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Huawei DQ ODN Named Leading Innovation by IDATE DigiWorld

The ODN: Market Driven by Innovation reference for telecom operators to select and solutions can directly affect operators'
report released by IDATE DigiWorld vendors and solutions. The Huawei investment, which has laid the path for
rated the Huawei DQ ODN as a leading DQ ODN solution was recognized as pre-connection and digital technologies to
innovation thanks to its fast fiber a leading innovation, indicating that become new trends for the ODN industry.
deployment and enhanced digital Huawei's innovation and investment Operators have a strong preference for
management for optical distribution in the ODN field has been highly suppliers with leading innovation and solution
network (ODN). As a renowned analyst recognized by the industry. Global fiber integration capabilities that allows faster and
organization, IDATE DigiWorld observes networks are key to achieving FTTH/ cheaper FTTH/B rollout. Huawei released the
and reports on the progress of FTTH/B FTTB, and the speed of their deployment QuickODN solution in February 2019, aiming
network deployment all over the world. is accelerating. IDATE reported that to accelerate fiber deployment by leveraging
Their latest white paper analyzes the global FTTH/FTTB deployment will innovative pre-connection technologies.
development trend and potential of the continue to grow at a compound annual In the following year, Huawei upgraded the
ODN industry, and evaluates more than growth rate (CAGR) of 7.8% in the next solution to Digital QuickODN (DQ ODN),
50 global mainstream ODN vendors in few years. However, factors including helping operators quickly build quality,
terms of product and solution innovation the slow network construction speed visualized, and manageable ODNs. With its
and integration capabilities, providing a and high O&M costs of ODN products innovative pre-connection technologies,
QuickODN provides operators with an end-
to-end splicing-free network construction
solution, slashing network construction
investment. On top of this, DigitalODN
leverages AI image recognition and optical
iris technologies to automatically collect
ODN link topology and loss information,
achieving visualized resource management
and 100% accuracy. This realizes fast service
provisioning and precise fault locating,
helping operators reduce OPEX. Currently,
more than 80 global operators have adopted
Huawei's ODN products, empowering more
than 100 million lines with precise planning,
fast deployment, and digital O&M. Huawei
will continue to provide innovative ODN
products and solutions to help customers
reduce network construction costs, improve
efficiency, build cutting-edge ODNs, and
realize commercial success.

Huawei and ICPC Successfully Held the Huawei Cloud Scheduling Challenge

The ICPC 2020-2021 semi-finals (Northern ICPC’s key partners in the Northern Eurasia presented by businesses to the ICPC
Eurasia Region finals) kicked off on region,” said Matvey Kazakov, Executive community. We are also extremely grateful
December 12! As part of the event, Huawei Director of ICPC Northern Eurasia. to the Codeforces platform for hosting
and NERC held the Cloud scheduling “The renewed ICPC Challenge format, the NERC Challenge.” “In the future,
challenge on the Codeforces platform, particularly the NERC Challenge, is now communications, connections, and AI
attracting more than 8000 outstanding one of the most valuable collaborations computing will be ubiquitous. Cloud, edge
program design and algorithm experts between the ICPC community and computing, and Big Data collaboration
from 38 countries. Contestants have businesses. During the NERC Challenge, will introduce greater value to people’s
demonstrated solid programming ICPC contestants get an opportunity to lives and industries,” said Dr. Zhou Hong,
and application skills throughout this solve some of the real-life problems that President of Huawei’s European and
wonderful industry competition, providing Huawei faces, while Huawei collects new Russian Research Institutes. “The NERC
workable solutions in a short time address ideas from many of the brightest brains Huawei Challenge held by Huawei Cloud
scheduling challenges from various in the world today. We are absolutely sure BU and ICPC is a unique innovation model
technical paths. “Over the past several this is a win-win partnership, and we look that enables outstanding programmers
years, Huawei has become one of the forward to the exciting new challenges and algorithm enthusiasts to participate

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