New infrastructure, new engine: Huawei releases new generation NetEngine 8000 full-service smart router

[Nanjing, China, August 18, 2020] Today, at a press conference themed "New Infrastructure, New Engine, Injecting New Momentum into Thousands of Industries", Huawei launched the next-generation NetEngine 8000 full-service intelligent router for the industry. Based on the industry-leading new platform, new protocol, and new operation and maintenance, it promotes efficient collaboration among various fields of new infrastructure, builds a solid foundation of "connectivity + intelligence", and helps the industry's digital transformation.

Huawei Data Communications Product Line President Hu Kewen released the NetEngine 8000 full-service intelligent router

The intelligent era is in the ascendant, and new infrastructure is in full swing. New infrastructure includes infrastructure in three major areas: information, integration, and innovation. Among them, the wide area network is not only an important part of the information infrastructure, but also a key enabling component of the integration infrastructure and innovation infrastructure. As a main body connecting enterprise factories, branches, cloud platforms, smart products and users, it breaks the data island, supports the rapid implementation of innovative businesses and applications, and the efficient collaboration between various fields.

As the "artery" for data connection and integration, the wide area network can only ensure a stronger and more efficient flow of data to enable more efficient collaboration and connection in all areas of the new infrastructure, thereby accelerating digital transformation. As the flagship new engine that enables the new infrastructure, the NetEngine 8000 router released this time has three features: new platform, new protocol, and new operation and maintenance, helping customers build a stable, agile and secure wide area network.

New platform: Building an ultra-broadband infrastructure to help millions of enterprises migrate to the cloud

NetEngine 8000 full-service intelligent router is based on a new generation of hardware platform, and has made technological breakthroughs in power supply technology, energy consumption design, high-order modulation technology and other fields, achieving the industry-leading single-slot 14.4T capacity, helping enterprises build ultra-wide cloud interconnection. For industrial Internet scenarios, NetEngine 8000 supports full-scenario access capabilities from 64K to 100GE, and one unit can replace "many units", while flexibly adapting to network scenarios in various industries and reducing network investment costs.

New protocol: SRv6 enables the network to move with the cloud, and hard slicing enables flexible bandwidth allocation

NetEngine 8000 series routers support the new SRv6 protocol, enabling fast connection between wide area networks and the cloud, and enabling services to be launched in one day. At the same time, Huawei is committed to promoting the development of the SRv6 industry, and has participated in more than 59% of the SRv6 standard formulation. So far, more than 20 commercial deployments have been achieved worldwide. In addition, in response to the problem of service bandwidth sharing and mutual preemption in traditional wide area networks, NetEngine 8000 full-service intelligent routers support the industry's unique Mbps-level hard slicing, which can achieve hard isolation of service traffic for K-level applications, while supporting multi-network integration, providing 100% bandwidth guarantee for key services.

New O&M: AI-powered intelligent O&M, moving towards autonomous network operation

To address the huge challenges brought by the current complaint-driven passive maintenance, Huawei NetEngine 8000 full-service intelligent router is the first to apply AI technology to IP networks, realizing AI intelligent fault prediction and minute-level precise positioning. The network fault prediction rate can reach more than 90%, preventing problems before they occur.

Hu Kewen, President of Huawei's Data Communication Product Line, said: "In the new era of new infrastructure, the integration of wide area networks with cloud, AI, the Internet, and big data has become a powerful driving force, vigorously promoting the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of enterprises. Huawei has released the NetEngine 8000 new generation full-service intelligent router. We hope to actively embrace the new infrastructure with our customers based on the three major innovations of new platform, new protocol, and new operation and maintenance, and open up more business scenario innovations while releasing the potential of data."

Huawei has more than 20 years of professional experience in the wide area network field, and continues to build the competitiveness of wide area network products and solutions, serving customers in the financial, government, transportation, energy and other industries in more than 100 countries around the world. Huawei's newly launched NetEngine 8000 full-service intelligent router will help the industry accelerate digital transformation and jointly build a fully connected intelligent world.