In September 2024, the PT Expo China was held in Beijing. The selected cases were released by the "ICT China (2024) Case Collection and Release" entrusted by the organizer and managed by the China Association of Communication Enterprises. China Unicom Guangdong, and Huawei jointly announced the "World's First Fixed and Mobile 5G-A Dual Converged U Mobile Intranet Solution" as an Outstanding ICT China Case (2024).
The smart home market is booming and the demand for fixed and mobile convergence is urgent.
With the continuous progress of science and technology, the smart home market is ushering in a full-scale outbreak period. It is predicted that by 2025, China's smart home market will be close to trillions. Diversified application scenarios such as smart security, audio and video entertainment, and family storage are gradually penetrating into people's daily life, bringing convenience to users.
However, with the increase of the number of smart devices, the users have an urgent demand for accessing devices under fixed broadband through the mobile network. The users want high-speed, stable network services anytime, anywhere. Although the development of 5G-A and F5G-A technologies has increased network speeds to the 10G era, traditional remote access methods are still limited by Internet bandwidth, with a maximum speed of only 5 Mbps.
China Unicom Guangdong & Huawei Lead the Smart Home Revolution by "U Mobile Intranet"
To address this challenge, China Unicom Guangdong and Huawei jointly launched the world's first fixed and mobile 5G-A dual-converged “U Mobile Intranet” solution. This solution not only serves small- and medium-sized enterprises and meets their secure and convenient mobile office requirements, but also brings private network services to ordinary customers' home, enabling everyone to enjoy high-speed service access anytime and anywhere.
" U Mobile Intranet" is the industry's first 5G-A fixed and mobile convergence innovative product, aiming to provide secure and stable network intelligence for home entertainment and enterprise office in the digital era. It breaks the barriers of mobile and fixed networks, realizes end-to-end fixed-mobile integration. The U Mobile Intranet" serves the public, home, and enterprise. It meets customers' intensive and customized requirements for secure and efficient access to intranets and extranets in mobile scenarios. Small- and medium-sized enterprises and home users can enjoy the new experience of secure, convenient, and casual access brought by the private network.
The U Mobile Intranet has two major innovations. First, the home UPF not only uses IPSec and VXLAN technologies to break through barriers between fixed and mobile networks and implement secure and high-speed data transmission, but also supports flexible establishment of user groups. Second, the SDK is introduced into the optical modem to assign a digital identity to the optical modem. All network devices connected to the optical modem can be authenticated by the UDM digital identity authentication capability, ensuring secure access and supporting smart connection of everything.
Facing the future, continue to cultivate the professional field of smart life
At present, China Unicom Guangdong has launched 5G-A 3T digital smart home products in Shenzhen, integrating the accompanying private network with 5G-A, high-speed broadband, all-optical networking, ultra-HD video, and local storage. This product not only meets the needs of users in work, life, entertainment, and security, but also opens the 5G-A 3T digital smart home era of "T-level traffic, T-level learning materials, and T-level storage space".
In the future, China Unicom Guangdong will continue to expand its in-depth cooperation with enterprises such as ZSPACE and Hikvision, and expand the future development space of home storage. With the continuous progress of technologies and the continuous enrichment of application scenarios, the accompanying private network will truly serve tens of millions of users, bringing users a more secure, convenient, and personalized network experience.
In the 5G-A era, this innovation by China Unicom Guangdong and Huawei will lead a new trend in the smart home field and bring users a smarter and more connected lifestyle. With the continuous progress of technology, we can believe that the future of family life will be more exciting and intelligent.