Current Analysis Ranks Huawei as Leader in SBC

Recently, Current Analysis, a world-renowned ICT analysis agency, released its latest product assessments of Session Border Controller (SBC) models available in the global market. The Huawei SessionEngine2900 (SE2900) was tied for first place and was placed in the "leader" category in the SBC industry for the 3^rd time since its launch in 2014.

In this rating, Huawei SE2900 ranked very strong across all criteria and was leader in terms of performance. The Huawei SE2900 supports the company's FusionServer platform and maximizes performance in multiple areas. David Snow, Principal Analyst at Current Analysis, stated in the report that the "Huawei SE2900 is likely the most powerful SBC offering on the market today on a per-RU basis."

In the report, David Snow summarized the advantages of Huawei SE2900 as follows:

l  The Huawei SE2900 combines low power consumption with high performance meeting both signaling and media requirements for VoLTE and RCS services.

l  The Huawei SE2900 has been deployed by more than 300 operators worldwide, including 220 IMS network deployments. From these deployments, Huawei has gained significant amount of SBC network experience.

l  The embedded Huawei SE2900 load balancer not only supports scaling but also simplifies network design and operation.

l  Unlike most SBCs from other vendors, the Huawei SE2900 provides APIs for third-party developers, helping carriers monetize their networks and gain competitive differentiation.

l  The Huawei SE2900 has been regularly third-party validated, including the Miercom Performance Verified Certification for performance and security.

All data is obtained from Current Analysis:

http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=79832

Cloud Transformation Ignites an Innovative Tokyo

On 26th November, Cloud Transformation Inspires Innovation summit was successfully held in Tokyo during Global MBB Forum 2016, which is hosted by Huawei. Operators, analysts, and industrial partners gathered together to share the latest cutting-edge technologies and innovation topics and discuss challenges are facing in Cloud transformation. Now let us pick up some key messages to share with you. 

Huawei Receives Frost & Sullivan “2016 EMEA Video Conferencing Endpoints and Infrastructure Growth Excellence Leadership Award”

Recently, Frost & Sullivan hosted a grand award ceremony in Paris, and rewarded Huawei with 2016 EMEA Video Conferencing Endpoints and Infrastructure Growth Excellence Leadership Award to honor Huawei’s contribution in technological innovation in the video conferencing industry.

Huawei West Europe UC &C Marketing and Solution Sales Department Wu Mo attends Frost & Sullivan’s Award Ceremony in Paris 

“Currently, the video conferencing market in EMEA has maturely developed, and increased by 9.9% in 2015. However, Huawei led the industry with a substantial increase rate of 22.3%, and made a significant contribution to the industry and area. In the global market, Huawei video conferencing also saw a steady increase in revenue.

“The rapid increase in Huawei market share is closely related to successful product offerings, technology and marketing strategies. First, Huawei provides comprehensive products and solutions, which enables customers to communicate under a variety of scenarios, ranging from large conference rooms, huddle rooms to mobile workspace. Second, Huawei invests a lot in product and technological innovation, especially in 4K, H.265, cloud video conferencing and cloud-based endpoints, and launches the industry-leading products. Third, Huawei focuses on cooperation with channel and partners to achieve win-win success. ”

 Vaishno

Senior Analyst, Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan granted Huawei with the “2016 EMEA Video Conferencing Endpoints and Infrastructure Growth Excellence Leadership Award” for its dedication to bringing customers values. Moving forward, Huawei will keep in line with the cloud-migration trend to deliver excellent enterprise communications experience.

