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CloudWAN is a Catalyst for Future Networking Solutions in the Middle East

Digital transformation is the cornerstone
of economic growth and innovation
across the Middle East. However, as digital
transformation advances, enterprise
services will pose new requirements on
data communication networks. First,
massive numbers of IoT connections
demand ultra-broadband and ubiquitous
connectivity. Second, enterprise branch
services are gradually moving to the
cloud, requiring networks to provide
flexible deployment and fast cloudification
capabilities. Third, new services need
to be rolled out on a large scale and
services need frequent adjustments,
requiring networks to be agile, secure,
and efficient. Finally, video conferencing
is becoming commonplace, meaning that
networks have to provide deterministic Middle East & Central Asia Tech Carnival in and IPv6 Enhanced innovation logic
experience assurance. According to Almaty, Kazakhstan, experts from Huawei and development, Mr. Zhu Keyi, Head of
the global ICT leader, Huawei, as digital Enterprise Router Domain and the IETF Huawei Data Communication Standards,
transformation continues to spread Internet Architecture Board (IAB), along highlighted Huawei's continuous
across industries, Wide Area Networks with representatives from governments, investment in data communication
(WANs) have to change, to embrace power industries, and oil and gas industries solution R&D and its contributions to
enterprise cloudification and transform in the Middle East & Central Asia region, industry development through standards
Internet Protocol (IP)-based production gathered at the CloudWAN Workshop to work. The innovative IPv6 Enhanced
networks. According to Gartner, more than discuss network standards innovation solution lays a solid foundation for IP
half of enterprise IT spending, equivalent and industry digital transformation. Mr. networks, provides better connectivity, and
to almost $1.8 trillion, in key market Wu Lianhe, President of Huawei Enterprise enables on-demand addition of network
segments will shift to the cloud by 2025. Router Domain, told attendees that as functions, delivering the ultimate network-
These key categories include application the global economy gradually recovers, service collaboration experience. IETF IAB
software, infrastructure software, he believes that a new round of scientific member Wu Qin also introduced Huawei's
business process services and system and technological revolution and industrial autonomous driving network. He shed
infrastructure markets. Furthermore, transformation will gain momentum and light on Network Digital Map, which serves
given the maturity of IP technologies — that digital technologies will develop as an intelligent cockpit to provide closed-
such as Service Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) rapidly. Intelligent cloud-networks have loop management covering network
and Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) — allied to been facilitating the transformation and planning, construction, maintenance,
the flexible deployment and converged upgrade of numerous industries, and optimization, and operations through
transport advantages of IP networks, digitalization has become the driving network perception, analysis, decision-
services that used to be carried by multiple force for enterprise growth. Looking making, and topology collection.
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) ahead, Huawei will continue to pursue
production networks can now be carried technological innovation and excellence. Industry Digital Transformation Innova-
over a single IP network, slashing Total tions and Applications
Cost of Ownership (TCO) for enterprises. Huawei Data Communication Research & Mr. Bao Lei, Chief Architect of Enterprise
To address these challenges, Huawei Standards Router Solutions, Huawei shared innovative
launched its cutting-edge CloudWAN During the event, Zhang Liang, Head of applications in the government and
solution. This solution is a next-generation Huawei Data Communication Research, power sectors at the event. He explained
agile, intelligent, and secure WAN solution highlighted Huawei's breakthroughs that IPv6 Enhanced is an IP network
based on IPv6 Enhanced — a digital with fundamental technologies in fields innovation system oriented to the 5G and
infrastructure intelligent foundation. The such as software, hardware, traffic cloud era. It includes protocol innovations
CloudWAN solution uses key technologies forwarding, AI, and algorithms. These such as network slicing, in-band flow
such as SRv6, network slicing, intelligent key capabilities deployed on resource measurement, and service-driven network,
cloud-map algorithm, and In-situ Flow highlands help address challenges as well as technology innovations
Information Telemetry (IFIT). During the through continuous innovation. In terms represented by network intelligence, such
Huawei Network Summit held during the of Huawei's contributions to standards as network analysis, self-healing, and

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