Huawei Works with VarConnectz to Release Cloud Videoconferencing Solution in Singapore

Huawei Works with VarConnectz to Release Cloud Videoconferencing Solution in Singapore

[Singapore, December 14, 2016] On December 14, Huawei, the world-leading information and communications solution provider, worked with its Singapore partner VarConnectz to successfully release the Cloud Videoconferencing Solution. The release conference attracted representatives from more than 30 enterprises. Traditionally, enterprises develop videoconferencing systems independently, which consumes a lot of budgets. Huawei's Cloud Videoconferencing Solution uses innovative, all-in-one videoconferencing endpoints (TE10, TE20, and TE30) to integrate with VarConnectz's CallnMeet Cloud Platform. The alliance between Huawei and VarConnectz allows real implementation of cloud-device collaboration and enables enterprises to gain tangible benefits from cloud applications.

Gustav, head of VarConnectz Cloud Videoconferencing, introducing the CallnMeet Cloud Videoconferencing Platform

Gustav said that the CallnMeet Cloud Platform provides enterprise users with mobile conferencing and videoconferencing resources. With cloud video endpoints, users can efficiently access the platform and convene video conferences anytime, anywhere based on their business requirements. The platform supports interconnection with enterprises' existing communications systems, such as Skype. The CallnMeet Cloud Videoconferencing Platform seamlessly interconnects with Huawei's videoconferencing endpoints. Customers can freely choose Huawei's HD, easy-to-use video communications products and services. The cooperation will also drive CallnMeet's future development.

Miao Shi, Director of Huawei Unified Communications, South Pacific, introducing Huawei's cloud video endpoints

Miss Miao introduced three Huawei cloud video conferencing endpoints. TE10 is the world's first 6-in-1 (codec, camera, microphone, speaker, Wi-Fi & BlueTooth, and installation rack) light-weight cloud endpoint. The highly integrated design brings minimal-style appearance and optimal user experiences. Users can conveniently convene video conferences with 2 cables and 1 minute of installation. No special training is needed. The HD cloud endpoint TE20 applies to small- and mid-sized meeting rooms. TE30, Huawei's star product, applies to mid-sized meeting rooms. Miss Miao also gave her insight on the trend of cloud video communications development. Huawei will continue its policies of industry standards compliance, openness, and convergence. Through open innovation and win-win cooperation with partners, Huawei will provide customers with more brilliant, high-quality video communications solutions.

"Cloud video communications are undergoing rapid development now. Cross-enterprise, cross-network communications are in vigorous growth. Huawei provides all-in-one cloud communications endpoints, such as TE10, to interconnect with industry-leading platforms like CallnMeet, bringing more choices for videoconferencing users. We believe these innovative products will help our customers efficiently build their videoconferencing systems, enjoy easy-to-use HD video communications services, and achieve efficiency improvement and service innovation."

The Cloud Video Solution and Huawei's cloud endpoints attracted a lot of attention during the event. Guests said that cloud communications require small investment costs, support linear expansion anytime, and bring more flexible and convenient communications. They will preferentially consider Huawei's products when building new videoconferencing platforms or expanding existing systems.

Cloud transformation has become a mega-trend for enterprise communications development. Huawei released the TE10, TE20, and TE30, and VarConnectz rolled out the CallnMeet Platform, to help enterprise users reduce investment and O&M costs. Together, the two companies provide professional cloud video communications experiences, driving customers to improve their working efficiency and achieve rapid development.

About VarConnectz:VarConnectz, headquartered in Singapore, was established in 2008. As a B2B online IT provider, VarConnectz provides videoconferencing and e-Bussiness solutions.

