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الأحد، 10 نوفمبر 2013

Huawei renews its commitment to working with the Vodafone Foundation to deliver the Vodafone Foundation Instant Network in disaster areas

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen its existing partnership with the Vodafone Foundation.

Under the agreement Huawei, through its corporate sustainability development programme, will continue to deliver equipment and expertise to help the Vodafone Foundation provide critical network infrastructure in the aftermath of disasters. Huawei, working with the Vodafone Foundation, has developed the Vodafone Foundation Instant Network to help people and relief agencies reinstate emergency communications. The Vodafone Foundation Instant Network is fully portable, weighs under 100kg and can be packed into four suitcases and transported on commercial flights. It can be assembled and configured to provide telephone calls within 40 minutes.

Andrew Dunnett, Vodafone Group Director Sustainability and Vodafone Foundation, said: "Huawei has been an invaluable partner in our efforts to develop emergency communications networks. In little over two years, we have deployed the Vodafone Foundation Instant Network in multiple locations around the globe, helping to save lives and rebuild communities. Communications is essential for the delivery of effective disaster relief, as well playing a crucial role in reconnecting families and friends at times of crisis."

James Chen, President of Vodafone Business Unit of Huawei Technologies, said:"Communications can provide a lifeline in disaster situations. It can not only help coordinate relief efforts, but can also bring reassurance and peace of mind to victims of the disaster. Huawei is committed to more prolonged relief operations, working alongside local carriers to restore communication networks to disaster-stricken communities. This work with the Vodafone Foundation underlines Huawei’s commitment to contributing to society and sustainable development globally."

The Vodafone Foundation deployed the Vodafone Foundation Instant Network in the aftermath of Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines in December 2012, with Huawei providing technical support from Manila. The deployment was credited by relief workers for helping save lives. Humanitarian missions have also been carried out in remote Kenyan villages.

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الثلاثاء، 5 نوفمبر 2013

TDC selects Huawei to modernize and manage its mobile network in Denmark over a six year period

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has been selected by TDC as a sole vendor to modernize the nationwide GSM/UMTS/LTE network in Denmark and provide managed services over a six year period. The value of the contract is over $700 million over the term of the agreement.

Mr Carsten Dilling, Group CEO of TDC, and Mr Ryan Ding, CEO of Huawei's carrier business group, sign a long term strategic partnership to enhance the quality of TDC's mobile networks and services in Denmark.

Huawei will also create around 100 new jobs in Denmark in addition to the transfer of a number of existing engineering staff into Huawei. Huawei expects to have completed the recruitment of new staff by March 1st, 2014.

"Huawei is one of the most innovative players in the telecommunications sector", says Carsten Dilling, Group CEO at TDC. Through this contract we will change all the base stations in the mobile network to the latest network equipment and software, ensuring that we future proof the network. We have entered a solid agreement and the Danes will soon notice the effect through better network coverage and speed.

TDC, established in 1882, is the biggest operator in Denmark. In order to keep the leading position in the market, TDC has committed to extend its LTE network coverage to even the least populated areas of the country before the end of 2015, providing an optimal user experience for Danish subscribers. TDC has chosen Huawei as a reliable partner to manage and operate the network, and to continuously ensure the highest standards in terms of functionality and quality of the network.

"The trust that TDC is putting in Huawei as its strategic partner is yet another evidence that we can offer technically leading innovation that improves the end user experience and lowers total costs for operators. The cooperation is a milestone for Huawei in Denmark and allows us to step up our investments locally, resulting in new recruitment and expanded cooperation with local companies to meet our obligations to TDC," said Ryan Ding, CEO of carrier network business group in Huawei.

Huawei will implement its Service Quality Management service to visualize end user experience and service quality. This will further increase TDC’s focus on improving end customer satisfaction and loyalty. Furthermore, Huawei will implement its Single RAN solution that is based on a unified open platform, supporting multi modes and frequencies. The modularization and standardization effectively lowers the expansion cost and reduces space for operators. Using SDR (Software Defined Radio) technology, the network can be upgraded through software configurations, ensuring customers’ requirements are met through long term development of the network.

China Spectrum Regulators Visit Huawei Innovation Lab for LTE TDD 3.5GHz Solutions

Representatives from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), which sets policies for mobile broadband spectrum regulation in China, recently toured a Huawei innovation lab for LTE TDD 3.5GHz solutions. While touring the facilities, the attending MIIT representatives stressed the various advantages the 3.5GHz spectrum band has for meeting future challenges of unprecedented growth in mobile network traffic. They also commented on how LTE TDD is the most appropriate technology for utilizing this band.

The past year has seen a number of milestones for the global growth of LTE TDD on the 3.5GHz band. In May 2013, the European Electronic Communications Committee’ s PT1 meeting announced it preferred using LTE TDD technologies to build networks on the 3.5GHz band. In August 2013, a 3.5GHz GTI Summit was successfully held in Tokyo, during which Huawei successfully demonstrated quad-20MHz carrier aggregation and 4×4 MIMO multiple antenna technology. The demo was held in a dense urban part of Japan on a trial LTE TDD 3.5GHz network; the technology allowed a maximum data rate of 770 Mb/s and an average data rate of more than 500 Mb/s.

Yu Quan, Chief Strategy Officer for Huawei Wireless, said of the visit: "The industry chain for LTE TDD 3.5GHz solutions has matured greatly. Global chipset manufactures have launched or will launch supporting chipsets, and the number of commercially available devices worldwide has nearly reached 20. There are now ten LTE TDD 3.5GHz networks right now in the world, either under deployment or already launched, and progress has been much faster than we expected."

