China Telecom Zhejiang and Huawei Commercially Deploy PanoAAUChina Telecom Zhejiang and Huawei Commercially Deploy PanoAAU

Recently, China Telecom Zhejiang and Huawei commercially deployed PanoAAU in the Cixi Agricultural Products Market in Ningbo, China, in a joint bid to demonstrate how cost-effective and energy-efficient rural 5G networks can catalyze local digital transformation.

November 18, 2024

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Recently, China Telecom Zhejiang and Huawei commercially deployed PanoAAU in the Cixi Agricultural Products Market in Ningbo, China, in a joint bid to demonstrate how cost-effective and energy-efficient rural 5G networks can catalyze local digital transformation.

The Cixi Agricultural Products Market is a large-scale one-stop wholesale market for agricultural and sideline products in northern Ningbo. It attracts a wide range of customers from Cixi and Yuyao, as well as from Hangzhou and Shanghai. However, no site has been deployed nearby to serve this area, and the building space is relatively enclosed, so the signal at this market tends to be quite weak. This leads to poor traffic flows and users report having poor experiences when making payments, live streaming, and engaging in other daily activities. The deployment of 5G PanoAAU has helped boost network coverage by 3.2 dB. The number of users has increased by 189% and the average daily traffic has increased by 174%. Users report much better day-to-day network experiences.

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As well as improving user experience, the deployment of 5G PanoAAU enables smart operations at the market. A variety of devices including cameras, access control devices, and policing devices have been connected over high-quality 5G networks. These devices are being used to monitor and analyze population density in real time, and this makes market management and operations more efficient.

PanoAAU is an innovative product that uses extremely large antenna array (ELAA) to increase the overall antenna gains. It replaces common 3-sector networking with 2-sector networking and uses Meta lens materials and wide-angle beam sweeping to achieve omni-directional coverage. This helps bring the wide coverage and generational experience of 5G Massive MIMO to rural areas in a cost-effective way, which in turn drives service development in the rural areas. The deployment of PanoAAU at the Cixi Agricultural Products Market sets a benchmark for the application of PanoAAU in rural areas.

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