BEIJING, Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — China Unicom Beijing and Huawei held an event, “5G Capital on the Way – Lighting Up Beijing with 5G-Advanced,” to announce their deployment of the world’s first large-scale integrated 5G-Advanced intelligent network. The network supports a world-leading 5G-Advanced smart commercial complex, with high- and low-band integrated networking, at the Workers’ Stadium. Furthermore, a benchmark was set for the industry’s first large-scale 10-gigabit 5G-Advanced network featuring air-ground integrated communications at the Great Wall scenic area, establishing the low-altitude economy innovation base. These developments will bring a better user experience to users in Beijing.

The ultra-large-scale commercial 3CC network covers over 10 million people, lighting up Beijing with 5G-Advanced.

In pursuit of large-scale 5G-Advanced network benchmarks, China Unicom Beijing and Huawei have built an ultra-large-scale commercial 5G-Advanced three component carrier (3CC) network, covering stadiums, schools, scenic areas, metro stations, commercial areas, residential areas, and other types of facilities in Beijing. The network provides full 5G coverage and 85% 5G-Advanced coverage for the area within Beijing’s 4th Ring Road and the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center, effectively supporting services like immersive videos, UHD live streaming, and cloud gaming. In addition, China Unicom Beijing has renovated old phone booths and connected them to the 5G-Advanced 3CC network, making it possible for passersby to enjoy navigation and ride-hailing services or call emergency services with just one click, benefiting countless people across the city.

The world-leading high- and low-band integrated 5G-Advanced network supports a commercial complex at the Workers’ Stadium.

China Unicom Beijing, Sinobo, GTVerse, and Huawei have created a world-leading integrated 5G-Advanced network at the Workers’ Stadium. A large number of 5G-Advanced 3CC sites have been deployed both inside and outside the stadium, enabling the 10-gigabit 5G-Advanced network to support the widest frequency range anywhere in the world. Field tests recorded a downlink peak rate of 11.2 Gbps, allowing a crowd of up to 68,000 people to simultaneously and smoothly watch 1080p videos. Meanwhile, the uplink peak rate reached 4 Gbps, sufficient to support services like UHD shallow compression. China Unicom Beijing has also developed innovative practices in terms of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Internet of Things (IoT), and extended reality (XR) split rendering, demonstrating 5G-Advanced’s potential to empower all industries.

The 10-gigabit 5G-Advanced low-altitude economy innovation base drives low-altitude economic development in Yanqing

At the Great Wall scenic area, the Beijing Yanqing District Government and China Unicom Beijing have jointly deployed 10-gigabit 5G-Advanced base stations at scale. This offers uninterrupted network coverage both on the ground and in low-altitude (below 300 meters) airspace. High- and low-band integrated spectrum use enables the network to provide deterministic, highly-reliable, and high-quality services. It also supports efforts to explore low-altitude operational scenarios in tourism, logistics, emergency rescue, and scenic area protection, boosting safety and the development of the low-altitude economy.

End-to-end automation enables 5G-Advanced site provisioning within minutes and AI-driven intelligent optimization

Based on its 5G intelligent operations platform, China Unicom Beijing has established an end-to-end self-provisioning process for 5G-Advanced sites in lightweight scenarios, shortening provisioning times from days to minutes. The provisioning process requires no manual intervention, significantly reducing cyber security risks. Furthermore, the company has realized end-to-end automatic optimization of 5G-Advanced base stations based on user service data, including AI-powered optimization of provisioning, services, iteration, and inspection. China Unicom Beijing is the world’s first carrier to implement network self-provisioning and self-optimization in lightweight scenarios. It has also deployed computing power at base stations to realize distributed, AI-driven management, helping build a digital and intelligent ecosystem powered by cloud-edge collaboration.

Yang Lifan, Deputy General Manager of China Unicom Beijing, said: “Large bandwidth can quickly improve user experience. Only by providing 10-gigabit network capabilities can we guarantee a gigabit experience for all users. This time, we’ve built a large-scale integrated 5G-Advanced intelligent network to bring a better experience to all China Unicom users across Beijing. We are confident that, based on Huawei’s advanced technologies and our smart operations capabilities, we will provide users in Beijing with an increasingly better network experience in the future.”

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Li Jie, President of Huawei’s 5G&LTE TDD Domain, said: “As the 5G Capital project enters its fifth year, I am honored that Huawei’s new 5G-A^A solutions have helped China Unicom Beijing maintain its global leadership in 5G-Advanced network construction, demonstrated by the large-scale 5G-Advanced network benchmark launched early this year, and today’s launch of the world’s first large-scale integrated 5G-Advanced intelligent network. Huawei will continue to innovate and support China Unicom Beijing in building inclusive and high-quality 5G-Advanced networks to seize more opportunities in the AI-powered mobile network era.”