“Against the backdrop of ICT all-cloud, the new wave of cloud-migration is surging. Huawei is dedicated to creating a cloud-based, converged, and open one-stop Cloud Enterprise Communications (CloudEC) platform, providing user-centric cloud video endpoints, co-building ecosystems with partners, and offering enterprise users ultra-simple and top-notch CloudEC services. In Huawei West Europe Ecosystem Conference held in October, Huawei released cloud video conferencing solutions, including CloudMCU for cloud video conferencing platforms, TE10 and TE20, all-in-one cloud video conferencing endpoints. With the launch of these products, we make cloud-device synergy a reality, and truly put cloudEC in practice. ”

Wu Mo 

Director of Huawei West Europe UC&C Marketing and Solution Sales Department 

Wu Mo made a speech at Frost & Sullivan award ceremony 

Recently, Huawei video conferencing has been providing services for customers from various backgrounds, covering key industries, including government, public utilities, power, and finance. Many successful applications, such as Portugal Electronics Company’s cloud video conferencing systems, and P&O Ferrymasters’ multi-national video conferencing systems receive high acclaims from customers.

Huawei OceanConnect IoT Platform Makes Waves in West Europe

[Paris, France, October 22, 2016] The first Huawei eco-Connect Europe was held on October 20 and October 21 in Palais Brongniart, Paris. More than 1,000 business and political leaders, partners, analysts, and operators gathered together to share the latest cutting-edge technologies and service innovation topics and discuss the ICT industry ecosystem and harmonious business environment in Europe. Internet of Things (IoT), as one of the most popular topics, plays an important role in the conference.

OceanConnect Ecosystem Enables Industry Digitization

During the OceanConnect track, Mr. Wang Songtao, Vice President of the Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, shared Huawei's vision of building an OceanConnect ecosystem with partners in his opening speech. He stated that: "Huawei OceanConnect is an open ecosystem built on the basis of IoT, cloud computing, and Big Data technologies. Huawei hopes that more terminal and network application (NA) partners will join the OceanConnect IoT platform to provide optimal experience for users and build a better fully-connected era."

Mr. Wang Songtao, Vice President of the Huawei Cloud Core Network

Mr. Liu Xin, Director of the Huawei IoT Platform Industry Cooperation Dept., also explained the OceanConnect ecosystem. He said, "With the Huawei IoT connection management platform as its core, the OceanConnect ecosystem provides abundant ecosystem APIs and serial Agent software to realize seamless connection between upstream and downstream products. The platform adapts to various network environments and protocol types and supports quick access of various intelligent terminals, which effectively reduces partners' development costs."

Mr. Liu Xin, Director of the Huawei IoT Platform Industry Cooperation Dept

Mr. Rouzbeh Farhoumand, Executive Director of the OSGi, gave a keynote speech "Standards, a Vital Component for a Successful IoT Ecosystem". In his speech, he said, "The LPWA market growth has increased from 25% to 35%. The IoT market will embrace bursting development. As the leaders of IoT standard organizations, oneM2M and OSGi emphasize that a successful IoT ecosystem facilitates the development of the entire industry and that Huawei plays a very positive role in the ecosystem creation." In addition, Mr. Mitchell Klein, Executive Director at Z-Wave Alliance (a global open standards, nonprofit organization), shared the latest terminal access standard technology in the industry, made a brief introduction to the development of the Z-Wave Alliance, and also welcomed Huawei to join the Z-Wave Alliance. He stated that: "IoT is changing the way to interact with surrounding devices in our daily life. To fully promote such transformation, our Z-Wave Alliance will propose a more open and reliable access protocol. So we really hope that Huawei will help us promote the entire process."

Mr. Rouzbeh Farhoumand, Executive Director of the OSGi

Mr. Mitchell Klein, Executive Director at Z-Wave Alliance

Mr. George Yianni, Head of Technology, Home Systems at Philips Lighting, expressed that: “The Huawei OceanConnect platform ensures seamless interoperability with our Philips Hue connected lighting system and offers more ways of using light in the home.”

Mr. George Yianni, Head of Technology Home Systems, Philips Lighting 

Mr. Daniel Dykes, Vice President of Aeon Labs, which is one Huawei's smart home industry partners, stated that "the essence of IoT, that is the ability for connected devices to communicate and to be automated, promises not just to enrich our homes but to also greatly improve the lives we live within them. In the fully-connected era to come, the smart home won't just offer us all new services, but real and tangible benefits. As a part of Huawei's OceanConnect ecosystem, Aeon Labs is not only able to empower its existing range of IoT products, it's able to converge them with all new technologies that drive real benefits to our partners and users."

