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How can carriers efficiently enlarge pipes from the supply side? How can they efficiently fill the pipes from the demand side without a killer application?
By Zhang Ming, Market Insight Experience Dept, Huawei Carrier BG
Since the birth of the communications industry, research has largely focused on accurately and effectively transferring data from sender to receiver. Shannon's theory of communication defines information entropy as syntactic communication. But with the development of coding technology, system transmission capacity is now approaching its limit.
So, how can the industry move forward?
In fact, another level of communication exists: semantic communication 1. In contrast to syntactic communication, which targets accurate transmission despite entropy (or information), semantic communication can ignore the accuracy of entropy exchange while seeking the accurate exchange of semantic information. Therefore, network capacity can be multiplied by enhancing software capabilities without any revolutionary improvements to hardware capabilities.
Does this mean that semantic communication can serve as a shortcut to enlarging the pipes?
3D video appears to have the potential to fill operators' pipes in the 5G and 5.5G eras. However, 3D content is expensive to produce and requires specialized skills. In the LTE era, a social media influencer could create a short, 60-second video on a phone in just a few minutes. However, the production of a 3D video that is only a few seconds long can keep a professional team busy for an entire day.
Considering this, is it possible for generative AI technology to help evolve content from 2D to 3D and reverse the sluggish growth in demand for carrier pipes?
Semantic communication enlarges pipes while generative AI fills them