A few days ago, Jay Alexander, Chief Technology Officer of Keysight, mentioned in the “Keysight World 2021 Global Cloud Summit” when talking about digital transformation: The rapid adoption of new technologies is having a second impact: no matter where or how to participate in digital transformation, customer expectations have forever changed. The industry’s demand for instant access, continuous availability, and zero latency is becoming stronger and more urgent.
To cope with the in-depth challenges of digital transformation, Keysight is rebuilding and focusing on improving user experience. Whether it is developing hardware, software solutions or delivering services, it depends on this. Including Keysight World held in the form of a cloud summit is also a new attempt at digital transformation during the epidemic. In the fields of education, 5G mobile, and big data, Keysight has also pre-deployed to respond to future trends.
Remote access helps digital transformation of education
As a supplement to classroom learning, distance education is facing a situation in which demand exceeds supply. The advent of online courses and distance learning allows students to flexibly choose learning methods, but it also requires educational institutions to transform as soon as possible to adapt to new trends.
In response to industry needs, Keysight has launched a solution for remote access to the laboratory, aiming to enhance the online learning experience through the remote setting of the basic instrument laboratory. The solution includes Internet laboratory management and time scheduling software, supports remote access to the laboratory and controls instruments to complete measurement and analysis tasks, and can help college teaching laboratories to transition to online learning smoothly. Students can remotely access laboratory instruments through an Internet browser And perform experimental operations.
Key components of Keysight’s remote access laboratory solutions include: cloud-based PathWave remote access laboratory software, PathWave laboratory management software, including new power supplies, function generators, multi-function meters, and oscilloscopes. A set of instruments, and U3900DAQ exchange system. This solution will promote the education industry to accelerate the shift from traditional classroom teaching methods to blended learning methods, including the remote delivery of virtual courses through digital platforms.
Keysight’s Greater China Government and Service Marketing Manager Li Jian shared the results of a survey of hundreds of education practitioners around the world: About 10% of education practitioners believe that after the epidemic, they should return to mainstream offline teaching; 20% of practitioners believe that we should try to migrate online; but about 70% of practitioners believe that the future will be a balanced online and offline education model, and the future of this education model is ” The “full life cycle” teaching method is not only in universities, but should also cover the entire process of future career development.
Talking about new opportunities for online education in the future, Li Jian said, first of all, online education opportunities run through the entire life cycle. The current main business is in the electronic information industry, which initially started in schools. For example, the Smart Bench Essentials Series smart four-piece basic teaching kit is actually the first step in the transition from the original laboratory teaching to the online.
Secondly, universities have involved a lot of specialized education. Keysight has some specialized suites, including radio frequency and microwave suites, IoT suites, 5G suites, etc. According to the feedback from the school and the development trend of the entire industry, Keysight is in The entire online education software and hardware suite is undergoing continuous development and planning to better adapt to cloud teaching and remote control methods.
“Engineering education, vocational education, and education combining production, teaching and research are strongly advocated by our country,” Li Jian said. “We are also actively cooperating with third parties, including schools and scientific research institutions. We hope to extend the existing education suite. To a wider range of applications”.
Into the new era of mobile future
In the wave of digital transformation, mobile communication is a key link. Bai Ying, manager of the wireless marketing department of Keysight Greater China, believes that in the next five to ten years, mobile communications will undergo three significant changes:
One is the modernization of the network. Nowadays, networks are increasingly based on software, and a huge advantage of software is that mobile operators can expand coverage according to real-time needs, and at the same time, they can perform network configuration flexibly and organized. The network is becoming software-based, virtualized, and open. Direction development.
The second trend is the emergence of new application scenarios and business models. Although about 70% of mobile operators’ business revenue still comes from a large number of ordinary consumers, many new forms and models have emerged at the same time, prompting mobile operators to expand, upgrade, and optimize their networks to meet diverse usage scenarios.
