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  • Huawei: no plans to move network centre to India

    Huawei: no plans to move network centre to India

    ChinesE technology firm, Huawei, has denied allegations by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) that it plans to outcource the Network Operating Centres (NOCs) it runs on behalf of the carriers in the country.

    `NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, had during the unveiling of the union’s struggles for this year, accused Huawei of planning to shut down its NOCs operations in the country and outsource its management to Indians.

    He said Huawei, a telecoms giant was responsible for managing about 75 per cent of NOCs for Etsalat, Airtel, part of Glo and part of MTN in Nigeria. ”They have also commenced the knowledge transfer from Nigerian engineers to their Indian counterparts, preparatory to moving their operations to India,” the NLC chief had said.

    But in email response Huawei said: “This allegation is not correct. First the business does not belong to Huawei. We work for the operators. So basically, Huawei has no control over where the business owners want to locate their business. Remember if the NOC is located outside of Nigeria, Huawei also automatically loses the business. If the owners of the business seek Huawei advice, of course as we want to retain the business, then we would guide them accordingly. Lastly, the business is a contract, with duration, so any vendor can rebid and win.”

    The original equipment manufacturer (OEM) attached a letter detailing its response to a letter of complaint earlier received from the NLC on the issue.

    “Further to your letter dated December 20, 2016 and referenced NLC/NS/A7118 on the above matter, we hereby state that the allegations contained in the complaint are false, baseless and calculated to mislead the unions and we respond as follows:

    “Our company is always dedicated to the development of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry in Nigeria. In addition, as a company established in Nigeria, we create a lot of work opportunities for Nigerians.

    “We do not have any plan to move Network Operating Centre from Nigeria to India or any other counties as alleged in the said letter. We will continue to try our best to create more work opportunities for Nigerians and help the economic development of Nigeria.

    “And secondly, our company has always operated and will continue to operate in accordance with all the relevant local laws and legislation guiding our operation in Nigeria. We will not conduct actions prohibited by Nigerian laws. That is the basic operation principle of our company in Nigeria,” the letter read.

  • Huawei gives 60 PCs, others to LASPOTECH

    The collaboration between the Office of the Special Adviser on Education (OSAE), Lagos State Ministry of Education and Huawei Technologies yielded more fruits with the endowment of 60 computers, inverters and a video conference facilities to the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu.

    The Special Adviser to Lagos State governor on Education, Mr Obafela Bank-Olemoh,who unveiled the equipment at the digital centre of the polytechnic, said the donation would help the state achieve its aim of transforming Lagos into a smart city.

    “What we see here excites us.  This investment by Huawei is a step towards achieving our vision.  Last month we launched the Code Lagos initiative, which will train one million youths to code.  This will serve as one of the centres for training both students and young people in the environs.  We are deliberate in ensuring that our preparation for the future is not lacking.  And our partnership with Huawei speaks to this,” he said.

    Huawei Public Relations Manager, Fancy Feng, said it was the second project the firm implemented with the state.

    “This is the second project with the Ministry of Education.  Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria and we know we can reach out to a large number of young people in the state through our project,” she said.

    LASPOTECH ICT Director, Benjamin Ogali, said apart from the 60 computers, which came loaded with Microsoft Office Suites and antivirus, the firm gave four 10 KVA inverters with 32 250 Watts 24 Volts pvc Panels and 32 batteries; four air conditioners, and video conferencing equipment, which he estimated cost over N25 million – excluding the cost of refurbishing the chairs, tables, sockets and lights at the centre.

    Responding on behalf of the institution, the Deputy Rector, Mr Nurudeen Soaniyon, thanked the Lagos State government for facilitating the endowment.

    “On behalf of the rector, we thank the Lagos State government for this.  We are so grateful.  We will use this judiciously,” he said.

  • Huawei, 20 carriers to build eight submarine cables in Africa

    Chinese telecoms technology firm Huawei Marine is to partner with 20 carriers to build eight submarine cable systems and upgrade two old ones in Africa. This is to provide better international data access on the continent.

    The firm, which unveiled this plan at a presentation at AfricaCom in South Africa, said connectivity remained central to leapfrogging Nigeria and the rest of the continent out of economic challenges.

    “Connecting people in Africa remains Huawei’s top priority. In partnership with 20 carriers, Huawei will build eight new submarine cables systems and upgrade two existing systems in Africa to provide better international data access for 15 countries. To date, Huawei Marine is  deploying the 6000 km repeatered South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) system between Cameroon and Brazil, enabling connectivity for a population of 198 million,” Huawei said.

