AsiaInfo staff members set up an intelligent book room forpoor students in the Qianxi'nan prefecture in Guizhouprovince.Wang Zhuangfei / China Daily

AsiaInfo, the world's leading software provider for telecommunication operators, is expected tosteal the limelight at the World Internet Conference from Nov 16 to 18, due to the companyexecutives' presence as keynote speakers, market insiders said.

The forecast is based on the impressive development of the Beijing-based multinationalcompany and its future-shaping moves in recent years.

AsiaInfo stood out as the first Chinese high-tech company to be listed on the US Nasdaq StockMarket as early as 2000.

The move originally raised eyebrows throughout the world's internet sector, and its successconfirmed the strategic foresight of the company's co-founder, Edward Tian, in the early days ofChina's internet sector.

The creative Tian is still considered the chief architect of the emergence of the internet in China,and his in-depth advice and suggestions are still taking the lead in building a Community ofCommon Future in Cyberspace, which is advocated by the think tanks taking part in the WorldInternet Conference.

AsiaInfo has helped develop the industry for over two decades, not only providing strongtechnical support for the rapid development of China's communication industry, but alsoproviding a precise and swift billing service, a customer management service and an e-commercial platform for 1.3 billion users.

The company serves more than 1 billion users each day, processes over 100,000 telephonecalls a second, 7 petabytes of data a day and 6 billion transaction records each day.

Working such large amounts of data for two decades has equipped AsiaInfo with world-class,real-time and precise research, development and ability to deliver large-scale software systemsin telecommunications, billing, customer management, customer service and commercialplatforms.

Besides, at a Glotel Global Telecommunication Union event early this month, AsiaInfo wasawarded the BSS Transformation Excellence Award for its Denmark Telenor BSS project.

The Glotel union is known for its focus on innovation in the global telecommunication industry.

Its awards are judged annually by technology leaders, senior managers and industry analysts ofmajor global operators and communication service enterprises, and therefore represent highrecognition for innovation and excellence.

Jin Yadong, the chief technology officer of AsiaInfo Group and CEO of AsiaInfo International,said: "The award was recommended by our client Telenor. Our Telenor project is one whereAsiaInfo International will open a European telecommunication market.

"AsiaInfo International boasts technological strength through serving China's telecommunicationoperators for over two decades, excellent customer service and spirit of pioneering andinnovation. It combines Eastern and Western practice and innovation, and provides a brand-newdigital experience for European users."

Commercial innovation driven by global technological advances are also forging ahead.

Major global economic entities are speeding up deploying innovative technologies, such asGermany's Industry 4.0 strategy, the European Union's Europe 2020 Strategy, and China'sInternet Plus.

Although AsiaInfo is a traditional software company, innovation genes inside the organizationdrive it to continuously explore new technology, Tian said.

With the development of cloud computing, big data, the internet of things and artificialintelligence, AsiaInfo believes that industries and companies will function more and more like"customer operators".

As well as focusing on user experience, enterprises also need to provide multiple situation billingand scene billing models, which means that enterprises can have faster, more effective andintelligent billing ability as well as customer operation management service ability.

"This was always the core advantage of AsiaInfo - as the enabler of customer operation supportsystems," Tian said.

According to Tian, relying on long-term accumulation of technology research and development,AsiaInfo has also made great progress in big data and network security, and thereforecontributing to the development of China industrial internet.

Big data

AsiaInfo Data, its big data arm, has partnered with the local governments of Guiyang, capital ofSouthwest China's Guizhou province, Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, andHarbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, to explore big data transactionmodels and facilitate a socialization process of data.

Other than keeping the leading position in the telecommunication industry, AsiaInfo hascooperated with nearly 100 institutes in the fields of government, healthcare, transport, insurance,public security, banking and new media.

It provides innovative application of big data in the fields of targeted poverty alleviation, smarthealthcare, location information operation, information for public benefit, governmentadministration data and traffic control, adding new services to smart cities.

"AsiaInfo Data is exploring a new model of poverty alleviation for China," said Zhang Hao,president of AsiaInfo Data. "The model relies on big data in regional poverty alleviation andrealizes integration, convergence, opening and sharing of poverty alleviation data and resourceson platforms."

Meanwhile, the company administers the poverty-stricken areas and accumulates povertyalleviation data through the internet, especially mobile internet technology, and through suchmedia as smartphones and assists governments in formulating macro-policy and realizingpoverty reduction and relief with big data.

The model has been put into practice in some areas, such as Northwest China's Gansu province,Southwest China's Guizhou province and South China's island province of Hainan.

Security guarantee

In the field of security guarantee in building the Community of Common Future in Cyberspace,AsiaInfo Security also looks after the security of the nation's industrial network.

AsiaInfo Security president He Zheng said: "When planning the earliest internet in China in 1995,AsiaInfo started to provide planning and integration services for customers' network security.

"Through purchasing Trend Micro (China) in 2015, the company has mastered defensetechnology against the highest-level network threats and has developed a top-level research anddevelopment team.

"At present, AsiaInfo Security has formed an end-to-end industrial network security system andbuilt a reliable chain from terminal to cloud."

AsiaInfo expects complete success at the third World Internet Conference, and will also adhere toits mission of innovation, working for the development of China's industrial network and thegreater prosperity of AsiaInfo.