Huawei Had Keynotes and Showcases of All-Cloud Network During OPNFV Summit 2016

[BERLIN, June 24, 2016] – Huawei had keynotes and showcases of its innovative products and solutions at the second Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization (OPNFV) Summit, held from June 20-23 in Berlin, Germany. As an OPNFV platinum founding member, Huawei showcased its platform of all-cloud carrier network solutions.

On June 23, Forrest Lee, Director of OPNFV’s Open Source Development Team (OSDT) at Huawei, delivered a keynote speech about OPNFV for the all-cloud carrier network, which will focus on how to move from virtualization to full-scale cloudification, and how OPNFV can develop into a full-scale cloud platform. Lee also provided detailed information on Huawei’s plans in OPNFV.

“All-cloud carrier network will take the form of hardware resource pooling, all distributed system and complete automation,” said Lee. “This is a resource that can be widely shared. The system will be highly scalable, elastic and extremely robust. The service deployment and provisioning, resource scheduling and fault management will be policy driven and fully automatic. The OPNFV platform will play a key role in enabling the all-cloud carrier network based on which richer network innovations shall be expected.”

During the OPNFV Summit, Huawei demonstrated five NFV innovations that are targeted for commercial deployment. Parallel to the OPNFV Summit, Huawei also contributed to the ONOS and OPEN-O mini-summit on June 20 and 21.

·         CloudEPC/CloudIMS: Interoperability demo with Wind River, Red Hat, Ubuntu and VMware.

·         ONOS: SDN-based SFC solution for mobile service provider edge.

·         OPEN-O: Next generation OSS foundation for ICT service agility.

·         E9000 Server: Best-in-class hardware platform for NFV.

·         CloudOpera IES: Assurance enabling VoLTE orchestration.

As the founding member and main contributor of OPNFV, Huawei is contributing to multiple projects including:

·         Bottlenecks – an OPNFV performance testing project aimed to find system bottlenecks and verify OPNFV infrastructure before committing to a production environment.

·         Compass4nfv – one of the important OPNFV deployment tools and also an important deployment tool for OpenStack.

·         Yardstick – an OPNFV project to verify the infrastructure compliance when running VNF applications.

·         DoveTail – a project to define and provide a set of OPNFV validation criteria that will be executed to evaluate the use of OPNFV trademarks.

·         ONOSFW – a project to integrate ONOS SDN controller within the OPNFV-defined NFVI and VIM framework, which aims to provide the end user and open source communities with greater flexibility to build service applications.

·         Domino – a project to help carriers distribute template across diffrent infrastructure domains based on global policies while leaving infrastructure domain-specific orchestrations to the local domains.

·         Opera – a project that addresses OPNFV MANO integration for generic VNFM with OPEN-O acting as a generic NFVO to support cloudification of OSS/BSS.

Huawei experts have fulfilled a wide range of important positions such as board member, technical steering committee member and project leader. The company also contributed two OPNFV testing labs to the OPNFV community—one in Xi’an, China, and the other in Santa Clara, California. Both labs play an important role in OPNFV release development and testing within a sustainable environment.

In the first OPNFV Plugfest, held by CableLabs in May, Huawei’s E9000 Converged Infrastructure Blade Server, FusionSphere Cloud Operating System, and CloudEPC were used with ONOSFW. As a key contributor of Functest and Yardstick testing suits in the Plugfest, Huawei shared its testing solutions based on Yardstick and provided technical support throughout the event.

On the OPNFV Summit, Huawei was awarded for On-time Delivery Award of Compass for Brahmaputra, Successful Inaugural Plugfest Award and Super Hero award by OPNFV community for the continuous and excellent contributions.

As a leading ICT solution provider, Huawei values open source networking platforms, as it enables collaboration by industry partners and customers. Huawei has been an active player in many open source communities of NFV era. In addition to OPNFV, Huawei is a platinum member of Linux Foundation, a gold member of OpenStack and CloudFoundry, and a founding member of ONOS. 