Huawei Demonstrated Its Leading Virtual Transport Service Prototype

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, showcased key SoftCOM achievements and solutions that can be applied to all fields of carrier networks at the recently held SDN & OpenFlow world congress, in Frankfurt, Germany. In the transport field, Huawei demonstrated its transport SDN prototype running the virtual transport service platform and showed how Network on Demand (NoD) services are provided on the prototype. The prototype is another breakthrough for Huawei after the transport SDN controller prototype launched last year.

In the information explosion era, optical transport networks have become the foundation of bearer networks. On the one hand, carriers are eager to deploy value-added services efficiently and flexibly to yield better returns from transport networks. On the other hand, carriers expect higher network resource utilization to reduce the transport cost per bit. To satisfy these needs, Huawei launched the SDN virtual transport service solution based on the Path Computation Element (PCE) architecture.

The virtual transport service platform can provide users with multiple modeled virtual topologies through programmable interfaces to meet on-demand virtual network service (such as NoD service) user requirements in real time. With network programmable and virtual technologies, the platform helps carriers provide customized services and deploy value-added services efficiently and flexibly. In addition, the built-in intelligent Transport Path Engine (TPE) algorithm ensures dynamic network resource optimization and helps carriers increase network throughput and reliability.

SoftCOM is a future-oriented end-to-end ICT network architecture based on concepts such as cloud computing, SDN, NFV, and network openness. It will help carriers tackle the challenges posed by ICT integration and seize new market opportunities.

Huawei Test Enables Breakthrough for HSPA+ Evolution

Dual Carrier HSUPA test successfully completed on Huawei network infrastructure and Qualcomm Snapdragon processor

[China, Shenzhen, October 24, 2013]: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology solutions provider, today announced it completed successful tests of Dual Carrier-High Speed Uplink Packet Access (DC-HSUPA) and Dual Band-High Speed Downlink Packet Access (DB-HSDPA) technologies that achieved respective peak rates of 10.8 Mb/s upload and 39.6 Mb/s download*.

The tests made use of the latest version of Huawei’s access network equipment and a Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 800 processor with its integrated Qualcomm® Gobi™ 3G/4G technology. Qualcomm Snapdragon and Qualcomm Gobi are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated.

DC-HSUPA effectively doubles upload data rates compared to single carrier HSUPA. DB-HSDPA breaks the “same band” limitation for operators in possession of spectrum resources on multiple bands, namely on the two mainstream UMTS bands, 900MHz and 2100MHz.

Both technologies are types of UMTS carrier aggregation for combining multiple mobile broadband carrier frequencies (in some cases from multiple spectrum bands) to increase overall data speeds and signal quality.

Now nearly 500 commercially launched smartphones and 134 UMTS operators worldwide support a precursor UMTS technology required for implementing DC-HSUPA and DB-HSDPA. Upgrading can be done by a simple software upgrade on the network side.

The successful joint test, completed in August this year, marks a breakthrough for the commercial viability of implementing these technologies on UMTS networks worldwide, and should signal a new phase of robust UMTS growth. The type of speeds and signal reliability made possible by these technologies enables further widespread adoption of the mobile apps users love – high-def photo uploads, real-time video chatting on social media, mobile video, and more – wherever they want to use them.

Over the next five years, as these technologies are rolled out, users everywhere will be able to enjoy new experiences made possible with faster speeds and more reliable connections wherever they go.

DC-HSUPA and DB-HSDPA are also a part of Huawei’s SoftMobile solution suite for building upon the successful foundation of SingleRAN amid industry movement away from voice-and-text, pure-pipe services to an era of data diversity and new vertical market revenue streams. SoftMobile provides ultra-broadband, orchestration and on-demand network features to leverage the creation of new mobile broadband business models.

* The theoretical peak rates supported by DB-HSDPA and DC-HSUPA are 42 Mbps on the downlink and 11.5 Mbps on the uplink respectively

الأحد، 3 نوفمبر 2013

Collaborative synergies drive competitive advantage, emphasised at PMI annual China Congress

Enables maximum agility and flexibility for telco cloud

Nokia Solutions and Networks is reinforcing its multi-stack approach to telco cloud to give operators full flexibility in their choice of cloud platforms. In recent trials and proof of concept projects with Tier 1 operators, the company has demonstrated the reliability of its core virtualization and its capability to adapt cloud IT platforms to meet the demands of telco cloud.

Cloud computing technology is expected to help organizations achieve higher operational efficiency, greater flexibility, faster time-to-service and lower CAPEX and OPEX. NSN will continue to build on its experience and leadership position in telco cloud by leveraging common off-the-shelf hardware and any industry-dominant cloud stacks. The company’s approach to telco cloud, which is based on its Liquid Core* architecture, will enable mobile networks to support several cloud stacks simultaneously, achieving maximum flexibility while protecting investments.

“NSN supports multiple stack solutions such as OpenStack® and VMware,” said Thorsten Robrecht, VP of MBB Portfolio Management at NSN. “As well as enabling operators to increase the flexibility and agility of core network infrastructure, we are committed to creating a telco cloud ecosystem that supports the co-existence of traditional networks and cloud environments and gives operators the option of choosing the most competitive hardware and cloud platform for their specific needs.

“Our recent proof of concept projects demonstrated in practice how we enable telco cloud by running our core network software on top of virtualized network infrastructure. In the process, we are moving from the virtualization of single network elements to full cloud orchestration, including cloud application management.”

