Award Category

Winner

Award Introduction

Innovative Breakthrough in Mobile Technology Award

Ericsson

Ericsson 5G NR Radio Dot System is the first 5G small cell solution,it provides standard compliant 5G indoor deployments with cost effective solutions to add 5G network coverage quicklyeasily,deliveries necessary performance, coverage,capacity to 5G use casessupports new industrial applications to ensure required latencybandwidth requirements.

Huawei

Huawei’s 3GPP 5G Pre-commercial System is 5G end-to-end productssolutions including wireless, transportcore network, chipsetCPE, accelerating operators’ 5G network deploymentpromoting 5G industry maturity to embrace a super connected era.

Keysight

NB-IoT Massive UE emulation test system is the brand new IoT test solution to emulate massive number of NB-IoT devices with complicated scenario setups for the infra vendors, mobile operators, vertical industry playerswireless researchers, significantly improving the efficiency on network performance validationtest.

Nokia

Nokia’s AirScale as a Distributed unit (DU)AirFrame as a Central Unit (CU), making the commercial platforms for 5G ready Cloud RAN based on CU/DU split, which is not simply a baseband unit protocol spit, but also a RAN evolution architecture to match complex network deployment scenarios.

Qualcomm

The Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform utilizes Qualcomm Technologies’ industry leading wireless heterogeneous compute expertise to design a platform for immersive multimedia experiences, serving as an ultimate intelligent mobile platform that will extend the way people see, hear interact with the world around them.

Qorvo

Qorvo’s 5G RF Front End QM19000, the world’s first 5G mobile RFFE, is a highly integrated 5G RF front-end (RFFE) module for smartphonesother data-centric mobile devices, outpacing both individual component suppliers complete front-end providers in reaching the market.

Innovative Mobile ServiceApplication Award

CloudMinds

& Huawei

The worlds first Wireless Real-time Blind Guiding Helmet. The application creatively uses the combination of mobile network technologyAI technology to provide blind people with real-time assistance to independently cope with the surrounding environment.

ZTE

ZTEs QCell + MEC Indoor DistributionPositioning System including the PicoRRU, the P-Bridge remote convergence unit, the MAU multi-system access unit, the BBU baseband unit, the Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) server, coupled with the big data analysis system, which well meets the needs of densely-populated indoor distribution applicationsoperators commercial enterprises in businessoperation innovation.

Market Development Award

Bharti Airtel

Bharti Airtel collaborates with leading network solution provider to pioneer new technology in Indialead the industry in evolution of TD-LTE towards 5G with India’s 1st Massive MIMOMassive carrier aggregation (TDD+TDD+FDD), allowing Airtel to serving unprecedented data demand while making the network ready for future migration to 5G services.

ZTE

ZTE made continued effort in commercializing 5G in 2017, establishing partnerships with 20+ high-end operatorscompleting a series of pre-commercial 5G teststrials. By the end of 2017, ZTE’s Pre5G solutions are deployed in more than 110 networks in over 60 countries.

Honorary Award

Hong Qiu

(Qualcomm)

Ms. Hong Qiu, as the leader of Open Platform Project, played an instrumental role to get the team jointly study IoT platform  technology actively, accomplished the whitepaper of IoT service layer architecture for mobile operatorspointed out the trend of IoT services layer technology for future.

I-Kang Fu

(MediaTek)

Mr. I-Kang Fu has been leading the Sub 6GHz 5G Projectplaying a key role in delivering a series of whitepapers on 5G RAN, core networkdevice, significantly promoting the maturity of E2E industry.

Lawrence Tao

(Qorvo)

As the leader of 5GIoT RFFE task, Mr. Lawrence Tao actively promoted the R&D, industrializationcommercialization of 5GIoT RF components, made major contribution to the ‘GTI 5G Device RF Component Research Report’.

Tomohiko Furutani

(SoftBank)

As the coordinator of the Cloud Robot Program, Mr. Tomohiko Furutani has made been taking lead in promoting the development of cloud robotics by researchingdelivering whitepaperprototype in a timely manner, contributing as a remarkable breakthrough for the GTI 2.0.