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Huawei Intelligent IP Networks, Accelerating Intelligent Connectivity

During Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2020, Huawei's "Leading continuously, proactively increasing investment in super capacity,
Intelligent IP Networks, Accelerating the Transformation Towards intelligent experience, and autonomous driving to build end-to-end
Intelligent Connectivity" summit was successfully held. This (E2E) intelligent IP networks for customers." Huawei's innovative
summit shed light on three typical characteristics of intelligent IP intelligent IP network solution achieves a future-proof integration
networks: super capacity, intelligent experience, and autonomous of the three characteristics, and has embraced wide applications
driving. Besides this, Huawei shared its numerous success stories in various scenarios, such as campus network, data center
of intelligent IP networks across industries, signifying the data network, and wide area network (WAN) scenarios. Specifically,
communications industry's arrival in the intelligent IP network this feature-rich solution is perfectly suited to building high-
era. As 5G, cloud, and AI pick up pace among enterprises of all quality campus networks. It adopts Huawei's industry-leading
sizes, enterprises, amid their pursuit for digital transformation, AirEngine Wi-Fi 6 that stands out for exclusive 16T16R smart
are confronting once-in-a-generation challenges, such as antennas, delivering up to 1.6 Gbps single-user performance
collaboration between hundreds of billions of production and (20% higher than the industry average). Another highlight of
office terminals, 100% migration of enterprise services to the Huawei's AirEngine Wi-Fi 6 lies in AI-powered intelligent radio
cloud, and 97% AI adoption rate. As a decisive part of enterprises' calibration that improves the average downlink rate of stations
digital transformation, IP networks are also encountering a (STAs) by more than 50%. The solution also employs an AI-
wide range of issues typified by insufficient bandwidth, poor powered intelligent O&M system that slashes the mean time to
service experience, and low efficiency of network O&M and repair (MTTR) from four hours to as short as just 10 minutes.
troubleshooting. Intelligent IP networks are the key to conquering These differentiators significantly optimize user experience,
such issues. To better understand what kind of network can be helping build future-proof, fully-wireless, and intelligent campus
called an intelligent IP network, Huawei took the lead by defining networks in an extensive range of scenarios, such as Huawei's
three typical characteristics of such a network: super-large campus serving 194,000 employees, and the digital
1. Super capacity: IP networks achieve a future-proof shift from warehouse of SONGMICS — the largest home necessity seller on
100GE to 400GE and from Wi-Fi 5 to Wi-Fi 6, and transform Amazon in Germany. The solution also performs well in the data
towards intelligent IP networks, boosting bandwidth resources. center network domain. It adopts Huawei's innovative iLossless
In addition, such future-oriented networks adopt slice- algorithm that ensures zero packet loss on the Ethernet, thereby
based bandwidth isolation, implementing flexible bandwidth improving data computing efficiency by 27% and data storage
adjustment. efficiency by 30% compared with the industry average. The
2. Intelligent experience: Intelligent IP networks stand out solution also achieves AI-powered intelligent O&M, which can
with intelligent identification of service types, service intent remediate a typical fault in just 9 minutes — fault detection in
inference, and flexible, real-time network resource adjustment 1 minute, fault locating in 3 minutes, and fault rectification in 5
upon cloud changes. These highlights deliver always-on minutes. Such superb performance has attracted more than 40
network connectivity experience. Internet service providers (ISPs) and financial service customers,
3. Autonomous driving: Intelligent IP networks can be such as China Merchants Bank, China CITIC Bank, and People's
automatically deployed, achieving rapid adjustment of Insurance Co. (Group) of China Ltd. (PICC). Besides the campus
services. In addition, they can perform automatic, AI-powered network and data center network domains, this solution is also
fault rectification, implementing proactive O&M and ensuring highly suited to the WAN domain for its industry-leading FlexE-
high network availability. based slicing that provides 100% bandwidth assurance, achieving
Kevin Hu, President of Huawei's Data Communication Product 5 times higher slicing granularity than the industry average. In
Line, said: "2020 is the first year for commercial use of intelligent addition, this feature-rich solution uses IPv6+ to select the optimal
IP networks. The entire industry has witnessed an historic shift of path based on the service intent, ensuring committed latency for
IP networks from Internet IP in the World Wide Web era to video- key services. As such, this solution achieves superb transmission
driven All IP, and is now on the way to intelligent IP oriented at the of key services and has been widely applied in multiple scenarios,
5G and cloud era. Looking ahead, Huawei will keep innovating and such as China Mobile (smart grid services), Agricultural Bank of
China, and China Unicom Beijing branch (services for the Beijing
Daxing International Airport). Capitalizing on more than 20 years
of expertise in the IP network domain, Huawei keeps on building
highly competitive intelligent IP network products and solutions,
as well as providing smooth, continuous services for carriers and
customers in the financial services, government, transportation,
and energy sectors in more than 100 countries and regions.
Looking forward, Huawei's Data Communication Product Line
will collaborate with more customers in innovative design and in-
depth service cooperation to help more customers achieve digital
transformation so as to better embrace the "5G + cloud + AI" era
and build intelligent IP networks with continuous leadership.

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