Understand Huawei Enterprise BG's "123456" product strategy in one article and learn about the new +AI series products

[51CTO.com original article] "Huawei Enterprise BG's next-generation product strategy, referred to as '123456' - aims to build an intelligent world, focusing on the two major scenarios of campus and data center, providing products and solutions such as 3 beams of intelligent all-optical network, 4 engines of intelligent IP network, 5G, Wi-Fi6 and OceanStorDoradoV6." Sun Fuyou, Vice President and CTO of Huawei Enterprise BG, said at the Enterprise BG's major product launch conference during HUAWEI CONNECT 2019.

Sun Fuyou said that Huawei Enterprise BG provides three major supports for realizing the company's vision: ubiquitous connectivity, pervasive intelligence, and digital platform. Therefore, in addition to deepening its single product field, Huawei Enterprise BG will focus on integrating cross-domain key product technologies, such as: IP and optical synergy, 5G and Wi-Fi6 synergy, IP and storage synergy, and soft/hard SDN combination, focusing on the two major scenarios of campus and data center, providing competitive next-generation intelligent products and solutions, and jointly creating a new height of intelligence.

On the day of the event, in addition to the release of the above strategies, Huawei also launched a new +AI series of new products, including: Engine AITurbo series products, iMaster NCE autonomous driving network management and control system, iMaster NAIE network artificial intelligence platform, the new generation OceanStor Dorado intelligent all-flash based on Kunpeng and Ascend processors, and intelligent data center interconnection products Huawei OptiX transDC908.

What are the features and capabilities of these new products? How are they positioned in the corresponding product lines? What is the positive significance of their release? If you have these questions, you may as well follow the author's pen to find the answers.

Below, based on the sharing content of three leaders, Hu Kewen, President of Huawei's Data Communication Product Line, Zhou Yuefeng, Vice President of Huawei's IT Product Line and President of Intelligent Data and Storage, and Jin Yuzhi, President of Huawei's Transmission and Access Product Line, the author divides the interpretation into three parts.

Intelligent IP network is fully controllable, and new products of the four engines of intelligent network

At the meeting, Hu Kewen reorganized Huawei's brand series in the IP network field, and comprehensively introduced the four major engines in the entire IP network field (AirEngine for wireless, CloudEngine for data centers and campus switches, NetEngine for routers, and HiSecEngine for security). He elaborated on the three major features of intelligent connection, intelligent operation and maintenance, and intelligent learning required for intelligent IP networks, and released Huawei's intelligent IP network three-layer AI architecture and a full range of new products for the AI ​​era, including EngineAITurbo series products, iMasterNCE autonomous driving network management and control system, and iMasterNAIE network artificial intelligence platform.

Facing future trends, Huawei's full range of devices are equipped with the AITurbo acceleration engine, making network connections easier, easier to manage, and providing a better experience. According to Hu Kewen, AITurbo technology is an exploration and attempt to enable AI to connect networks. In the past, it took a few hours to locate and troubleshoot network equipment, and sometimes even days. However, with AITurbo built in, the neural network algorithm makes the terminal equipment very smart, which can quickly discover and locate equipment failures, and fault recovery can be achieved in minutes. In this way, the network will become more intelligent and smarter.

Talking about the future, Hu Kewen said: "Huawei will continue to build differentiated product and solution competitiveness around the intelligent IP network AI architecture built by the EngineAITurbo series of products, iMasterNCE, and iMasterNAIE, to better serve global customers and partners."

He also pointed out that in order to realize the intelligence of IP networks, in addition to AI, data (non-private data of the network itself) and business experts (experts who understand business models, how to solve business problems, and algorithms) are also needed.

In the first half of this year, Gartner awarded Huawei the "Customer Choice" award, and Huawei is the only non-North American manufacturer to receive this honor. This award is selected through global customer interviews, which shows that it is very representative. In my opinion, this award is a great affirmation and recognition of Huawei's achievements in data center networks and next-generation data networks.

Kunpeng gathers data, storage bids farewell to the mechanical age

New connections and new applications are accelerating the production and flow of data. The rapid digitalization of the industry has brought greater challenges to data storage: the requirements for real-time data processing are getting higher and higher, the cost of storing massive data is high, and the requirements for business reliability are getting higher and higher. "In the future, we need a storage system to build IT infrastructure. This storage system needs to have three major characteristics: strong performance, automation, and security and reliability." Zhou Yuefeng said.