NSN has also launched its cloud-ready NetAct 8 , which helps simplify network operations, reduce operational expenses and deliver very high availability. NetAct 8 includes the NSN Cloud Application Manager, which provides off-the-shelf management, orchestration and elasticity for virtual network functions.

NSN’s multi-stack cloud approach demonstrates the company’s commitment to further developing carrier-grade telco cloud solutions. NSN is working closely on cloud technology with major operators, leading cloud stack vendors such as VMware Inc.**, open source cloud platforms such as OpenStack*** and ETSI Network Functions Virtualization Industry Specification (NFV) Group****.

For more information on how NSN is reinventing telcos for the cloud, as outlined in its Technology Vision 2020, join the webinar on 31 October.

To share your thoughts on the growing role of telco cloud capabilities, join the discussion with @NSNtweets on Twitter using #mobilebroadband, #TelcoCloud, #cloudcomputing.

About NSN

Nokia Solutions and Networks is the world’s specialist in mobile broadband. From the first ever call on GSM, to the first call on LTE, we operate at the forefront of each generation of mobile technology. Our global experts invent the new capabilities our customers need in their networks. We provide the world’s most efficient mobile networks, the intelligence to maximize the value of those networks, and the services to make it all work seamlessly.

With headquarters in Espoo, Finland, we operate in over 120 countries and had net sales of approximately 13.4 billion euros in 2012. http://www.nsn.com

السبت، 2 نوفمبر 2013

Huawei Held Global IP Technology Gala 2013 to Discuss Development of IP Networks

Huawei, a leading global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions provider, held the fourth IP Technology Gala in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This is the second time Huawei has launched a gala targeted at global carriers after the IP Technology Gala China in Beijing in September 2013. Nearly 200 experts were present at the meeting and discussed on architectures, key technologies, business values to operators, and the application of software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). The gala demonstrated Huawei's leading status in developing IP networks in industry.

At the gala, Huawei shared the latest development in the IP field, its latest SDN/NFV architectures and technologies, as well as the company's practices and innovations. It introduced the potential business values of SDN/NFV to operators in multiple network layers by presenting real cooperation cases between Huawei and operators. At the same time, leading operators such as KPN from the Netherlands and TIM from Brazil also shared their successful experiences of joint innovation with Huawei, who helped them enhance competitiveness for future market development.

"Faced with network evolution and challenges, Huawei embraces changes and continues to focus on meeting customer needs. We have invested a lot in the exploration, research, and innovation of future-oriented technologies such as SDN and have launched some products to realize SDN/NFV. We have cooperated with multiple global operators to conduct innovation and commercial use of SDN to lay the foundation for the long-term network evolution." Said Gai Gang, President of Huawei Carrier IP Product Line, "While helping operators transform from mere pipe service providers to comprehensive ICT services providers, Huawei used new technologies including SDN to improve network efficiency, provide open and flexible platforms, and build harmonious industry chains to increase network value in the long run."

In addition, Huawei demonstrated the testing of NE5000E, the industry's first router to pass the full-loading 400G 6.4T test. The excellent testing results that are way ahead the industry average performance surprised all attending experts. This is yet another sign of Huawei's undisputed leading status in the field of high-end IP technologies..

الثلاثاء، 29 أكتوبر 2013

Samsung & Huawei Outperform as Global Smartphone Shipments Reach Quarter-Billion Units in Q3 2013

According to the latest research from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service, global smartphone shipments grew 45 percent annually to reach a record 251 million units in the third quarter of 2013. Samsung captured a record 35 percent share of all smartphone volumes worldwide, while Huawei jumped into third place in the rankings.

Global smartphone shipments grew 45 percent annually from 172.8 million units in Q3 2012 to 251.4 million in Q3 2013. This was the first time ever that smartphone shipments exceeded a quarter-billion units in a single quarter. Smartphones accounted for 6 in 10 of all mobile phones shipped worldwide. The smartphone industry’s robust growth is being driven by strong demand for LTE models in developed regions like the US and 3G devices in emerging markets such as China.

Samsung grew 55 percent annually and shipped a record 88.4 million smartphones worldwide, capturing a record 35 percent marketshare in Q3 2013. Samsung shipped over two times more smartphones than Apple during the quarter. While shipments of the flagship Galaxy S4 model softened, solid demand for the new Note 3 phablet and for mass-market devices like the Galaxy Y helped to lift Samsung’s volumes.

Apple shipped 33.8 million iPhones worldwide in Q3 2013, up from 26.9 million a year earlier. Apple grew just 26 percent annually during Q3 2013, which is around half the overall smartphone industry average of 45 percent. Apple’s global smartphone marketshare has dipped noticeably from 16 percent to 13 percent during the past year. Nonetheless, we expect Apple to rebound sharply and regain share in the upcoming fourth quarter of 2013 due to high demand for its new iPhone 5s model.

Huawei was a star performer as global shipments grew 67 percent annually to 12.7 million units in Q3 2013. Huawei captured 5 percent marketshare and became the world’s third largest smartphone vendor. The popular P6 and G610 models have been among the main drivers of Huawei’s success. Huawei remains very strong at home in China, but its position is less robust in other major markets like the US and Europe. Huawei will need to expand aggressively in the American and European markets if it wants to seriously challenge the big two of Samsung and Apple next year.

