Recently, the China Cloud, Network and Intelligence Conference 2022 (formerly China SDN/NFV/AI Conference) was held in Beijing. Several ZTE technical experts attended the conference and delivered keynote speeches to discuss hot topics based on cloud and network integration, SD-WAN, SASE, cloud native, edge computing, new data center network, self-intelligent network, and AI+, and new trends such as computing power network and computing power native, to jointly promote network transformation and commercial application of services.

The "14th Five-Year Plan" for the development of the digital economy proposes the technological roadmap for building a high-speed ubiquitous, integrated world, cloud-network integration, intelligent and agile, green and low-carbon, and secure and controllable integrated digital information infrastructure. Operators are actively exploring the transformation from traditional communications services and ICT services to DICT services, and are beginning to deploy computing power infrastructure and other new infrastructure. Zhu Kun, chief planning engineer of ZTE's cloud computing products, shared the theme of "forming a network with computing power to build a new driver of digital economy" at the main venue. He said that cloud-network integration provides operators with new service growth points after the basic network and cloud. Through computing and network integration and innovation, the digital transformation of the industry can fully meet the agile and innovative requirements of a large number of new services and requirements that emerge with the development of the digital economy.

Major countries around the world have released future industrial development plans, embracing new opportunities for development of the industrial Internet, and raising high SLA requirements for networks. Huang Yan, planning director of ZTE's cloud and core network product line, said in his speech on "TPC time can promise communications to enable digital and intelligent 5G key industries", that ZTE TPC time can promise communications solutions that integrate 5G TSN/5G LAN/URLLC, achieve deterministic latency, ultra-low jitter, and ultra-high reliability through multi-dimensional enhancement, and inject new power into 5G to enable digital and intelligent 5G key industry applications.

Tao Wenqiang, Chief Engineer of ZTE IP Product Planning, pointed out in the speech entitled "Building 5G Digital Economy with New CLOUD IP Intelligent Cloud-Network Architecture" that in the digital economy era, computing power and network have become the key points for building a new information infrastructure. The intelligent cloud network is the core of the new digital and intelligent communication network. The ZTE Cloud IP solution uses multiple innovative technologies, such as 400 G ultra-wide connection, SRv6, deterministic IP, and intent-based network calculation and autonomy, to ensure the development of the digital economy at three stages: Network connection-based calculation, network-based forced calculation, and integrated calculation and network management.

With the large-scale deployment of 5G networks, the cloud-based network evolution is gradually deepened, the network is increasingly complicated, the impact of faults is large, and O&M coordination is high. It has become a development trend and consensus of the industry to accelerate network intelligence through the introduction of the AI technology. Zhang Yiqing, chief engineer of the integrated solution of the System MKT Dept., said in his speech on the theme of "Converging intrinsic intelligence to promote self-intelligence implementation", that is, the ZTE uSmartNet full-domain solution is based on the intelligent core algorithm, from intrinsic generation of NEs and single-domain autonomy to cross-domain coordination to provide hierarchical, domain-based, and hierarchical evolution, adhering to capability openness at all levels to achieve network-wide insight and fast service-driven closed loop, and promote the empowering of self-intelligence networks to industries.

In the future, ZTE will continue to work with operators and partners to promote the development of cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, industrial Internet, blockchain, and AI through the combination of networks and cloud-based resources, gradually move from cloud-network integration to cloud-network intelligent connection, and further consolidate the foundation for the development of digital economy.