Making campus networks smarter! Huawei AirEngine delivers three new intelligent upgrades

[51CTO.com original article] During HUAWEI CONNECT 2019, Huawei released three new intelligent capabilities of AirEngine network: intelligent perception of network environment, intelligent location of wireless faults, and intelligent optimization of wireless networks. Combined with the continuous training and optimization of the cloud-based intelligent learning engine, the campus network can more intelligently adapt to ever-changing wireless network scenarios, more intelligently identify nearly 90% of the root causes of wireless network failures, and more intelligently complete minute-level optimization of wireless networks.

Traditional Wi-Fi networks usually require a lot of manpower and time to tune the network during the deployment and operation and maintenance phases. For example, in an office park with 10,000 people, the network planning, deployment, commissioning, and acceptance of thousands of Wi-Fi APs usually takes 3 to 5 weeks. At the same time, after the Wi-Fi network is deployed, with changes in business and environment, such as the increase in the number of access terminals and the transformation of the office environment, the quality of the Wi-Fi network has deteriorated, and the user experience has deteriorated.

WLAN networks rely on construction for 30% and maintenance for 70%. According to Zhao Zhipeng, president of Huawei's campus network field, Huawei's AirEngine network released three new intelligent capabilities, based on the campus network's new iMaster NCE-Campus intelligent operation and maintenance system (CampusInsight), making campus network wireless connections smarter and network operation and maintenance simpler. It can perceive changes in the access of tens of thousands of terminals and changes in services in the network in real time, discover potential faults and problems in the wireless network, and simulate and predict the network, so as to complete wireless network tuning in minutes. In addition, the intelligent learning engine deployed in the cloud continues to train and enrich the fault knowledge base, so that nearly 90% of network faults are responded to and handled within minutes, reducing customer complaints and improving network experience.

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"As more and more wireless networks are deployed, the number of network connections and devices will continue to grow, posing huge challenges. We use our expert knowledge base and knowledge graphs trained on the network cloud to accurately identify possible causes of failures throughout the network and locate faults within minutes. In the past, we could identify 85% of faults, but through continuous AI training, we can now respond to nearly 90% of faults within minutes. In the future, we will see further improvements through continuous deployment and training of AI," said Zhao Zhipeng.

Huang Haibing, deputy general manager of Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center, said, "To do one's work well, one must first sharpen one's tools. The Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center has fully deployed Huawei AirEngine Wi-Fi and put it into operation before Huawei HC2019. In addition, after experiencing the powerful capabilities of Huawei iMaster NCE-Campus' intelligent operation and maintenance system to monitor and analyze the venue network in real time, compared with traditional manual processing, AI technology can dig out in-depth information that is difficult for humans to capture, and more accurately and efficiently discover network problems, automatically solve some network failures, which not only greatly improves efficiency, but also provides end-to-end real-time network services for every customer."

Huang Haibing said that Huawei's new Wi-Fi system and intelligent recognition AI engine have brought three obvious benefits to the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center:

First, the capacity problem has been solved. The maximum flow of people in the exhibition hall is about 70,000 people. Now the capacity can be expanded from the original 10,000 connection points to nearly 40,000 to 50,000 connection points, which can well guarantee the number of connections.

Second, it realizes intelligent scene recognition. The types of activities held in the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center include exhibitions, conferences, and events, and different scenes have different requirements. According to different scenes, the system can define different bandwidths and connections to automatically meet the requirements of the activities.

Third, it solves the problems of operation and maintenance personnel and reduces the workload of operation and maintenance. The work of two or three operation and maintenance personnel in the past can now be completed by one operation and maintenance personnel.

In early 2016, the intelligent operation and maintenance system began to be applied to Huawei's IT network. So far, it has covered 14 research institutes and more than 1,000 offices around the world, using Huawei's large-scale office park business with a scale of 180,000 people to continuously learn, train, and optimize. Zhang Guobin, President of Huawei's Process IT Information Technology Engineering Department, said: "The newly upgraded intelligent operation and maintenance system uses an intelligent learning engine to continuously train network, business, and fault models. It can not only perceive scene changes more intelligently and automatically optimize the network, but also accurately identify wireless network faults and handle them in minutes."

AirEngine is a new brand of Huawei's WLAN network. The AP7060DN, as Huawei's Wi-Fi 6 flagship product, has been commercially used on a global scale, serving industry scenarios such as government, education, finance, energy, airports, and manufacturing. It helps enterprises build ultra-fast connections and a better experience for all-wireless networks, enabling new digital applications for enterprises.

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