What is known about NearLink

Chinese company Huawei presented a new version of the HarmonyOS 4.0 operating system at its developers conference. Along with this, NearLink, a new wireless data transmission technology claimed to be working on by more than 300 leading Chinese and international businesses and organizations, was also demonstrated. Huawei says this is a step forward in the field of wireless communications. NearLink leverages the strengths of traditional Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless technologies to deliver unprecedented performance gains.

Compared with traditional wireless connections, Huawei NearLink has a number of impressive advantages:

• Energy consumption is reduced by 60%.
• The speed is six times faster than existing technologies, providing smoother and more efficient data transfer.
• Connection latency has been reduced by 30 times and the number of simultaneous connections has been increased by 10 times. The new protocol is suitable for simultaneous connection of several devices and can work in industrial systems.

This technology can be applied in a variety of fields, from consumer electronics and smart home systems to new energy vehicles and industrial manufacturing. NearLink aims to revolutionize the Internet with HarmonyOS. The platform provides seamless connectivity and increased performance for mobile phones, PCs and cars while consuming less energy.

As HarmonyOS evolves and expands, NearLink will play a key role in unlocking the potential of this interconnected ecosystem. According to Huawei, developers and consumers can look forward to a new era of efficiency, convenience and advanced capabilities with the rollout of NearLink.

the other side of the coin

All of this sounds great, but it’s important to remember that there is a reason why Huawei is under massive sanctions. Corporations shut down access to Western technology when it was discovered that telecommunications equipment was spying on literally the entire world—the media, governments, companies, and ordinary citizens of Europe and the United States. After putting the entire planet in cheap and functional equipment, The company has left backdoors that allow it to capture data transmitted over these networks and send it to China where the government can access it.

The revelations started in 2012 with an Australian television company and then spread around the world. Later, Australia, the USA, the UK and other countries began to gradually abandon the use of the company’s equipment in operator networks. Other countries followed the example. After that, the first sanctions began, which almost drove the company into bankruptcy – in order to survive, it had to turn to other areas of activity. For example, there was even information on the net that the electronics manufacturer would engage in coal and metal extraction as well as raising pigs.

It should be noted that Huawei has developed and supplied the technologies used in the concentration camps, where political prisoners, especially Uyghurs, have been subjected to terrible torture for years, for the Chinese government. In addition, surveillance technologies literally cover the entire country, helping the totalitarian government maintain censorship, suppress opposition, persecute critics, and more.

Huawei no longer has access to Android and its services (which is why it created its own HarmonyOS operating system), processors (which is why its smartphones are generations behind, and it hasn’t had 5G for a long time as all major manufacturers have launched smartphones with it) for several years ) and often cannot buy almost anything based on technology made or originating in the USA.

Is the new technology likely to be spying? Of course, especially considering that it can work in industrial systems. On the one hand, anything you transfer can be automatically sent to Huawei servers much more efficiently. The system will collect data from your smartphones, watches, home appliances, health monitoring devices. On the other hand, if you have a smartphone or other device from Huawei, then all your live data is probably already broadcast directly to China and is available to the government at any time.

NearLink is definitely an attractive technology promising, but it is also one of the advantages the company uses to attract new customers to add another user to its database.

So the best option in this case would be to observe whether this technology will remain exclusive to Huawei or if it will enter the global market where other brands – Samsung, Apple, Google and others – without such ties to China can dominate. others.