Bangkok--12 Jul--Francom Asia
Huawei, a leading global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions provider, has just launched Huawei’s much-acclaimed Agile Network in Thailand, during its special launch themed “Weaving The Future.” Huawei's Agile Network is the industry's first network centered on services, users, and experiences. Since its rollout in 2013, Agile Network has been deployed in nearly 200 networks for commercial use in different countries and in various industries: government, finance, medical services, large enterprise, transport, education, and broadcast media.
Huawei’s Agile Network has helped customers build multiple high-profile solutions such as intelligent transport, wireless cities, smart shopping malls, and smart travel. The Bangkok launch presented a great opportunity for Huawei experts to share and discuss with business and industry partners the practices and future of the Agile Network, with the aim of helping enterprises to quickly enter the “All-Agile” era.
“Thailand has entered the connectivity era,” said Song Danping, Director of Huawei Thailand Enterprise Business Group. “In our everyday lives, we rely on the network to be the most productive at work and to stay in touch with people everywhere. Connectivity has become a necessity, because it plays a central role in our daily lives, in almost everything we do.”
During the event, Huawei also presented the industry’s first agile switch, Huawei’s S12700, to implement wired and wireless convergence, including unified authentication of wired and wireless users, significantly improving network availability and manageability. Huawei’s fully programmable architecture is capable of adapting to a company’s growing network services and evolving into their future network.
“All enterprises require networks that must be made agile, and all businesses must be based on agile networks,” she said. “Huawei’s Agile Network focuses on services and user experience instead of technologies and connectivity, creating ‘all in control’ situations. Huawei will continue to put forth innovative business models, and enable networks to be more agile for services, to help enterprises in Thailand build their own differentiated competitiveness in a better connected world.”
In 2013, Huawei rolled out the industry’s first Agile Network architecture, putting forth three concepts behind agility: Agile Business – the world’s first network that allows free mobility; Agile Management – the world’s first network that enables IP network quality awareness; and Agile Evolution – the world’s first software-defined campus network. Huawei’s Agile Network has brought excellence in the user experience, high-efficiency O&M, and fast innovation to enterprises, helping them innovate services quickly - up to four times faster than the industry average.
To date Huawei’s Agile Network Solution has been deployed in nearly 200 commercial production networks. In field of data centers, Huawei has assisted China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in building the largest cloud data center network in Asia-Pacific, operating across two cities and three data centers. Huawei’s CloudEngine series data center switches are being used to connect over 70,000 10GE servers. Huawei’s Cloud Fabric based 960 Tbps non-blocking network fabric platform provides the high-performance necessary to support CNPC’s massive data processing and Big Data analytics. In addition, Huawei’s Agile Network Solution is designed to accommodate CNPC’s projected service growth over the next 10 years.
In the field of campus networks, China’s Southwest University for Nationalities has deployed Huawei’s Agile Network Solution to support all of the university’s educational operations and curriculum. This solution uses the industry’s first agile switch, Huawei’s S12700, to implement wired and wireless convergence, including unified authentication of wired and wireless users, significantly improving campus network availability and manageability. Huawei’s fully programmable architecture is capable of adapting to the University’s growing campus network services and evolving into their future network.
During the Weaving the Future launch, Huawei presented the broad scope of its Agile Network Solution by showcasing an end-to-end Agile Network architecture. This more comprehensive architecture consists of Agile Branch, Agile Campus, Agile Data Center, and Agile Wide Area Network (WAN), with the core of the architecture being the Huawei Agile Controller.
The Agile Network solutions are also designed to be more open. For example, the Huawei Agile Data Center Cloud Connect Solution can interoperate with mainstream cloud platforms such as VMware, Microsoft CloudOS, OpenStack, and Huawei FusionSphere.
According to Song Danping, “Huawei will establish an agile business ecosystem with its local partners, enabling them to concentrate on business innovation and transformation. We would like to build a platform and dialogue space for partners in the full industry chain. Enterprises will be able to respond quickly to market changes and carry out innovations in the data center, branch, campus, and WAN.” This event, attended by experts in the IT sector, as well as business partners, was an opportunity for Huawei to discuss application of the Agile Network in different industries, and engage in an open win-win, and collaborative dialogue with its partners from across a broad variety of industries.