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ZTE President Xu Ziyang: Build Stronger Core Competence, Achieve High-Quality Growth Together
ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced that the company’s President Xu Ziyang has delivered a keynote speech entitled “Build Stronger Core Competence, Achieve High-Quality Growth Together” at the opening ceremony of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2021, which kicked off today in Shanghai, China.
According to Mr. Xu, 5G is still in its fledgling stage, and digital and intelligent transformation has already gathered full momentum. ZTE maintains the judgement that development in this stage will encounter both technology challenges and business uncertainties. Technology challenges include constantly reducing costs and increasing efficiency for 5G infrastructures, and meeting higher performance requirements for different industry applications.
To cope with technology challenges, ZTE builds stronger core competence and pursues excellence.
Challenges brought by business uncertainties refer to a series of problems that are not clearly understood, for example, the large-scale expansion, monetization, and business models of industry applications.
Facing uncertainties in market expansion, ZTE strengthens “agile” capabilities to promote the digital and intelligent transformation of vertical industries, thus lowering startup costs, making quick trials and iterations, and promoting successful models. Meanwhile, ZTE welcomes deep and open cooperation with our partners in vertical industries and the ecosystem, to achieve high-quality growth together.
Here comes the original speech as follows:
Hello, everyone. Many people may know that there is a fast-growing plant called Giant King Grass. Within the half year after it sprouts, its stem is only about one inch in height, but the roots grow over 10 meters deep underground and spread wide vigorously to absorb nutrients and accumulate energy. Once it rains, the Giant King Grass can grow over two meters high in only several days. Then, how can a company grow fast? In view of this, I would like to talk about “Build Stronger Core Competence, Achieve High-Quality Growth Together—For Digital and Intelligent Ecosystem of Shared Success.” In this speech, I will share some of ZTE’s innovations, practices, and thoughts, to call for all partners to make joint efforts in the 5G fledgling stage for a better future.
The year 2020 was certainly extraordinary. The strike of COVID-19 and the ever-changing global environment seemed to disrupt 5G deployment, but in fact, China and other countries that had taken preemptive actions were keeping their pace. In the fight against the pandemic, technology succeeded. For consumers, the pandemic has greatly changed the way they live and work, making ICT services a necessity, like air, water, and electricity. Enterprises then need to accelerate digital and intelligent transformation, not only to reduce costs and increase efficiency, but to become more agile and intelligent, thus better coping with the uncertainties in external environments, markets, and technologies.
Digital and Intelligent Transformation in Full Swing
After two years of commercial practices, 5G is still in its fledgling stage, and digital and intelligent transformation has already gathered full momentum. We maintain the judgement that development in this stage will encounter both technology challenges and business uncertainties. Technology challenges include: to constantly reduce costs and increase efficiency for 5G infrastructures, and to meet higher performance requirements for different industry applications. Challenges brought by business uncertainties refer to a series of problems that are not clearly understood, for example, the large-scale expansion, monetization, and business models of industry applications.
For Technology Challenges, Build Stronger Core Competence and Pursue Excellence
To cope with technology challenges, we build stronger core competence and pursue excellence.
First of all, let’s take a look at the evolution of cloud-network capability based on market progress. Phase 1 refers to the first 1–3 years when 5G networks are deployed. The focus of this phase is fusion for higher efficiency. For example, multi-frequency/RAT sites, large bandwidth, high efficiency, and DSS are applied to optimize resource utilization; new materials, new processes, and AI are employed to reduce energy consumption; and enhanced uplink, edge deployment, and multi-cloud synergy are developed to facilitate market expansion. The focus of Phase 2 is intelligence and openness. As the 5G traffic load increases, ubiquitous AI, open and decoupled architecture, and edge cloud and industry applications will further promote cloud-network integration, as well as uRLLC and millimeter wave technology. In Phase 3, the popularization of 5G industry applications will raise higher requirements for cloud-network integration and stimulate continuous evolution of technologies. For example, ultra large antenna, Terahertz (THz), multi-dimensional connectivity, and AI-Native networks will emerge.
Ultimate Experience
To cope with the technology challenges, we make continuous innovations and breakthroughs for the ultimate user experience. For both consumer and business markets, the key to success is to create a brand-new experience for customers and users.