    The free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, said “in telecoms, a repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it. Repeaters are used to extend transmissions so that the signal can cover longer distances or be received on the other side of an obstruction.

    “Huawei has demonstrated that it is best positioned to play a pivotal role in supporting digital transformation and development of ICT in Africa. Today, we see that behind a globally competitive connectivity is a strong, collaborative industry chain with high levels of technological convergence and industry integration. Huawei looks forward to working closely with industries and the academia on the continent to create a Better Connected Africa,” Huawei’s Southern Africa Region President Mr. Li Peng, said, adding that connectivity, digital services and applications are its key focus for Africa’s ICT development.

    Huawei Marine is a joint venture established by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Global Marine Systems Limited, bringing together substantial expertise of the two parent companies. Huawei Marine integrates the state-of-the-art technologies in telecoms and nearly 160 years of marine operations experience, committing itself to the development and construction of submarine cable communication networks throughout the globe.

    Huawei, diamond sponsor of AfrcaCom with Building a Better Connected Africa as its theme, said digital transformation is the engine for Africa telecom industry growth as it will also empower the innovation of other industries.

    It said it focused on its core businesses and is committed to empowering carriers’ digital transformation with continuous strategic investment aimed at opening up platform capabilities to help build an open, collaborative, and win-win industry ecosystem to accelerate digital transformation.

    At its demo and experience pavilion, it exhibited a wide range of solutions such as Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoTs), Smart Home, Cloud, Video, SDN/NFV, Safe City, and others. “These are designed to help African telecom carriers and enterprises transform their network into an agile and flexible one and to realise operational efficiency, smart capex (capital expenditure) and business transformation in the digital era.

    “Connectivity prevails as the panacea for the deployment of digital services and applications for enterprises, government and carriers. From now until 2021, the Mobile Broadband (MBB) data traffic in Africa is expected to increase by at least 26-fold, mainly driven by apps such as video, IoTs and by connecting the unconnected’’. population,” it said.

     

  • Huawei sees cloud as future of business

    Huawei sees cloud as future of business

    • Opens Cloud Congress West Africa

    Global technology leaders Huawei has said cloud technology is the future of business, adding that hardware innovation, software re-architecture and data intelligence have become the three most important factors of business success.

    Making a presentation at the second Cloud Congress West Africa (HCC Nigeria 2016) at the weekend in Lagos, Huawei shared innovative products and solutions, which not only included architecture, but also hardware (high-end server, high-end storage, hyper-converged infrastructure and spark-based accelerator), software (enterprise-class open cloud OS FusionSphere) and solution (seterogeneous virtualisation resource pool, hybrid cloud solution, and cloud disaster recovery solution) at the event.

    With Transforming with Cloud: Setting New Benchmark as its theme, more than 300 industry elites participated. They range from telecom carriers, finance, governments, to energy companies and partners across West Africa. Huawei  released its hyper-converged infrastructure FusionCube 6000 for virtualisation and desktop clouds. FusionCube delivers high performance with low latency, and deploys rapidly. FusionCube 6000 uses a Huawei-designed, built-in, distributed storage engine. It deeply integrates computing and storage resources, eliminating performance bottlenecks and supporting flexible capacity expansion.

    Huawei said by depending on joint innovation, technology innovation and cooperation innovation, it has devoted itself to build an open, collaborative, and win-win cloud ecosystem together with customers, and partners, adding that it also looks to strengthen cooperative relationships with its customers, and seek greater marketing opportunities. Thus, Huawei launched its partner promotion product and policy to encourage partner’s aggressiveness at this summit.

    Huawei drove the conversation at the event by engaging with industry leaders and IT vendors on promoting more open, more efficient, and more structured business growth for enterprise and carrier.

    Huawei used the forum to share its vision and ideas about the future, strategies on how to work together with various industries in order to advance ICT, and showcase its experiences in IT.

    “In this digital era, user demands real-time, on-demand, all-online, and social (ROADS) experience: to adapt effectively, telecoms carriers and big business must change their business models, build ecosystems, add new infrastructure, develop organisations and processes, and learn new skills,” an official of the firm said.

    “Traditional industries find themselves under increasing pressure to transform and upgrade. IT has shifted from being a support system to a business and production system. The emergence of technologies represented by cloud computing is driving the need to change and reshape IT.

