Rakuten Mobile leveraged Kubernetes, OpenNESS, and the open‑source Kube‑OVN data‑plane to replace virtual machines with containers in its NFV and RAN infrastructure, creating the first cloud‑native 5G network and outlining future enhancements for telecom‑grade performance and scalability.
5G’s three core pillars—enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) delivering high throughput via wider bandwidth, Massive MIMO and coding; Ultra‑Reliable Low‑Latency Communication (URLLC) achieving ≈1 ms latency with sub‑carrier spacing and network slicing; and massive Machine‑Type Communication (mMTC) supporting up to one million IoT devices per km² with long battery life—together enable VR/AR, edge computing, industrial IoT and other verticals through network slicing, MEC and D2D links.
This article explores how the rise of 5G, IPv6, advanced positioning, blockchain, and digital twin technologies are driving the industrial Internet of Things, transforming manufacturing into a responsive, data‑rich ecosystem that bridges the physical and digital worlds for unprecedented efficiency and innovation.
While 5G’s radio link can reach about 1 ms, true end‑to‑end latency remains dominated by core and internet delays, so 4G, 5G‑NSA and 5G‑SA differ only modestly; however, combining 5G Standalone with Multi‑access Edge Computing can cut total latency below 10 ms, enabling ultra‑reliable low‑latency applications.
Facing the explosion of 5G traffic and billions of daily call records, Jiangsu Mobile’s IT operations team adopted Prometheus as the core time‑series database, designing a high‑availability, low‑latency monitoring platform that captures, stores, visualizes and predicts performance metrics across their massive billing system.
This article explains edge computing, its distributed architecture, key advantages such as higher security, lower latency and reduced bandwidth costs, explores major application scenarios like smart manufacturing and autonomous driving, and analyzes how 5G both drives and benefits from edge computing development.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of FPGA technology, its architectural components, advantages over ASICs, current global and Chinese market sizes, growth drivers such as 5G and AI, and the challenges and prospects for domestic FPGA manufacturers.
This comprehensive analysis examines the optical module industry's supply chain, technology trends, market segmentation across telecom, access, and data center applications, the impact of 5G and cloud growth, cost pressures, R&D investment, and the strategic shift toward high‑end and domestically sourced components.
The article explores how the advent of 5G reshapes operational demands, introduces a technical operations platform that unifies business and network domains, details practical implementations such as CMDB, monitoring, automation, and AIOps, and outlines future directions for intelligent, agile operations.
The Serverless Technology Salon in Shanghai on December 28, 2023 will showcase how serverless architecture combined with 5G, the Serverless Framework, SSR and frontend tools can accelerate development, reduce costs, and include hands‑on tutorials, expert talks, and exclusive giveaways for participants.
This article explains how 5G reshapes connectivity by detailing its three use‑case scenarios—eMBB, URLLC and mMTC—and the key technologies such as massive MIMO, millimeter‑wave, advanced channel coding, NOMA, cognitive radio, flexible frame structures and network slicing that together boost capacity, lower latency and support massive device density.
This article explains the fundamentals of 5G—including its definition, Shannon‑theorem‑based channel capacity, key performance indicators such as peak rates, millisecond latency and massive device density, standardisation by 3GPP, and how technologies like network slicing, mobile edge computing, IoT, D2D and CDN reshape future telecom services.
At the World 5G Conference, JD.com’s Vice President Li Kefeng outlined how 5G’s high bandwidth, low latency, and massive IoT capacity are reshaping retail experiences, infrastructure, and supply‑side operations, driving a borderless, personalized shopping ecosystem powered by cloud, AI, and digital‑twin technologies.
At the Cloud+ Community Developer Conference, Tencent’s Liao Long highlighted how 5G’s high bandwidth and low latency are driving CDN edge‑computing innovations—such as live‑edge transcoding, smart‑retail analytics, voice‑assistant processing, MEC‑based low‑latency services, and dynamic burst‑resource systems—to meet the surge in mobile users and bandwidth‑intensive applications.
Leading Tencent front‑end experts analyze 2020 trends, from TypeScript adoption and mature frameworks to mini‑program explosion, cross‑platform runtimes, DevOps tooling, Serverless cloud services, and 5G‑driven performance shifts, outlining how these forces will reshape front‑end engineering.