For consumers, we increase the high-rise coverage by 30% in complex scenarios with the Massive MIMO SSB 1+X beam broadcasting solution, improve 5G indoor coverage experience with cost-effective solutions by using eDAS that enables UL/DL multi-stream transmission through software implementation, apply Doppler-Shift Compensation to ensure good user experience in high-speed rail and air transport scenarios, and provide immersive experience of sports events and concerts through new home videos.
For vertical industry applications, we offer better access technology, like enhanced uplink of 5G networks and low-latency connectivity of PON. In the meantime, with E2E guarantee and enhanced network slicing, larger bandwidth, lower latency, and higher reliability, we can facilitate the expansion of industry applications, especially those in the OT field.
Ultimate Efficiency
Moreover, we constantly pursue ultimate efficiency, including the highest spectral, power, and network operational efficiency. These are vital for operators to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and achieve sustainable development. For example, we provide MU-MIMO with higher capacity, Cloud Radio with lower interference, SuperDSS that allows dynamic spectrum sharing among 2/3/4/5G, higher-spectral-efficiency 800 Gbps OTN with single-wavelength, AIVO to improve efficiency by incorporating AI into different network building stages, PowerPilot precision power saving to reduce power consumption by 20% at site level through big data and AI, and, when 5G traffic load increases, in-depth coordination between frequencies and RATs to optimize energy efficiency while ensuring excellent user experience, by real-time service identification and energy efficiency analysis.
Ultimate Core Competence
Core competence is the cornerstone of ultimate experience and ultimate efficiency. In terms of chipset, advanced manufacturing technology, packaging, and joint software/hardware design can help overcome the bottleneck of Moore’s Law. With rich experience in IPs and the digital IC DevOps COT design platform, we can safeguard our core competitiveness in chipset development. Algorithms are the essence of software and also the key to higher software quality and efficiency. We will focus on high cohesion at the physical layer, ultimate performance at the network layer, and feature optimization at the service layer, and continue to improve the AI algorithm library. This will bring about continuous improvement on chipsets and algorithms, and revolutionary progress in architecture. In terms of architecture, we will keep enhancing decoupling, promote microservice architecture, and achieve data-driven evolution to AI-Native architecture.
Facing the uncertainties in market expansion, we strengthen “agile” capabilities to promote the digital and intelligent transformation of vertical industries, thus lowering startup costs, making quick trials and iterations, and promoting successful models. Meanwhile, we welcome deep and open cooperation with our partners in vertical industries and the ecosystem, to achieve high-quality growth together.
Focus on Value Creation and Scenario-Based Services Make things EASIER
When facing the challenge of business uncertainties in vertical industries, we advocate being value-driven and scenario-based to make things “EASIER”.
The first “E” stands for “Elastic”, indicating the elasticity of applications, agnostic migration, and flexible scale-in/out brought by single-source heterogeneity and cloud native software. “A” is short for “Agile”, meaning the computing power on demand, agile innovation, and rapid iteration and replication supported by lightweight software and hardware design. “S” indicates “Secure”, referring to higher security guaranteed by zero trust through intrinsic security. “I” means “Intelligent”, indicating the data-driven evolution and continuous algorithm iteration empowered by ubiquitous AI. The second “E” is short for “Easy”, meaning that customers can easily use the network through simple and fast deployment and maintenance. “R” stands for “Reliable”, indicating the reliable performance in latency and resources guaranteed by the TSN and finer-granularity hard-slicing technologies.
Strengthen Agility, Succeed in Edge
Agility makes success. With lightweight and flexibility as its basis, agility is key to addressing uncertainties. As vertical industry applications extend to the OT field, the edge will become the major field for innovation incubation and application. As for deployment of agile edge:
In terms of hardware, on-premises gateways, embedded boards, all-in-one cabinets, and the resource pool of all-series servers can enjoy lightweight startup and expansion on demand.
Regarding software, the TECS Cloud Foundation (TCF) enhances the technical service layer and boosts computing power through lightweight, NEO hardware acceleration, and dual core engine technologies. The coordination between software and hardware realizes flexible deployment and agile innovations of AnyWhere, AnySize, and AnyService.
