November News Roundup

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

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

Nov 28: XL Axiata and Huawei Launch First Commercial use of Network Digital Map in Asia-Pacific

Leading Indonesian telco XL Asiata, and Huawei successfully completed the live network trial and initiated the first commercial launch of Network Digital Map with an Asia-Pacific carrier. The two parties are now committed to accelerate the deployment of end-to-end SRv6 and network digital map across XL Axiata’s operations.

This commercial use proves that iMaster NCE Network Digital Map — based on the end-to-end (E2E) SRv6 network architecture and software-defined networking (SDN) automation technology — helps XL Axiata foster a digital foundation for autonomous networks. This digital map enables traffic optimization and automatic load balancing, optimize bandwidth efficiency. In terms of latency improvement, it can complete optimization and self-healing in minutes, significantly boosting 4G/5G user experience and XL Axiata’s convergence business consumer.

Related: The Benefits of Full Observability & Potent Analytics for Enterprise Networks

Nov 27: Huawei and Sharp Sign Long-Term Global Patent Cross-licensing Agreement

Huawei and Sharp announced the signing of a new long-term global patent cross-licensing agreement covering Cellular Standard Essential Patents, including 4G and 5G.

Nov 21: Huawei and MTN South Africa Win "2023 Sustainability Champion Award" at AfricaCom

To solve the ongoing power crisis in South Africa, MTN South Africa and Huawei are working closely to launch the flexible and intelligent green site solution.

The solution uses green and intelligent technologies to perform end-to-end site reconstruction and reinforcement with power supply, distribution, load and intelligent O&M. Innovations include:

1. Anti-theft reconstruction and smart power consumption, which adapt to power outages and weak power grids, and ensure more than 99% energy availability at sites.
2. Huawei's most advanced OWS+NetEco intelligent O&M platform, which achieves optimal energy efficiency by using AI for solar, mains, and diesel power supply. 

Huawei is supporting MTN in building a green and simplified infrastructure, further promoting MTN's Net-Zero strategy, the experience of which Huawie will apply in neighboring countries including Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and Kenya to address power shortages.

Nov 17: Huawei Launches 5.5G Intelligent Core Network Solution

At the 5G Core Summit hosted by Informa Tech, Huawei launched the 5.5G Intelligent Core Network solution. Equipped with native intelligence for service, network, and O&M, the solution can empower more new business.

Gao noted that future mobile networks should be deterministic and deliver several key features including 10 Gbps downlink, 1 Gbps uplink, up to 100 billion IoT connections, harmonized communication and sensing, and native intelligence. Huawei's 5.5G Intelligent Core Network solution applies intelligence as well as intent-driven technologies and network foundation models to the core network:

Service Intelligence expands the profitability of calling services by incorporating ultra-HD, interactive, and intelligent capabilities into calls.

Network Intelligence achieves closed-Loop experience management based on an intelligent network plane centered on NWDAF to centrally perform model training, inference, and predictions; distinguish service types, and evaluate service experiences in real time.

O&M Intelligence realizes high network stability and efficiency

The 5.5G Core introduces the digital assistant and digital expert capabilities. The former can improve O&M efficiency for frequently occurring problems, and the latter uses foundation models and professional small models for joint analysis, to quickly locate complex core network faults and ensure a highly stable network.

Learn more about Huawei's 5.5G offerings.

Nov 16: Huawei Unveils Two New All-Flash Storage Products to Promote All Flash for All Scenarios

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2023 Paris, Huawei unveiled two new all-flash storage products: OceanStor Pacific 9920 and OceanStor Dorado 2100. The products promote the industry vision of All Flash for All Scenario, and will help customers build more efficient and reliable data centers.

Huawei has launched an all-flash scale-out storage portfolio for the core production phases of data centers to manage the increasing amounts of mass unstructured data so that customers can improve production and decision-making efficiency.

Related: Why Mass Unstructured Data Needs a Professional Scale-Out Storage Foundation 

OceanStor Pacific 9920: an SSD-based scale-out storage system that provides high performance, high-capacity SSDs, and efficient data reduction algorithms. It features the highest capacity density in the industry, and delivers a single-disk capacity of 30.72 TB and a 2 U-space capacity of up to 768 TB. The product supports a single-node bandwidth of up to 20 GB/s and an IOPS of 800,000. The efficient data reduction algorithms reduce the power consumption to 1.04 W per TB, helping build green data centers.

OceanStor Dorado 2100: an all-flash storage system that offers the industry's first active-active (A-A) NAS architecture for SMBs. Easy to use, reliable, and efficient, it can be deployed by scanning a code and supports remote mobile O&M. It offers up to 90% faster delivery than traditional solutions at up to 30% lower TCO than similar products. The industry's only A-A NAS architecture delivers four-layer 99.9999% reliability and comes with 24/7 business continuity. The end-to-end all-flash design and innovative data layout algorithms improve performance by a factor of 20 compared with the hybrid flash products that are currently on the market.

Learn more about Huawei Data Storage.

Nov 16: Huawei Launches New 5.5G User Plane Product Intelligent UDG

At the 2023 5G Core Summit hosted by Informa, Huawei announced the release of the 5.5G-oriented new product Intelligent UDG.

With the rapid development of the 5G industry and the fast approaching 5.5G era, information consumption demands require more from mobile Internet. In response and to help achieve ubiquitous 10 Gbit/s transmission rates, Huawei's Intelligent UDG integrates a network acceleration unit and introduces a series of key capabilities:

Intelligent flow forwarding: features a new network acceleration unit that works with the scheduling algorithms to enable intelligent flow identification, dynamic flow aggregation, and efficient flow forwarding.

