Sri Lanka Operator Mobitel selects Huawei to Expand its Network

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, signed a contract with Mobitel, a leading telecom operator in Sri Lanka, to execute the phase-7 Mobitel network expansion project.

Mobitel will adopt Huawei core network solutions in this project, and Huawei will renovate and expand sites for Mobitel in major cities such as the capital Colombo, Galle, and Matara. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2014 when commercial applications will be available and subscribers across Sri Lanka will be able to enjoy undifferentiated and high-quality communications services.

"Mobitel is committed to delivering unmatchable mobile services with the best possible user experience. We are pleased to cooperate with Huawei to expand and update our networks. Huawei is experienced in deploying commercial networks and we have confidence in Huawei and its innovative solutions. This project will certainly help Mobitel offer better mobile communications experiences to our customers." said Lalith de Silva, CEO of Mobitel.

"Since entering the Sri Lankan market in 2005, Huawei has become the largest communications solutions provider in the country. Our partnership with Mobitel has lasted for years. We at Huawei are honored that Mobitel awarded Huawei the contract to expand its phase-7 network capacity. We will continue focusing on customers' needs, helping them update information and communications technologies." said Zhang Sen, Vice President of Huawei's Southeast Asia Region.

Huawei Ascend W1 with Windows Phone 8 will present the September 25?

The network has already appeared information that the first smartphone based on Huawei's new operating system Windows Phone 8 will be released before the end of the year, and are now available some of the details in this regard. Chinese resource Winp reported that the model is called the Huawei Ascend W1 and its announcement will take place next week - September 25. As for putting on sale, it is scheduled for November or December. According to the source, China's Huawei Ascend W1 will be sold for 2,000 yuan (about $ 310). In addition, the model will be released in other regions, including Europe and the U.S.. While no details about the characteristics of the device, and it is not clear how it will look. We only know that the smartphone will be available in black, white, blue and pink colors.

M1 Launches First Nationwide LTE Service in Singapore with Huawei

M1 Limited (M1) with network partner Huawei, a leading global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced the launch of M1's nationwide LTE network in Singapore.

With an increasingly vibrant smartphone landscape, Singapore has one of the world's highest smartphone penetration rates at over 70%. To meet Mobile Broadband (MBB) services demands from end-users, M1 commercially launched the first LTE network within Singapore's financial district in June 2011, which was also the first LTE network in South East Asia. Today, M1's LTE network has been expanded to the countrywide, which provides better MBB service wherever in Singapore.

To address the increasing demands from the local market and further reaffirms its lead in the wireless space, M1 launched nationwide LTE Service supported by Huawei with its end-to-end SingleRAN LTE/EPC solution, which is widely regarded by leading global operators as the best and most advanced solution for serving their MBB needs. The solution enables 1800MHz/2600MHz dual-band LTE, so as to maximize M1's spectrum assets to provide customers with best possible coverage and user experience.

"We are delighted to continue the successful partnership with M1 and to help M1 build an advanced world-class LTE network, while assuring an efficient, sustainable and future-proof network operation." said Ying Weimin, President of GSM&UMTS&LTE Network, Huawei. "We will continue customer-centric innovation, and commit to be the best business partner for our customers worldwide."

To date, Huawei has secured 92 commercial LTE/EPC contracts and has already launched 45 commercial LTE networks with leading operators globally, more than any other infrastructure provider. With a global business footprint in all five continents, Huawei is driving development and commercialization of LTE worldwide.

Huawei Ascend P1 Unboxing & Demonstration (Clove)

In this video we unbox the Dual-core Huawei Ascend P1 smartphone. It is fairly slim but has a lot to compete with, like the Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC One S.

The OS is Android and an only very lightly customised version of Android too.

Check out the video to see what it is like.

Huawei CEO and Founder, Mr. Ren Zhengfei meets with the President of the European Council, Mr. Heyman Van Rompuy

Huawei CEO and Founder, Mr. RenZhengfei met with the President of the European Council, Mr. Herman Van Rompuy at the council's headquarters. They discussed their views on the development of the economy and the ICT industry in both China and Europe. Mr. Ren said that mutual trust-based collaboration and investment between China and Europe in the ICT industry will drive the acceleration of technological innovation and support the openness of the markets. Such a strategic approach will help both Europe and China overcome challenges related to maintaining economic growth and job creation.

Huawei Unveils New Generation Multi-Mode & Dual-Core MxU Platform

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, unveiled a new generation multi-mode & dual-core MxU platform that will provide customers with upgraded offerings through cutting-edge technologies. The high-performance MxU platform supports PON/10G-PON multi-mode uplink and Vectoring downlink, and will greatly enhance the processing speed and reliability of MxU systems, reducing system failures by half.