Mr. Daniel Dykes, Vice President of AeonLabs

Head of Sales Hanna Stachowiak and Lukas Tobis from Fibaro Group in Poland used Q&A mode to describe the panorama of the future digital home, where the OceanConnect enables rich applications to realize perfect combination of home and dream.

Head of sales Hanna Stachowiak and Lukas Tobis from Fibaro Group

Solution Manager of Bosch Mr. Armel Mejane introduced Bosch IoT Suite to show the ability of Bocsh have done in IoT field, and also, he stated that Bosch and Huawei will leverage their respective advantages to jointly drive IoT development.

Mr. Armel Mejane, Solution Manager of Bosch 

In the end, Mr. David Buhan, Senior VP Mobile Subscriber Services, Platform & Services, Gemalto, raised the topic of IoT security. He stated that: "Gemalto is committed to providing customers with end-to-end encryption solutions. We aim to improve the security to a new height through our cooperation with Huawei OceanConnect."

Mr. David Buhan, Senior Vice President of Gemalto

In Europe, a world-leading market, the rapid IoT development brings immense opportunities to multiple fields such as Smart Home, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), public utilities, and oil, gas & energy. Rooted in West Europe, the OceanConnect IoT platform accelerates the digitization of production systems and greatly reduces the time-to-market of new products for enterprises. With operators' powerful infrastructure networks, enterprises can provide perfect IoT solutions and optimal experience for users.

Huawei Released a New Series of Cloud VC Products to Accelerate the Implementation of Cloud-Device Collaboration

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solution provider, recently released a new series of cloud VC products, including the CloudMCU, TE10, and TE20. CloudMCU is the key product that supports cloud VC platform deployment. TE10 and TE20 are two all-in-one HD VC endpoints that support the implementation of cloud VC experiences. These new products collaborate with each other to ensure smooth cloud-device collaboration, allowing enterprises to gain tangible benefits from cloud communications.

Yuan Xiaohai, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, said "The ICT cloud has become a mega-trend in video communications. Industry players are faced with the tide of cloud transformation. Huawei strives to develop cloud-based, converged, open, all-in-one cloud communications platforms, and experience-centric cloud VC endpoints. Through partner cooperation, Huawei will build a win-win industry ecosystem to offer high-quality, easy-to-use cloud communications services."

CloudMCU: Make VC Cloud Platform Robust and Simple

In the cloud era, cloud platform development is the priority among priorities. CloudMCU, as the core component of Huawei VC cloud platform deployment, is strong in professional services. With CloudMCU in place, VC service providers and enterprises can efficiently build their cloud VC systems.

CloudMCU supports virtual, flexible deployment on VMware and Huawei FusionSphere, and smooth expansion based on service requirements. When running on a cloud, MCU centrally controls, intelligent manages, and freely distributes resources. Traditional deployment modes are limited by hardware resources. Huawei's CloudMCU resource pool supports load balancing, component backup, and remote disaster recover, maximizing conferencing service continuity, stability, and reliability.

CloudMCU features powerful media convergence and access capabilities. Users can join conferences from diverse endpoints, such as meeting room devices, desktop clients, and mobile apps. The system complies with a variety of browsers, such as IR, Chrome, and Firefox. CloudMCU simultaneously supports SIP and H.323. Users can initiate hybrid conferences with both AVC and SVC. By converging video, voice, content streams, and data into a unified conference, CloudMCU allows seamless collaboration in enterprise communications.

With the cloud architecture and CloudMCU in place, Huawei's Cloud VC Solution supports virtual meeting room (VMR) capabilities and fast cloud conference initiation. Users can conveniently hold conferences using the automatic multi-screen display, and diverse conference control functions (such as moderator control). In bottom-layer technologies, CloudMCU leverages H.264HP to reduce bandwidth consumption by 50%. The H.264 SVC and SEC3.0 super error concealment (PLC) technologies ensure the normal operations of voice and video conferences even when the packet loss rate (PLR) reaches 20%.

