In an interview with Mobile World Live, Huawei small cell marketing director Philip Song said the telecom equipment vendor expects to significantly grow its market share in the small cell sector.
Song emphasized the benefit to network operators who purchase macro base stations and small cells from the same vendor.
“When the macro and small cells are from the same vendor, it allows coordination between the two network layers and we can generate additional value and guarantee QoS,” Song told Mobile World Live Asia editor Joseph Waring.
Song said Huawei is looking to double its small cells market share.
“Small cells will be the future because operators face limitations in adding more carriers and base stations,” Song said. “In addition, much of the new spectrum being allocated is in the high bands, which aren’t great for macro sites because they have to be closer. If we could sell in the U.S., the number would be even greater.”
Song made these comments during the recent Huawei Cloud Congress event in Shanghai. Huawei has set a target for its recently launched enterprise business to become the leader in the IT infrastructure field.
“We are leveraging our strength to the IT field,” said Eric Xu, rotating CEO and deputy chairman of the board at Huawei, during a keynote at Huawei Cloud Congress.
Huawei has built and said it is increasing its product line focused on enabling enterprises to build their infrastructure ecosystem based on the cloud. This means that Huawei won’t offer cloud computing services, but instead plans on battling giant IT groups by providing the infrastructure necessary to various enterprise sectors to have their own data centers.
During the Huawei Cloud Congress event, Huawei launched a series of IT solutions, including data centers, converged storage, cloud operating systems and big data analytics platforms.
