Huawei to drive commercialisation of 5.5G

As well as appealing to the consumer market, Huawei’s 5.5G enterprise solutions are being aimed at companies that have been reluctant to use mobile networks in an industrial setting, preferring instead to use w-fi.

In the industrial space, 5G has been applied to applications including machine vision and remote control. According to Wu Hequan, director of the Advisory Committee of the Internet Society of China, and the China Standardization Expert Committee, industrial applications need larger uplink, lower latency, more determinacy, higher security, higher reliability, more massive connectivity, higher-precision positioning, and lower power consumption.

5.5g addresses these concerns by offering speeds 10 times higher than 5G, delivering peak uplink rates of 1Gbps and downlink rates of 10Gbps. According to Wu, 5.5G also improves on three of 5G's features, namely enhanced mobile broadband, ultra-reliable low-latency communication, and massive machine-type communications. 

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Speaking at Huawei’s 5G Beyond Growth Summit at MWC Barcelona 2024 in February, Alexander Lehrmann, senior director of innovation & development at Sunrise, a Swiss telecoms company , said: “There are so many use cases, in logistics, warehousing, and factories that we haven’t quite been able to reach with 5G. This is where 5.5G will come in and propel us into other areas.”