Part 1: Industry Trends that Will Shape the Future of Intelligent World 2030

Going intelligent has become the general direction that the world is heading in over the coming decade.?

Future networks won't just connect billions of people; they will connect hundreds of billions of things. We envision those connections as being supported by green and cubic broadband networks that are AI-native, secure, trustworthy, and capable of providing deterministic experiences and HCS.

The communications networks of 2030 will have six defining features enabled by 15 key technologies, and each key technology will rely on research on multiple technological fronts:

1. AI Native:?Autonomous Driving Network and AI-native edge
2. HCS:?Wireless sensing, Wi-Fi sensing, Optical sensing
3. Cubic Broadband Network:?Space-air-ground integrated network; 10-gigabit connectivity for individuals, homes, and organizations; All-terabit network for access, backbone, and DCN
4. Green and Low-carbon:?Simplified architecture and Optoelectronic integration
5. Deterministic Experience:?Differentiated latency assurance, 99.999% availability, and E2E slicing
6. Security and Trustworthiness:?Network security and digital trustworthiness

The coming decade will see continuous improvements in network performance. Today's gigabit access enabled by 5G, F5G, and Wi-Fi 6 for homes, individuals, and organizations will evolve toward 10 gigabit capacity enabled by 6G, F6G, and Wi-Fi 8. Huawei predicts that average monthly data use on wireless cellular networks per person will increase 40-fold to 600 GB in 2030. In addition, gigabit or higher fiber broadband household penetration and 10 gigabit fiber broadband household penetration are expected to reach 55% and 23%, respectively, and the average monthly fixed network data usage per household is forecast to increase eightfold to 1.3 TB. Network ports will be upgraded from 400G to 800G or even 1.6T, and single-fiber capacity will exceed 100T. In terms of coverage, network construction up until now has focused on connectivity on the ground, but in the future, we will see the construction of integrated networks connecting the ground, air, and space.

For more on how communications networks will evolve over the next decade, download the?Communications Network 2030 Industry Report?where we analyze the technologies that will power a connected future and enable applications like:

• Human-Machine Interaction Network and how that will deliver hyperreal experiences with extended reality
• Naked-eye 3D displays
• Digital touch and digital smell?
• Seamless gigabit experience on Wi-Fi, and mobile and fixed networks
• Satellite broadband Internet
• The Industrial Internet and human-robot collaboration in intelligent manufacturing
• A computer power network oriented to machine cognition
• Cognitive networks, with huge advances in intelligence
• Cubic broadband powered by 6G, F6G, and Wi-Fi 8

Computing 2030

After half a century of development, computing has become deeply integrated into every aspect of our work and lives. In the next decade, computing will become the cornerstone of the intelligent world and continue to support economic development and scientific advances.

In 2030, the digital and physical worlds will be seamlessly converged. People and machines will interact with each other perceptually and emotionally. Computing will be able to simulate, enhance, and recreate the physical world. Hyper-real experiences will drive computing to the edge, and necessitate multi-dimensional collaborative computing between cloud and edge, between edge and edge, and between the digital and physical worlds. AI will evolve from perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence and develop the capacity for creativity. It will become more inclusive and make everything intelligent. As the boundaries of scientific exploration continue to expand, the demand for computing power will increase rapidly. Supercomputers that can perform 100 EFLOPS and a new, intelligent paradigm for scientific research will emerge. In the push toward global carbon neutrality, computing of the future will be greener, and service experience will get better.?

The semiconductor technologies that computing relies on are approaching their physical limits, and this will spark a golden decade of innovation in computing. Innovation in software, algorithms, architecture, and materials will make computing greener, more secure, and more intelligent. It is estimated that by 2030, global data will be growing by one yottabyte every year. Total general computing power will see a tenfold increase and reach 3.3 ZFLOPS, and AI computing power will increase by a factor of 500, to more than 100 ZFLOPS.?

Increases in computing power will give rise industry applications like AI-enabled precision medicine and research into new drugs, AI-enabled education, intelligent agriculture, research into the universe, AR/VR-powered extended reality – i.e., an immersive virtual world – and much more.?

Download the?Computing 2030 Industry Report?to find out more about these applications and for our deep dive into computing technologies such as:

• Cognitive Intelligence – how smart will AI get?
• Intrinsic Security – can we expect unparalleled digital trust and privacy?
• Green Computing – how will the ICT industry be at the forefront of net zero?
• Diversified Computing – how will computing power be ‘everywhere’?
• Multi-dimensional Collaboration – new tech like cubic computing, light field holographic rendering, 3D rendering, and quantum computing explained. What do they mean for the future?
• Physical breakthroughs like carbon nanotubes