China Mobile and ZTE Debut Network OptiRover at the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit

• Network OptiRover, an AI-powered robot dog-based 5G network optimization tool, helped the summit succeed with 1,800 delegates from 138 countries and regions
• OptiRover underpins great opportunities for the mobile industry to leverage the latest advancements of 5G-Advanced, AI and robotics for both mobile network and other industries

Wuzhen, China, November 11, 2026 – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a global leading provider of integrated information and communication technology solutions, together with China Mobile Zhejiang, deployed the 5G-A Network OptiRover, an intelligent operations and maintenance solution in Wuzhen, based on an industry-first dual-agent collaborative autonomous optimization architecture.

The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit took place from November 2 to 5, 2026, where about 1,800 delegates from 138 countries and regions participated. To better meet the high-density, high-concurrency communications demands on site, leveraging a 5G-A super-uplink network foundation, 5G-A Network OptiRover solution enables network operations and maintenance to leap from manual intervention to full-chain autonomous closed-loop evolution, setting a new digital-intelligent benchmark for network assurance at major events.

From Manual Intervention to Intelligent Closed Loop: Dual Agents Reshape the Operations and Maintenance Paradigm

The operations and maintenance of network are moving from manual intervention toward intelligent autonomy. Traditional communications assurance for large events relies heavily on on-site manual operations, which in practice faces challenges such as blind spots in personnel coverage and pressure on manpower allocation.

Targeting these industry pain points, the Network OptiRover solution adopts dual-agent collaboration as its core architecture. Through multi-agent collaboration technology, it enables real-time information exchange between agents, direct command delivery, bidirectional data interoperability, and task negotiation and planning, building a full-chain autonomous operations and maintenance closed loop of "perception → decision → execution → review → evaluation".

The network agent supports network status perception and analysis at 1-minute granularity, automatically generates optimization plans and dispatches inspection tasks, and enables global assessment and closed-loop implementation of network issues. The robot dog agent is responsible for motion scheduling and path planning of inspection terminals; it can control robot dogs to complete inspection operations in designated areas and synchronously backhaul test data from onboard 5G terminals, HD inspection images, positioning coordinates, and LiDAR 3D maps, enabling precise collection and real-time backhaul of on-site scenarios. The dual agents' global assessment and on-site execution complement each other, creating a "1+1>2" synergistic effect and significantly improving fault localization accuracy and handling efficiency.

The solution innovatively introduces 5G-A edge computing deployment, enabling hour-level rapid elastic expansion of computing power. For multi-terminal management, it supports collaborative control across brands and centralized management of low-cost lightweight terminals. In addition, with end-to-end low-latency assurance from edge computing, it can meet manual remote takeover requirements in emergency scenarios, with inspection images backhauled in real time and control commands taking effect immediately.

From Single-point Assurance to Full-domain Foundation: 5G-A Strengthens the Capability Base

The efficient operation of the intelligent operations and maintenance solution relies on the underlying capabilities of the 5G-A network. China Mobile Zhejiang has built a full-domain 5G-A large-uplink demonstration network in Wuzhen, which can simultaneously carry real-time backhaul of multi-source data from multiple inspection robot dogs. On-site tests show that the single-user uplink peak rate exceeds 1 Gbps. For traditionally weakly covered scenarios such as Wuzhen's alleys and riverways, the deep coverage and uplink capabilities of the 5G-A network ensure data transmission stability, expanding the physical coverage boundary of inspections and providing a reliable foundation for backhaul of high-bandwidth services such as HD video.

To date, the Network OptiRover solution has participated in communications assurance for various major events more than 50 times and completed more than 460 inspection tasks, covering diverse scenarios such as large concerts, music festivals, tidal bore watching festivals, theater festivals, and marathons. It has achieved zero major network incidents during assurance periods, and the closed-loop rate for network hazard detection and fault handling has reached 96%, with its effectiveness of operations and maintenance, and assurance reliability fully validated at scale.

The successful debut of OptiRover at the summit is just the beginning of what's possible. Given the advanced modular design and highly efficient integration of 5G Advanced, AI and robotics, the benefits can also be enormous for many other industries that require much more time- and cost-effective and less labor-intensive infrastructure operation and maintenance. Going forward, further exploration of additional use cases and applicable scenarios will continue, extending the benefits to the mobile industry and beyond.