Huawei Helps Beijing Telecom Make the First VoLTE Video Call on its 800 MHz Network

On December 10, 2016, Huawei and Beijing Telecom made a successful VoLTE video call on a real commercially oriented network, as part of the pilot VoLTE project. The pilot project adopted the NFV architecture and connected to China Telecom's live 800 MHz network. This call is the first video call on the vIMS + VoLTE + 800 MHz network. At the recent Smart Ecological Cooperation and Terminal Industry Summit, China Telecom exhibited its plan to establish the world's first low-frequency LTE network on the 800 MHz frequency in 2017. It also planned to provide quality VoLTE services and implement integration between its own systems and terminals and the global industry chain. The success of this call marked a significant step forward for the 4G strategy of China Telecom.

The first video call on the vIMS + VoLTE + 800 MHz network

Since the rollout of China Telecom's VoLTE pilot project, Huawei and every pilot subsidiary of China Telecom have attached great importance to VoLTE network construction and pilot verification. Through close collaboration, both parties overcame a series of difficulties caused by complex NFV and VoLTE technologies and massive interfaces for joint commissioning. Together they deployed a commercial vIMS + VoLTE network in a short period of time. On December 10, they made the first HD video call on this commercially oriented VoLTE network in Beijing, laying a solid foundation for subsequent pilot operations.

China Telecom is committed to build an innovative VoLTE network based on the NFV architecture. Featuring hierarchical decoupling and universal hardware, this architecture implements flexible service orchestration and elastic scaling. The NFV architecture is agile, open, and automatic. Using this architecture, a VoLTE network can improve the service rollout speed and facilitate network capability invoking. In addition, it provides efficient service, app, and NFVI management.

China Telecom expressed that it would speed up its VoLTE commercialization in 2017. Huawei, as a strategic partner of China Telecom, will continuously help China Telecom accelerate VoLTE network construction and promote transformation to the next-generation intelligent network. 

An 'All Cloud" Transformation from "All IP"

Huawei NFV solution features cloudified architecture, fast delivery, smart operation, and service innovation. It promotes network upgrades, enables digital transformation of the industry, and helps operators win business success by fulfilling subscriber requirements.

Cloudified architecture: Providing carrier-class service assurance and agile service deployment.

With the use of an all-cloud architecture, the NFV solution provides inter-regional resource sharing and smooth cross-DC service handover, and supports virtual data center (DC) establishment within minutes. The NFV solution makes one-click service deployment and automatic IT device resource management a reality for carriers. It also raises average O&M efficiency by 40%.

Fast delivery: Full integration and O&M capabilities accelerate commercial cloud network construction.

Huawei’s NFV solution provides fast integration of multi-vendor hardware and software and shortens cloud network deployment time, to support fast NFV delivery. Huawei has built three NFV Open Labs worldwide to conduct verifications and tests for multi-vendor hardware and software interworking.

Smart operation: Providing automatic and intelligent O&M after network cloudification.

Huawei NFV solution uses innovative technologies, performance assessment tools, and end-to-end (E2E) fault demarcation and location tools to ensure network agility and intelligent O&M after cloudification. The innovative technologies include service KPI-based health check and self-healing, intelligent message queue flow control, and coordination and orchestration on resource pools of different platforms. With these technologies and tools, faults can be rectified and services can be stored immediately.

Service innovation: An open network platform accelerates TTM and promotes service innovation.

The application integration capability provided by Huawei NFV solution facilitates new service development as easy as software installation on a Windows OS, thus greatly shortening third-party service time to market (TTM). The network capability open platform defined in the NFV solution opens up telecommunications network information and other capabilities to third parties, giving birth to a large number of services

As of the third quarter of 2016, Huawei has deployed more than 90 commercial cloud networks worldwide. In the future, Huawei will be devoted to building a more open, creative, and healthier industry ecosystem and cooperate with partners to create more services and business value.

For more information, please click:

CloudCore - http://carrier.huawei.com/cn/products/core-network/cloudcore-solution/cloudcore-solution

CloudEdge - http://carrier.huawei.com/cn/products/core-network/CloudEdge-Solution/CloudEdge

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.