In this context, Huawei has released the new generation of OceanStor Dorado (OceanStor C series) intelligent all-flash storage, which is the first all-flash storage with built-in AI chip and fully possesses the above three features. It builds an end-to-end high-speed platform based on Kunpeng 920 and Ascend AI chip 310, achieving the industry-leading 20 million IOPS and 0.1ms latency; it adopts SmartMatrix fully interconnected high-reliability architecture to ensure that a single system can tolerate 7 controller failures (8 bad 7), truly achieving continuous online core business of the enterprise; based on the deep learning of the embedded Ascend AI chip, the read cache hit rate is increased by 50%, and based on the cloud AI linkage, it realizes intelligent operation and maintenance of the entire life cycle, making storage better and better.

So, what is the positioning of OceanStorDorado intelligent all-flash storage in Huawei's entire intelligent data and storage product line? In this regard, Zhou Yuefeng said that the future of all-flash storage is OceanStorDorado, which will be the mainstream in the entire IT construction in the future. Not only because the medium has undergone a revolutionary change, from mechanical to real electronics, but more importantly, the various new technologies we use today, especially AI, make the most of the capabilities of flash media.

Therefore, in Huawei's storage family, OceanStorDorado will be the mainstream product, especially for key core businesses of many customers, such as financial and operator transactions and network management businesses, with high performance and high reliability. At the same time, for multimedia, when there will be massive amounts of data in the future and more efficient costs are needed, such storage will also be needed to realize their business capabilities and value. "In the future, Huawei OceanStorDorado will be a benchmark in the storage industry."

For more than 10 years, more than 8,000 customers around the world have chosen Huawei Storage as their digital transformation partner, using Huawei Storage to support key core businesses and build their IT systems. In recent years, Huawei's all-flash storage has achieved an impressive growth rate in the market, far exceeding that of other manufacturers. The reason for such a good result is Huawei's continuous technological innovation, its pursuit of future trends and its strong strategic investment. It is reported that in order to enable customers and partners to use all-flash storage to replace old mechanical technology as soon as possible in the future, Huawei will promote the Flashonlyplus campaign globally to ensure that customers can always use new products and technologies.

Intelligent All-Optical Network, Creating Ubiquitous Optical Connections

Not long ago, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei said in an interview with the media that Huawei is not only leading the world in 5G, but also in optical transmission, optical switching, access networks and core networks.

Huawei's mission is to make ubiquitous optical connections accessible to all industries. At the press conference, Jin Yuzhi announced that Huawei has launched a major intelligent all-optical network strategy for enterprises, creating new solutions for data centers, enterprise transmission, and campus scenarios, and launching three series of innovative products (referred to as "three beams"): Huawei OptiXtrans, OptiXaccess, and OptiXstar. The new products released this time include:

◆For data center scenarios, we launched the intelligent data center interconnection product Huawei OptiXtransDC908, which is designed for global data center customers to make data center interconnection smoother. This product is based on minimalist architecture innovation, and can deliver services with one click without professional operation, and start in 8 minutes; it has ultra-wide and high integration features such as 48T mass transmission on one fiber and 90% reduction of fiber connections within the station; it is based on dedicated intelligent chips and algorithm accumulation, and intelligently manages the network.

◆For enterprise transmission scenarios, Huawei launched the intelligent all-optical transmission equipment Huawei OptiXtrans E9600, which is specially designed for enterprises. It can be widely used in national economy and people's livelihood industries, with industrial-grade security to ensure high reliability of long-distance production data transmission;

◆For campus scenarios, we launched the OptiXaccess and OptiXstar optical access and optical terminal series products, which use green passive optical fibers to reconstruct traditional campus networks and improve enterprise operational efficiency.

When the media asked what role the intelligent all-optical strategy would play in the enterprise market strategy in the future? Jin Yuzhi said that whether it is the connection between data centers or between various devices in the park, it relies on optical fiber and light transmission. Looking to the future, the video will move from 4K and 8K to VR, which will require higher speed and lower latency; from 4G to 5G, from Wi-Fi5 to Wi-Fi6, all will require higher bandwidth and lower latency. Huawei believes that this will push optical fiber closer to the final application.

As Wi-Fi5 moves toward Wi-Fi6, and cameras move from ordinary clarity to high definition, in the future, fiber optics will gradually evolve from fiber optics to buildings, from fiber optics to every desktop, to provide better office and better enterprise optical connections. For example, in industrial scenarios, industrial manufacturing used to be connected through relatively low-speed networks or Wi-Fi connections. In the future, the amount of industrial manufacturing data will become larger, and the requirements for speed will be higher. Taking Huawei's production system as an example, the data generated by 3D photography needs to be transmitted back within a time point, which is something that the previous communication network cannot meet. Now after a production line is transformed, the production line will directly connect the optical fiber to the manufacturing machine. Whether it is Industry 4.0 or smart manufacturing, optical fiber will eventually be extended to every machine.

"In the future, light will play an increasingly important role and will be indispensable in all walks of life, and will move closer to the end," Jin Yuzhi concluded.

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