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Huawei Releases ADN Solution White Paper and Joins Hands with the
Industry to Accelerate Intelligent Network Upgrades

Huawei recently released the Autonomous inter-domain collaboration. Second, all network infrastructure and intelligent NEs.
Driving Network Solution White Paper industry parties should jointly define the 3. Hierarchical single-domain autonomy
at Huawei Global Analyst Summit (HAS) target architecture for cross-domain and cross-domain collaboration, achieving
2020. This white paper systematically openness and collaboration, as well as online and real-time closed-loop networks.
describes the future network architecture, programmable API standards, greatly 4. A unified cloud-based AI training,
O&M architecture, and key technologies. simplifying cross-domain service knowledge management, and O&M
With the collaboration of AI capabilities collaboration and assurance, reducing design platform, supporting the iterative
at the NE, network, and cloud layers, R&D and operation costs and risks, evolution of telecom networks. To achieve
simplified and ultra-broadband networks achieving agile business through simplified the ambitious ADN goal, the white paper
are emerging, and network O&M is integration, and ultimately reducing the suggests that all industry parties need
evolving to man-machine collaboration, collaboration costs of the entire industry. to reach a consensus as well as jointly
providing carriers and industry partners The white paper also suggests using L4 develop unified standards and hierarchical
with practical reference for digital (high autonomous network) as the phased evaluation systems in compliance with
transformation. Lu Hongju, President objective of the future architecture. This the three-stage (development, research,
of Huawei's General Development Dept, architecture should include the following and exploration) strategy, enabling the
said: "The next 10 years will be the golden four features: 1. Digitalization of network formation of an efficient and collaborative
decade for the booming development knowledge and expert knowledge, as well industry ecosystem and jointly facilitating
of the intelligent era. New technologies as a transition from reactive, manual O&M intelligent upgrades as well as healthy and
represented by 5G, cloud, and AI will inject to predictive, intelligent O&M. 2. Simplified sustainable industry development.
core momentum to intelligent connection
upgrades. Huawei calls on industry peers
to explore practices and leverage data
and knowledge to build an autonomous
network that features automation, self-
healing, and self-optimization, and seize
new opportunities presented by the digital
economy." The white paper points out that
two changes are required to build ADNs:
First, the NE-centric fragmented network
construction mode must be changed to
the service-centric modular autonomous
network construction mode. Converged
"Manager+Controller+Analyzer" achieves
single-domain autonomy and real-time
closed-loop, balancing the cost and
speed of intra-domain innovation and

Huawei Releases Media Statement on Foreign Direct Product Rule Changes

Made by US Government

Huawei categorically opposes the and regulations. At the same time, we undermine the entire industry worldwide.
amendments made by the US Department have fulfilled our contractual obligations This new rule will impact the expansion,
of Commerce to its foreign direct product to customers and suppliers, and have maintenance, and continuous operations
rule that target Huawei specifically. The survived and forged ahead against all of networks worth hundreds of billions
US government added Huawei to the Entity odds. Nevertheless, in its relentless of dollars that we have rolled out in more
List on May 16, 2019 without justification. pursuit to tighten its stranglehold on than 170 countries. It will also impact
Since that time, and despite the fact that a our company, the US government has communications services for the more
number of key industrial and technological decided to proceed and completely ignore than 3 billion people who use Huawei
elements were made unavailable to the concerns of many companies and products and services worldwide. To attack
us, we have remained committed to industry associations. This decision was a leading company from another country,
complying with all US government rules arbitrary and pernicious, and threatens to the US government has intentionally

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