CommunicAsia 2016: Huawei’s Cloud Communication journey, and debut

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a Chinese multi-national, headquartered in Shenzhen. At CommunicAsia 2016, in Singapore, Huawei made its debut in the field of Cloud Communication, an E2E communication solution for Personal, Home, Enterprise, and Vertical use. Cloud Communication helps operators implement network evolution, service innovation, and business model transformation by means of all cloud, full openness, and redefined service experience.

The conference attracted over 150 analysts, reporters, and representatives from leading operators in the South Pacific (including this writer). On the subject of "Reframing a colourful communication life," Huawei and participants discussed technical and business challenges, as well as development trends in the ICT industry.

Wang Songtao, Vice President of Cloud Core Network Product Line, delivered the keynote address. He remarked, "We commit to enriching life through communication.”

Facing great challenges, how do operators seize opportunities in digital communication to ensure successful ICT transformation?

The explosion of smart terminals and mobile Internet creates unprecedented challenges for operators. With the rapid development of social applications, end users are no longer satisfied with traditional voice and SMS. Now, end users want a ubiquitous, multimedia experience.

As the communication field expands, Personal and Enterprise users require convergent communications. Meanwhile, we also see the communication capabilities are applied to TVs, mobile accesses, smart watches, and intelligent robots.

As an important conveyor of information, video has been widely used in all industries, from entertainment to communications as well as remote education and telemedicine. Today, real-time video has become an indispensable part of daily life. It can be said without exaggeration that seizing the opportunity to develop real-time video is seizing a winning ticket in the future of video.

Based on a unified cloud platform, Huawei Cloud Communication redefines user experience. The Voice and Video over LTE (V2oLTE) solution provides dual HD services to individuals, improving personal communication experience. The Enterprise Communication solution provides a full-service portfolio to meet the requirements of small, medium, and big sized enterprise and helps operators expand to enterprise markets. The Cloud Video solution not only satisfies families' demands for large-screen video communication, but also extends to various video applications in verticals, helping operators take control of the future of the video industry. Through network capability exposure and cooperation with partners from various industries, the communication as a service (CaaS) solution promotes crowd-sourcing service innovation as well as business model transformation, helping operators implement ubiquitous communication and build a win-win industry ecosystem.

The V2oLTE solution implements evolution to a genuine All-IP network. With HD voice, HD video, and rich media communication, it strengthens relationships with users and consolidates voice revenues. Huawei has extensive experience with VoLTE deployment. Based on quick service inheritance, minimum changes to live networks, and flexible terminal adaptation capabilities, Huawei shortens the time to market (TTM) for VoLTE services to under six months.

Their Enterprise Communication solution integrates all communication methods and scenarios and provides a unified architecture and management system to offer the same communication experience for different enterprise users. It supports the deployment for private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud. It helps enterprises build their own communication and collaboration platforms as needed, heightening competitive edge and efficiency. In addition, Huawei provides a variety of terminals to meet requirements for different scenarios such as meeting rooms, office desktops, SOHO, and business trips.

Cloud Video solution aggregates various video capabilities of operators, such as video call, recording, encryption, and analysis. It provides large-screen video communication for families as well as services in verticals (for example, telemedicine, remote education, and video customer services). This solution helps operators make video services as a new basic service, increasing revenue.

The CaaS solution helps operators open communication capabilities and resources through APIs and SDKs. By bringing message, voice, video, conference, and collaborative communication capabilities as well as user data to different applications, operators can implement ubiquitous connections and communication between humans, things, and organizations. Embedding communication capabilities into the business process improves enterprise efficiency and service innovation.

Huawei has over 1,000 partners, across more than 17 industries.