PRESS RELEASE: Be it unmanned vehicles, low-altitude logistics, or concert livestreaming, 5.5G has gradually been entering more aspects of daily life in Guangdong, and the low-altitude economy has become a hotspot for the exploration of new application scenarios.
According to industry experts, latest 5.5G networks have been deployed in more than 330 cities across China, forming the world’s largest low-altitude communications network.
Building China’s Largest 5.5G Low-Altitude ISAC Network
In Zengcheng, Guangzhou, a 5.5G livestreaming event took place with absolutely no jitter and incredibly high-quality image quality. Onsite tests showed that the uplink rate of the network supporting the stream exceeded 500 Mbps, far higher than that of a common 5G network.
This 5.5G livestream for “new agricultural tools” was jointly held by Huawei and China Unicom Guangdong. It was reported during the event that “Commercial 5.5G networks support hundreds of billions of connections at a rate of 10 Gbps, which is 10 times that of 5G. This demonstrates why 5.5G networks will become the intelligent infrastructure to facilitate China’s rapidly growing livestreaming economy.”
In May this year, the 5.5G low-altitude integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) test network for the Mingzhu Bay 3D transportation system was deployed in Nansha, Guangzhou. In terms of ground vehicle management, 5.5G ISAC technology enables unmanned vehicles to accurately sense surrounding vehicles and pedestrians, as well as their tracks and speeds, and transmit this information to an IoV terminal through a roadside unit, improving driving efficiency and safety.
New 5.5G solutions such as PanoAAU can integrate sensing and communications, injecting new vitality into the low-altitude economy.
A director from China Unicom Guangdong stated, “We are continuing to promote 5.5G innovation and build low-altitude private networks. To date, we have covered over 9,100 km2, serving more than 300 drone depots. We have also built 5.5G multi-carrier aggregation demonstration areas covering thousands of sites in cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Foshan. PanoAAU is helping us create a network base that integrates air, ground, and sea.”
In terms of low-altitude economic infrastructure, low-altitude ISAC test base stations have been deployed in a number of districts across Shenzhen, including Futian, Nanshan, Longgang, Longhua, and Luohu. These base stations are equipped with the industry’s first 4.9 GHz PanoAAU vertical large-angle devices. Together, they form the largest 5.5G low-altitude ISAC network anywhere in China.
Jiang Xudong, Vice President of Huawei Wireless 5G<E TDD, believes that the low-altitude economy has become a pioneering aspect of 5.5G development. 2024 is not only the first year of 5.5G commercial use, but the first year of the low-altitude economy. Driven by intelligent technologies, the mergence of the two is driving an evolution towards integrated sensing and communications. Furthermore, the network has expanded from a single terrestrial network into an air-to-ground integrated network, further promoting the development of the low-altitude economy.