    “In addition, the rise of Big Data is spawning additional cloud computing-based IT initiatives. IDC forecasts that cloud computing will be one of 2016’s IT megatrends. IT will shift from being a support service to a core production platform, as operators revitalise their closed, low-efficiency networks and shorten time-to-market (TTM).

    “Open, agile, cloud-based networks will give them the power to seize fast-moving market opportunities (digital and cloud services),” Huawei official said.

    As an IT industry leader, Huawei concentrates on IT infrastructure, and continues to openly invest in and work with partners to provide innovative, differentiated, and leading IT solutions for customers worldwide.

    Traditional industries need to transform and upgrade themselves: IT is becoming the engine by which traditional industries are transforming and upgrading. Informatisation (increased IT usage) is the latest revolution, following the previous three revolutions – mechanization, electrification, and automation. Innovative technologies such as Industry 4.0 connect everything, and Big Data analytics can be increasingly applied to industrial processes. This phenomenon drives traditional industries to transform, and redefines business models. As such, each enterprise across every industry is taking up a new starting place. The enterprise IT system is not just a support system, but is becoming a business and production system. Each enterprise is expected to fully leverage their IT system to enhance competitiveness, accelerate product Go-to-Market (GTM), increase operational efficiency, and reduce costs.

    The rise of cloud computing drives the need to reshape IT: IT technologies represented by cloud computing bring about new changes and lay the groundwork for the digital restructure initiatives of traditional enterprises and IT staff. Cloud computing assists enterprises and industry players alike (including telecom carriers) to rebuild their IT framework to become future-proof, so they can evolve network architectures, revamp business models, and become increasingly competitive. Huawei firmly believes that cloud computing is an important opportunity within the IT sector that should be seized. The emergence of cloud computing is a key factor behind Huawei’s massive investment in IT.

    Big Data creates unlimited opportunities for business innovation: Data is increasingly becoming a core asset that is critical to an organization’s IT initiatives. By fully leveraging data, companies are able to intelligently deliver transformations and innovations, as well as the ability to efficiently implement precision marketing. Data also aids enterprises with customer satisfaction survey, helps improve customer satisfaction, and increases operational efficiency. To fully capitalise on the value of “digital asset” – data, enterprises need a Big Data-capable platform. Huawei helps customers unleash the full potential of data by building a feature-rich Big Data platform that offers a variety of services, such as complete and real-time analytics.

     

  • Our cloud transformation solutions for Nigeria, by Huawei

    Our cloud transformation solutions for Nigeria, by Huawei

    Global leading information communications technology (ICT) solution provider, Huawei said it has studied the Nigerian enterprise terrain and defined its cloud transformation agenda along four segmentations.

    The firm which unveiled the segmentation at the weekend, said the four segmentations include DC modernisation; internal IT Cloudification; telecom business cloudification and Business to Business (B2B) cloud service

    The firm said traditional telco services are now considering the move into new generation business models and carrier chief technology officers (CTOs) are considering different approaches for core and mobile businesses as well as telecom value-added services, adding that it is therefore conceivable that carriers will take advantage of new cloud services and migrate telco value added services (VAS) into cloud platform. “This means that the future telecom core services or VAS services will be deployed like today’s internet services and ultimately quicken service launch.

    “Cloud B2B service is a new market opportunity for carries to sell IT resources as well as IT applications. Carrier chief marketing officers (CMOs) can approach different enterprise segments by understanding government policy on ICT such as Industry 4.0, Internet +, Industrial Internet or market solutions.

    “Vertical cloud is suitable for local companies who demand local carrier service support, data localisation and data privacy. The CMO can use simple IaaS features with specific PaaS & SaaS applications to offer local companies self-service opportunities from their web portal to use IT on-demand, online and real time basis,” Huawei explained.

    According to the firm, carriers can use their worldwide sales operations to support and bundle together with VPN, lease line and telecom services to form enterprise ICT bundle services. Vertical markets and government segments are very different from enterprises; they require industry knowledge and fairly high standards to support them.

    It identified the advantages of carriers selling to them to include established market reputation, network and IT infrastructure readiness, trusted business partner, existing support and service infrastructure and expertise, adding that carriers can also up-sell NBN and National DC solution to help government to formulate National ICT policies and to plan for e-GOV strategies for G2C, G2B and G2G.

