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BrandPost: Huawei Receives 2018 GSMA Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry

The GSMA presented Huawei Technologies with the 2018 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry. The award was presented at a special ceremony held last evening, where Huawei was recognized for decades of advocating new technology standards, driving digital transformation, and building out the digital ecosystem.At the ceremony, Ken Hu, Rotating and Acting CEO at Huawei, accepted the award on behalf of the company."Over the years, we have worked with many of you to advance 3G, 4G – and now 5G and other ICT technologies - so that more people can get connected and enjoy better services,” he said.“In this time, Huawei has connected over one-third of the world's population,” Hu continued. “I'm proud of what we've achieved, but the mobile industry is evolving. It will soon become the cornerstone of a fully connected, intelligent world, and we still have a lot of work to do."To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Huawei Launches Full Range of 5G End-to-End Product Solutions

At the World Mobile World Congress (MWC) held in Barcelona, Spain, Yang Chaobin, President of Huawei 5G Product Line, unveiled a full range of end-to-end (E2E) 3GPP-compliant 5G product solutions. This release covers the core network, the bearer network, base station, and terminals. Huawei's 5G product solutions are entirely based on 3GPP standards, with full range, full scenario, and all-cloud being the defining characteristics. The featured products are also the only available options within the industry to provide 5G E2E capabilities.5G Base Station: Various forms to suit the deployment requirements in all scenarios and offer ubiquitous xGbps user experience The first wave of 5G deployment will take place in buildings and densely populated urban areas. Diverse site forms are therefore required to accommodate the needs of complex deployment scenarios, offering continuous coverage and fulfill capacity requirements of indoor and outdoor hotspots. Huawei's newly released full range of 5G product solutions support millimeter wave (mmWave), C-band, and all Sub-3 GHz frequency bands. These products also cover all site forms including tower sites, pole sites, and small cells.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Huawei Unveils AUTIN – A New Digitized Operations Services

Huawei has launched AUTIN, an Operations Consulting and Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for Digitized Operations Services to help operators manage complex hybrid ICT environments. AUTIN delivers AUTomation and INtelligence to modernize and reshape operations for the digital era.Building on its award-winning Operation Web Services (OWS), Huawei new AUTIN brand is introducing new functionality and machine learning for intelligent operations. AUTIN leverages big data and AI to help operators move from a reactive to more proactive and predictive operations. The solution is vendor and technology agnostic and can manage multiple technologies and services in a constantly changing environment.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Huawei Launches High-end Intelligent All Flash Array OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 for Mission-Critical Services

At Mobile World Congress (MWC2018), Huawei today launches the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3, a high-end, intelligent all-flash array (AFA), which helps customers manage storage resources for mission-critical enterprise services. The OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is designed to ensure a consistent service experience on- and off-premises. Huawei supplied Huawei launches high-end, intelligent AFA OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 "IoT, cloud, AI and other newly-developed technologies have brought us opportunities and challenges," said Joy Huang, Vice President of Huawei’s IT Product Line. "Carriers want to provide better service experience and that’s why data management is increasingly seen to be of critical importance. The new high-end intelligent AFA OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is tailored for mission-critical services at carriers, providing lightning-fast and rock-solid data experience. By continuously going beyond boundaries, Huawei Storage is committed to lead in the era of All-Flash, All-Cloud, and All-Intelligence data storage.''To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Huawei and Telefónica Jointly Demonstrate the Industry’s First 5G Slicing-based Interactive VR Service

During the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Telefónica and Huawei jointly demonstrated the industry's first VR service using 5G end-to-end (E2E) network slicing technology. The demonstration offered visitors the opportunity to enjoy the ultimate immersive 5G interaction experience. Interactive VR will be introduced to gaming, education, entertainment, e-Health, industry design etc., which will bring new business opportunities to operators.This demonstration used 5G E2E networks, including the access network, core network, transport network, and terminals. This test provided evidence of how 5G network slicing can enable on-demand diversified services and ensure large bandwidth and low latency, thus helping operators to achieve 5G business success. This demonstration represented the latest achievement in 5G key technology verification and use case research, marking another significant milestone of the two parties' continued joint innovation and strategic cooperation.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Huawei and Bouygues Telecom Sign 5G Joint Innovation Agreement, with First 5G Network Trial in Bordeaux

Huawei and Bouygues Telecom announced today a joint innovation program to experiment 5G in France. Bouygues Telecom is part of the first operators worldwide to experiment 5G 3GPP in field with Huawei. Bordeaux will be the first city for a 5G network trial, from single site to multi-site coverage.With the release of industry's first 3GPP-based E2E 5G network system solutions developed by Huawei, the deployment of 5G networks is about to begin. Bouygues Telecom intends to provide ultra-high capacities for data services, greatly improving user experience and continuously maintaining a leading position in telecom network.Today agreement underlines Bouygues Telecom and Huawei collaboration since 2012 to launch 4G network. In 2014, building-on this partnership, Bouygues Telecom and Huawei jointly tested the first 4G commercial network reaching 1.1Gbps in Western Europe using 4 Carrier Aggregation Technology.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Huawei enables Bell Canada’s Wireless to the Home (WTTH) Trials that put Canadian Rural Customers on the Path to 5G

