Huawei Unveils Advanced Network Solutions to Drive Africa’s Digital Transformation

HUAWEI AFRICA CONNECT 2024 — themed “Accelerate Industrial Intelligence” — was successfully held in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the event, Huawei highlighted the Xinghe Intelligent Network Solution for the Southern Africa region, helping all industries stride towards Net5.5G and accelerate their intelligent journeys.

Nowadays, intelligent transformation and upgrading are gaining momentum across the globe, with Southern African countries actively exploring their own roads to digital and intelligent transformation. In the fast-approaching intelligent era, networks are one of the most important ICT infrastructures. To usher in the intelligent era, the entire industry has reached a preliminary consensus that the next generation of data communication networks is Net5.5G.

In his keynote speech, Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, said, “Intelligent technologies are fast approaching, driving us to constantly innovate networking technologies so as to better embrace business changes. Huawei offers the Xinghe Intelligent Network Solution based on the Net5.5G target architecture, to accelerate industrial intelligence and build a solid bridge to the intelligent world.”

Huawei’s Xinghe Intelligent Network offerings include the Xinghe Intelligent Campus, Xinghe Intelligent Fabric, Xinghe Intelligent WAN, and Xinghe Intelligent Network Security.

• Xinghe Intelligent Campus: Huawei’s all-scenario Wi-Fi 7 products double the wireless signal strength and increase the number of concurrent users by 50%. Plus, Huawei’s audio and video assurance solution, unique in the industry, intelligently identifies and prioritizes audio and video applications to ensure always-optimal experience. Regarding wireless network security, Huawei launched Wi-Fi Shield technology, ensuring robust wireless network security.

• Xinghe Intelligent Fabric: By leveraging AI Turbo and a network scale load balancing (NSLB) algorithm, Xinghe Intelligent Fabric performs intelligent optimization for network-wide load balancing. This achieves over 98% high link utilization on average. Plus, Xinghe Intelligent Fabric ensures link- and device-level switchovers within milliseconds, as well as network-level switchovers within seconds. The three-level fast switchovers efficiently unleash intelligent computing power.

• Xinghe Intelligent WAN: Drawing on intelligent algorithms, Xinghe Intelligent WAN intelligently schedules tens of millions of service flows on the entire network, and flexibly adjusts service bandwidth on demand. Furthermore, latency-based path selection and end-to-end network slicing ensure efficient data transmission. By empowering network devices with AI, Xinghe Intelligent WAN can self-learn application traffic behavior, detect traffic exceptions in seconds, and deliver optimal application experience.

• Xinghe Intelligent Network Security: With the Xinghe Intelligent Network Security Solution, enterprises benefit from integrated intelligent security protection across clouds, networks, edges, and endpoints. Specifically, the security brain on the cloud automatically handles 99% security events in a closed-loop approach. In particular, four security engines leverage AI algorithms to detect threats at 99.95% accuracy. Plus, the industry’s first two-dimensional threat graph engine enables parallel threat detection, with the ransomware detection rate reaching 100%.

Besides this, Huawei also unveiled an extensive range of Xinghe Intelligent Industry Network solutions to meet the unique needs of diverse industries like public services, finance, and electric power. Other key announcements include complete cost-effective distribution solutions and products, enabling small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to enjoy intelligent services easily and conveniently.

The intelligent era calls for intelligent networks. With this in mind, Huawei will continue to lead the development of intelligent networks and innovate its Xinghe Intelligent Network products and solutions, thereby accelerating digital-intelligent transformation in Southern Africa.