    “In the four segmentations for cloud transformation, Huawei offers carriers the business visualisation on how to transform from existing DC infrastructure to Cloud DC. Huawei also offers strategies of how cloud resources can improve business operation efficiency, and what new NFV infrastructure to adopt to efficiently evolve cloudified telco services for launch into different enterprise segments.

    “We will go through product capabilities, solution approaches, business consultation and enterprise architecture to actualise carrier cloud transformation.

    “Huawei has been named several times by different carriers as the prime partner in cloud transformation; DT in Open Telekom Cloud project has stated publicly that Huawei is ‘excellent’ in Technology Knowhow, R&D Capabilities and is an Efficiency Leader for the expedition of the public cloud project launch.

    “In the Jiaxing city government cloud project, China Telecom chose Huawei to transform government IT service in cloud service because of the strength of the Huawei brand in China; strong software development and support capabilities; integration with China Telecom network infrastructure; and its quick adaptation of new business service models,” an official of the firm explained.

  • Intercellular chooses Huawei for LTE deployment

    Intercellular chooses Huawei for LTE deployment

    An indigenous telecommunications company, Intercellular Nigeria Limited, has selected Huawei to help it transform its network to long term evolution (LTE) or 4G, the latest technology in the mobile communication industry.

    The signing of the deal was held during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain, Barcelona.

    The Chief Executive Officer of Intercellular, Mr Emad Sukker announced a joint LTE 4G transformation of the former code division multiple access (CDMA) network and its plans for rapid expansion to provide high quality telecommunication services to Nigerians. With this alliance, Huawei will deploy an 800megahertz (MHz) LTE network to help Intercellular meet the strategic and service demands of the Nigerian market.

    Depending on its frequency portfolio of the 800MHz and 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum, Intercellular intends to provide services with the most advanced communications technologies available today, hence its partnership with Huawei.

    “Huawei is both the world’s leading supplier of LTE devices and also the most trustworthy partner. This LTE collaboration will help Intercellular accelerate our LTE transformation and give our people better and faster network services,” Mr Sukker said.

    President, Huawei Global Wireless Networks Marketing and Solutions, Mr An Jian, said: “As a leading global ICT solutions provider, Huawei is always committed to building a better connected world. Because customers are our priority, we propose network construction principles centered on user experience.

    “At the same time, Huawei embraces an attitude of open cooperation with operators to help them make efficient investments and build a speedy, simple, and smart network that achieves the best E2E network experience. Huawei’s products and services now serve over 170 countries and regions worldwide, with nearly a third of the world’s population using the network services we provide.”

    “We aim to provide the most competitive network services and actively promote LTE to keep up with the increasing standard of communication demanded by the Nigerian people. Huawei has always been the preferred partner of Nigerian operators.

    “We have carried out large-scale deployment of 20, 000 base stations, witnessed the increase in the Nigerian mobile user base from 27, 000 to 117 million, and contributed to an explosion in mobile penetration rate from 0.02 per cent to 83.7 per cent. We work hand-in-hand with operators to promote the rapid development of the Nigerian telecommunications market. As users demand a ROADS experience and global telecommunications undergoes digital transformation, LTE in Nigeria is the next step in accelerated market development where Huawei will be the strategic partner of choice.”

    The cooperation between Intercellular and Huawei will further promote LTE development in the Nigerian market with construction of an experience-centric LTE network to provide the best online experience for Nigerian users. Intercellular in this cooperation benefits from faster commercial LTE broadband development and transformation.

    Sukker added: “There are many surveys globally that indicate a positive correlation between a country’s GDP and broadband penetration. At Intercellular, we believe that for Nigeria, the pervasive penetration of broadband will strengthen activities of individuals and MSME’s enabling them to expand their craft and services to a global audience. As a corporate citizen of Nigeria, Intercellular will continue to invest in advanced technologies that will empower Nigerians in their quest to achieve their aspirations and dreams.’’

     

     

  • Huawei urges global partnership on 5G

    Chinese original equipment manufacturer (OEM), Huawei, says with global momentum moving towards fifth generation or 5G era across all information communication technology (ICT) industries, it is seeking global partnership to build and expand the mobile industry ecosystem to become more resilient and ensure the success of the technology.