Fast Iteration, High-Quality Growth
To tackle uncertainties, we need comprehensive enhancement and coordination in all fields to achieve “full decoupling”, “dual circulations”, and “deep optimization”.
“Full decoupling” indicates a further decoupled architecture based on cloud infrastructure. We employ finer-granularity components horizontally, and build a thinner PaaS layer to enable vertical decoupling of both technical service layer and general service layer.
Besides, such an architecture enables dual circulations. Cycle optimization between the technical service layer and the infrastructure layer improves the infrastructure resource utilization efficiency and the coordination efficiency of applications, safeguarding edge application scenarios despite limited resources. Moreover, the general service layer and scenario-based applications are mutually supportive. Specifically, the former enables the service development on the upper application layer through its low-code architecture. At the same time, it also accumulates public logic and algorithms from the application layer, resolving the conflict between customization and scale to some extent.
Deep optimization lowers non-efficient redundancy expenses through multimode fusion, and ensures the best infrastructure efficiency in different applications through customized off-the-shelf hardware.
Digital and Intelligent Ecosystem of Shared Success
Rainforests are the most stable and robust ecosystems on this planet. Striving for stronger core competence and high-quality growth in the 5G era, ZTE expects to build a rainforest-like ecosystem with all partners in the industry for shared success.
The industry and ecosystem require more professional coordination when facing up to business uncertainties. ZTE is committed to building a digital and intelligent ecosystem based on open underlying capabilities and more efficient collaboration, to achieve win-win with all partners. We are willing to open the capabilities of such core technologies as chipset, database, and OS, the E2E ICT product capabilities, including wireless and wired, computing power, and terminal fields, the component capabilities of AI, data and video, and 5G innovations to all industry and ecosystem partners for win-win success. As a faithful driver of the digital economy, ZTE is committed to tackling the toughest challenges to power the world with core 5G capability.
2021 marks the year of the Ox, which symbolizes resilience and perseverance in Chinese culture. It is exactly the spirit that ZTE has been carrying forward. We will remain down-to-earth and continue to keep words and actions consistent. Working closely together with the entire industry, we are bound to address all the challenges and difficulties. Thank you!
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Cato Unveils Industry First AI-driven Networking and Security Incident Detection and Response
Cato AI now detects and identifies root cause of networking incidents, reducing outages from hours to minutes.
TEL AVIV, Israel, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Cato Networks, the leader in SASE, announced the addition of network incident detection and response tools to the Cato SASE Cloud platform. With Network Stories for Cato XDR, advanced AI algorithms instantly identify outages in customer networks and conduct root cause analysis. NOC and SOC teams now have a common platform for improved collaboration and channel partners can quickly bring NOC-as-a-service (NOCaaS) offerings to market.
“With our converged security and networking platform, we leverage advances in one domain, in this case security, to help another domain — networking,” says Shlomo Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Cato Networks. “Our security-trained AI has now been expanded to help NOC teams become smarter, faster, and more proactive than ever. This is the value of a true SASE platform.”
Element Solutions, Inc. (ESI), a leading specialty chemicals company, relies on Cato SASE Cloud to connect and secure 118 locations and cloud instances, and nearly 4,000 remote users with Cato’s NGFW, threat prevention (NGAM, SWG, and IPS), and application protection (CASB).
“We’re very excited about what we’re seeing in Cato’s Network Stories. It’ll save us the time normally spent hunting around other tools and that’s a big deal,” says Brandon Benchley, senior network engineer at ESI. The company’s three-person network team is responsible for all site designs, deployments, switches, and upgrades. “We handle all the network operations, engineering, and planning for locations and Azure. It’s a lot. Cato Network Stories should solve a key pain point for us.”
Cato Network Stories: Slashing Downtime for Enterprises Everywhere
Network outages continue to disrupt enterprise operations. Network and connectivity-related issues accounted for nearly a third of IT outages and 53% of major outages caused by third-party IT providers.1 Even with Cato and its managed private backbone, network outages and slowdowns can occur in the last-mile or customer networks.
