The Second Meeting of NIDA Network Evolution Working Group in 2025 Successfully Held in Beijing

On August 8, 2025, the NIDA Network Evolution Working Group's Second 2025 Working Group Meeting was held online and offline in Beijing. Twenty-eight representatives from China Information and Communications Research Institute, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Research Institute of China Telecom Co., Ltd., Research Institute of China United Network Communications Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Future Network Research Institute, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., and ZTE Co., Ltd. attended the conference. The meeting focused on reviewing the revised version of the Next Generation Network for 5.5G Era(NET5.5G) Deployment Guideline, and approved the AI Agent Communication Gateway Technical Research Report. At the same time, the recent work progress and annual work plan of the NIDA Alliance were introduced to members of the working group.

The meeting began with an introduction to the Alliance's work progress and annual work plan. The Alliance actively deployed BRICS and Belt and Road countries in international cooperation this year, and achieved remarkable results. More than half of the standard development plan is achieved. In addition, the Healthcare Industry Committee has been set up, and the Finance and Education Industry Committees are also in preparation. The Alliance will focus on industry scenario requirement analysis and standard development, and promote standard adoption and implementation through industry influence.

In the standard review phase, the review of the revised version of Next Generation Network for 5.5G Era(NET5.5G) Deployment Guideline becomes one of the core topics of this meeting. The Next Generation Network for 5.5G Era(NET5.5G) Deployment Guideline aims to provide technical paths and deployment suggestions for global carriers and equipment vendors to evolve from traditional networks to next-generation networks. After a heated discussion, experts at the meeting provided good review comments and suggestions, such as further strengthening the scenario-based deployment solution, providing scenario descriptions and key requirements for each typical scenario, and providing deployment guides to better guide actual operations. The standard is initially scheduled to be released in November and will be rolled out globally to facilitate large-scale deployment of next-generation networks.

In the project initiation review phase of the AI Agent Communication Gateway Technical Research Report, the project initiation is passed. In the reporting phase of the research report, experts put forward good suggestions on the function positioning and application scope of the gateway. Experts at the meeting agreed that AI Agent communication protocols are diversified, and different vendors work their own ways. The definition of gateway service object should be clarified, the research on communication layer should be focused, the establishment of global agent gateway network should be supported, and the technical details should be solved gradually by serialization.

This conference systematically reviewed the key technical requirements for next-generation network deployment and deeply discussed the innovative application scenarios of AI communication gateway technology, which pointed out the direction for the next phase of key work and laid a foundation for promoting next-generation network deployment and AI communication gateway technology research.

The participants said they would continue to deepen cooperation and jointly promote the development and standardization of next-generation network technologies.