Huawei and Bell Canada, the country’s largest communications company, today announced Bell’s successful Wireless to the Home (WTTH) trials in the 3.5 GHz and 28 GHz spectrum bands utilizing Huawei’s 5G-oriented Massive MIMO and 8T8R technology.The trials were conducted in the small Ontario communities of Orangeville, Feversham and Bethany to test and refine the capabilities of WTTH services for rural areas. As one of its next major steps in deploying high-speed home broadband in Canadian communities large and small, Bell plans deployment of WTTH to rural locations beginning in the second quarter of 2018.“We are proud to work with Bell utilizing the WTTH solution to achieve the company’s high-speed broadband goals,” said Mao Dun, Vice President of Huawei’s Wireless Network Marketing & Solutions Sales. “TD-LTE technology is rapidly maturing. Other 5G-oriented technologies, including carrier aggregation, 8T8R and Massive MIMO, can deliver fibre-like access speeds while supporting Bell’s multiple services such as Fibe TV. We believe these advanced technologies will benefit all Canadians.”To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Huawei Enables Bell Canada’s Wireless to the Home (WTTH) Trials that put Canadian Rural Customers on the Path to 5G

BrandPost: Swisscom and Huawei Sign MoU on NetCity Project

At MWC 2018, Swisscom and Huawei announced they has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on NetCity project, intended to build a world-class, highly reliable, next-generation wireline network infrastructure that can provide customers in Switzerland with innovative products and services.NetCity, a project developed by Huawei and leading carriers for building the cities of the future, is intended to bring humanity a step closer to achieving a fully-connected, intelligent world by means of constructing a broadband, cloud-based and intelligent network architecture.The MoU marks an important step toward building a leading position for the two companies in technology, business and social responsibility. Working hand in hand on this project, Swisscom and Huawei will explore new concepts in wireline network deployment, developing innovative solutions that enable "zero-touch operations" for telecom and data center networks and accelerating the application of cloud computing, telemetry, AI, and Big Data on networks.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Delivering “Always-On” Technology to Meet the Demands of Today’s Business

Virtually every small and medium-sized business is now driven by digital technologies. From our phones and PCs to the critical business applications that form the basis of business operations, our workday has become dependent on devices and the systems they are connected to. In addition to supporting employees, our customers and partners are constantly interacting with our systems. Outages are unacceptable. If our systems go down, business stops. This impacts employees, partners, and customers. And it’s not just an inconvenience; it costs the business money.Unfortunately, many businesses with 100-1,000 employees are using legacy server rooms or data centers that were built in the days before “always-on” became the requirement. A decade ago, downtime was hidden from customers and partners, and employees could work around a problem, staying somewhat productive. That’s no longer the case. Downtime is a disaster. And in many cases, downtime can result in lost data and corrupt systems, making the cost of recovery even greater. In some industries, data lost during an outage also creates a “compliance event,” which is never “career enhancing” for an IT professional.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Why Adaptive is the Biggest Story in Networking

Next-gen, intelligent, flexible, automated, agile, optimized, programmable, elastic.Our industry has been using these words for years to describe the end game for networks. With Ciena’s recent 25-year anniversary, we’ve been spending quite a bit of time looking back at the early days – and it seems like the entire industry has been using these aspirational network descriptions for as long as there have been networks.Maybe 2018 is the year “aspirational” starts to become “actuality.”Like no other time in our industry’s history, a collection of technologies and advancements is bringing the long-desired goal of more automated network closer to reality.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: DIY Not the Best Approach to SD-WAN

Wide area networks (WANs) were not designed for the load that most enterprises need them to handle today. Demand for data across the distributed enterprise is growing exponentially; virtually all enterprises are using cloud technology in some form; and the Internet of Things is growing expanding the scope of networks far beyond servers, PCs, tablets and smartphones. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that many are eagerly turning to software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) to deal with those growing needs.SD-WANs reflected the ongoing movement to software-defined IT assets and increasing reliance on virtualization to make those assets available where and when needed. But few organizations have the fortitude—or budget—to rip and replace core pieces of their existing infrastructure, such as MPLS, which provides Class of Service prioritization and Quality of Service management.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Sorting Through SD-WAN Options

