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sixty 5G commercial contracts, including the Middle East and abroad. Globally, more with a total of 240 million units shipped.
11 in the Middle East, shipping over than 700 cities and 228 Fortune Global 500 The latest ranking comes at a time when
400,000 5G base stations globallyOutside companies have chosen Huawei as their Huawei leadership estimates that its global
of the 5G arena, Huawei’s enterprise digital transformation partner. A focus on sales revenue will have topped USD122
business has also benefited from R&D innovation has also kept Huawei’s popular billion in 2019, an increase of roughly 18%
advancements to lay the foundation for smartphone range as a preferred global year-on-year.
the digital transformation of industries in brand, achieving robust growth in 2019

Huawei Wi-Fi 6 Ranked Number One Globally Outside of North America
According to Dell’Oro Group

Huawei Wi-Fi 6 has been ranked Number organizations. According to the report, the Data Communication Product Line, said:
One in the global market (excluding North overall revenue of the global Wi-Fi 6 market “We are very pleased to see that Huawei
America), according to a report on the grew explosively in the first three quarters AirEngine Wi-Fi 6 has been widely used
global Wi-Fi 6 indoor AP market share from of 2019, growing to 30 times that of 2018. across sectors like education, government,
2018 Q3 to 2019 Q3 by Dell’Oro Group, a In the same period, the revenues of the large enterprises, and manufacturing.
leading independent market analysis and Wi-Fi 4 and Wi-Fi 5 markets decreased Huawei AirEngine Wi-Fi 6 is helping more
research firm. In October 2018, the Wi-Fi slightly. This market performance also enterprises of all sizes to build user
Alliance officially announced an all-new signifies that 2019 was the first year that experience-centric networks for increased
Wi-Fi naming system for Wi-Fi generations, Wi-Fi 6 was in commercial use. Huawei office and production efficiencies, paving
with Wi-Fi 6 as the simplified name for is a leader in the Wi-Fi 6 market. With its the way for the large-scale rollout of
IEEE 802.11ax. Wi-Fi 6 improves on Wi-Fi AirEngine Wi-Fi 6, Huawei took the lead in digital services and accelerating digital
5 with more than four times the maximum deploying the industry’s first enterprise- transformation.” Customers’ trust in
bandwidth per client and number of class Wi-Fi 6 network in Shanghai as early Huawei Wi-Fi 6 is attributed to Huawei’s
concurrent clients, and more than three as 2018. Since then, Huawei AirEngine continuous investment and dedication to
times lower latency. Such improvements Wi-Fi 6, powered by Huawei 5G, has been the emerging Wi-Fi 6 industry. Some key
have led to Wi-Fi 6 being adopted by a the preferred choice of many industry highlights include: Huawei’s leading expert
growing number of enterprises, schools, customers around the world, helping them Osama Aboul Magd being elected as the
hospitals, and other pioneers to connect to build the ideal Wi-Fi 6 networks with zero chair of the IEEE 802.11ax Working Group in
everything on their campus networks. coverage holes, zero wait time, and zero 2014, injecting his insights to continuously
These early adopters are using Wi-Fi 6 packet loss during roaming. Customers navigate the development direction of
to deploy innovative applications such include: Shenzhen Metro in China, Basel the Wi-Fi 6 industry standards. Huawei’s
as 4K/8K HD video conferencing, VR/AR St. Jakob-Park stadium in Switzerland, contribution to Wi-Fi 6 standard proposals
interactive teaching, telemedicine, and Agos bank in Italy, Mondragon University is the highest among device vendors.
intelligent robots. The latest Dell’Oro Group in Spain, and University of Johannesburg In October 2017, Huawei launched the
report is a testimony to the increasing in South Africa. Steven Zhao, President industry’s first commercial Wi-Fi 6 AP. Since
popularity of Wi-Fi 6 among global of Campus Network Domain, Huawei’s then, Huawei has constantly expanded
its Wi-Fi 6 portfolio by successively
launching innovative products and
solutions tailored to different scenarios.
Huawei and Wireless Broadband Alliance
(WBA) have joined forces to explore Wi-
Fi 6-based teaching innovations and use
cases at Mondragon University in Spain.
In the future, Huawei will continue to work
with upstream and downstream partners
throughout the industry, focus on industry-
specific scenarios, and deliver ideal Wi-
Fi 6 network solutions for new digital
applications. Huawei will also forge ahead
with its AirEngine Wi-Fi series products
and solutions powered by Huawei 5G to
help enterprises build future-proof, fully-
connected campus networks.

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