Smart City is a typical embodiment of the Information Society, including multiple scenarios of ICT applications: E-home, E-office, E-government, E-health, E-education, E-traffic and more. Smart City can be divided into four categories based on the type of its sponsor:

• Government initiated: such as Singapore iN2015, u-Korea and some wireless cities in China;

• Real estate initiated: such as a large number of new cities in the Middle East;

• SP initiated: such as DIC in UAE, Airway and Huaneng Beijing in China;

• Carrier initiated：such as DT in Germany T-city.

As we understand it, the smartness of a city can be summarized into several characteristics: Single infrastructure, multi-industry integration, attractive applications, rich knowledge workforce and a tuneful society.

The investment in Smart City is increasingly expanding and has reached USD15 billion in the Middle East. Until now, there are hundreds of Smart City under construction around the world. The construction of a Smart City is a complicated project. Typical challenges include:

• Network and service planning: how to achieve the targets of the project phase by phase;

• Technology selection: For example, which technology shall be chosen for the access layer, GPON or P2P Ethernet;

• Construction and integration: how to integrate the computing, storage and security and so on;

• Maintenance：managed services, capacity expansion and so on.

Huawei U & ME Smart City solution covers residential, enterprise and public scenarios. It can be categorized into three core sub-solutions:

• Broadband access and metro solution, which provides ultra-broadband access and seamless coverage. Its product portfolio includes GPON, ME and WiMAX;

• Enterprise ICT application solution, which demonstrates Huawei’s advantage in IMS Based UC/Centrex;

• Data center integration solution, the portfolio of which includes router/switch, storage, security and server.

There are also some other components in smart city solutions, including IPTV, Metro WDM and NG-SDH. In professional services, Huawei has already had some successful experience in the fields of ODN, DC and indoor coverage integration.

Huawei has the capabilities in the following fields which are most relevant to build a Smart City:

• E2E vendor: Huawei is the only vendor that can provide all products in every aspect of smart city. Beside offering the equipments and products, we also provide professional consultancy, integration and Managed Service (MS) covering every building phases of a Smart City: well planned design, construction and operation.

• Convergence: Huawei has extensive experiences in managing convergent fields, including IT and CT convergence, wireline and wireless convergence, legacy and IP service convergence. One of the basic requirements of Smart City is supporting legacy services and mobile backhaul. For instance, some enterprises such as banks require high security service based ATM/FR/X.25. Smart city needs to provide mobile backhaul to operators’ base station. Huawei is experienced in providing such tailored solutions.

• Carrier Grade: Huawei carrier grade products are famous for their high reliability and scalability. We have twenty plus years cooperation experiences with over three hundred operators worldwide. For instance, hosting UC service can fulfill your operational high capacity requirement up to 20 million users, as well as the ability to help enterprises to reduce PBX investment and help operators to realize smooth expansion. Our ultimate goal is to ensure the highest level of investment protection.

• Lower TCO: Huawei can provide the most cost-effective solution to customers. The total cost of ownership of Huawei’s solution saving in accumulative five years has proven to be between 30% to 50% on the average.

• Green: Huawei is committed to the sustainable development of society with leading in providing environment- friendly and energy saving solutions. All of our products are designed to meet stringent energy consumption guidelines. Huawei’s products consume 30% to 40% less power than alternative choices.

• Quick response: Huawei is praised by business partners for its innovative and quick response. 22 regional HQ, 14 R&D centers, together with three-level customer service system (HQ/ regional/ local) and 1100 plus certified service partners worldwide ensure Huawe’s quick response and delivery.