Huawei Promotes oneM2M Release 3 Standardization for IoT

[Seoul, South Korea, June 20, 2016] oneM2M, an international leading Standardization Development Organization (SDO) for Internet of Things (IoT), launched Release 3 specification work at its 23rd technical plenary meeting. Initiated by Huawei, Data Distribution Service (DDS) usage for industry interaction and interworking with the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) for heterogeneous device access were approved as the first two work items of oneM2M Release 3. Huawei acted as the rapporteur of both work items.

Zhang Zhaohui, Standard Director of the Huawei Cloud Core Network, said, "IoT industry development relies on a healthy win-win ecosystem. The IoT platform exposes service capabilities to third-party applications for industry harmonization. It also supports different types of devices to ensure seamless connection. Standard formulation and implementation will greatly usher the development of the IoT industry."

In a fully connected world, connection requirements are expanded from people-to-people, people-to-thing, to thing-to-thing. IoT brings revolutionary changes to various fields, such as wearable devices, Smart Home, Smart City, IoV, and Industrial Internet. Now, IoT has reached its key stage. Unified standards for interconnection and interworking cannot wait.

oneM2M released its first version (Release 1) in early 2015. oneM2M Release 1 provided a basic set of standards for constructing a unified and horizontal IoT platform, defined the access-independent architecture that supports device management, data management, and connection control, and specified the interfaces and protocols for the architecture. oneM2M Release 2 will be officially released in 2016 Q3. With this release, industrial domain and home domain enablement, interworking framework for different systems (such as AllJoyn and LWM2M: Lightweight M2M), security enhancements, and semantic interoperability will be supported.

At the 23rd technical plenary meeting held in May 2016, oneM2M Release 3 was proposed. oneM2M Release 1 and Release 2 have laid the foundation of IoT standards, and Release 3 will ensure the maturity of these standards and become a crucial phase for large-scale commercialization of these standards.

At the technical plenary meeting, Yin Jiaxin, an expert from the Huawei Cloud Core Network, shared Huawei's suggestions for oneM2M's future development. The suggestions were as follows: 1. Enhance interoperability and allow access from more devices and apps. 2. Help carriers fully exploit their network capabilities and special values. 3. Define a series of device profiles and effectively conduct device certification. 4. Maintain existing specifications and simplify deployment. 5. Define service enablement in different industry domains and ensure cross-industry interworking. 6. Simplify protocols to ensure secured access of resource-constrained devices. The preceding suggestions drew wide attention and support from participating companies, became important ideas for oneM2M Release 3 planning, and laid a sound foundation for thought alignment and standard evolution.

Based on requirements and pain points for oneM2M implementation and commercialization, Huawei leads the first two work items WI-0047 "DDS usage in oneM2M system" and WI-0048 "OSGi Interworking" of oneM2M Release 3. The two work items were both approved at the plenary meeting.

l  WI-0047 leverages the enhanced QoS and point-to-point data transmission architecture of DDS in oneM2M. The introduction of the DDS ensures that oneM2M can be applied to a wider range of industries, such as Industrial Internet and IoV that require high reliability and low delay.

l  WI-0048 supports OSGi software framework and dynamic component loading, which bring flexibility to local API development and access of heterogeneous devices to the gateway agent.

Together with industry partners, Huawei will continue to drive development and implementation of IoT standards, advocate technology innovation and open cooperation, and promote the deep integration and industry upgrading of the IoT in various fields, such as Smart Home, IoV, Smart City, energy, and manufacturing. OceanConnect, Huawei's IoT connection management platform, is designed for thing-to-thing and people-to-thing connections. It supports fast integration of multiple vertical applications and provides various APIs to ensure access of different types of devices. It meets the requirements for creating the E2E IoT solution of carriers, enterprises, and industries, brings benefits to customers, and creates more opportunities and possibilities.

