Huawei Launched Family Real-Time Video Alliance at HUAWEI CONNECT 2016

In 2015, hardware and related service revenues generated from the home network economy in China were 230 billion CHY a figure which is expected to reach 1.1 trillion CHY by 2020. The TV-centered home network economy will become the next major Internet market, attracting two-thirds of families in China. Due to the huge market potential, more than 20 partners, ranging from chip, STB, camera and application vendors, gathered at the HUAWEI CONNECT 2016 to discuss the video ecosystem economy.

Family Real-Time Video Alliance

Yesterday, Yang Peng, president of the Huawei cloud core network CS &IMS product line announced the establishment of the Family Real-Time Video Alliance along with 22 partners. Members include nearly 30 partners from chip, STB, camera, and application industries. Together they announced the vision of "creating a multi-billion real-time video market, starting with family services". The alliance aims to extend the application of real-time video from family life into every aspect of life.

Family Real-Time Video Alliance launching ceremony

Yang Peng began the speech with an introduction to the family real-time video market and the vision of creating a global cooperation and innovation ecosystem. He said “Subscribers can enjoy real-time video calls on TVs, making it possible for TVs to bring family members closer together.” Adding "TVs will act as a gateway for family services, spurring the rise of value-added services using real-time video capabilities, such as TeleMedicine, distance learning, and remote customer services.“ In addition, the core network will be dedicated to creating a global cooperation and innovation ecosystem for network, terminal, and ecology extension. ”

Mr. Yang Peng, President of the Huawei Cloud Core Network CS &IMS Product Line

Skyworth, an alliance member, shared its vision of the family real-time video industry. Huawei's real-time video communication services have brought a low-bandwidth, low-delay, and high-quality service experience to audiovisual, real-time video, and real life business settings. Zhang Cheng, sales director of the Skyworth Telecom product line said “As early as in 2015, Skyworth worked with Huawei in real-time video communication services and cooperation continues to grow in 2016, with STBs of different models and chip models manufactured to support Home Presence services.” Real-time video that relies on Huawei's real-time video call services and professional technical services will drive service innovation in different industries, such as education and healthcare. Skyworth will continue to cooperate with Huawei and other alliance members to create more valuable services, and mutual development.

 

Zhang Cheng, Sales Director of Skyworth Telecom Product Line 

IoT: Huawei OceanConnect Works with Partners to Build a Better Connected World

[Shanghai, September 1, 2016] As a key technology that drives the digitization of the entire industry, IoT was a hot topic at HUAWEI CONNECT 2016. The OceanConnect IoT platform ecosystem, was officially launched during the media roundtable held on 1st, Sep.

Ma Haixu, President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Lin

Ma Haixu, President of Huawei’s Cloud Core Network Product Line, announced that OceanConnect provides more than 170 open application programming interfaces (APIs) and serial Agents. These features can accelerate the release of an application, simplify terminal access, ensure network connection, and implement seamless connection between the products of both upstream and downstream partners. Mr. Ma also pointed out that OceanConnect provides a one-stop service for partners, providing technical support, marketing support, and commercial cooperation. In-depth analysis provided by Jiang Tao, Chief Product Management Expert for Huawei’s Core Network Product Line, revealed that:

• Many partners currently focus solely on IoT device production.
• Device communication is hindered by technology bottlenecks.
• Network access cost is high.
• Time to market (TTM) for new services is long.

He and Zhang Xiwei, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line concluded by answering questions related to partners’ primary concerns, technology access and application integration.

The development of IoT, cloud computing, and Big Data, is attracting more and more enterprises and entrepreneurs into the IoT industry. Despite the rapid development of IoT services, these new entrants are met with various challenges, such as complex network connections, difficult integration caused by too many terminal and sensor vendors, and long time-to-market for new services. OceanConnect is designed to help tackle these challenges.

To date, Huawei OceanConnect has integrated more than 200 terminals and sensors and cooperated with over 80 partners in the fields of Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Smart Home, public utilities, and oil/gas & energy. This has led to notable commercial success. For example, in the field of Smart Home, Huawei partners with AenoLabs to work out a competitive Smart Home solution, helping the world-leading carrier Telefonica expand the Latin American Smart Home market. In IoV, Huawei partners with FAW Qiming Information Technology Co., Ltd. to provide vehicle management and car sharing solutions.

Huawei is looking to work with different enterprises to build a better connected world.

 

Huawei Launches CaaS 2.0 to Drive Network Communications Capability Exposure

Huawei Launches CaaS 2.0 to Drive Network Communications Capability Exposure

         

[Shanghai, China, September 2, 2016] Today marks the launch of Huawei’s Communication as a Service 2.0 (CaaS 2.0) solution. CaaS 2.0 introduces five capabilities (real-time voice, real-time video, network QoS, location information, and third-party application integration) all based on a unified platform. With CaaS 2.0, Huawei strives to build an ecosystem that fosters cooperation between over 1500 industry partners, integrates carrier capabilities into every industry through application program interfaces, and improves people’s livelihoods.