As a key component of Huawei's SingleFAN solution, the platform will enable MxU series to support forward compatibility of its 10G-PON cards with PON in the uplink direction and the latest Vectoring access technology, achieving copper-based access rate at 100 Mbit/s.

The MxU uses advanced dual-core CPU design, which greatly improves processing speed and enables carrier-class system reliability, as timely protection switching will occur when a CPU subsystem is faulty. Furthermore, the MxU rides on the industry-leading dual-BIOS technology. The system can restore automatically when an operation error causes an upgrade failure, thereby ensuring reliable service upgrades.

The MxU adopts an intelligent architecture that integrates path protection, remote monitoring, web-based management, VPN functions, and hardware support for Y.1731. This simplifies network performance monitoring and better caters to the needs of various service scenarios. The MxU also supports intelligent fault detection over PONs and real-time fault detection for voice services, shortening troubleshooting time and improving customer satisfaction.

According to consultancy firm Infonetics, MxU devices have become a mainstream broadband access product today, and in the past two years, Huawei has ranked No. 1 in the global fixed broadband and MxU markets. Huawei's SingleFAN solution is serving one-third of the world’s broadband access subscribers.

Huawei Signs Five-Year Managed Services Contract with VimpelCom

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has been selected as a partner by VimpelCom Russia, one of the world's largest integrated telecom operators, to manage its integrated telecommunications network. The contract will span a period of five years, during which VimpelCom will transfer an estimated 1,300 employees.

As part of the agreement, Huawei will take complete responsibility for the multi-vendor, multi-technology fixed and mobile networks, which cover the Volga and the Far East. The scope of work includes end-to-end network management, including multi-vendor operations and maintenance, field operations, 24/7 network assurance and spare parts management.

With a population in excess of 143 million and a land mass of 17 million square kilometers, Russia is the largest country in the world, with areas of unforgiving terrain and extreme weather conditions. With Huawei managing the network, this agreement allows VimpelCom to offer better network and service quality to its customers. In addition, VimpelCom will benefit from a significant improvement in the operation and maintenance efficiency of the network, as well as OPEX reduction.

"By transferring the network operation and exploitation to the Huawei, with its considerable experience and expertise, VimpelCom will achieve several important targets. The first is increasing efficiency and quality of network management, which will improve the service level for end-users in the mass market, as well as in the business segment. The second is optimizing business-processes and cost savings through the realization of the projects such as this partnership with Huawei, part of our strategic program to increase operational efficiency. The business-model of transferring network operation and exploitation to a third party is a common global trend today and we are glad that we are leading the Russian market in this sphere. We are certain that this large-scale cooperation with Huawei will strengthen our position and help us to achieve our targets," said Anton Kudryashov, Head of the Russia business unit and General Director of OJSC VimpelCom.

Xiong Lening, President of Huawei in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Armenia, said: "The partnership with VimpelCom in the field of Managed Services is strategically important for us and we are honored to be trusted by our customers in this way. The agreement is an important step that will support the development of our long-standing partnership with the VimpelCom, optimize operator costs, and improve network efficiency for the benefit of customers in Russia."

As the first fully Managed Services project in Russia, this cooperation is an important milestone for Huawei and VimpelCom, and a significant reflection on Huawei’s strong capabilities in providing professional services, particularly in Managed Services. Huawei’s abilities in this field are further supported by the many contracts won by Huawei in 2012 across many parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Indonesia, and Singapore. As the world's fastest growing managed service providers, Huawei has, to date, obtained more than 240 managed services contracts in over 60 countries around the world, with a compound growth rate of more than 70% for the past six consecutive years.

BBF Adopts Huawei's iODN Standards Proposal

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced that its proposal for intelligent optical distribution network (iODN) standards has been adopted by the Broadband Forum (BBF) at its 2012 3rd quarter conference, representing a breakthrough for international standards in the field of ODN.

The expansion of optical network deployments makes it more difficult for carriers to manage the massive fiber resources found on these networks. Currently, the manual operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM) is not efficient and cannot meet the operation and maintenance requirements of carrier's optical networks.

BBF uses clear-cut iODN standards to define iODN systems architecture and performance requirements among different functional module interfaces, laying the foundation for the wide application and successful interconnection of iODN technologies. Huawei's iODN solution will help carriers meet the increasing demands placed on them by resolving OAM issues through the use of fiber sensing and intelligent ID technologies, to establish an intelligent fiber infrastructure network that is easy to identify, manage, and monitor.

Huawei plays an active role in iODN standardization. On February 2011, Huawei's proposal for eID technical standards - the core technology of the iODN solution – was approved by ITU-T. Huawei has also worked closely with China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom on iODN standards research. To date, Huawei's iODN solution has served carriers worldwide, including in Qatar, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, United Arab Emirates, and China.