Other findings from our research include:

* LG shipped 12.0 million smartphones worldwide for 5 percent marketshare in Q3 2013. LG grew 71 percent annually, making it the fastest-growing vendor among the top five brands. LG has been expanding rapidly in Europe, but China and India remain weak spots;

* Lenovo shipped 10.8 million smartphones worldwide for 4 percent marketshare and fifth position in Q3 2013. Lenovo is popular among mass-market consumers in China and it is expanding internationally. Two of the world’s top five smartphone vendors came from China -- Lenovo and Huawei.

Exhibit 1: Global Smartphone Vendor Shipments and Market Share in Q3 2013 [1]
Global Smartphone Vendor Shipments (Millions of Units)
Q3 '12
Q3 '13
Samsung
56.9
88.4
Apple
26.9
33.8
Huawei
7.6
12.7
LG
7.0
12.0
Lenovo
6.4
10.8
Others
68.0
93.7
Total
172.8
251.4

Global Smartphone Vendor Marketshare %
Q3 '12
Q3 '13
Samsung
32.9%
35.2%
Apple
15.6%
13.4%
Huawei
4.4%
5.1%
LG
4.1%
4.8%
Lenovo
3.7%
4.3%
Others
39.4%
37.3%
Total
100.0%
100.0%

Total Growth Year-over-Year %
44.0%
45.5%

The full report, Huawei Reaches Third Place as Global Smartphone Shipments Reach Quarter-Billion Units in Q3 2013, is published by the Strategy Analytics Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service, details of which can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/bps9qhr.

Please contact Neil Mawston, at nmawston@strategyanalytics.com, for further analysis, data or information.
[1] Numbers are rounded.

السبت، 26 أكتوبر 2013

Huawei 1Tbps Router Line Card Wins InfoVision Award and vFamily Solution Highly Commended at BBWF 2013

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced that its 1Tbps router line card was presented with the InfoVision Award in the Best Broadband Transport Award category at the Broadband World Forum (BBWF) 2013 for its excellence in the industry and contributions to telecommunications. At the same time, the Huawei vFamily solution was highly commended in the Broadband Home Award category.

The BBWF InfoVision Awards recognize innovative breakthroughs in the telecommunications industry and technologies and solutions that contribute significantly to the industry by helping to increase profits, reduce costs, and improve network quality as well as user experience.

Zha Jun, president of Huawei's Fixed Network Business Unit, said, "It's a great honor for Huawei to win the InfoVision Award. It indicates that Huawei's contributions and success in the core router and future-oriented software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) domains have been recognized as best-in-class by the industry. We will maintain our focus on meeting customer requirements and continue to strengthen our investment in key technologies as we help customers achieve business success by providing advanced innovative ultra-broadband network solutions and building efficient, intelligent, manageable, and value-added basic networks."

Huawei's 1Tbps router line card features the highest capacity in the industry. It supports high-density 100GE and 40GE interfaces and has a 32 Tbps switching capacity to meet the requirements of ultra-broadband service deployment, establishing a new industry benchmark. The line card further accelerates the industrialization of high-end router technologies. In addition, the line card features the lowest power consumption (less than 0.9 watts per gigabit) in the industry, greatly reducing carriers' capital expenditure.

The Huawei vFamily solution, which was highly commended at the awards, consists of an innovative virtual service control and aggregation platform and a high-performance broadband network gateway (BNG) router that supports separate service and forwarding. The solution is used to provide virtual residential gateway (vRGW) and virtual set top box (vSTB) services using SDN and NFV technologies. This innovative solution enables the moving of the traditional functions of a complex network to the cloud, greatly reducing family set top box deployment costs, improving maintenance efficiency, and accelerating time-to-market for new services. Through the introduction of an open platform for home entertainment and smart home applications, it can help to create a virtuous circle of cost reduction and business growth.

الأربعاء، 23 أكتوبر 2013

Integrated Management Boosts Highly Efficient Energy Network

——Huawei Network Energy Unveiled on BBWF 2013

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, attended Broad Band World Forum (BBWF) 2013 in Netherlands, Amsterdam. On the forum during Oct. 22th - 24th, Huawei showed its leading integrated network energy solutions to the global customers.

Entering into the ultra wide band era, the continuous network evolution keeps enriching people’s lives. FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) is one of the trends. By convergence from multi-aspects, like the networks, management platform, business and so on, erases lines between fixed and wireless network and makes the communication much more convenient. However it challenges the carriers because they need new generation of system platforms: higher efficiency, smaller size and higher capacity. Realizing simplification, integration and unification will make the infrastructure systems cater to any kind of network, business or environment even requires in the future.

On account of understanding about the network evolution and customers’ need, Huawei provides site power solutions with high efficiency, integration and unification. The indoor power systems coordinate main equipment, power supply and back-up, by which makes the site expansion much easier. The integrated outdoor power solutions would effectively implement the deployment of no matter wireless or fixed sites; also overcome most of the environment limit and guarantee the reliability. Huawei’s NetEco site management system could adopt in-band transmission via Huawei’s equipments. This will help the customers cut down large CapEx and OpEx. Aim at the growing popular LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) business, Huawei provides flexible, unified power solutions for the 'last mile' customers: highly compact and integrated, unified platform for different scenarios and network types, by which realized real network business convergence and cut down maintenance cost.

On Oct.23rd, Huawei hold "Green Summit" and invited customers from KPN, BT, and TI. It was a very great time for the Huawei energy experts and the customers to share high-efficiency power technology with each other. By these green energy solutions, Huawei helps customers to build the new generation efficient network.