Diagnosing network incidents requires NOC teams to sift through and correlate a flood of network alerts. Too often, outages begin as unreported line degradations or occur after hours, extending their impact on the organization.
With Network Stories for Cato XDR, AI algorithms trained for threat detection now collect and analyze network signals and incidents to identify the root cause behind blackouts, downed links, BGP session disconnects, SLA issues, and other network incidents. Cato AI triages those incidents by criticality, empowering network operations teams to focus critical resources on an organization’s most important cases.
Once NOC teams act, Cato provides them with a complete set of incident response tools. Generative AI summarizes Network Stories into human-readable explanations. Cato Playbooks enable NOC teams to understand what happened and how to remediate those incidents.
When Cato Support adopted Networks Stories last-mile packet loss identification became nearly instantaneous, instead of customers taking several days to report an outage. The average root cause analysis time dropped by 30% to under 35 minutes.
Cato: The First SASE-based Platform for SOC and NOC Teams
Cato enables tighter SOC-NOC collaboration, improving efficiency and service quality. In Cato’s recent 2023 SASE Adoption Survey, 82% of respondents indicated that security and networking teams were consolidating or had a management directive to improve collaboration.
“In an environment where any part of the network might be a key component of the security infrastructure, and any anomalous event could require a comprehensive network AND security response, the convergence of the NOC and the SOC makes more sense than ever,” writes John Burke, CTO of Nemertes, an industry consultancy.
With Cato, the root-cause analysis conducted in one area benefits the other. Collaboration is improved by sharing a common toolset, speaking a common language, and having a common reference point. With Cato RBAC+ rules, fine-grained access controls enable IT to determine what information and capabilities team members can view and change.
To learn more about Cato Networks, Network Stories, and the power of Cato XDR, visit Extended Detection and Response (XDR).
1Uptime Institute, Annual outages analysis 2023: The cause and impacts of IT and data center outages,
About Cato Networks
Cato Networks is the leader in SASE, delivering enterprise security and networking in a single cloud platform. With Cato, organizations replace costly and rigid legacy infrastructure with an open and modular SASE architecture based on SD-WAN, a purpose-built global cloud network, and an embedded cloud-native security stack.
Want to learn why thousands of organizations secure their future with Cato? Visit us at www.catonetworks.com .
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Online Retail Penetration Remains Low for Grocery, While Consumer Electronics is Set to See 50% of all Sales from Online Channels in Coming Years
NEW YORK, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Following turbulent years for retail, omnichannel has become the primary focus for large and small retailers alike. Retail stores and employee numbers look set to decrease across most segments as retailers introduce new store technologies and invest in alternative fulfillment methods. According to global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, retail stores will fall at a CAGR of -1.8% and -0.9% in North America and Europe, respectively. At the same time, retail employee numbers in North America will fall at a CAGR of -2.6% to 2030, while retail stores in Europe look set to fall at a CAGR of -0.9% in the same period, with the drop much higher in the region’s major economies.
“Online retail had its boom in the wake of the pandemic, but in-store retail has made a strong comeback, and consumers are demanding a complimentary blend of both online offerings and enhanced in-store experiences. Retailers of all sizes realize the need to master both and are dedicating significant investment to technologies that can facilitate an omnichannel strategy,” explains Ryan Wiggin, Supply Chain Management & Logistics Industry Analyst at ABI Research.
While a rise in online retail and declining store footprints is apparent across all major economies in North America and Europe, the magnitude of this change varies across countries and retail segments. For example, online retail has surpassed 30% of all sales in the UK, while Italy sits much lower at just over 11%. Food and grocery hold a relatively low online sales penetration rate across all countries assessed, ranging from 3-13%. In contrast, online sales for segments such as apparel and electronics take up a much larger proportion of total sales, even looking set to surpass 50% of all sales by 2030 in certain countries.
Retailers such as Sephora, Nordstrom, Home Depot, and Walmart are leading the charge for omnichannel shopping. They are digitally connecting their different means of fulfillment to improve the overall customer experience and drive sales.
“While an assessment of retail stores and employees paints a negative growth picture, it’s important to remember that is because of restructuring, not declining retail growth. ABI Research forecasts that retailers will be among the highest spenders on advanced technology over the coming years, optimizing in-store and delivery operations and bringing new ways of shopping to the consumer,” concludes Wiggin.
