September News Roundup

The News Roundup series brings you Huawei’s main monthly news in brief. So, what made headlines in September?

Click the link for previous news roundups and visit The Newsroom for the following stories (and more) in full.

Sept 27: Huawei Named a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage for 8th Straight Year

The report from Gartner marks the eighth year in a row since 2016 that Huawei has been named a ‘Leader’.

Significant improvements over 2022 include:

Ultimate reliability:

• leverages front-end interconnect I/O modules using NVMe over RoCE and applies NoF technology in enterprise setups
• provides a geo-redundant 4DC disaster recovery (DR) solution running on a gateway-free active-active design and cross-site asynchronous replication, delivering 99.99999% reliability and improving resource utilization of the DR center

Multicloud ecosystem:

• ensures applications are seamlessly protected across the industry’s mainstream container platforms, including Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Rancher
• delivers a cloud-native foundation and supports data backup and tiering to clouds to underpin enterprise cloud strategies

Data resilience:

• delivers multilayer ransomware protection (MRP), the industry’s first technology using ransomware detection, storage encryption, Air Gap, secure snapshots, and WORM
• builds the last line for defense and ensure uninterrupted business operations through accurate detection, comprehensive protection, and rapid recovery

AIOps intelligent management:

• applies the DME intelligent data management platform to monitor resources on a single page and deliver capabilities like service provisioning, intelligent O&M, and data management
• provides AI-powered workload analysis, trend predictions, and anomaly diagnoses to ensure O&M quality
• offers quick search and smooth cross-domain sharing and migration that optimizes data retrieval efficiency and storage costs.

Learn more about Huawei storage products and solutions.

Sept 27: China Mobile & Huawei Deploy First FTTR-B Network on Mount Everest

China Mobile) and Huawei have successfully deployed an FTTR-B network for the tourist base camp and hotel on Mount Everest.

Based on Huawei FTTR-B (Fiber-to-the-Room Business) solution, China Mobile will provide ultra-gigabit premium Wi-Fi services for staff and tourists at the top of the world, meeting their daily communication and business requirements.

In 2024, China Mobile and Huawei will extend the FTTR-B solution to the climber base camp. This will enable climbers to enjoy gigabit network services as they get ready to reach the top of the world.

Learn more about Huawei’s FTTR solutions.

Sept 26: AIS and Huawei Complete First Commercial Verification of 5G RedCap

Leading Thai operator AIS and Huawei recently completed Thailand’s first 5G RedCap commercial test in Bangkok on both 700 MHz and 2600 MHz commercial networks.

Using diversified commercial RedCap terminals, including DTU (Data Transfer Units) and cameras, key capabilities were verified during the test, including downlink and uplink peak throughput, mobility performance, and the coexistence of RedCap and eMBB UEs.

The test result showed that both AIS’s 5G network and RedCap terminals performance met expectations, an important milestone for RedCap commercialization.

5G RedCap is a new technology defined in 3GPP Release 17. It is designed for medium- and high-speed IoT applications such as industrial sensors and smart wearables. 

Sept 21: F5G Evolution: Huawei Launches 3 Enterprise Optical Network Solutions

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2023, Huawei launched three innovative products and solutions for optical networks.

For campus scenarios: FTTO 2.0. Based on the XGS-PON Pro technology, the solution supports 12.5G/25G to rooms, 2.5G/10G to APs, and 2.5G to desktops, building green 10G all-optical networks and facilitating campus intelligence.

For the electric power and transportation industries: SE-OTN. The solution is applied to SDH reconstruction at various stations, including power substations, trackside stations, toll stations, and oil and gas BVSs.

Perimeter protection scenarios: Huawei has launched the industry’s first perimeter protection solution that enables optical-visual linkage and multi-dimensional sensing.

Learn more about the technical capabilities of the solutions.

Sept 21: Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 Unveiled: Building On-Prem Large Models for Enterprises

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2023, Huawei Cloud unveiled Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3.

Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 provides over 100 cloud services in 13 categories and offers enhanced capabilities for Pangu Models, industrial Internet, data circulation, and a software development pipeline.

It is designed to help government and enterprise customers dive into cloud and accelerate intelligent upgrades.

Learn more about the the features of Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3.