Huawei announces Video Everywhere solution at Broadband World Forum 2013

Huawei, the leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today released its Video Everywhere solution at the Broadband World Forum 2013 in Amsterdam. With Video Everywhere, operators can leverage their fixed and mobile broadband investments to penetrate multiple aspects of people’s daily lives, improving their quality of life and enhancing work productivity to increase revenue.

Video has become a managed service as reliable as voice, but has experienced disrupted development due to Fiber to the x (FTTx) and 4G-LTE. The device ecosystem has also matured, resulting in a decrease in the cost of smart terminals like smartphones, tablets, and set-top boxes. It is now an ideal time for carriers to not only to enrich their own communications offerings but to adopt B2B2x models to facilitate the building of rapid partnerships in the digital ecosystem where video communications capabilities are highly valued.

Huawei believes that telecom differentiators such as predictable quality of service, native experience, and a trusted identity will attract partners that rely on video to improve their business processes. With Huawei’s Communications as a Service (CaaS) Solution, exposing telecom capabilities, enlarging user bases, and enabling better services has easily become a reality, and provides significant revenue opportunities for operators.

Gaoji, Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei Western Europe Region, said, "Huawei will continue investing in technology innovation, while paying constant attention to operators’ requirements. Video Everywhere will bring tremendous business opportunities to monetize their broadband and communications platforms investments."

MegaFon and Huawei have started the 400G Era for the IP Backbone Network in Europe

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced that it has cooperated with MegaFon, a large-scale mobile service provider in Russia, to use Huawei's NE5000E 400G core routers to build the first LTE-based 400G IP backbone network in Europe, bringing a more diversified and smooth service experience to millions of Mobile Broadband（MBB users and implementing future-ready network construction and evolution.

As the mobile communications market in Russia is undergoing rapid development, heavy data services, such as online gaming and video streaming, are also seeing strong growth and demand. However, fast MegaFon's mobile service development drives need for permanent improvement of IP core network equipment. Bandwidth capacity improvement ensures future-proof evolution capability and maintaining leading position of MegaFon in Russia.

As the only one 400G core router for commercial use in the industry, Huawei's NE5000E 400G core router features a 400G platform. The platform not only supports flexible capacity configurations by changing subboards to implement networking among 100GE, 40GE, and 10GE, but also has the capability to expand slot capacity to the T level to meet service requirements in future 5 to 10 years from carriers. In addition, power consumption of the 400G platform is within 1 W/G, keeping energy and investment costs low.

Gai Gang, president of Huawei's Carrier IP Product Line explained that "Rapid development of mobile broadband and video services will generate tremendous traffic growth on backbone networks. Now is the 400G era for backbone networks. Huawei has established a good cooperation relationship with MegaFon in the IP core field for a long term. Huawei's IP core equipment has won the recognition of MegaFon based on its stable running capability. Our current cooperation starts the 400G era for European Internet."

As a leader in global IP technologies, Huawei's 400G core routers have been commercially used in True, DTAC, and Mobily, promoting 400G development of IP backbone networks. According to Ovum data, Huawei was leading the growth in the global IP market in Q2 of 2013.

Huawei and "Megaphone" implement IP-based network backbone 400G

Huawei has announced that it has become a provider of backbone routers NE5000E core network operator "MegaFon". The backbone network that is based on routers NE5000E, based on technology 400G, which allows for flexible implementation of new LTE services to millions of subscribers of "Megaphone".

According to the company, there has been a steady trend of transformation of the mobile communications market in view of the growing demand for network applications such as online gaming and video streaming that require significant bandwidth. This situation will eventually lead to the need to upgrade a substantial core IP-network. This allows the operator to be prepared for an avalanche of traffic growth, maintaining a high level of quality of service and, accordingly, will provide an opportunity to retain its leading market position in the market and attract new subscribers.

Trunking solution Huawei NE5000E is currently the sole already in commercial operation and using technology 400G. Hardware and software platform Huawei NE5000E allows flexible use of not only a wide range of daughter cards with interfaces 100Gbit / s, 40Gbit / s and 10Gbit / s, but also to be technologically ready to expand to a capacity of 1 Tb / s per slot. Thus, the flexible scalability allows the operator to maintain long-term investment in the core network segment for 5 - 10 years. In addition, low power consumption of the platform (1 W per Gb / s) will significantly reduce the monthly cost of the power supply.

الثلاثاء، 22 أكتوبر 2013

Huawei Showcases Ultra-Broadband Capabilities at Broadband World Forum 2013

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, launched a series of broadband solutions, products and services at the Broadband World Forum (BBWF) 2013. Under the theme of "BOOST, Unleash the Power of Ultra-Broadband", Huawei demonstrated its strong capabilities in ultra-broadband technologies that will help its carrier customers realize current and long-term network evolution and achieve greater business success in the new ultra-broadband era.

In the 21st century, the ever-evolving modes of communications have led to the prevalence of broadband services around the world. The high volume of online video services and popularity of social media are evidence that broadband has permeated people’s daily lives, which has led to a shift in behavioral patterns and habits.

More and more telecom operators have realized the importance of ultra-broadband for their survival in today’s highly competitive market. The introduction of on-demand network construction and fixed broadband business models allow for win-win collaborations with over-the-top players and substantial improvement to carriers’ return on investment in the ultra-broadband business. Therefore, global carriers have already started to more rapidly build their ultra-broadband networks, indicating the arrival of a new ultra-broadband era.

