Asia-Pacific Telecom Giants Unite to Shape the Future of Cross-Border Connectivity

The first Asia-Pacific Cross-Border Connectivity Roundtable Conference was successfully held in Singapore. Key operators, suppliers, industry organizations, academic institutions, and experts from the Asia-Pacific region gathered to explore opportunities, requirements, technology, and cooperation in Asia-Pacific cross-border interconnectivity. They also proposed initiatives to drive cross-border technology innovation and industry standards development.

During his opening address, Abel Deng, President of Huawei Asia Pacific Carrier Business, emphasized the rapid growth potential of the cross-border connectivity market, driven by the effective promotion of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in the digital economy. This has led to the swift rise of internet unicorn companies and active international investments, offering blue ocean service opportunities for Asia Pacific operators.

Vion Yau from Moten Venture shared the "Southeast Asian E-commerce Trends Report," highlighting the rapid growth of the Southeast Asian e-commerce market, which has attracted significant investments but faces intense competition, challenging enterprise profits. She stressed that "Selectio, Speed, Quality, and Savings" are the secrets to business success.

Huawei Cloud's Asia-Pacific Chief Architect, Kevin Li, presented Huawei Cloud's global network architecture evolution plan. Huawei Cloud constructs different latency circles worldwide based on business latency requirements, relying on local operators to provide low-latency networks. Through AI technology, Huawei Cloud accurately measures operator network performance and optimizes the best-performing network based on user demands, delivering outstanding service assurance.

Dustin Kehoe, the Asia-Pacific Chief Advisor of Globaldata, emphasized that operators have a first-mover advantage in the cross-border interconnectivity market, with rich undersea and land-based fiber optic networks, premium metropolitan networks, sales channels, and security compliance qualifications. Operators can meet the cloud computing and Over-The-Top (OTT) customers' capacity demands for multi-cloud interconnection and edge computing through new service capabilities such as security and trust, quality experience, and adjustable bandwidth, achieving network resource monetization.

Merrick Wang, the Asia-Pacific Regional General Manager of China Mobile International, shared China Mobile International's rich cases of going to sea, including 5GtoB smart manufacturing and cross-border connectivity + smart retail one-stop service solutions. China Mobile International leverages its advantages in global transmission resources and achieves global coverage of 5G, computing power, and capabilities, aiming to become a world-leading digital intelligent service partner.

To address the growing market for high-quality cross-border connectivity services, experts proposed common cross-border network service standards, including integrated scheduling capabilities for all-optical cross-sea and land cables, 400G/800G ultra-high bandwidth evolution capabilities, as well as standards for SRv6-based intelligent cloud network one-stop services, low latency, reliability, security, and trustworthiness. Huawei presented a vision for cross-border networks, incorporating digital twins and all-optical matrix networks to achieve automated management and the construction of continuously evolving networks.

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology's Institute of Industry and Planning recommended standardizing cross-border cooperation to address operational and billing issues in cross-border land cable connectivity settlements and promote international cooperation in the "Belt and Road" information and communications industry. Finally, participants called for industry consensus, the convergence of global cross-border interconnectivity ecosystem partners, the promotion of cross-border dedicated line cooperation, and the implementation of high-quality, high-performance, and technologically innovative standards to meet the needs of the Asia-Pacific digital economy and computational network while improving cross-border interconnectivity cooperation efficiency.