Huawei is Active in Zigbee Alliance Global IoT Forum to Promote the IoT Industry Standardization

Huawei, a board member and co-chair of Zigbee Alliance participated in the Zigbee Alliance Global Members meeting from June 12-15 and presented “OceanConnect IoT ecosystem” at the Zigbee Alliance Global IoT Forum on June 16.

Huawei joined the Zigbee Alliance in a board leadership position in order to help promote Zigbee Alliance standardization and certification of IoT devices across a broad range of companies and industries. This is very important for widespread IoT adoption here in China and also world-wide.

During these Zigbee Alliance member meetings important Zigbee standardization advances were made in areas of Green Power, Home Energy, Home Automation, etc. In the long term, Zigbee Alliance is focused on interoperability across access networks, sharing Zigbee Application layer libraries with other IoT access technology standards such as Thread Group and others, through the Zigbee Alliance Dotdot initiative.  

At the Zigbee Alliance Global IoT Forum on June 16, IoT industry leaders from China and overseas met to share advancements in IoT industry. Some of the noted companies presenting were China Unicom, Huawei, Philips Lighting, Leedarson, etc.

David Hoelscher, IoT Marketing Director of Huawei Cloud Core Network presenting a speech

Huawei presented the value of OceanConnect IoT platform and ecosystem, and how it is important to build a strong ecosystem of interoperable partners, with Zigbee and other IoT standards helping to build major blocks of certified interoperability. To date, OceanConnect has gathered more than 100 business partners, covering connected car, smart home, utilities, smart city and other fields.

Huawei believes that set up of Zigbee and other network standards is helping the development of the industry. “The Zigbee Alliance with its emphasis on interoperability, is an important access technology in smart home, smart lighting, smart building, and industrial vertical industries,” said David Hoelscher, IoT Marketing Director of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line. The idea of a large group of companies forming an alliance for certification and interoperability within the Zigbee access technology is a very important mover in the industry. David also added “Additionally, the initiative called Dotdot, to share standardized Zigbee Cluster Libraries to other access networks is very important to the industry development, and is very much in line with the concepts of Huawei’s OceanConnect IoT platform and ecosystem”.

Huawei MSO Hybrid Video Solution Assists Mexico Megacable to Launch Xview VOD Platform

[Mexico, Guadalajara, June 14th, 2017] Mexico's second largest MSO Megacable Launched its Xview video platform, an on-demand television system with what it seeks to address cable-based interactive TV service and mobile OTT service. Huawei MSO Hybrid Video Solution provides convergent video platform and technical support, assisting Megacable to achieve video IP transformation in the coaxial network successfully.

Enrique Yamuni, CEO of Megacable, explained that the company seeks to innovate in the new generation video service. Xview is a new way of watching television, combining linear television with on demand television, which includes 8,000 hours of VOD contents, including newsreels, children's programming, sports and others. Meanwhile, Xview provides 100 linear channels for users to access through any mobile device with up to 48 hours backwards. Xview also provides 150 hours of HD recording available in the cloud, which can be saved up to 30 days.

Li Huiyong, Director of Huawei Latin America Cloud Core Network Marketing & Solution Sales Dept, said that Huawei's MSO Hybrid Video Solution supports IPTV, OTT, DVB-C and Hybrid video services. It fully utilizes the legacy cable network and STBs to ensure smooth switching of the existing service. The two parties will continue to cooperate in the video smart operation, DCCAP transformation, IPTV over cable solution, communication video and industry video, helping Megacable to achieve successful video business transformation.

Xview is already available in four cities in Mexico: Guadalajara, Puebla, Veracruz and Hermosillo. In the next few months, the service will be available throughout the country with more flexible packages.

For more information: http://eleconomista.com.mx/industrias/2017/06/14/megacable-lanza-xview-plataforma-video-on-demand

Huawei Seeks to Collaboratively Build an IoT Industry Ecosystem and Leverage the Telecom Network 2017 London Tech Week

[TechXLR8, an event at the 2017 London Tech Week, is being held from June 13 to June 15. Huawei is showcasing their latest IoT and 5G achievements.]

Rouzbeh Farhoumand, Huawei's Senior Director of Technical Standards Department, gave a keynote speech at TechXLR8, saying that an open ecosystem and reliable telecom network are fundamental factors for building an intelligent world where all things will be intelligent, and capable of detecting one another to provide ubiquitous connectivity. He also called for industry cooperation to build a better connected world.

Rouzbeh Farhoumand, Huawei's Senior Director of Technical Standards Department

Building an IoT Industry Ecosystem

Rouzbeh Farhoumand said that the IoT industry is at the critical stage of development and an open and healthy ecosystem, using the powerful IoT platform, is beneficial for industry integration and market expansion. Huawei's OceanConnect IoT platform integrates IoT devices and applications from partners using serial Agent and abundant APIs. With an IoT partnership plan, Huawei's OceanConnect IoT platform carries out joint marketing activities with partners and implements the technology enablement plan for developers by providing the developer community, regional OpenLab, and Remote Lab. Currently, Huawei has built the Glocal IoT ecosystem with the IoT platform at its core, which includes more than 500 global and regional partners in key industries including Smart Home, Connected Car, Smart City, and the manufacturing industry.

Leveraging the Value of Telecom Networks

Current telecom networks are highly reliable, of high-quality, and provide excellent operability, which is critical in the IoT development. To meet the growing IoT service requirements, NB-IoT and 5G technologies are gradually being developed by the industry. Huawei, as the leader in NB-IoT technologies, will continuously promote the development of industry standards and assist operators in developing NB-IoT services including smart metering, smart building, and bicycle sharing. Huawei has also established a wireless application scenario lab named XLabs. Based on its 5G core solution, that is Service Oriented Core, Huawei and leading operators including Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone made researches on new 5G technologies, such as network slicing and eMBB. The aim is to jointly create innovative services, such as industrial control, smart driving, and Smart Home.

[Welcome to the Huawei booth located at #5G620]