"Broadband infrastructure is ‘Industry of Industry’. But now, we have observed sluggish investments in broadband networks," said Jeffrey Gao, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of Huawei Western Europe Region. "While we believe that the government plays an important part in promoting investments in broadband network infrastructure, we also think the market needs a ‘BOOST’ from a business perspective. To this end, Huawei developed the business opportunities oriented solutions and tactics, or BOOST, to help carriers effectively address the opportunities and challenges in the ultra-broadband era."

Moving forward, Huawei is committed to being a key strategic partner for its customers in the broadband market. Building on its extensive experience and expertise in the telecommunications industry, Huawei introduced the BOOST solution to unleash the potential of ultra-broadband which aims to help customers achieve business success, and more importantly, further enhancing the social and economic value of broadband. BOOST is built around four basic elements: Engage, Broadband Salami, On-demand, Synergy, and is also based on the core concept of Internetized ecosystem supported by the future network evolution.

To support the future evolution of networks, Huawei, under its SoftCOM vision, will continue to collaborate with the world’s leading carriers to conduct commercial exploration and drive technological innovation, redefining the carriers’ operational models as well as monetizing the value of their networks. The new operational model is end-user centric and is able to simultaneously support a large number of online user activities and customized services. Through open application platform interfaces, carriers can also develop various IT and CT applications and build an intelligent web-based service distribution system that can provide online self-service suggestions to customers through big data analysis, further optimizing users’ online experience.

For more information, please visit: http://www.huawei.com/minisite/bbwf2013/en/

Huawei Launches Industry's First Carrier-Class SDN Controller

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, showcased its SoftCOM achievements and solutions that can be applied to all fields of carrier networks at the Broadband World Forum 2013. In the IP field, Huawei launched its Carrier-Class SDN Controller-SNC, the industry's first carrier-class software-defined networking controller, Huawei's SNC is a unified platform that supports end-to-end scenarios and helps carriers rapidly deploy SDN networks, reduce operating expenses, deploy new services quickly, and accelerate service innovation.

The controller runs an SDN network in a centralized manner, such as centralized service chain control, centralized cloud data center network control, centralized E2E QoS policy control, and provide path optimization to improve the whole network resources utilization, etc. Therefore, the SDN controller is a key component for carriers when deploying SDN in their networks, particularly in relation to the management and control capabilities, scenarios adaptability, network migration capability, reliability, and scalability of the SDN controller.

Huawei's SNC features separate forwarding and control planes, centralized network control, and multi-layer openness and programmability, delivering all the benefits promised by SDN. The SNC is based on an advanced resilient distributed framework (RDF) and supports unlimited control and management scalability with multiple function modules to serve end-to-end SDN scenarios on one platform. Its mature reliability technologies provide carrier-class reliability for SDN networks and it uses unique multidimensional path calculation algorithm and rich southbound interfaces to virtualize and optimize network resources in a centralized manner to simplify network operations and maintenance. It is also equipped with Huawei's Open Programmable System (OPS), which supports multiple programming languages (C, Python, Java, etc.) and abundant open interfaces, such as Restful, to help carriers accelerate network service innovation.

In addition, Huawei's SNC allows carriers to smoothly migrate from their current network to an SDN network by supporting legacy southbound interface and legacy network compatibility. Based on the SNC, Huawei's SDN solutions cover scenarios such as IP RAN, Gi LAN, IP Core, and DC, and fully meet carriers’ requirements for early SDN commercial deployment.

Gai Gang, President of Huawei's Carrier IP Product Line, said, ''Huawei's SNC announcement marks a major step towards SDN commercialization. Based on Huawei’s rich experience and constant innovation in SDN technologies, the SNC will assist carriers in the quick and efficient deployment of SDN networks, to leverage the benefits of SDN."

SoftCOM is a future-oriented end-to-end ICT network architecture based on ideas such as cloud computing, SDN, NFV, and network openness. It can help carriers tackle the challenges posed by ICT integration and seize new market opportunities. Huawei has been actively participating in SDN standardization and actively cooperating with carriers, vendors, and research institutions to drive SDN deployment in carrier networks.

Huawei Launches Industry's First SDN/NFV Orchestration and Management System — NetMatrix

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today showcased its key SoftCOM achievements and solutions that can be applied to all fields of carrier networks at the Broadband World Forum 2013. In the network OSS and Service field, Huawei launched the core component of its software-defined networking (SDN) solution and its SDN/network functions virtualization (NFV) orchestration and management system — NetMatrix. With NetMatrix, end-to-end (E2E) orchestration and management can be implemented, services can be programmed, and network resources can be distributed on demand. NetMatrix opens up network capabilities, speeds up service innovation, and helps carriers profit more from their networks.

In the post-Internet era, networks will rely heavily on SDN/NFV and cloud data centers. Carriers will be faced with the challenge of how to orchestrate and manage networks, introduce new services, and convert high bandwidth into high value.

NetMatrix enables E2E inter-controller orchestration, SDN and traditional network orchestration, and network and DC resource orchestration. In addition, NetMatrix adjusts and optimizes network resources intelligently based on real-time network traffic so that network resources can be distributed on demand. Furthermore, it provides E2E abstracted service capabilities by shielding complicated network technology and device differences among vendors, which simplifies operations support systems (OSS) integration. With a model-driven programmable framework, NetMatrix speeds up new service launches because carriers can adapt to changes in user needs immediately and meet over-the-top (OTT) requirements more flexibly and efficiently, creating a win-win situation for carriers and fast-developing OTT companies.