Tencent’s 2020 frontend forecast builds on 2019’s TypeScript‑driven framework maturity, booming mini‑programs, and cross‑platform shifts toward Flutter and SwiftUI, while predicting cloud‑based serverless architectures, 5G‑enabled SSR and WebAssembly, and continued performance‑focused innovations across mini‑programs and cross‑platform development.
The article explains how cloud computing’s centralized model faces latency and bandwidth limits, introduces edge and mobile edge computing as complementary solutions, outlines their technical benefits, and examines their critical role in autonomous driving and upcoming 5G ecosystems.
This article examines how 5G technology is reshaping the retail sector, detailing industry investment, the rise of 5G smartphones, current chip development, baseband and base‑station innovations, cost challenges, and emerging opportunities for optical chips.
Tencent Future Network Lab, founded in 2017 as China’s first internet‑company 5G research team, drives an application‑first 5G roadmap by uniting standards work, open‑source contributions, and real‑world pilots such as cloud gaming, 4K video, autonomous‑driving, and smart‑factory solutions, while building a converged cloud‑mobile ecosystem through network slicing and intelligent edge integration.
At Alibaba’s 2019 Hangzhou Cloud Conference, senior wireless expert Chu Peisi detailed the DaMai live‑service platform’s evolution from tightly coupled SDKs to a fully decoupled, AIDL‑based architecture that standardizes hardware, enables OTA updates, automated testing, secure IoT onboarding, 5G/4G QoS management, and supports paperless ticketing, VR, and large‑scale wristband interactions for live events.
The Beijing Cloud+ Developer Conference gathered experts from Tencent, Tongcheng‑Yilong and Beike Jinfu to examine 5G’s technical challenges, emerging application scenarios, reactive programming solutions, and edge‑cloud strategies, offering practical insights for developers and product teams navigating the new network era.
With 5G accelerating video traffic, immersive media relies on advanced 3D representation, efficient point‑cloud and video‑based compression, standardized containers, and selective streaming to enable realistic VR/AR experiences across gaming, autonomous driving, and broadcasting, while Tencent’s lab drives standards and future XR applications.
At the 6th World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, industry leaders including Jack Ma, Li Yanhong, Ding Lei, Zhou Hongyi, and others shared their visions on AI-driven smart economy, 5G’s role, digital transformation, security challenges, and future tech opportunities, highlighting key trends shaping the global digital landscape.
The article explains why 5G forces multimedia standardization, outlines the challenges of emerging formats like 8K, details the VVC (H.266) compression breakthrough, and describes Tencent's role in shaping future heterogeneous‑computing‑based multimedia architectures for cloud gaming and beyond.
With 5G’s bandwidth, video is evolving from ultra‑HD to immersive, interactive experiences—spanning comments, choose‑your‑path dramas, multi‑viewpoint streams, and six‑degrees‑of‑freedom (6DoF) free‑viewpoint content—requiring multi‑camera capture, cloud depth processing, low‑latency delivery, and new 3D codecs, a trend Alibaba Video is actively pioneering for sports, performances, and education.
The 2019 Tencent Cloud "5G Wind Rising" event examined how 5G's high bandwidth and low latency drive edge computing, reshaping CDN architectures, revealing new business opportunities, technical challenges, and real‑world case studies such as smart retail, voice assistants, and cloud gaming.
The live‑streaming market, which surpassed 600 billion CNY in 2019, is now growing more slowly due to rising costs, stricter regulation, and a plateau in user demographics, while emerging technologies such as AI, 5G, and AR create new opportunities that cloud providers like Tencent Cloud aim to capture with diversified end‑to‑end solutions.
At the 2019 Cloudwise Entertainment Technology Forum, Youku unveiled Narrowband HD 3.0, a private video transmission protocol that reduces bandwidth by roughly 30% compared with its 2.0 predecessor, integrates cloud‑based AI rendering signals, and makes ultra‑high‑definition streaming feasible for ordinary mobile users and low‑cost devices in the upcoming 5G era.
