Moving Towards a Better Connected Era

The recently concluded Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2016, which was organized on April 11-13 in Shenzhen, China, saw a record visitor attendance from all over the world. The event was centered on the theme 'Growing Together Through Digitalization and Building a Better Connected World'. It brought together 500 analysts and business leaders from telecom, Internet, finance, and other industries. Huawei introduced full cloudification strategy to attendees. The strategy highlights Huawei's perseverance in enabling customer success, showcases its understanding on improving the end user experience, and reflects its commitment to carrying out continuous innovation and promoting industry development.

At the summit, Huawei's Rotating CEO Eric Xu explained the company's full cloudification strategy in detail. He said, "At the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2015, we proposed the Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY, and Social (ROADS) experience model to define the features of a superior user experience. This year, we have introduced the full cloudification strategy, which focuses on delivering a ROADS experience. At the core of Huawei's full cloudification strategy is the full reconstruction of ICT infrastructure in four respects—equipment, network, services, and operations. The strategy aims to create systematic strengths in pooled hardware resources, fully distributed software architecture, and full automation. As a leading global ICT infrastructure provider, Huawei is committed to becoming an advocate, promoter, and leader of full cloudification."

The company in the enterprise space aims to leverage cloud computing, SDN, and big data technologies to facilitate enterprise digitalization towards agile and smart operations.

ENHANCING CONNECTIVITY
Going forward, video is becoming a basic service of the telecom industry. Experience on the other hand is becoming a core competence for operators to attract and retain users. Huawei unveiled a video experience measurement system, u-vMOS, which reasonably and objectively evaluates video quality, interaction, and the visual experience of various services on different networks and screens. The system is open to the entire video industry and has been recognized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Ryan Ding, Huawei Executive Director of the Board, President of Huawei's Products & Solutions said, "A Better Connected World raises requirements for networks. Connections, bandwidth, latency, and data storage must all achieve 100-fold improvements. More importantly, networks of the future must automatically accommodate diverse use scenarios, including massive numbers of connected things, high-bandwidth services like video and virtual reality, and industrial applications that require a low latency and high reliability.”

CONNECTIVITY ON EVERY STEP: OPENING AN ERA OF INDOOR FULLY-CONNECTED EXPERIENCE
During the event Huawei also announced Indoor Connected Solution (ICS), to assist operators in improving both indoor user experience and RoI. This solution accelerates indoor digital transformation and helps operators explore new opportunities for increasing revenue by providing value-added services. Huawei ICS, with the capabilities of precise network planning, indoor positioning, IoT integration and others, provides end-to-end solutions for indoor scenarios to meet the diversified service needs of end users.

Going forward, Huawei will continue to invest in the domain of Indoor Connected Solution. They will establish an ICS Open Lab that verifies multi-service, multi-vendor E2E integration solutions; secondly, they will continue to deepen cooperation with industry partners, to open up an era of indoor fully-connected experience together.

Talking about their India business, the company officials said that India is a big and important market for them and they would continue to invest in technologies.

WHAT'S THE FUTURE
We are moving towards a connected world and have a long way to go. A lot of things are happening and yet to happen. Having said that, we certainly need to prepare ourselves for the upcoming IoT storm, as although the security concerns prevail, benefits of IoT can't be overlooked.

(The author was hosted in Shenzhen by Huawei)