Lu Hongju, President of the Huawei OSS and Service Product Line, said, "SDN is starting a virtual, automatic, intelligent and open network revolution. However, the most far-reaching impact brought by SDN is on user experience-oriented networks. NetMatrix, a Huawei SDN/NFV orchestration and management system, is devoted to helping carriers deploy their networks based on services, and convert high bandwidth into high value."

SoftCOM is a future-oriented end-to-end ICT network architecture based on ideas such as cloud computing, SDN, NFV, and network openness. It can help carriers tackle the challenges posed by ICT integration and seize new market opportunities. Huawei has been actively participating in SDN standardization and actively cooperating with carriers, vendors, and research institutions to drive SDN deployment in carrier networks.

الاثنين، 21 أكتوبر 2013

Huawei NE5000E Becomes the Industry's First to Pass the Full-Loading 400G 6.4T Test

Huawei, a leading global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced that its core router – NE5000E, had passed the test conducted by European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC), making NE5000E the first router to pass the full-loading 400G 6.4T test and the undisputed leader of the industry in the 400G router era.

The tested flagship NE5000E was fully loaded with 400G line cards and contained a total of 32 100GE, 10 40GE, and 280 10GE ports. Spirent, the leading network performance test equipment vendor, provided its latest high-density test platform – SPT- N11U. To ensure test results' authenticity, EANTC designed strict testing methods to emulate realistic carrier network scenarios based on EANTC’s extensive service provider testing experience including performance, features, power consumption, and reliability areas.

NE5000E proved extraordinary during the whole test, exceeding the industry standards in all aspects. In product performance, it is the industry's first router to achieve the unprecedented goal of zero packet loss in the forwarding of 125 trillion packets. The product's power consumption is as low as 8106 W which is half the industry average. In reliability, zero packet loss was guaranteed to ensure non-stop routing (NSR).The testing results also showed that NE5000E can realize BGP convergence time 130,000 routes/s, which is three times faster than the industry average.

" Huawei's new LPUF-400 line cards for the NE5000E worked great in our test," stated Carsten Rossenhoevel, co-founder and managing director of EANTC. "Our in-depth test confirmed Huawei’s claims of extraordinary performance, reliability, services and power efficiency. We congratulate Huawei to show 6.4 Terabits/s throughput in a single 42HE router chassis using less than 9 kW power."

General Manager, Networks & Applications group, Ahmed Murad said: " We are delighted to leverage our newest hardware platform and test applications to help Huawei to not only verify the capabilities and performance of its new NE5000E core router, but to do so efficiently and cost effectively."

Gai Gang, President of Huawei Carrier IP Product Line, commented on the test: "The test well demonstrated Huawei's leadership in the era of 400G routers. Huawei will continue to work with EANTC and Spirent to promote the commercial use of 400G routers. We will continue to dedicate ourselves to the R&D of core router technologies to deliver larger and more stable networks of higher bandwidth in the Terabit era to help carriers offer better network experience."

Huawei NE5000E 400G routers have been successfully deployed by many global carriers including TRUE and DTAC of Thailand and Mobily of Saudi Arabia. According to the authoritative analyst institution Infonetics, NE5000E, currently ranking No.2 in the carrier market， is still grabbing market share at the highest rate."

Huawei Announces Fibre To The Distribution Point G.FAST Technical Field Trial with BT

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced a Fibre To The Distribution Point (FTTdp) G.FAST technical field trial in partnership with BT.

G.FAST technology allows existing copper connections to reach speeds comparable to optical connections, with the potential to facilitate Gigabit per second broadband speeds to domestic and commercial customers without causing the major upgrade disruption associated with Fibre-to-the-Premises technology. By maximising the potential capacity of existing copper wire infrastructure, successful deployment of G.FAST technology could accelerate the rollout of ultrafast broadband in the UK.

The G.FAST trial, located close to the BT Adastral Park R&D centre in Ipswich, UK, has seen multi-port G.FAST equipment installed in underground distribution points. G.FAST permits the last leg of an ultrafast network connection to be carried out with copper wire where previously only optical cable was capable of reaching adequate speeds.

Dr Tim Whitley, Managing Director, Research and Innovation remarked: "The G.FAST trial has the potential to demonstrate how ultrafast bandwidth access may be more efficiently delivered to consumers and businesses. We will be observing the results of the trial with interest to see whether G.FAST technology could play a role in ensuring BT has the best network in the short, medium and long term.

Mr. Gao Ji, Huawei Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer Western Europe, said: "Copper wires remain an important resource to telecom carriers and are assets that have yet to be fully exploited. By utilising new copper wire technologies, such as Vectoring and G.FAST, carriers can make more efficient use of their resources and quickly implement bandwidth strategies, helping to achieve commercial success. Huawei will continue to invest in copper wire technology and plans to lead further innovations in this area."

G.FAST trial technical detail

Since the launch of world's first G.FAST prototype by Huawei in December 2011, G.FAST technology has become highly anticipated by the ICT industry and has maintained strong development momentum. G.FAST uses time division duplex (TDD) technology and provides flexible upstream and downstream speed ratios. It enables 1 Gbit/s ultrafast bandwidth access per twisted pair within a distance of 100 metres, a tenfold speed increase compared with VDSL2 access. G.FAST is moving existing copper infrastructure to the Gigabit access era.