Most enterprises rely on a combination of MPLS and IPsec to implement virtual private networks (VPNs) across the organization’s wide area network (WAN). But the emergence of mobile devices and cloud-based applications, along with enormous growth in data volumes, has them scrambling for more flexible, more cost-effective options. Many expect software-defined network (SDN) technologies, and in particular SD-WANs, to provide the solution, but sorting through all the options can be a challenge.Backed by venture capital, SD-WAN appliance vendors have been popping up all over the place. But appliance-based point solutions represent somewhat of a do-it-yourself scenario, and it’s important to understand whether they’ll inhibit or enhance what an enterprise can gain from SD-WAN deployment.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Delivering Best-in-Class Education Technology Without Breaking the Bank

Digital technology is driving fundamental changes in the educational process. As digital devices and the internet become an integral part of students’ lives, schools are finding they must support new learning solutions. Digital learning is a new constant in the school day.New digital solutions and technologies such as virtual/augmented reality, digital whiteboards, distance learning, personalized learning, artificial intelligence, and gamification are creating new demands on schools’ IT capabilities and infrastructure. And as these and other exciting new technologies come into regular use, many schools find they need to upgrade their server room into an “always-on,” flexible, and cost-efficient data center designed to support 21st century learning.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: How to accelerate multi-cloud migration

As we begin 2018, enterprises continue to accelerate their migration of workloads to public cloud service providers (AWS, Azure and Google), often as part of an overall digital transformation (DT) and cloud-first IT strategy. This is not surprising as IDC predicts that by the end of this year, nearly 80% of workloads will be processed in cloud data centers.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: 5 benefits of SD-WAN optimization

SD-WAN is quickly approaching mainstream adoption by enterprises; Ovum’s research finds that about one-third of enterprises are trialing or using the technology. Once service providers gain SD-WAN experience, they also find the technology a versatile tool for their broader platform, services, and architecture plans.Interoute, a pan-European and global operator of network and cloud services, provides an example. At the beginning of 2017, the company updated its Enterprise Digital Platform – an evolution of the operator’s edge, core, and cloud offerings designed to fit together and accelerate enterprises’ end-to-end performance – with fully featured SD-WAN as an integral component. The provider’s platform offers customers commercial and service-level flexibility through a mix of on- and off-net, public internet, and private IP sites to a common fabric, and it optimizes performance of application delivery, including optional WAN optimization.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: The New SD-WAN Edge Enables Improved Security Architectures

With the beginning of the new year, it’s popular to opine on what the new year might bring in terms of technology advances. My predictions for the WAN in 2018 have been covered in several publications here, here and here. In this blog, I’m going to expand on one of my predictions: how the new WAN edge enables improved security architectures. I believe there are three primary ways the new WAN edge will enable improved security architectures for enterprises building an SD-WAN.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Manufacturer improves app performance, productivity with SD-WAN

IMMI is an Indiana-based manufacturer of safety products, such as seat belts, car seats, and other specialized vehicle safety devices. It has more than 1,600 employees in six countries across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.IMMI has invested heavily in computer-assisted manufacturing for its main plant locations. In addition, it relies on Oracle ERP and Microsoft Office 365 in hosted locations for day-to-day productivity.The company continues to expand through acquisition and requires agile WAN to facilitate communications between its locations and to ensure optimal user experience with cloud-based applications.Deployment details IMMI had been using Cisco ASA firewalls to provide secure IP VPN connections to its 12 main locations (headquarters, main data centers, and manufacturing plants). WAN connectivity is provided by a mix of high-speed broadband Internet, private links, and 4G LTE (as back up). IMMI found the Cisco ASAs complex and time consuming to manage, especially in remote locations. Application performance across the company was negatively affected by high latency and occasional brownouts due to reliance on Internet connectivity from distant locations (e.g., China).To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Should We Virtualize Functions or Virtualize Networks?

I gave a keynote presentation at MEF and answered two questions that I’m commonly asked: What’s next after SD-WAN? What’s the relationship between SD-WAN and NFV? If you’ve read my previous blogs, you can probably guess my answer to the first question. I believe the software-defined WAN must evolve into the self-driving WAN. By augmenting automation with machine learning and AI, we can build WANs that dynamically translate business intent into action, with central orchestration working in tandem with the WAN edge. For this blog, I will focus on answering the second question.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: 2018 New Year’s Resolutions for WAN Managers

I’d like to wish everyone a hearty Happy New Year! This is the time of year that we make promises to ourselves like saying we will get to the gym more often, lose weight, not text and drive, and other things that should improve our lives or the world we live in. Many of us make these resolutions annually, but fail to keep them because they are often unrealistic or simply too hard to live up to.I’d like to offer five New Year’s resolutions for those of you who manage your company’s wide-area network (WAN). They are as follows:I resolve to leverage automation. The concept of automating manual networking tasks certainly isn’t new. However, the implementation of automation has been very light to date, primarily because most skilled engineers could keep the network up and running doing things the way they’ve always been done. Also, networking professionals generally fear the concept of automation as it threatens to marginalize or eliminate their jobs.To read this article in full, please click here

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