These findings are from ABI Research’s Retail in North America and Europe: Stores, Employees, and Online-Retail market data report. This report is part of the company’s Supply Chain Management and Logistics research service, which includes research, data, and ABI Insights. Market Data spreadsheets comprise deep data, market share analysis, and highly segmented, service-specific forecasts to provide detailed insight into where opportunities lie.
About ABI Research
ABI Research is a global technology intelligence firm uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology solution providers and end-market companies. We serve as the bridge that seamlessly connects these two segments by providing exclusive research and expert guidance to drive successful technology implementations and deliver strategies proven to attract and retain customers.
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LOCUS ROBOTICS NAMED ONE OF FAST COMPANY’S MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES OF 2024
Leading Warehouse Automation Provider Recognized for Its Groundbreaking LocusOne Robotics Orchestration Platform
WILMINGTON, Mass., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Locus Robotics, the global leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for warehouse automation, today announced it has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024. The company was recognized for its groundbreaking LocusOne robotics orchestration platform, which is revolutionizing warehouse operations by seamlessly orchestrating large, diverse fleets of AMRs using AI and real-time data analytics.
This year’s list shines a spotlight on businesses that are shaping industry and culture through their innovations. These organizations are setting new standards and achieving remarkable milestones in all sectors of the economy. Alongside the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Fast Company recognizes 606 organizations across 58 sectors and regions.
LocusOne represents a paradigm shift in warehouse automation, redefining how businesses manage their material movement needs while optimizing productivity, efficiency and sustainability. By seamlessly blending cutting-edge robotics, AI, data science and smart orchestration, the platform enables warehouses to dynamically coordinate heterogenous AMR fleets to handle any job – from delicate picking to heavy payload transport – while boosting productivity 2-3x.
“We are honored to be recognized by Fast Company as one of the world’s most innovative companies for our revolutionary LocusOne technology,” said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. “The Locus Solution is transforming the logistics industry by accelerating digital transformation through AI-driven, real-time robotics orchestration. This prestigious award validates our commitment to innovation that drives quantifiable business value for our customers worldwide.”
Kait Peterson, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Locus Robotics, added: “In today’s fast-paced fulfillment environment, warehouses require flexibility, scalability and predictive intelligence to optimize their operations. LocusOne’s ability to coordinate diverse robot types as a single, cohesive unit, while generating actionable business insights through advanced data analytics, is truly pioneering. We are delighted that Fast Company has recognized the transformative impact of our solutions.”
Fast Company’s editors and writers identified the companies driving progress around the world and across industries, evaluating thousands of submissions through a competitive application process. The result is a globe-spanning guide to innovation today, from early-stage startups to some of the most valuable companies in the world.
“Our list of the Most Innovative Companies is both a comprehensive look at the innovation economy and a snapshot of the business trends that defined the year,” said Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. “We saw extraordinary innovation across the board in 2023, but we also saw a handful of clear patterns: the growing footprint and impact of AI, the triumphant return of live events, and great leaps forward in climate tech. We face daunting challenges on many fronts, but the solutions we celebrate in MIC give me plenty of hope about the future.”
The LocusOne platform is deployed in over 300 sites across 18 countries, powering digital transformation for some of the world’s largest logistics operations. Locus’s data-driven autonomous robotics solutions are delivering proven benefits including 80% reduction in workplace injuries, increased worker satisfaction and morale, seamless scalability, and a significantly reduced environmental footprint.
ABOUT LOCUS ROBOTICS
Locus Robotics’ revolutionary, multi-bot solution incorporates powerful and intelligent autonomous mobile robots that operate collaboratively with human workers to dramatically improve piece-handling productivity 2-3x, with less labor compared to traditional piece-handling systems. This multiple award-winning solution helps solve the challenges companies across multiple industries face – labor shortages, costly and inefficient-to-operate systems, and inflexible processes – allowing brands to easily meet higher throughput requirements and easily adapt to volume changes in any operation.
ABOUT FAST COMPANY
Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister publication Inc., and can be found online at www.fastcompany.com.
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