The article explains how intellectual property, especially Standard Essential Patents, underpins 5G technology and standards, detailing the evolution from earlier generations, key industry players, licensing processes, and the strategic value of SEPs for driving innovation, market influence, and future applications such as smart cities and autonomous vehicles.
The article explains how edge computing—driven by IoT, 5G, and AI—addresses latency, security, and cost challenges by processing data locally, showcases Tencent Cloud's IoT Edge Computing Platform that integrates cloud functions, machine‑learning and stream analytics at edge nodes, and announces a September 11 course covering its origins, architecture, applications, and hands‑on labs.
iQIYI and Huawei verified a 5G MEC + CDN edge‑acceleration solution that reduced end‑to‑end latency from 60 ms to under 10 ms, boosted 1080p/4K video download speeds by 400%, and paved the way for large‑scale VR, AR, and ultra‑HD streaming in the 5G era.
This article examines the rise of edge computing, explaining why it has become essential in the 5G era, analyzing server‑side and client‑side constraints, classifying edge product types, outlining its business and technical value, and offering principles and concerns for adopting edge architectures.
Leveraging 5G’s massive bandwidth, ultra‑low latency, edge computing and network slicing, Youku is delivering ultra‑high-definition, immersive cloud‑VR and interactive video—ranging from restored legacy films and multi‑camera live streams to branching dramas and 6DoF experiences—creating richer user experiences and novel business models.
The article traces how each mobile generation—from 1G’s early relational databases to 2G’s open‑source RDBMS, 3G’s scalable NoSQL, 4G’s NewSQL hybrids, and the emerging 5G era demanding ultra‑low latency, cloud‑native, AI‑driven real‑time analytics—shapes database architecture and future trends.
The 7th Internet Security Conference in Beijing gathered international experts to discuss the merging of cyberspace and physical space, the heightened impact of 5G and industrial IoT on cyber attacks, and collaborative strategies among China, Israel, Russia, and Singapore to build a comprehensive security ecosystem.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of FPGA technology, its hardware architecture, advantages over ASIC, and its expanding role in 5G, AI, automotive, and data‑center applications, while analyzing global market dynamics, domestic challenges, and future development trends.
In a LiveVideoStack interview, Alibaba senior technologist Xin Shi explains how 5G‑enabled ultra‑HD, cross‑domain VR streaming, and stereoscopic vision will reshape Youku’s video pipeline—leveraging e‑commerce scalability, AI‑driven recommendation, cloud‑edge CDN scheduling, deep‑learning up‑scaling, and a result‑oriented engineering culture to deliver immersive, interactive experiences.
The talk explained how the surge of IoT, AI and 5G drives edge computing—originating from shifts in IT architecture toward micro‑services—and described its layered hardware‑software ecosystem, Docker‑based core and cloud orchestration, dual management modes, key components, use cases such as smart transport and factories, future trends, and a hands‑on demo of deploying an edge node and rule‑engine.
At the 2019 DevOps International Summit in Beijing, Guangdong Mobile and Huawei unveiled their first carrier‑level DevOps deployment for 5G network elements, detailing the challenges of traditional rollout, the shift to X86‑based cloud infrastructure, and a step‑by‑step pipeline that cut deployment time by over 90%.
The article analyzes the rapid growth of data centers driven by 5G, AI, and IoT, examines the five‑layer architecture, discusses integration and optimization across infrastructure, hardware, and software layers, and outlines future trends including cloud, edge, and supercomputing centers.
Ren Zhengfei reveals Huawei’s HarmonyOS aims beyond smartphones, targeting IoT, autonomous driving and data centers with sub‑5 ms latency, claiming up to 60 % speed gains over Android, while acknowledging ecosystem challenges and outlining 5G rollout and US sanction updates.
The article analyzes the impact of China’s early 5G commercial license issuance on telecom operators, equipment manufacturers, and mobile handset makers, forecasting capital‑spending shifts, market pressures, technology choices, and consumer adoption hurdles that will shape the industry’s short‑ and long‑term trajectory.
The article explains edge computing concepts, its value, application scenarios, and its close relationship with 5G, highlighting how distributed processing at the network edge reduces latency, bandwidth costs, and enhances security, while outlining industry use cases such as smart manufacturing, smart cities, live gaming, and vehicular networks.