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About oneM2M

oneM2M is the global standards initiative that covers requirements, architecture, API specifications, security solutions and interoperability for Machine-to-Machine and IoT technologies. oneM2M was formed in 2012 and consists of eight of the world's preeminent ICT standards development organizations: ARIB (Japan), ATIS (North America), CCSA (China), ETSI (Europe), TIA (North America), TSDSI (India), TTA (Korea), and TTC (Japan), together with seven industry fora, consortia or standards bodies (Broadband Forum, CEN, CENELEC, GlobalPlatform, HGI, Next Generation M2M Consortium, OMA) and over 200 member organizations. oneM2M specifications provide a framework to support applications and services such as the smart grid, connected car, home automation, public safety, and health. oneM2M actively encourages industry associations and forums with specific application requirements to participate in oneM2M, in order to ensure that the solutions developed support their specific needs. For more information, including how to join and participate in oneM2M, see: www.onem2m.org.

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 170,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees. For more information, please visit Huawei online at www.huawei.com.

OPNFV Summit 2016 will be held in Berlin on June 20-23, Huawei prepares 22 technology sharing and keynote speeches

OPNFV ​Summit ​is ​an ​annual ​conference ​to ​collaborate, ​innovate, ​and ​explore ​the ​latest ​in ​Network ​Functions ​Virtualization ​(NFV). ​The ​summit ​brings ​together ​developers, ​end ​users, ​and ​communities ​working ​together ​to ​advance ​open ​source ​NFV. ​

A ​Design ​Summit ​for ​the ​technical ​community ​will ​take ​place ​June ​20-21, ​followed ​by ​the ​Summit ​Conference ​on ​June ​22-23.Huawei prepares 15 topic speeches for design summit and 7 topic speeches for the main conference.

Huawei keynote speeches are listed in following:

1. Advancing Upstream Collaboration with OpenStack

2. Road to Multisite IPv6 – Scenarios, Challenges and Perspectives

3. How to Do a Pre-development NFVI Validation Quickly and Efficiently

4. The practice of Building OPNFV User Group in China

5. The way to Carrier Network Cloudification

6. Open Source, Orchestration and OPNFV

7. Providing Root Cause Analysis to OPNFV Using Pinpoint-the A-CORD Architecture Use Case

    

 The following is the full schedule for OPNFV summit 2016.

Sunday, June 19

13:00 - 17:00: OPNFV Orientation

Monday, June 20

9:00 - 17:30: OPNFV Design Summit

9:00-17:30: ONOS + CORD Mini Summit

17:30-19:00: Developer Reception

Tuesday, June 21

8:00-17:00: LF Training: SDN Tutorial (ODL, ONOS, OPNFV)

8:30 - 17:00: Fd.io and DPDK.org Mini Summit

8:30 - 16:00: ARM NFV Ecosystem Mini Summit

9:00 - 17:15: OPNFV Design Summit

9:00 - 17:00: OpenDaylight European Mini Summit

17:30-19:00: Welcome Reception, Technology Show Case, and PoC Zone

19:00-20:00: Women and Allies Reception

Wednesday, June 22

9:00-11:00: Opening Keynote Session

11:00-17:30: Technology Showcase, PoC Zone

11:20-13:20: Breakout Sessions, Project Theater

13:20-14:20: Lunch

14:20-16:10: Breakout Sessions, Project Theater

18:00-22:00: Offsite Evening Event

Thursday, June 23

9:00-10:50: Day 2 Keynote Sessions

10:50-15:30: Technology Showcase, PoC Zone

11:10 - 13:00: Breakout Sessions, Project Theater

13:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00-16:40: Breakout Sessions, Project Theater

16:50-17:20: OPNFV Town Hall

Related Link:

Congress Registration Address Link:

https://www.regonline.com/register/checkin.aspx?EventId=1804389&MethodId=0&EventSessionId=&startnewreg=1

Main conference link:

https://www.eventscribe.com/2016/OPNFV/aaSearchByDay.asp?h=Full%20Schedule&BCFO=P%7CG

Design summit

https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/EVNT/Proposals+for+Berlin+Design+Summit+Session

Project theater

https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/EVNT/2016+OPNFV+Summit+Project+Theater+Schedule

If you have any doubt about the OPNFV Summit, please do not hesitate to contact with Wang Yurong (wangyurong302@huawei.com)

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Huawei Debuts Cloud Communication to Propel ICT Transformation

[June 1, 2016, Singapore] At CommunicAsia 2016 in Singapore, Huawei debuted Cloud Communication, an E2E communication solution for Personal, Home, Enterprise, and Vertical. Cloud Communication helps operators implement network evolution, service innovation, and business model transformation by means ofall cloud, full openness, and redefined service experience.

