Huawei Hosts the 4th eLTE Industry Alliance Summit at Critical Communications World 2016

Over 200 guests including 3GPP standard organizations, analyst firms, industry customers, and alliance members attended the event which focused on advancing 3GPP-based broadband trunking. The Summit gave attendees valuable insights into the latest developments, collaborative achievements and best practices of eLTE solutions and applications since the eLTE Industry Alliance was formed two years ago.

In his opening speech, Jianhua Peng, President of Enterprise Wireless Business Unit at Huawei, commented that the rapid advancement of the LTE-based industry has evolved the meaning of "e" in eLTE to now represent: enterprise, extension, enhancement, and evolution.

Enterprise: An eLTE private network is specifically designed to enable visual scheduling for government and enterprise customers. It allows them to support all their service functions including production, management, and service provisioning, as well as voice, data, video, and location needed for collaborated dispatching, within one single network.

Extension: The eLTE network is extending its relevance into diverse industries, including public safety, rail transportation, chemicals, water metering, electricity metering, and manufacturing. It provides a variety of spectrum, covering licensed spectrum and unlicensed spectrum. It also covers human-to-human communications and industrial connectivity.

Enhancement: The enhanced eLTE network solutions designed for specific industries provide a variety of industry terminals to cater to different industry needs. The enhanced systems feature high performance, high reliability, and high security.

Evolution: eLTE fully complies with 3GPP standards and is capable of evolving to 4.5G/5G. Together with its partners, Huawei is committed to facilitating the development of 3GPP standards in LTE broadband trunking and optimizing end-to-end industry solutions, to build a healthy and mature eLTE ecosystem.

Jürgen Nerz, Managing Director of Business Development at Hexagon Ventures, commented on partnering with Huawei to foster eLTE deployment in the public safety sector, “Through open collaboration, we have successfully integrated Hexagon’s CAD system with Huawei’s eLTE system to equip cities with abundant alarm channels and to provide public safety agencies with converged visual command and dispatching capabilities for faster emergency response and effective cross-agency collaboration.”

Leading Firms Join eLTE Industry Alliance

Since its establishment in February 2014, the eLTE Industry Alliance has made significant progress in developing a global member network covering vendors across a broad range of industry chains, including industry customers, private network operators, integrators, application developers, and industry terminal providers. The alliance has been instrumental in promoting eLTE applications across diverse industries, eLTE solution innovations, joint marketing and standards establishment. The global influence of the alliance continues to grow with many leading industry players joining the alliance. In the past one year, the eLTE Industry Alliance welcomed 16 new members, including Thales SAIC Transport, Frequentis, and Emerson Process Management, taking its total number of members to 88.

eLTE-based Industry Solutions Showcased at CCW 2016

By the end of Q1 2016, Huawei had successfully signed 180 eLTE network contracts and established 84 commercial eLTE networks across different sectors, such as public safety, transportation, and energy. Huawei helped government and enterprise customers establish professional and reliable mobile communications platforms to support their service management requirements while improving their operational efficiency and security levels.

This year marked the fourth consecutive year of Huawei participating in Critical Communications World, a global leading industry trade event which this year attracted more than 175 exhibitors from over 120 countries. Huawei showcased its eLTE solutions in its 250 square meter exhibition area, under four core themes: eLTE in public safety; transportation and energy; OneAir solution for industry application; and eLTE industry cooperation.

Huawei's exhibition booth is located at Booth 29 in Hall 8. To learn more about the 4th eLTE Industry Alliance Summit and Huawei at CCW 2016, please visit http://www.elteia.org.