Virtual press conference: Deutsche Telekom showed its highlights a week before its appearance at the MWC Barcelona. You can find details in our photo show.
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What news! The worldwide hit "Angels" by singer Robbie Williams has been rearranged based on Deutsche Telekom Beethoven AI. AI is the abbreviation for artificial intelligence. Claudia Nemat, Board Member for Technology & Innovation, emphasized at the press conference that digitization should never be an end in itself. It should always serve humans and remain ethical. The question is: How can AI interact with people, support them, inspire their imagination? That will be a big topic at MWC starting February 28, with exciting artists on stage there.
For Claudia Nemat, one thing is clear: We want to deliver meaningful products and technologies. Those that are useful to people and give them great experiences with technical devices and the associated connections. This includes everyone: Customers as well as employees, shareholders, partners and society as a whole. In short: #humancenteredtechnology
5G is now opening up such an experience to the media company RTL and its journalists reporting from the field. With "5G Standalone" and "Network Slicing," high-quality videos can also be transmitted with smartphones over 5G connections in the future. The necessary bandwidths are technically guaranteed. This is true even for heavily utilized mobile cells. Matthias Dang, co-chief executive of RTL Germany was live on the call. "We want to strengthen independent journalism on the ground - with real-time via 5G," he said. Deutsche Telekom is the best partner in Germany, he added. 5G Standalone is a further development in the 5G network and a prerequisite for new applications. The 5G network functions independently of the existing 4G network (LTE). "Network slicing" divides the network into logically separate areas. In the future, such a virtual network section will allow journalists in particular to broadcast data-intensive video signals live from the scene of the action.
Claudia Nemat also announced a world first in the area of network slicing, which benefits global companies that operate latency-critical applications at different, international locations. Latency means delay, usually the moment when data is transported and processed in the network. Reliable times are required here. In a feasibility study, Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson implemented "5G end-to-end network slicing" with guaranteed quality of service (QoS) across national borders. The international data connection could be flexibly controlled via an SD-WAN. Clearly, the journey is moving toward "network as a service". This is one aspect of the networks of the future. Automation, cloud and disaggregation play the other main roles in it. Claudia Nemat compared the networks to "giant computers".
Here you can find out what disaggregation means in the fixed network and in mobile communications: Easy & simple - network disaggregation. This means moving away from large systems from individual manufacturers and opening up to innovations from many providers. In mobile communications, this is called "Open RAN," or open radio access network. As early as 2021, Deutsche Telekom declared Neubrandenburg in Germany to be an "ORAN Town". Just as important is the disaggregation in the fixed network that is now starting, as Claudia Nemat emphasized. The focus here is on a network element called BNG (Broadband Network Gateway). Since the IP migration, this ensures that customers only have to plug in their routers to be online. The disaggregated BNG via "Access 4.0" is now new. Such an Access 4.0 rack was also part of the press conference.
Another Telekom innovation for globally active companies: T IoT. This means: Global connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). Simplicity for the companies that want to operate their applications. With a global pricing package, easy customer access and unified global framework agreements. In the video at the press conference, a customer had his say: Ola Källenius, head of Mercedes-Benz, sums up how important T IoT is.
Many other innovations for business customers await visitors to the Deutsche Telekom booth, such as 5G Standalone campus networks, sustainable Internet of Things and, above all, security. And on cooperation with Google, including the German Souvereign Cloud.
Another Deutsche Telekom focus at the MWC: sustainability for the company's climate goals. Examples: In Poland, Deutsche Telekom is installing solar panels at around 1,000 cell sites. And: Deutsche Telekom is cooperating with the Israeli company GenCell for climate-neutral energy generation at mobile sites. In Barcelona, the company will also showcase IoT solutions that help save water and electricity and avoid waste.
As Claudia Nemat summarized it, all Deutsche Telekom innovations follow the same pattern under the bracket #humancenteredtechnology:
• We automate passionately and radically.
• We are embracing the "cloud-native" journey.
• We are getting real about disaggregation.
• We are passionate about data and artificial intelligence according to our privacy and security value.
The media information on the press conference can be found here.
This time a special Deutsche Telekom focus at the MWC: private customers at home. "We deliver the best home experience for families." The recently launched MagentaZuhause app helps with this. Claudia Nemat showed a video in which she and her team try out the app. Not at home, but humorously in the office.
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