Huawei announces a two billion USD investment and procurement plan for the UK

Meeting between David Cameron and Huawei CEO and Founder, Ren Zhengfei, confirms investment. UK workforce to reach 1500 by 2017

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, committed to investing USD1 billion (GBP650 million) and to spend another USD1 billion (GBP650 million) in procurement in the UK over the next five years. In a meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Lord Green, Minister of State for Business, Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei, outlined the company's long-term commitment to the UK through further investment in research and development, local procurement and centre of excellence initiatives.

Thanks to the UK's open economy and foreign investment initiatives, Huawei already employs over 800 people in the UK and has today committed to increasing its workforce to over 1,500 by 2017. As part of this commitment Huawei will invest in a number of global centres of technical and financial excellence in the UK. Huawei works with all the major telecommunication operators and broadband service providers in the UK, making a significant contribution to the national broadband strategy and the fulfillment of ubiquitous, ultra-fast, fixed and mobile broadband across the UK.

Prime Minister David Cameron said: "The investment announced by Huawei today demonstrates once again that the UK is open for business. I welcome this and I want to see more companies invest in the UK as we work to achieve sustainable and balanced growth within our economy. The British Government values the important relationship with China, both countries have much to offer each other and the business environment we are creating in the UK allows us to maximise this potential."

Ren Zhengfei, Huawei Founder and Chief Executive Officer, said: "The UK is one of the most important European markets in which Huawei has invested. Over the past eleven years we have found its Government to be transparent, efficient and practical. The UK is an open market, which welcomes overseas investment, I am therefore very pleased today, to be announcing the USD2 billion investment and procurement plan, promoting the development of openness and free trade."

Mr. Ren added:"The UK is a centre of innovation, has a highly skilled workforce, and is respected internationally for the quality of its legal and educational systems. It is for these reasons we have selected the UK as the location for a number of our centres of excellence. I would like to thank our UK customers and partners, as well as the British Government, for their continued support."

LTE-version of the Nokia Lumia 920, Lumia 820 and the Samsung Galaxy S III will be released in Europe in EE

The company Everything Everywhere (EE) oyavila the launch of the first UK network of the fourth generation LTE (it also works under the brand T-Mobile and Orange). Fully cover the country with 4G-network it intends in 2015, but by the end of 2013 it is planned to provide 70% coverage, and in 2014 - 98%. By the end of this year, 4G LTE connection will appear in 16 cities, including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast.

But more interesting was the announcement of smartphones with network support LTE, which will appear in EE. This is the recently announced Nokia Lumia 820 and Nokia Lumia 920 operating system Windows Phone 8, the flagship Android-smartphone this year, Samsung Galaxy S III, as well as models Huawei Ascend 4G and HTC One XL.

Huawei Ascend P1 Languages (Clove)

A video showing the languages available on the Huawei Ascend P1.

Huawei Successfully Completes the First VoLTE Call with eSRVCC (Enhanced Single Radio Voice Call Continuity）Handover

Huawei Shanghai test lab -- Huawei announced that it has successfully completed the industry's first end-to-end VoLTE voice call with eSRVCC (Enhanced Single Radio Voice Call Continuity, defined in 3GPP R10）handover without any perceivable interruption for the end user. eSRVCC enables a smooth upgrade to LTE networks while effectively protecting the carrier's investment in its current network. Based on an end-to-end VoLTE network architecture, the test showed how an LTE user can smoothly handover from an LTE network to a 3G WCDMA network with voice call continuity.

For this test, Huawei provided an end-to-end network solution, including radio access network and core network CS, IMS and EPC. Qualcomm provided VoLTE test mobile phones embedded with the Snapdragon™ S4 processor, the MSM8960™.

According to the 3GPP R8 standard, Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) should provide seamless voice services when LTE users move from the LTE network coverage to 2G/3G network coverage. eSRVCC in 3GPP R10 enhances handover performance by eliminating the need to re-establish the bearer and signaling on both sides of the call leg and only requiring an update of the local call leg and keeping the remote leg of the call unchanged. This will further optimize the handover process and limit the cause of interruption time to the re-establishment of the local call leg and ensuring a better user experience.

This is a significant milestone for the IMS-based 4G LTE voice roadmap and this achievement will help speed up the deployment for VoLTE services. This testing with Qualcomm also demonstrates Huawei's capacity to provide operators with mature IOT and an E2E commercial network solutions for VoLTE.

By first half of 2012, ten operators had conducted trials using Huawei's VoLTE solution. This solution also was recently awarded the "Best new VoLTE product launch"and was a main highlight at the 9th annual IMS World Forum 2012 held in Madrid Spain.