Introduces five capabilities to improve user experience and drive service innovation.

• Real-time voice: Original CaaS 1.0 APIs have now evolved into scenario- and industry-specific APIs based on several years of commercial development. These APIs can be easily integrated into partner applications.
• Real-time video: Communication is rapidly entering the video era as technologies such as VoLTE, SDK, and WebRTC, now conform to the "three screens (mobile/TV/computer) + one camera" format. The video development kit launched by Huawei enables in-depth integration of the carrier's HD low-latency, real-time video into markets such as distant education, telemedicine, and Internet financing. This delivers a better all-round service experience for customers.
• Network QoS: Helps monitor the quality of the network that runs OTT applications to guarantee the required bandwidth and latency, delivering an optimal user experience.
• Location information: Verticals can develop innovative services based on location information, such as indoor precise marketing and secure mobile payment.
• Third-party application integration: Third-party applications can be integrated quickly to achieve hour-level service rollout. Differentiated optimization policies can be customized through smart service chaining. Third-party applications can be managed in a unified manner to achieve automatic management, including capacity expansion/reduction and redundancy.

Provides three powerful supports to aggregate industry partners and boost the industry ecosystem.

• Platform support: Huawei provides comprehensive platform support to developers and partners, including an easy-to-use development tool kit, remote lab for commissioning and verification, and expert support and guidance.
• Business incubation: Huawei collaborates with carriers to help partners promote their businesses and grow their user base through O2O platforms — app stores, media publication, and exhibitions and conferences. The capability exposure platform provided by the carrier helps partners deliver a better user experience, improve user stickiness, and attract more customers.
• Aggregation ecosystem: Huawei collaborates with partners to establish the Family Real-Time Video Industry Alliance and provide service pre-integration with chip and smart hardware vendors. These measures will break down communication barriers, boost more innovative applications, and forge deep partnerships in industry development and innovation. Huawei also collaborates with carriers, device vendors, and vertical industry partners to establish the MBB Open-Interconnect Alliance, facilitating the exchange of ideas, joint development of new technologies, and sharing of success stories. All of these initiatives spur on cross-industry innovation.

Huawei has already reaped the benefits from cooperating with the world's leading tier-1 carriers to innovate services and monetize the pipe through communication capability exposure. In the real-time voice field, Huawei has cooperated with 1500+ partners and helped 500 enterprises in 18 industries achieve a total traffic of more than 100 million minutes on average each month. 

Huawei has similarly ignited the real-time video industry with a market value of 100 billion USD dollars, partnering with 50+ mainstream home TV vendors. Huawei has built an OTT application acceleration platform, providing an application acceleration service for 10+ partners, serving a 13-million user base, and triggering more than 3 million API invocations. With CaaS 2.0, Huawei will continue to collaborate with industry partners and drive cross-industry service improvement and business innovation.

HUAWEI CONNECT 2016 was held from August 31-September 2 in Shanghai at the Shanghai Expo Centre, Mercedes-Benz Arena, and Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center (SWEECC). It was attended by over 15,000 industry leaders who discussed how to build a Better Connected World, and how to promote digital transformation in industries. 

For more information, please visit HuaweiConnect 2016 website.

OPNFV's Participation in HUAWEI CONNECT 2016

HUAWEI CONNECT 2016 is the largest ICT industry ecosystem conference held by Huawei. The conference has attracted thought leaders and experts from around the world. OPNFV, the most influential Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) open-source organization, also attended the conference and, though their organizations differ, OPNFV found common ground with Huawei.

Common Point1: Same Ambitious Strategic Visions

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solution provider dedicated to establishing an information society and a better connected world.
OPNFV is a carrier-grade, integrated, open source platform dedicated to introducing new NFV products and services and promoting the full cloudification of network functions.

Common Point2: Same Influential Industry Positions

Huawei is the world's largest telecom equipment vendor and leading the way in NFV. Huawei has advanced NFV technologies and has pioneered a number of NFV standards and has also set up many commercial NFV networks around the world.

OPNFV is the world's most influential open-source organization in the NFV field. Its contribution to telecom network transformation is widely recognized by companies in the industry.

Common Point3: Same Numerous Partners

Huawei has built interconnected Cloud Open Labs in different locations to cooperate with hundreds of partners and promote carriers' digital transformation.

OPNFV has 55 member companies, owns 12 pharos community labs, and cooperates with 9 upstream communities.

How did OPNFV interact with Huawei at HUAWEI CONNECT 2016?

