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“Governments and enterprises attach great importance to artificial intelligence, plus the concept of “new infrastructure” and related measures launched after the outbreak of epidemic, which will promote artificial intelligence to play an increasingly important role in the development of 5G businesses and network intelligence,” said by Dr. Ouyang Ye,  Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of AsiaInfo (stock code: 01675.HK) at NetEase’s “5G Future” salon recently.

Nowadays 5G and AI not only are the hottest topics in the technology industry, but also receive increasing attention from relevant departments, enterprises, practitioners and even the whole society due to their presence on the front line of fighting against the epidemic and “new infrastructure” at the same time. This time, Dr. Ouyang Ye was invited to this salon themed “New Future of 5G + AI after Trial of Epidemic”, and delivered a keynote speech on “5G-oriented Communication AI”, to look into the development trajectory of 5G + AI in future along with Sun Songlin, Professor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Cui Li, Vice President of ZTE.

“AI+5G” Helps Realize “Three Global” and Promote the Ecological Evolution of Telecommunications Systems

Dr. Ouyang Ye believes that AI will play the role of a “propeller” in the construction and improvement of the 5G telecommunications ecosystem. 5G + AI will bring a positive “chemical reaction” to the communication ecosystem, that is, by applying AI technology in the BSS and OSS in communication ecosystem to help the traditional communication ecosystem improve information efficiency and network performance, and boost the unified output of global capability. “The integration of 5G and AI will improve automation and intelligent level of communication ecosystem so as to achieve the “Three Global”, namely: global virtualization, global intelligentization, and global perception.

AsiaInfo First Advocates “Three Global”

In the 5G era, AsiaInfo provides the telecommunications industry with “end-to-end” communication software products and solutions, guided by the “Three Global” proposal and aided by AI technology to help operators achieve business and network neutrality, to be the arranger of operators’ networks and businesses in terms of technology and be the enabler of operators and vertical industries in terms of business model.

Reduce Technical Threshold of 5G Business and Expedite Integration of AI and 5G

Regarding the integration of AI and 5G, Dr. Ouyang Ye believes that it is necessary to widely “democratize and universalize” AI technology in the communication ecosystem.

“In the eras of 3G and 4G, technology practitioners were required to have professional tool application capabilities in subdivided fields. But in the 5G era, without understanding the in-depth technology of the physical layer and the network layer, and mastering complex skills, telecommunications industry technicians can use many algorithms to solve lots of business needs”, such as, “making predictions of network traffic via automated robots; using robots to call platform algorithms to predict the probability of leaving the network of operator users in a certain city and day”, etc. AI will realize various business demands in 5G ecosystem in a more “foolproof” manner.

For this purpose, AsiaInfo has developed the global AI product AISWare AI² to help operators achieve the above results.

AISWare AI² is a concentrated demonstration of AsiaInfo’s more than 20 years of intelligent support capabilities for “tele-grade” network and business. With AI technology, it provides intelligence to and empowers many application scenarios in the telecommunications business domain and network domain in the 5G era. It not only features diverse engines, flexible modeling, being online quickly, automatic optimization, etc., but also can flexibly choose the optimal AI platform version according to business demands and data and computing power to meet the business demands of different scenarios; provide a variety of AI capability output interfaces for application development through three modeling methods of wizard, encoded and click-and-drag, which is convenient for users of the platform to call directly and helps 5G technology practitioners quickly satisfy various business demands.

Since its introduction, AISWare AI² has won 7 international/domestic patents, 2 ETSI international standards, and the “TMF Best Catalyst” and the Best Digital Transformation Practice of 17th “Digital and Software Service Fair” and other awards. At the same time, AISWare AI² has been successfully deployed in 36 provincial points of the three major operators, fully assisting operators in upgrading 5G networks and providing consumers, government and enterprise customers with high-quality 5G commercial services.

5G Development in the Post-Epidemic Era: A Stronger Network Empowers More and More Industries

When it comes to the vision of 5G in future, Dr. Ouyang believes that intelligent methods “can create better network performance, service quality, and user perception, shorter time delay of “end-to-end” network and business, less packet loss, faster rate, better perception, and stronger stability and robustness of the entire network and service”, so as to “streamline business processes, improve service efficiency and automation to make the communication ecosystem more green and energy-efficient”. In addition to the telecommunications industry, “5G + AI” can profoundly change typical vertical industries such as energy, medical care, media, postal service, finance, and public services. During this COVID-19 epidemic, 5G and AI have played an important role in epidemic prevention and control. Many of AsiaInfo’s 5G + AI products have made a difference in epidemic perception, epidemic prevention and control, and resumption of production and other aspects.

Dr. Ouyang Ye suggested, “after the epidemic, industry players should work together to help the government in the development and construction of a crisis management and control system and a national-level unified big data analysis system to improve the national-level big data infrastructure and comprehensive analysis capabilities across operators.”

AsiaInfo's 5G-oriented  "Three Global" Proposal

“Global Virtualization”: Help telecommunications operators automate and virtualize network and business functions by providing 5G-oriented network intelligentization and virtualization products and solutions;

“Global Intelligentization”: Help telecommunications operators build a whole set of general AI platforms compatible with O domain and B domain to output unified capabilities to vertical systems within the communication ecosystem with long accumulated machine learning, data mining and AI capabilities of AsiaInfo.

“Global Perception”: All new products developed by AsiaInfo for 5G are aimed at optimizing and improving the perception and experience of consumers of telecommunications operators and users of vertical industry at the network service level.