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HONG KONG, Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On 18 November, the 2024 World Maritime Merchants Forum grandly opened in Hong Kong, China. As a major platform for global maritime industry exchange and dialogue, this landmark event was led by China Merchants Group (CMG) in collaboration with the Transport and Logistics Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government, the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO), the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the Hong Kong Shipowners Association (HKSOA).

Since 2021, the World Maritime Merchants Forum has been held in Hong Kong for three consecutive years. This year, the Forum once again partnered with “Hong Kong Maritime Week” under the theme “Navigating the Cycles”, focusing on the latest policies, trends and hot topics in the maritime industry. Guests were invited to discuss the new opportunities and challenges facing the shipping industry amidst the significant shifts in global trade and transportation.

The event drew approximately 1,500 participants, including authoritative figures and leaders from global shipping, ports, trade, logistics, financial institutions and industry regulatory bodies.

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NEW YORK and LONDON, Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — ACORD Solutions Group, a leading provider of next-generation digital solutions for the global insurance industry, today announced a first-of-its-kind placing data exchange capability in its ADEPT data exchange platform. This one-to-many placing interface will act as a universal hub for exchanging placing data for insurers and brokers worldwide, connecting to all major placing platforms as well as a variety of downstream systems.

Insurers and brokers can immediately leverage ADEPT Placing with its easily accessible and ready-to-use direct interface that connects with major platforms including PPL, Whitespace, PlacingHub, and market firm-owned platforms such as Aon’s ABConnect and Guy Carpenter’s GC Marketplace.

ADEPT (ACORD Data Exchange Platform and Translator) is already in use by over 100 ACORD Solutions Group clients and partners to seamlessly exchange accounting and claims data, aligned with the ACORD GRLC (Global Reinsurance & Large Commercial) Data Standards. ADEPT Placing was built to increase interoperability, provide a single streamlined connection for placing data, and help insurers and brokers avoid the expensive and inefficient processes of building connections to multiple platforms with differing sets of non-standardized APIs. With ADEPT Placing, insurers will have a single “letterbox” for all of their broker partners’ placing transactions, regardless of the brokers’ chosen placing platform.

“We are now seeing ACORD GRLC facilitating a fully digital end-to-end journey, using structured data and real-time digital connectivity,” said Simon Squires, Co-Chair of the Ruschlikon eAccounting & Claims Steering Committee. “With brokers using collaborative market placing platforms to connect with the underwriting community, it is now possible to connect the systems and create a full straight-through processing model…and a real-time digital trading environment.”

ADEPT Placing gives insurers a one-to-many system to receive placing event data from quotation through to signed line advice information, reducing the need for multiple integrations and time-intensive mapping. It is fully aligned with the ACORD GRLC Contract, Risk & Pre-Accounting Standard, giving insurers one consistent data format to use with all broker placing portals. ADEPT Placing also benefits brokers by providing a single ACORD GRLC-compliant interface to exchange standardized data with various placing platforms, for quicker and easier reconciliation.

“This will eliminate several historical industry problems around processing being based on latest versions of documents and a complete processing population,” Squires continued. “The standards-based digital journey will, for the first time ever, completely link underwriting with accounting and claims and eliminate re-work and queries.”

ADEPT also supports the direct exchange of placing data between broker and insurer, as well as the ingestion of placing data into downstream systems, for organizations at all levels of digital maturity. If placing data is received via email rather than digital data transfer, ADEPT will utilize ACORD Transcriber‘s comprehensive document processing AI models to classify data residing within the submission email, including attached documents, and output it as a consistent standardized digital data payload.

“Insurers have told us that they often receive over 1,000 submissions as email with attachments in a single day. Without a digital solution to process all that information, they can get bogged down in manual processes around data rekeying, causing considerable inefficiencies and backlogs,” said Chris Newman, President International, ACORD Solutions Group. “Our mission is to unlock the benefits of next-generation digital data exchange even for stakeholders working within those frustrating legacy constraints.”

“With the global ecosystem digitalizing at an accelerating rate, it’s time to tackle placing as the next digital frontier,” added Newman. “With ADEPT Placing providing a single placing gateway, insurers can eliminate disjointed placing platform management and brokers can minimize the time-consuming process of copying placing data in multiple platforms. And by enabling seamless data flow between placing, downstream accounting, and claim processes, market firms can automatically achieve ACORD GRLC standardization from front to back office.”

More information about ADEPT and the future of placing will be available at the upcoming ACORD Solutions Group Horizons event, “A Placing Revolution” on Tuesday, November 26, featuring speakers from ACORD Solutions Group, AXA XL, and Marsh. Register to attend virtually or in-person to learn more about ADEPT’s capabilities and see it in action with live demos focused on both insurers and brokers.

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About ACORD Solutions Group

ACORD Solutions Group was created to solve critical industry challenges by delivering next-generation digital solutions and services. Our enterprise-class solutions optimize the speed, cost, and accuracy of data exchange, connecting stakeholders regardless of geography, role, and legacy constraints. ACORD Solutions Group is an extension of ACORD, the standards-setting body for the global insurance industry. Learn more at www.acordsolutions.com.

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