At iQIYI’s 2019 World Conference, senior executives and academic experts debated how 5G’s low‑latency, high‑bandwidth capabilities will boost 4K/8K video, AR, and AI‑driven services, while AI already powers recommendation, quality up‑scaling and VR, though deployment challenges and cost‑benefit expectations must be managed for a seamless physical‑virtual future.
The article explains cloud computing fundamentals, highlights its limitations, introduces edge and mobile edge computing (MEC) as complementary solutions, and details how MEC reduces latency and bandwidth usage to enable advanced use cases such as autonomous driving in the 5G era.
The article examines iQIYI’s 8K VR live‑streaming pipeline, detailing how 5G connectivity, tiled encoding, ROI‑focused transmission, and hardware‑accelerated processing reduce bitrate by 75 % and bring motion‑to‑photon latency down to zero, while addressing resolution, bandwidth, and latency challenges of immersive VR broadcasts.
ARM has introduced the Neoverse N1 and E1 platforms, built on a 7nm process to deliver high scalability, performance and power efficiency for 5G, IoT and next‑generation cloud‑to‑edge infrastructure, while sparking debate among industry leaders about the future of server architectures.
In a recent interview, iQiyi’s Vice President Xie Danming predicts that 2019 will mark a golden harvest for artificial intelligence, driven by 5G‑enabled AR/VR expansion, mature voice AI, emerging graph neural networks, and growing application‑focused investment, while highlighting challenges such as model cost, multimodal analysis, and the need for lightweight algorithms.
This article explores the rapid growth of the Internet of Things, its essential role in building smart cities, the boost provided by 5G networks, and showcases practical implementations in places like Singapore and Barcelona, while also discussing challenges and future directions.
Alibaba DAMO Academy outlines ten 2019 technology trends—from smart city real‑time simulation and voice AI passing Turing tests to AI‑specific chips, massive graph neural networks, re‑architected computing, 5G‑driven applications, digital identity, autonomous driving, blockchain rationalization, and emerging data‑security technologies.
The article forecasts the major technology trends for 2019, highlighting the rise of artificial intelligence, the transition beyond smartphones to wearable interfaces, global 5G deployment, the surge of progressive web apps, expanding blockchain applications, low‑code development, cloud services growth, and the continued dominance of JavaScript and modern development practices.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of V2X and C‑V2X technologies, explaining their definitions, communication modes, key application scenarios such as safety services and platooning, the DSRC and C‑V2X standards, and future prospects within intelligent transportation and 5G ecosystems.
At the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, leading figures such as Ma Huateng, Shen Xiangyang, Shen Nanpeng, Lei Jun, Steve Mollenkopf, Zhou Hongyi, Sun Pishu, Jing Xiandong, and Eugene Kaspersky shared insights on deep‑water internet challenges, AI's pivotal role, mobile‑first strategies, blockchain trust, and evolving cybersecurity, outlining the next era of digital transformation.
Google’s ambitious but halted Google Fiber project, launched in 2010 and paused in 2016, not only demonstrated the feasibility of gigabit broadband but also triggered a competitive ‘gigabit war’, reshaping ISP investment, accelerating fiber deployments, influencing 5G rollout strategies, and redefining public‑private infrastructure partnerships.
This article examines the rapid growth of cloud computing in China and globally, analyzing public cloud market share, major providers, investment trends, sector-specific forecasts, and the impact of emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, big data, and 5G on future cloud services.
The article reflects on the evolution from traditional to AI‑enhanced devices, recounts recent AI‑focused conferences, and argues that integrating AI and big data as a fourth dimension of 5G is essential for industry digital transformation and future network competitiveness.
This article breaks down 5G for everyday users, illustrating how high bandwidth, dense connectivity, wide coverage, ultra‑reliable links, and massive device support translate into practical scenarios like seamless VR gaming, uninterrupted streaming in crowds, autonomous driving, remote robotics, and smart‑home IoT.
The article analyzes seven major trends—including internet firms entering telecom, carriers transforming into digital platforms, white‑label infrastructure, IoT verticals, open‑source dominance, and stagnant carrier profits—that together reshape the future of 5G networks and operator business models.
