Huawei launches intelligent network to unleash the power of ultra-broadband with intelligence

[51CTO.com original article] Hangzhou, China, October 20, 2017, on the second morning of the 4th Global Ultra-Broadband Summit, Huawei Products and Solutions President Wang Tao released the Intelligent Network to the world. By building an "intelligent", "simple" and "ultra-broadband" ultra-broadband network, it helps operators cope with the challenges brought by future uncertain services and enables new growth in different business areas such as B2B, B2C, and B2H. The reporter believes that through decades of practice, Huawei's development path for future networks has become increasingly clear, and intelligent and automated networks will be the best gift Huawei can bring to operators' business innovation.

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Wang Tao, President of Huawei Products and Solutions, delivered a keynote speech on "Unleashing the Power of Ultra-Broadband with Intelligence"

In the era of intelligent society, the global ultra-broadband industry has ushered in new development opportunities: the scale of operators' video users has shown explosive growth, millions of enterprises have moved to the cloud, and leading countries have successively released 5G commercial timetables... However, operators' basic networks still have problems such as inflexible operating systems, difficult operation and maintenance, and a single means of dealing with network security threats, making it difficult to meet the development needs of future uncertain businesses.

"In the physical world, 'smart' transportation can solve problems such as congestion and social inefficiency caused by uncertain transportation networks. Then, 'smart' networks can also help us deal with the uncertainty of the digital world. 'Simplicity' is a necessary means to achieve 'intelligence', which can greatly accelerate the process of injecting 'intelligence' into the network." Wang Tao said.

Huawei has launched the Intelligent Network to support operators in coping with the uncertainty of future services. Specifically, the Intelligent Network has three characteristics: intelligence, simplicity, and ultra-broadband.

"Intelligence" includes the intelligence of business operations and network operation and maintenance. The operator network will go through three stages to become a "smart network", namely "automation", "self-optimization" and "autonomy". "Automation" refers to the automation of business issuance, network deployment and maintenance. Through the integration of network management and control units, the newly built SDN network and the traditional network are connected to achieve full automation of the business one-click activation and issuance process; "self-optimization" refers to the introduction of intelligent analysis units on the basis of automation, real-time collection of network data, perception of network status, and generation of optimization strategies based on business and network SLA commitments, enabling the network to move from open-loop configuration to closed-loop optimization; "autonomy" is to further enhance the "intelligence" level of the analysis unit, introduce artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to enable the network to have self-learning capabilities, evolve from a given static strategy to a dynamic strategy based on self-learning, and ultimately achieve network autonomy.

"Simple" means, first of all, to use IT thinking to optimize the architecture of CT's chimney network, decouple it into a resilient and reliable network bearer layer and a flexible and agile network service layer, create a minimalist architecture, and achieve fast and flexible adjustment of network resources; secondly, to adopt a unified networking protocol to incorporate numerous IP networking protocols, standardize network networking, and unify service configuration models, thereby reducing the difficulty of operation and maintenance and configuration; at the same time, through OTN to CO, reduce the level of network aggregation, achieve one-hop direct access between any two points, reduce network latency, improve service experience, and create a flat topology.

"Ultra-broadband" emphasizes the ubiquity of ultra-broadband pipelines and redefines ultra-broadband as extremely low latency, ultra-large bandwidth, and massive connections. Network latency is reduced from 30ms to 5ms to support the carrying requirements of new services such as IoT, data center interconnection, enterprise cloud applications, and Cloud VR; the network needs to provide not only greater bandwidth, but also a smaller footprint and lower power consumption; the network needs to support the interconnection of all things and achieve high-density massive connections.

Wang Tao said, "Intelligent Network is our innovative direction for future networks. We believe that Intelligent Network will better help operators seize the strategic opportunities brought by video, enterprise cloud, and 5G, unleash the power of ultra-broadband, and enable operators' ultimate commercial success."

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