Flexible resource scheduling: flexibly schedules user-plane compute resources while processing heavy-traffic services to maximize resource utilization and accelerate associated forwarding.

End-to-end capabilities: leverages native intelligence to identify the traffic characteristics of different protocols, and perform traffic shaping and frame scheduling to adapt to end-to-end network capabilities.

Intelligent traffic shaping:  performs intelligent traffic shaping on instantaneous flow bursts based on real-time awareness of microbursts to prevent user experience from degrading due to differentiated flow processing upon microbursts.

Differentiated frame-level scheduling: identifies the frames of different protocols including MoQ, classifies different data flows, and uses an intelligent differentiated scheduling algorithm to achieve immersive experiences for multiple users in even high concurrency scenarios.

Learn more about Huawei's 5.5G offerings.

Nov 16: Huawei announces Paris Innovation Center on Europe Innovation Day

L to R: Kenneth Fredriksen, Senior Vice President of Huawei Europe; Vicky Zhang, Vice President of Corporate Communications; Antonony Gu, Vice President of Huawei IT Product Line; François Mercier-Tigrine, Scientific Director and Co-Founder of HR Rain; and François Kruta, Co-Founder and CEO of Ubudu 

“SMEs, especially deep tech, are very important in bridging the gap between the time when a technology is still in a research lab and the time when it is industrialized. It is in this phase that new technologies need support in financing and access to markets, for example via partnerships with institutions and big companies. Huawei’s Digital InPulse program is a good example of one way that big companies can help SMEs find new opportunities in markets where they are still little known” - François Mercier-Tigrine, Co-founder and Scientific Director, HD Rain.

Nov 10: Huawei OceanStor Pacific Ranked Highest in 5 out of 7 Use Cases in the 2023 Gartner® Critical Capabilities Report

In Gartner's latest 2023 Critical Capabilities for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage report, Huawei OceanStor Pacific ranked highest in 5 out of 7 use cases.

Gartner evaluated each storage product on the basis of multiple critical capabilities and seven use cases, and then generated a comprehensive report. The resulting report provides a clear insight into the capabilities of different storage products, serving as an essential reference guide for customers.

Nov 10: Huawei Makes Leaders Quadrant of GlobalData's Revenue Management: Competitive Landscape Assessment

GlobalData positioned Huawei's next-generation intelligent cloud-native convergent billing system, CBS R23, as a 'Leader' in competitiveness evaluation.

Features of the CBS R23 solution

• Introduces an AI platform to support auto configuration of intelligent offers and shorten the TTM of new packages from months to days. The solution can create a user persona based on big data analysis, support smart offer recommendations, provide personalized services and experiences for customers, improve user loyalty, and increase carriers' revenue.
• supports intelligent O&M, accurate fault location, and automatic fault recovery, reducing manual intervention, and improving maintenance efficiency.
• builds a full convergent platform from four dimensions: Individual/Family/Enterprise, Internet of People/Things, Charging/Billing/Settlement, and Mobile/Fix/Broadband/Cloud/New service. The solution reduces TCO by 30% for carriers, provides simplified package subscription, management and a convergent One Bill experience for customers, and helps carriers expand new 2B services.
• features a cloud-native foundation that supports gray release and zero interruption in software version upgrades. N-LIVE (a multi-active sides DR solution), automatic switchover within seconds upon site faults, building 99.9999% high reliability.
• focuses on building an open platform that is partner friendly for partner-oriented services. Currently, Huawei CBS provides more than 300 open APIs, helping enable more third-party 5G partners’ development.

Learn more about Huawei's Revenue Management solutions.

Nov 6: Huawei and SARA Sign MOU to Unify Technical Standards for Regional Railway networks

Huawei and the Southern African Railways Association (SARA) signed an MOU to create a non-exclusive framework of cooperation to transform Southern African Development Community (SADC) region’s railway transport and corridor logistics to enable seamless, efficient, smooth, cost-effective, and high-quality railway corridor services on all SARA Corridors and to make railways smarter, safer, more visualized, more efficient, and more reliable.

As part of the agreement, Huawei will help: 

• identify and recommend minimum regional ICT railway standards
• enhance train control technology
• provide the stakeholders with access to a shared database to reduce inefficiencies and disruptions in the rail corridor supply chain
• improve overall operational efficiencies and interoperations of SARA corridors through unifying telecommand ICT integration. For SARA member railway networks, this will result in better security, smarter contracts, improved corridor management and real-time asset tracking of freight and cargo, and ultimately the enhanced competitiveness of railway services.

Learn more about Huawei's Smart Railway solutions.

Nov 6: Huawei Announces Winners of the XMAGE Awards 2023

Huawei announced the 57 winners of the XMAGE Awards 2023. The competition, which spotlights photos taken with Huawei devices, named three Grand Prize winners, 17 Best-in-Category winners, 34 Runner-up winners, and three Honorable Mentions.

This year's winners were selected from more than 600,000 entries received between April 7 and August 15 from participants from nearly 100 countries. After China, the five countries with the highest number of entries were Malaysia, Türkiye, Poland, the Philippines, and the UAE. The most popular phone models used were the HUAWEI P60 Pro, HUAWEI P40 Pro, and HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro.

The three Grand Prize-winners

"Dragon Clouds" by Domcar Calinawan Lagto from the Philippines, "Airshow" by Piotr Cebula from Poland, and "Fearless Eagle" by Dou Chuanli from China were awarded the Grand Prizes. Each winner will receive US$10,000 USD (before tax) from the XMAGE creation fund to support their photography.

For the full list of award winners, please visit our official website: https://consumer.huawei.com/en/campaign/xmage

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