    According to the tech giant, as a driving force to lead 5G innovation, Huawei has extended its global partnership initiatives with more than 20 carriers, including CMCC, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, NTT DOCOMO, Telefonica, TeliaSonera and Etisalat, and 10 industry partners, spanning continents in Asia, Europe, and North America.

    The firm said it believes strongly that customers’ innovative orientation with open partnership is the foundation to create the next generation of wireless technologies, adding that over the past years, it has established joint innovation programmes with leading operators and conducted lab tests and field trials with a broad spectrum of 5G enabling technologies.

    During the last Mobile World Congress (MWC 2016) in Barcelona, Spain, Huawei had in partnership with foremost tech firms, showcased technologies such as 5G New Radio Access Technologies (5G New RAT) in a large scale field trial with NTT DOCOMO; 5G Full Duplex Radio Technology with China Mobile; 5G mobile architecture for the Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) applications with Vodafone; and extreme fast 5G mmWave technology at 70Gbps transmission speed, and end-to-end network slicing technologies with Deutsche Telekom.

    Commenting on these milestones, Huawei Fellow Wen Tong, said:  “We will continue to focus our effort to 5G technology innovation. In the spirit of joint innovations with entire ecosystem, we will strive to bring the 5G technologies into maturity and to deliver value to our customer and end users, we are addressing some of the most challenging areas in 5G technologies, namely, the new air-interface with capability to meet all the requirement for the 5G applications, the programmable application-driven-network architecture built on the cloud-native platform and a holistic set of the new capabilities to enable the vertical applications for emerging 5G services and applications.

    “In addition, we are excited to participate the recent announcement of a series China 5G technologies field trial to contribute our effort to commercial 5G launch in 2020”

    In addition to what was showcased at MWC, Huawei collaborated with equipment vendor partners to validate 5G technologies such as Rohde Schwarz to demonstrate the 5G new waveform technologies.

    Huawei said it also collaborated and with Aeroflex, a Cobham Company, to demonstrate the 5G grant free access technologies at MWC 2016, adding that it also launched a number of programmes with vertical industries to explore the 5G-enabled machine type of communications such as massive sensors connectivity, URLLC with applications of self-drive-car and cloud controlled-robot.

    “Industry-wide collaboration and partnership is a proven path to create a successful next generation wireless technologies, as an ICT industry leader, Huawei is expanding the global 5G innovation footprint; Huawei is making effort to leverage the early stage technology innovations and partnership to contribute the global standard,” the tech giant said.

  • Smartphones insulated from global economic meltdown, says Huawei chief

    Smartphones insulated from global economic meltdown, says Huawei chief

    Ongoing global economic meltdown caused by falling oil prices in the international market will not affect the shipment of and purchase of mobile phones, the Vice President, Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG), Mr. Sandeep Saihgal has said.

    Speaking on the sideline of the launch of the firm’s flagship devices, Mate 8 and M2 Tablet at the Medinat Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE),  Saihgal said smartphones have become part of people’s lives, adding that no matter the condition, people will still continue to communicate, either through voice or data (internet).

    According to him, the advent of the smartphones have further broken the fetters existing among people, adding that increasingly, the world has become one small global village.

    He said:  “Look, smartphones have become part of people’s life style. People need smartphone for everything; whether it is just for email, social network. Customers want to get new experience. So the global economic meltdown will not affect sales and shipment of our range of superior mobile devices as long as people live, because they need smartphones such as Mate 8 to communicate, improve their businesses and make their living worthwhile.

    “There are segments for our products, we believe a lot of people will upgrade and embrace this product because the product itself will give the user experience which is very unique.”

    He said the new flagship devices feature the world’s most advanced smartphone and tablet technology ever: a new benchmark of amazing performance and long battery life

    Dubai became the second city globally for the Huawei Consumer Group to launch the new flagship devices after the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the United States (U.S).

    He said the device features the most powerful chipset, a high-capacity battery and stylish design – including a unique mocha brown color option – the Huawei Mate 8 is the ideal smartphone for today’s on-the-go professional. The Mate 8 is designed from the ground up for productivity and its hardware and software have been fine-tuned to provide an elegant, efficient experience.

    He said:  “Last year was a successful year for the Huawei Consumer Business Group here in the Middle East and we anticipate this year to be an even bigger one with immense growth in the region following the launch of these two flagship devices. The Mate 8 is the ultimate high-end smartphone designed for the professional, striking the perfect balance between high performance and long battery life. And when designing the M2, we equipped it with an impeccable sound system to take the user’s experience to the next level. Both of these devices reflect Huawei’s continued dedication to bringing the latest innovation and style to our consumers.’’