Using Vectoring technology which offsets crosstalk, G.FAST terminals provide ultrafast access speeds of 1 Gbit/s on average as proven in tests. The impressive speeds come without the need to restructure household cable routings. The G.FAST technology can work at distances of up to 250 metres, and as typical drop cables in the UK are considerably shorter, optimum performance can be achieved. Huawei has played a proactive role in developing G.FAST standards and products. The proposals contributed by Huawei to the ITU-T G.FAST standard organisation cover a wide range of G.FAST core technologies, including point-to-point architecture, TDD mode and basic frame structure, transmission frequency spectrum, forward error correction (FEC) channel coding, line activation negotiation mechanism, multi-line crosstalk offset, online reconfiguration, and a power-saving working mode. ITU is expected to release the exposure draft of the G.FAST standard by the end of 2013.

Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab Co-organized ACM RecSys Conference to Support Research in Recommender Systems

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, co-organized the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2013 (RecSys 2013) in Hong Kong. The conference was successfully concluded on October 16, 2013. Huawei's involvement in this conference led to a fruitful outcome. Besides presenting Huawei's research output in the areas of Big Data and recommender systems, the lab's participation in this conference has also strengthened its ties with academics and researchers from different organizations.

Recommender systems represent an important area of research in computer science. By analyzing huge amount of data, recommender systems automatically learn the correlations between user preferences and item characteristics, as well as the possible changes in the tastes or behaviour of the users under different situations, in order to generate more accurate and more personalized recommendations to end users.

Prof. Qiang Yang, head of Noah's Ark Lab, was the general co-chair of this conference. At the opening ceremony, Prof. Yang said that "it is the first time for this top conference in the area of recommender systems to be held in Asia. In the era of Big Data, the conference has special implications on both the academic and industrial communities. We wish the conference a great success!" The conference also invited Prof. Oren Etzioni (University of Washington), Dr. Dou Shen (Baidu Inc.), and Mr. Yan Mu (Baihe.com) to be the keynote speakers this year.

Noah's Ark Lab's deputy head Baofeng Zhang spoke at the opening ceremony. Chief scientist Dr. Hang Li spoke at the doctoral symposium and gave advice to PhD students attending the conference. In addition, principal researcher Wenyuan Dai presented Huawei's research effort in recommender systems at the industrial session. He analyzed the evolution of recommender systems in recent years, and introduced Huawei’s plan to develop next generation recommender systems that are tailored to the specific needs of different customers of Huawei, the technologies of which will greatly increase the accuracy of recommendations and at the same time reduce the amount of manual configuration required.

Noah's Ark Lab is also currently working on a few projects related to recommender systems, including:

1. Using recommendation technologies to generate personalized mobile apps recommendations to end users of HiCloud, the app store of Huawei.

2. Recommending tailored financial products to bank clients.

3. Developing a "Weibo Robot", which automatically analyzes content on the micro-blogging platform Weibo to recommend interesting content to followers.

4. Analysing user preferences and behaviour to develop the next generation mobile devices that will become partners of the end users, and will be able to make recommendations to the end users at any time.

While these projects are still at their early stages, they have already shown some promising results. For example, the mobile apps recommendation system has been able to increase the download rate in HiCloud by over 30%. The Weibo Robot has also gathered over 400 real followers on Weibo with very positive feedback on its recommendations (http://weibo.com/u/2867879661). The technologies developed in these projects will greatly increase Huawei’s capabilities in Big Data analysis and recommender systems, and put Huawei at a more competitive position in this age of Big Data.

The ACM RecSys is an internationally acclaimed conference series organized by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Every year, the conference invites outstanding academics and researchers in the area of recommender systems to be keynote speakers. It also attracts academics and researchers to submit research papers, only a small amount of which will be accepted for presentation after a rigorous peer review process. The conference also holds the RecSys Challenge every year. In this competition, Internet or technology companies provide data and problem sets, and solicit innovative methods and techniques from researchers worldwide.

Noah's Ark Lab focuses on research related to Big Data, and is also putting much effort in the area of recommender systems. Noah's Ark Lab will continue to foster good relationship with researchers in academia and industry in the future, building long term collaborations and supporting research work in this area.

الجمعة، 18 أكتوبر 2013

Huawei Launches ‘MBB Insider Online' Platform for Next-Gen Mobile App Developers

Huawei, a leading global information and communications solutions provider, announced the launch of MBB Insider Online, a cloud-based mobile platform for evaluating mobile broadband (MBB) app network friendliness. MBB Insider Online was developed by mLAB, Huawei's wireless network innovation lab.

MBB Insider Online allows app developers and other third-party MBB ecosystem companies to take unique advantage of evaluation tools that accurately determine the impact their services will have in terms of consumption of traffic, signaling, device power and delivered user experience when installed on a smart device connected to a live mobile network.

These developers can then better fully utilize network resources to considerably enhance their delivered service experience. MBB Insider Online also provides app optimization recommendations to improve delivered user experience and optimize utilization of network resources.

The launch of the platform was also accompanied by the launch of a related developer community for working app developers. The developer community is designed for developers to learn more about the mobile network technologies that ultimately underpin the performance and effectiveness of the mobile services they are providing.

The community provides a series of open APIs (Application Program Interface) for network control and management capabilities like Quality of Service (QoS) management and network status information. Sample code databases are also available for developers to take advantage of on the community.

Huawei mLAB's mission is inspiring innovation in the MBB ecosystem at all levels. By producing timely insight reports on the latest trends in user behavior, devices and app development, mLAB works to build lasting solutions that deliver the best service experience and lasting industry chain value for mobile markets everywhere.