 

Forrest Lee, Director of Huawei OPNFV Open Source Development Team

Forrest Lee, director of Huawei OPNFV open source development team, gave a speech called "OPNFV: A Carrier-Class Open-Source Reference Platform". He described how to ensure carrier-class reliability using the OPNFV platform, as well as Huawei's plan and strategy as a member of the OPNFV community. He also revealed that Huawei is ahead in open source communities.

Experts from OPNFV member organizations, such as Intel, Tongji University, Spirent, and Huawei, shared both the progress of OPNFV programs and the latest version of OPNFV. OPNFV booth attracted representatives from many carriers such as China Mobile, China Telecom, Vodafone, France Telecom, Turkcell, Zain and HKT. They all agreed that an open-source, carrier-class OPNFV ecosystem will play a crucial role in the full cloudification of carrier networks and pave the way for more innovations.

 

Dr. Deng Hui, Board Member of OPNFV and Principal Staff at China Mobile Research Institute

Dr. Deng Hui, board member of OPNFV and principal staff at China Mobile Research Institute, said in an interview at the conference that he is glad to see so many companies such as Huawei, China Mobile, Intel, and Spirent sharing in the development of OPNFV. He also believes that OPNFV will further share code resources, improve R&D efficiency, speed up network cloudification, and drive industry development.

 

The third version of OPNFV will release in September 2016 and OPNFV will hold the Second Plugfest Summit in December 2016 at the interoperability laboratory in the University of New Hampshire in the United States. In addition, the Third OPNFV Summit will be held in June 2017 in Beijing. 

Huawei and 20 Global Partners Announce MBB Interconnect Open Industry Alliance

[Shanghai, China, September 1, 2016] MBB Interconnect Open Industry Alliance spearheaded by Huawei was announced at HUAWEI CONNECT 2016 held in Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center. The MBB Interconnect Open Industry Alliance is supported by Huawei and about 20 partners, including China Mobile Jiangsu Branch, Intel, iQIYI.COM, and iSoftStone.

Opening ceremony of MBB Interconnect Open Industry Alliance

As a proactive advocate and organizer of MBB Interconnect Open Industry Alliance, Huawei is committed to join hands with industry partners to boost the MBB industry development, build an open and interconnected ecosystem, and create a new life with mobile interconnections. At the opening ceremony, executive of Huawei Packet Core Network Product Line of CCN, Shi Jilin, said "In a new era of infinite industry development, we jointly face new opportunities and challenges." She shared the best practices of Huawei in MBB interconnect and open in the past year. Through the announcement, she expected to cooperate with mobile operators, OTT service providers, and industry partners to achieve a win-win outcome, ultimately realizing "more delicate life experience, more reliable business environment, and more diversified industry innovation."

Shi Jilin, Executive of Huawei Packet Core Network Product Line, Huawei

Zhou Xun, deputy general manger of Data Service Operation Center in China Mobile Jiangsu Branch, said "In an era of connectivity of everything, "open, cooperation, development" is the main theme for mobile operators. We have to change our minds and embrace cooperation." She continued to share a positive exploration of China Mobile Jiangsu Branch in the field of open and innovation, especially the recognized pilot project for QoS guarantee in mobile game and video in Nanjing city of Jiangsu province in cooperation with Huawei.

Zhou Xun, deputy general manger of Data Service Operation Center in China Mobile Jiangsu Branch

Since the establishment of MBB Interconnect Open Base in February 2015, Huawei has carried out in-depth cooperation in the fields of video, game, finance, security, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) with more than 300 partners. With the announcement of MBB Interconnect Open Industry Alliance, Huawei continues to walk hand in hand with industry partners to cooperate and jointly boost MBB industry development.

For more information, please visit HuaweiConnect 2016 website.

Huawei Builds an OceanConnect IoT Platform Ecosystem on HUAWEI CONNECT 2016

[Shanghai, China, August 31, 2016] Huawei launched a grand preheating ceremony for the OceanConnect IoT platform ecosystem at the first Huawei Connect held from August 31 to September 2 in the Shanghai Expo Centre. In the same day, several of Huawei’s industry partners delivered speeches concerning IoT industry applications during each session and conveyed their vision to build 100-billion connections with the Huawei OceanConnect IoT platform ecosystem.

Ma Haixu, President of the Huawei Cloud Core Network President Line

The ceremony was opened by Ma Haixu, President of the Huawei Cloud Core Network President Line, and seven partners, with a short video to demonstrate the exposure and integration capabilities of the Huawei OceanConnect IoT platform ecosystem.

Mr. Ma Haixu, in his opening speech, expressed Huawei’s determination to develop the OceanConnect IoT platform ecosystem and described Huawei’s vision of building an open IoT ecosystem with partners. As Mr. Ma Haixu mentioned, “More enterprises are participating in IoT, while most partners focus on IoT devices and want to obtain communication capabilities quickly. Huawei focuses on the communication field and demands partners’ industry application sensors. Unlike traditional markets, the IoT market is not dominated by only one player, but requires us to collaborate with each other to provide end-to-end solutions for our customers.” 

