 20Mbps in Australia has been criticized by local operators. If you send a 300M file, you need to inform the other party one day in advance.
. Japan, which has relatively complete infrastructure, has had a serious network outage accident before. In early July this year, Japan's second largest communications operator KDDI was cut off for nearly four days, causing domestic financial, transportation, logistics, meteorological observation and other systems to fall into paralysis. A similar outage accident occurred in October last year.
From this point of view, the United States and other Western countries have hurt their enemies by removing Huawei's communication equipment and hurting one thousand of them. So, why do telecom operators in various countries have such a big impact after rejecting Huawei?
2. Huawei's footprints are spread across Western countries
In the 4G era, the United States Qualcomm has the absolute right to speak in chip manufacturing. However, at this time, Huawei already has 45% of the global market share of 4G wireless access network (RAN) products, and has deeply participated in network construction in various countries around the world.
Among them, Australia used almost all the equipment used in its 4G network construction. Then, in order to respond to the call, Australia spent a huge price to replace Huawei equipment, and the network speed seemed to have returned to the "3G era".
So far, Australia's self-built 5G network costs up to RMB 245 billion, but the actual transmission speed is 20% slower than 4G. The United States has also used Huawei equipment in its 4G network construction, so that in 2021, the US Congress needs to approve a $1.9 billion budget for dismantling Huawei equipment.
However, during the actual implementation this year, the estimated demolition cost has reached US$5.3 billion, nearly twice the original plan. It may take more money to finally complete the equipment removal.
Compared with the United States, Huawei's influence in the UK is deeply rooted, and half of the UK's 4G devices are from Huawei. The president of BT Group previously said that it will take at least 10 years for the UK to divest Huawei technology. Some British experts predict that after the removal of Huawei equipment, the construction of G in the UK will be at least three years behind, and the cost will increase by more than 2 billion pounds.
So, what is unique about Huawei's technology that can make Western countries so reliant on it before and feel so uncomfortable after rejecting it?
3. Huawei's communication technology is the leader in
What can support Huawei to firmly sit in the first place in the 5G communication field is nothing more than its excellent technology.
First, blade base station
In 2018, Huawei's independently developed blade base station won the "House National Science and Technology Progress Award First Prize". The blade-type base station is small and flexible, solving problems such as the large area of traditional base stations and complex website building mode.
The installation of a blade base station only takes one minute, and can be installed in most locations such as walls, roofs, towers, etc. Its natural heat dissipation mode can meet the outdoor high temperature environment of 55℃, and the IP65 protection level saves the computer room cabinet and air conditioner, and saves a lot of base station construction site rent and maintenance costs.
Second, highly integrated Tiangang chip
Tiangang chip is the core chip of 5G base station. Compared with previous chips, the power consumption is reduced by more than 15%, and the computing power is increased by 2.5 times, and the spectrum bandwidth can reach 200M, which can meet the deployment needs of future networks in one step.
Third, the first intelligent IP network that supports promiseable SLP
Huawei's intelligent IP network helps the IP network transform from Best-effort to promiseable SLP. The FlexE flexible slices it carries, achieving the industry's highest accuracy - 1Gbps slice accuracy, and its ability is 5 times that of ordinary slices.
The fourth, ultra-wide transmission network
Huawei’s first 800G network transmission module can reach a transmission capacity of 48T for a single fiber, which is 40% higher than the industry’s capabilities and can be oriented towards the smooth evolution of the network in the next ten years.
4. Conclusion
While Huawei was "forced demolition" by Western countries, Ren Zhengfei calmly said in an interview: "We are confident that our products cannot be bought by others."
21 according to the annual report disclosed by Huawei, Huawei's R&D investment in 2021 reached 142.7 billion yuan, accounting for 22.4% of the annual revenue, and employees aged 30 to 50 accounted for more than 70%. It is precisely because of this high investment in R&D and the stability of the scientific research team that Ren Zhengfei can calmly face provocations and competition from other markets.
