Huawei and TELUS create 5G ‘living’ lab in Vancouver
The announcement was made on the occasion of the visit of the Premier of British Columbia, Christy Clark, to Huawei’s headquarters in Shenzhen.
To support this "Living Lab", Huawei will be making a significant investment to design, test and deploy ground-breaking new technologies, leading towards the development of next-generation 5G based telecommunications networks.
This agreement follows a recently announced $1-billion investment by TELUS to expand its fibre optic network in Vancouver, which will ultimately provide the backbone to support highly efficient and lightning-fast wireless speeds as the development road maps for wireless and wireline networks converge around 5G concepts. Together, Huawei and TELUS are helping the City of Vancouver deliver upon its goal of becoming the worlds’ greenest city by 2020 through providing network capacity and speed that will enable "smart city" and other sustainability-focused technology initiatives.
Huawei Canada President Sean Yang, Executive Vice-President, Technology Strategy for TELUS Eros Spadatto, B.C. Premier Christy Clark, Co-CEO for Huawei Ken Hu and Minster Teresa Wat at a ceremony in Shanghai to announce a deal that will bring the most advanced telecommunications technology to Vancouver. Image courtesy of Huawei.
"TELUS is recognized globally as one of the world’s most advanced telecommunications operators" said Ken Hu, Co-CEO, Huawei. "The opportunity to partner with TELUS to deploy innovative new technologies is critical to our global 5G research and development process and positions TELUS on the leading edge of next-generation telecommunications technology deployment."
"This project will bring some of the most cutting-edge telecommunications technology available today to Vancouver, building upon our recently announced billion dollar investment to introduce fibre optic technology and further reinforcing our commitment to the city," said Eros Spadotto, Executive Vice President of Technology Strategy for TELUS.
If you enjoyed this article, you will like the following ones: don't miss them by subscribing to :