Huawei TE10: World's First 6-in-1 Lightweight Cloud VC Endpoint

In addition to the CloudMCU, Huawei also released two cloud VC endpoints to support the implementation of its cloud strategy. These endpoints offer cloud VC services that feature cloud-device collaboration.

In the Huawei Connect 2016 conference, Huawei released TE10, the world's first 6-in-1 lightweight cloud VC endpoint. TE10 is an innovative product designed for cloud environments. This endpoint features HD voice and video communications and superb network adaptability. In product design and application OS, TE10 uses the consumer-level minimal design. Its third-party platform access support perfectly meets users' service requirements in cloud video communications, offering industry-leading user experiences.

VC devices are getting more stylish as fashion and technology intersect. Huawei TE10 stands out from mainstream VC devices using consumer-level minimal design. With the all-in-one architecture, TE10 integrates six functional modules (HD camera, codec, microphone, speaker, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, and Foldable Bracket) into one box. Users can install and deploy devices in one minute, achieving plug-and-play for real. With the integrated design, TE10 has a dimension of 9 cm x 9 cm x 9 cm, weights only 500g, and features an ultra-low power consumption of 8 W. This portable device has the industry-leading flexibility, boosting application efficiency. The OS also uses the lightweight design and minimal-style GUI. Menus have three or fewer layers, allowing users to complete all operations without dedicated training.

In addition to its optimal design, TE10 also features excellent voice and video quality. With professional, customized lenses, TE10 offers HD video services with wide angles and flexible zooming. The embedded MIC array has a sound pickup distance of 6 meters. In network transmission, the device has a PLC of 20%. Users can adjust device configuration based on application scenarios to get the best experiences in both personal communications and group conferences.

Huawei's first step in cloud video communications is to sell consumer-level products in a large scope. The second step is to connect these products with various cloud platforms, bringing real benefits to cloud VC customers. Huawei's TE10 uses the industry standard protocols to boost its openness. Users can connect TE10 to diverse mainstream cloud platforms, such as Videxio. When connected to the Videxio platform, for example, TE10 uses its fast configuration and plug-and-play features to offer cloud VC services anytime, anywhere. In addition, TE10 protects users' communications security using media and signaling encryption technologies.

Huawei TE10

Huawei TE20: Next-generation All-in-One HD VC Endpoint

Huawei's TE20 is an all-in-one HD VC endpoint that applies to small- and mid-sized meeting rooms. Integrated with the HD camera, codec, and microphone, TE20 features easy installation and configuration. A user without dedicated training can deploy a TE20 endpoint in less than 4 minutes. With the stylish appearance, TE20 won the iF Design Award in 2016. Compared to TE10, TE20 applies to larger, more comprehensive meeting room scenarios. This device supports installation on TVs, walls, and ceilings, offering users with industry-leading VC experiences.

TE20 is strong in processing voice and video data, offering optimal video communications experiences. The 1080p HD video works with Huawei's next-generation low-illumination technology offers vivid HD images even in various meeting room environments. TE20 uses 5x and 12x optical zooming lenses with a wide angle of 80°. Enterprise users can flexibly select product models based on meeting sizes to maximize the return on investment (ROI).

TE20 also stands out in network adaptability. In 1080p HD voice and video communications, TE20 requires only 512 kbit/s ultra-low bandwidth and has a high PLC of 20%, ensuring user experiences. In security protection, TE20 provides media encryption, signaling encryption, and firewall traversal to meet enterprise customers' requirements in diverse network environments.

Huawei TE20

Clout transformation is like a rising wind ready to sweep across the enterprise communications field. Huawei released the CloudMCU, TE10, and TE20 to meet industry customers' requirements on professional cloud video communications and to help cloud service partners to find more opportunities in the cloud VC market.