Sept 20: Huawei Releases Data Center 2030: Leading Innovation and Development of New Data Centers

Huawei released the Data Center 2030 report was at HUAWEI CONNECT 2023. Aiming to guide the innovative development of the industry, the report shares insights into the future of data centers, defines key features, and proposes a new reference architecture.

• Data Center 2030 describes five future scenarios that will affect data center development over the next decade and proposes an innovative integration of energy, computing, transmission, data, and operation efficiency.
• The report defines six key technical features of future data centers for the first time in the industry, and explains the development challenges and breakthrough directions for cloud services, computing, storage, network, and energy technologies involved in data centers.
• The paper also proposes a reference architecture for new data centers and quantitatively predicts the future prospects of data centers based on 22 indicators and forecast data.

Download the Data Center 2030 white paper.

Sept 20: Huawei Connect 2023: Accelerating Intelligence for Shared Success

From September 20-22, Huawei held HUAWEI CONNECT 2023. Themed Accelerate Intelligence, the event brought together business leaders, tech experts, partners, developers, and industry stakeholders from around the world to explore new opportunities for an intelligent future.

Learn more about Huawei Connect 2023 and check out the highlights here.

Related: HUAWEI CONNECT 2023: Accelerate Intelligence [blog post]

Sept 15: China Unicom & Huawei Implement World’s First Commercial Use of Next-Gen Wideband CA ODU

China Unicom Inner Mongolia and Huawei deployed the world’s first commercial use of the next-gen wideband 4CA outdoor unit (ODU) in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia.

FABs

• Wideband allows more available spectrum to be aggregated at up to four times the range of existing CA ODUs, with Huawei’s XMC-5D Pro solution increasing ODU CA IBW from 224 MHz to up to 800 MHz and in turn increasing the scenarios in which it can be deployed
• A single next-gen CA ODU supports up to 5 Gbit/s bandwidth, reducing hardware requirements by 50%+ and accelerating 5G deployment
• High-bandwidth transmission is achieved by aggregating multiple channels in one ODU device rather than by conventional hardware stacking.
• The solution increases the transmit power of wideband CA ODUs by 3 dB, reducing antenna diameter by one level, cutting installation space and load-bearing capacity requirements for towers and making deployment easier and faster.

Sept 14: Huawei and ITU Sign Joint Declaration on Digital Development & Inclusion

Huawei Thailand and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) signed a joint declaration to drive digital development and inclusive growth at the ITU Asia-Pacific Regional Development Forum in Bangkok, covering six key areas in Thailand and the Asia Pacific:

• co-building open and high-level dialogue platforms ICT policy and regulation
• joint research
• inclusive infrastructure
• digital capacity-building
• girls and youth empowerment
• digital practice-sharing

Continued cooperation

2022: Huawei and ITU organized over 30 young people to join the Walk into ICT Industry event and Huawei’s Seeds for the Future program.

Related: Huawei Seeds for the Future Talent Development Program 2023 Concludes in Dubai

2023: Huawei supported ITU’s Girls in ICT initiative by offering training and internship programs in areas, including 5G, cybersecurity, and cloud.

2023: ITU is planning to organize a Generation Connect student team to join Huawei’s Seeds for the Future China tour later this year.

Sept 13: Huawei and Xiaomi Reach Global Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement

Huawei and Xiaomi have reached a global patent cross-licensing agreement covering multiple communications technologies, including 5G.

Learn more about Huawei 5G.

Sept 6: AI Fine-Tuning and Application Competition Kicks Off

Hosted by the open source MindSpore Community, the Wukong-Huahua AI Fine-Tuning and Application Competition is underway.

• When: till Oct 18
• Up for grabs: 50,000 yuan (approx. US$6,840)
• The theme: ‘Science Fiction and Creativity’ with three sub-themes to choose from: 1. The Symbiosis Era, 2. Sci-fi China, and 3. Extracts from your favorite sci-fi work
• What you need to do: Fine-tune the Wukong-Huahua model to create AI generated content (AIGC) or applications based on the model
• Who it’s for: AI developers globally (e.g., sci-fi fans and new AIGC developers who’d like to create their own sci-fi universe with AI)
• Where can you find out more? Here

The Wukong-Huahua Foundation model combines the MindSpore AI framework and Ascend Atlas hardware and can generate high-quality images depicting different scenes in a variety of styles.

• Learn more about MindSpore
• Learn more about Atlas AI

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