    Its Regional Manager, Product and Training, Middle East, George Al Kafrouni, explained that the Huawei Mate 8 was designed for performance and efficiency

    Featuring groundbreaking hardware, he said the Mate 8 is the first smartphone to run the Kirin 950 chipset, with CPU boosting power up 100 percent, GPU performance up 125 per cent, and power efficiency up 70 permcent vs. the Kirin 925.

  • Huawei spends $30b on research, development

    Huawei said it has spent $30billion over the last one decade on research and development (R&D), adding that it will not rest on its oars at ensuring that its customers get the best.

    The firm said it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the African Union (AU) to enhance information communications (ICT) infrastructure and literacy in Africa, including training up to 1 000 ICT professionals from AU member states.

    AU’s Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy Dr Elham Ibrahim, said: “We are very grateful for Huawei’s goodwill to offer ICT training for 25 employees from the AU in China in the near future. Huawei has also pledged to train up to 1 000 ICT professionals from AU member states,” the African Union’s said in a statement.

    Commenting on the partnership, Huawei’s Senior Vice President, Charles Ding said: “We believe that ICT technologies are reshaping Africa and other parts of the world, and leading the next wave of sustainable social development.”

    The technology giant, which reported revenues of $46.5 billion last year and has operations in 170 countries, including Nigeria said it was “dedicated” to helping African countries that were striving for industrialisation and modernisation.

    “We hope to support ICT infrastructure deployment and digital transformation practices across the continent, consequently making a greater contribution to poverty reduction and regional civilisation,” Ding said.

     

  • IT capability vital for enterprise, says Huawei

    IT capability vital for enterprise, says Huawei

    Leading global information communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, Huawei, has said with the rise in new tech trends such as cloud computing, big data and software defined network (SDN), the place of information technology (IT) capability has become the more important.

    Vice President, Huawei West Africa Region, Mr. Shi Weiliang, who spoke during the opening of the Huawei Network Congress (HNC) West Africa 2015 in Lagos, said the firm as a technology firm will continue to innovate and come out with solutions such as its Agile Network that will allow users to optimise resources as well as lower cost.

    He said: “We are in a fast-changing era where cloud computing, big data, and software-defined networking (SDN) are no strangers to us. As mobility, bring your own device (BYOD) , and digital social networking become terms commonly used in our work and life, the rapid changes of this era are more and more evident. In such an era, IT capability is becoming an extremely important core competency for an enterprise.

    “Huawei’s Agile Network focuses on services and user experience instead of technologies and connectivity, and implements a tremendous transformation from ‘best effort ‘to ‘all in control’. Huawei will continue to put forth innovative business models, and enable networks to be more agile for services, to help enterprises build their own differentiated competitiveness in a better connected world.”

    HNC had From Agility to Imagination as its theme and focused on “introducing SDN technology upgrading customers’ experience”. More than 200 stakeholders from banks, power DisCos, governments, channel partners including CEOs, CTOs, analysts and others graced the occasion.

    Huawei’s Agile Network is the industry’s first network centered on services, users, and experiences. Since its rollout in 2013, the solution has been deployed in nearly 200 networks for commercial use in seven industries: government, finance, medical services, large enterprise, transport, education, and broadcast media.

    The solution has helped customers to build multiple high-profile solutions such as intelligent transport, wireless cities, smart shopping malls, and smart travel. HNC 2015 is the forum being used to share and discuss with industry partners the practices and future of the Agile Network, with the aim of helping enterprises to quickly enter the age of agility.

    The ICT industry’s first agile switch, Huawei S12700 agile switch which was designed with services, users, and experience in mind, and can support customisation on demand was unveiled during the congress.

    The VP explained that the S12700 shortens service provisioning time from two years to one month and fault location from two weeks to several seconds, and is capable of identifying failure points down to the chip level. Based on agile technology, the whole network can be virtualised into a super chassis switch, significantly simplifying network deployment and management.

    “At HNC 2015, Huawei has broadened the scope of its Agile Network Solution and is showcasing an end-to-end Agile Network architecture. This more comprehensive architecture consists of agile campus, cloud data center, and high-efficient wireless area network (WAN) sub-solutions. It meets requirements of mobility, cloud computing, social media, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT), and brings new benefits to enterprises,” Huawei added.