Official launch of Huawei Cloud Communication with Vincent Zhao, ZhouJianjun, Yangpeng and Wangshuntao.

The conference attracted over 150 analysts, reporters, and representatives from leading operators in the South Pacific. On the subject of "Reframing a colorful communication life", Huawei and participants discussed technical and business challenges as well as development trends in the ICT industry.

Opening keynote by Wongshuntao about embracing the Cloud Communications Era

Wang Songtao, vice president of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, remarked, "The ICT field has always been a focus of Huawei Cloud Core Network has always been focus on communication field. We commit to enriching life through communication. Cloud Communication aims to construct an open communication platform and a sustainable industry ecosystem while providing communication solutions to Personal, Home , Enterprise, and Vertical, facilitating ICT transformation."

Facing great challenges, how do operators seize opportunities in digital communication to ensure successful ICT transformation?

The explosion of smart terminals and mobile Internet creates unprecedented challenges for operators. With the rapid development of social applications, end users are no longer satisfied with traditional voice and SMS. Now, end users want a ubiquitous multimedia experience.

As the communication field expands, Personal and Enterprise users require convergent communications. Meanwhile, we also see the communication capabilities are applied to TVs, mobile accesses, smart watches, and intelligent robots.

As an important conveyor of information, video has been widely used in all industries, from entertainment to communications as well as remote education and telemedicine. Today, real-time video has become an indispensable part of daily life. It can be said without exaggeration that seizing the opportunity to develop real-time video is seizing a winning ticket in the future of video.

Huawei Cloud Communication promotes ICT transformation for operators.

Based on a unified cloud platform, Huawei Cloud Communication redefines user experience. The Voice and Video over LTE (V²oLTE) solution provides dual HD services to individuals, improving personal communication experience. The Enterprise Communication solution provides a full-service portfolio to meet the requirements of small, medium, and big sized enterprise and helps operators expand to enterprise markets. The Cloud Video solution not only satisfies families' demands for large-screen video communication, but also extends to various video applications in verticals, helping operators take control of the future of the video industry. Through network capability exposure and cooperation with partners from various industries, the communication as a service (CaaS) solution promotes crowd-sourcing service innovation as well as business model transformation, helping operators implement ubiquitous communication and build a win-win industry ecosystem.

The V²oLTE solution implements evolution to a genuine All-IP network. With HD voice, HD video, and rich media communication, it strengthens relationships with users and consolidates voice revenues. Huawei has extensive experience with VoLTE deployment. Based on quick service inheritance, minimum changes to live networks, and flexible terminal adaptation capabilities, Huawei shortens the time to market (TTM) for VoLTE services to under six months.

The Enterprise Communication solution integrates all communication methods and scenarios and provides a unified architecture and management system to offer the same communication experience for different enterprise users. The solution supports the deployment for private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud. It helps enterprises build their own communication and collaboration platforms as needed, heightening competitive edge and efficiency. In addition, Huawei provides a variety of terminals to meet requirements for different scenarios such as meeting rooms, office desktops, SOHO, and business trips.

The Cloud Video solution aggregates various video capabilities of operators, such as video call, recording, encryption, and analysis. It provides large-screen video communication for families as well as services in verticals (for example, telemedicine, remote education, and video customer services). This solution helps operators make video services as a new basic service, increasing revenue.

The CaaS solution helps operators open communication capabilities and resources through APIs and SDKs. By bringing message, voice, video, conference, and collaborative communication capabilities as well as user data to different applications, operators can implement ubiquitous connections and communication between humans, things, and organizations. Embedding communication capabilities into the business process improves enterprise efficiency and service innovation.

Huawei has established a comprehensive alliance, with over 1,000 partners across more than 17 industries. With communication requirements in constant flux, Huawei will continue to collaborate with partners to provide end users with innovative communication experiences.

Let's build a colorful communication life together in Asia Pacific!