In addition, Mr. Ma said Huawei hopes that more enterprises will join the OceanConnect ecosystem and jointly incubate a new IoT industry, accelerating 100-billion connections. At the end of the ceremony, Huawei expressed its appreciation to its partners for their contributions to the OceanConnect IoT platform ecosystem. Huawei also issued several awards onsite, demonstrating Huawei’s vision of building an IoT ecosystem with its partners.

Award Ceremony

The Huawei OceanConnect IoT platform ecosystem helps enterprises implement fast integration and effective combination between product and platform advantages, achieving win-win outcomes. The development of IoT brings immense market opportunities to multiple fields such as Smart Home, IoV, public utilities, and oil, gas & energy. Telecom infrastructure improvements make it possible that all objects around us will be connected and communication between humans, between machines, and even between humans and machines will be realized. We strive to create 100-billion connections around the world.

For more information, please visit HuaweiConnect 2016 website.

Huawei Network Communication Capability Exposure and Innovation Forum

According to the latest study report from International Data Corporation (IDC), the global total number of mobile internet users in the world will reach 2 billion by the end of 2016 and is expected to increase at an annual rate of 25%. Mobile internet brings new opportunities and challenges to various industries, such as healthcare, education, transportation, gaming, entertainment, and finance. A digital transformation is essential for enterprises and operators to address challenges and seize opportunities.

Wang Songtao, Director of Cloud CoreNetwork Marketing Dept, Huawei

Wang Songtao, Director of Cloud Core Network Marketing Dept, indicated that mobile internet requires digital transmission. The traditional buckets effect theorem is no longer applicable to the mobile internet era. Focusing on advantageous industries on the main route, Huawei invests in basic technologies for long term use and builds a fully-connected world with other industries based on joint innovation and ecosystem innovation.

In HUAWEI CONNECT 2016, Huawei released Communication as a Service 2.0 (CaaS2.0). Based on a unified enabling platform, CaaS2.0 incorporates five capabilities. These capabilities are specifically from the perspectives of voice communication, video communication, network QoS, location information, and third-party application integration, assuring the lead position in operator pipe capability exposure and monetization to facilitate cross-industry innovation and win-win cooperation.

Smart WO Home is a comprehensive information service solution released by China Unicom to confront the Internet Plus era. This solution is designed to provide a capability exposure platform oriented towards the home Internet industry chain.

Dong Dawu, General Manager of China Unicom's TV AVS Service Operations Center, commented that the capability exposure platform plays an important role in home Internet development. The platform connects content providers and home Internet users. The TV VAS center must provide an appropriate industrial development direction, manage industrial development following an open principle, facilitate home Internet development, heavily contribute to social responsibility fulfilment, and promote development of a healthy and green home Internet ecosystem.

Zhou Yan, Vice President of Packet Core Network Product Line, CCN, said that the actual effect and commercial value of network capability exposure have been widely recognized and well received after development of more than one year. A fully-connected and open mobile Internet ecosystem is gradually completed. Huawei will continue reinforcing auxiliary construction, such as further optimization of the development kit and remote commissioning lab, required for the capacity exposure platform. This aims to provide a more convenient and effective service innovation environment for developers and partners.

China Mobile Jiangsu and Huawei jointly release a new QoS innovation acceleration solution to improve user experience on services such as mobile games and mobile videos.

Shan Shaoyong, General Manager of China Mobile Jiangsu's Data Dept and Data Service Operations Center, shared his opinion. After deployment of this solution, user experience on services, such as mobile games and mobile videos, is significantly improved. China Mobile Jiangsu will cooperate with Huawei to pursue further exploratory innovation, provide manageable and controllable Internet contents and applications, and help developers and partners to optimize user experience.

Partners, such as Xiaoneng Technology, Yonyou, Openwave, Xunyou Technology, LocationSmart, and Trend Micro, share past experience and successful recollections of historic cooperation between Huawei and operators. This participation provides the unique opportunity to discuss future user experience improvement brought by the exposure of the five capabilities and highlight new opportunities produced by service innovation.

With release of CaaS2.0, Huawei will continue cooperating with partners from diverse industries to promote platform support, business incubation, and ecological integration. These combined efforts help promote cross-industry service and business innovation and establish a win-win ecosystem.

HUAWEI CONNECT 2016 was held from August 31 to September 2 in Shanghai at the Shanghai Expo Centre, Mercedes-Benz Arena, and Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center (SWEECC). The event was attended by over 15,000 industry leaders who discussed how to build a Better Connected World, and how to promote a digital transformation in industries.

For more information, please visit HuaweiConnect 2016 website.