The third trend is 6G that will appear in five to ten years. It can be said that the inevitable development stage of 5G is 6G. According to an Ericsson report at the Keysight World Global Cloud Summit, by 2026, about 3 billion mobile users on the planet will use 5G services, which means that in five years, about half of mobile terminal users will be 5G users. Nearly 3 billion 5G users will bring about 70% of network services. For operators and every practitioner, the changes are all aspects.
Moreover, not only ordinary individual end users will be significantly increased, five years later, there will be about 6 billion Internet of Things devices connected to the 5G network, which will bring a trillion-scale market. At that time, cloud gaming, connected cars, logistics, manufacturing, finance, and various other business activities will undergo significant and even subversive changes, which will have higher requirements for the network, such as more Low latency, higher reliability, more powerful seamless connection capabilities, and even network self-organization, virtualization capabilities, and so on. The real effective development of 6G work may be after Release 18. With the gradual development of Release 18, the theoretical research, physical design, and waveform design of 6G will make great strides forward.
In addition, Bai Ying emphasized the security of the network. “Security is a problem that has to be faced. How to prevent it in the future, how to ensure the resilience of the network, realize the self-monitoring and self-repair of the network, and also need to stress test the network vulnerabilities, all must be faced and resolved. “The problem”, he said, “With the integration of ICT technology, the communication technology, information network technology, and operation technology represented by 5G have been integrated. Therefore, the network security problem is no longer a pure IT problem, but ICT. Comprehensive question.”
In recent years, Keysight has been committed to providing complete end-to-end solutions in the entire development process of 5G products, from chip design and manufacturing to the successful construction of 5G networks, and enriched from layer to layer through a series of acquisitions. Seven’s 5G product line provides end-to-end, truly all-round services from the perspective of network equipment or wireless communication network security.
Development trends in the era of big data
Keysight’s Greater China Automotive and New Energy Testing Market Manager Du Jiwei talked about the six major trends in the big data era, including: explosive growth of data, continuous shrinking of fixed asset budgets such as network equipment, cloud economy era, PAM4 and the rise of coherent light , Competition between new digital interface standards, and edge computing.
Du Jiwei said that the deployment of 100G optical modules is now the mainstream, and this year and next year are the deployment years of 400G optical modules. But at the same time, the first generation of 800G optical modules will also have the opportunity to be produced in small batches next year, which will bring new improvements to the bandwidth requirements of components and chips.
In addition, coherent technology is used for interconnection between data centers and between cities. Coherent technology has begun to sink, and the transmission distance can be supported to less than ten kilometers. If it is 800G (ZR) coherent technology can support a distance of two kilometers, coherent technology has begun to enter the data center.
In addition, data center energy consumption is also attracting attention. Joint optoelectronic packaging or silicon photonics technology has become an obvious development trend. Now many companies at home and abroad have invested heavily in silicon photonics, and this is the strength of Keysight. Deutsche Technology has a deep accumulation in dealing with high-speed and complex tests through many years of reserves.
Keysight provides strong support for digital transformation
Zheng Jifeng, general manager of Keysight’s Greater China market, believes that the demand for the entire network is increasing rapidly, including wireless access networks, bearer networks, and core networks, all of which are facing higher requirements. At the same time, this also brings greater challenges to the new generation of data centers under construction, as well as various high-speed digital component interfaces.
Zheng Jifeng, General Manager of Greater China Market, Keysight Technology
In the future, new requirements have been put forward for network speed and network architecture. By 6G, it may be a more complex heterogeneous network system with multiple systems coexisting. How to test the mutual interference between such heterogeneous networks and networks in which multiple systems coexist? How to perform basic measurements and tests on heterogeneous networks? Keysight is already gradually providing corresponding solutions today.
Zheng Jifeng said that the CEO of Keysight has always emphasized “Be First is in Our DNA”, hoping to maintain a steady stream of innovation capabilities through continuous R&D investment and innovation. He believes that whether the digital transformation of the industry or other upgrades in the future, a huge question is usually how to continue to innovate? This is a very important challenge, and it is also the basic ability for enterprises to carry out digital transformation or upgrade in the future.