Huawei Presented Its Views of Software Defined Networking (SDN) For Carrier Networks

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, presented its views of Software Defined Networking (SDN) for Carrier networks, and described the prospects of SDN for Access, Metro and Backbone Networks, at the Broadband Forum's 2012 3rd quarter conference in Bucharest Romania.

SDN has been primarily connected to architecture's involving Data Center interworking. Huawei believes SDN will also bring huge benefits to Carrier networks. Customized Networks will be realized by applying network resource virtualization; through centralized management and orchestration to achieve efficient use of network resources; and through new technologies being rapidly applied to the existing network via the programmable interface between the control and data plane.

"You've had to continually ask vendors to place your specific feature request into their release plan, and wait for months, even years, for the feature to be delivered. With SDN, you could start an in house, or 3rd party, development project and quickly deploy that new service within your production network. We believe that SDN's benefit is the ability to respond to the changes of network technology in a simple and agile way. This functionality includes a series of changes in interface technology, access bandwidth, backbone link bandwidth, routing protocols, business models and architectures, to help large, inflexible, and difficult to manage elephants (Carrier networks) dance again!" said Michael McBride, Principal Engineer from Huawei.

Various, SDN for Carrier networks, architectures were presented, including Access Networks, Mobile Backhaul, Broadband Network Gateways, Metro Networks, and Optical Transport Networks. These SDN architectures produce widespread interest from networking experts and are considered to be of great value to the future development of carrier networks.

Along with internal R&D, Huawei is active in SDN standardization forums, such as the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), to help bring the SDN vision to reality. Huawei will continue to work on the standardization of SDN, in a coordinated manner, across standards development organizations.

Huawei Cloud Congress 2012 Shows How Enterprises Can "Make IT Simple, Make Business Agile"in the Cloud Era

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, officially kicked off its third annual Huawei Cloud Congress (HCC 2012) at the Shanghai International Convention Center in Shanghai, China. The two-day event brings together more than 3,000 Huawei partners, customers and industry experts to discuss IT practices and transformation in the cloud era. With the theme of "Make IT Simple, Make Business Agile”, HCC 2012 will showcase the latest in Huawei's comprehensive portfolio of cloud products and solutions, as well as the progress that Huawei and its more than 400 partners have made in regard to products, solution capabilities, and business innovation.

"With the continued convergence of information technology (IT) and communications technology (CT), enterprises face constantly changing requirements in their ICT systems. As a result, the concept of ‘Make IT Simple, Make Business Agile' has become a common theme for enterprises in today's information age. Building on Huawei's deep expertise and capabilities across software, hardware and systems research and development, our comprehensive portfolio and global platform allows us to help enterprise organizations adapt quickly to industry changes, streamline enterprise IT systems to support business goals, and ultimately enable the business to be more agile,"said Mr. Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei IT Product Line.

Achieving Sustainable Growth With Our Customers

Huawei started investing in IT research for the CT field 10 years ago. Last October, Huawei formally established its IT Product Line, which has become an important component of Huawei's development strategies. In March 2012, Huawei completed the acquisition of Huawei-Symantec, which has strengthened Huawei's leading position in providing storage and security solutions. The company's investments and integration are aimed at helping enterprises stay abreast of IT technological changes and simplifying their IT systems to adapt to business transformations and achieve sustainable development in this new climate. Huawei continuously increases R&D investments in the IT field to improve its innovation capabilities and core competitiveness. There are 10,000 employees dedicated to the IT field, as well as multiple cloud computing delivery capability centers in Shenzhen (HQ), Beijing, Xi'an, Hangzhou, and Shanghai.

With extensive experience in cloud computing, Huawei has collaborated with customers in 33 countries on commercial cloud deployments, as well as the world's largest desktop cloud that is used internally by approximately 70,000 Huawei employees. To date, Huawei has helped customers worldwide build 260 data centers, 35 of which are cloud computing data centers.

Huawei storage includes unified storage, solid state drive (SSD), BigData NAS, data protection, and cloud storage fields to serve more than 2,000 customers across globe. In the server field, Huawei has become a leading server provider for telecommunications market, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), governments, and large enterprises across multiple industries.

Launch of FusionCube and High-end Storage Products

At HCC 2012, Huawei also launched its latest portfolio of IT products and solutions, comprising FusionCube Converged Infrastructure and three high-end storage products, that help enterprise organizations create simple and efficient IT systems to achieve business agility.

FusionCube Converged Infrastructure：FusionCube uses leading converged infrastructure to integrate software (virtualization, cloud management and distributed storage engine) and hardware (servers, storage devices and network devices). Providing an all-in-one management system, automatic deployment and efficient maintenance, FusionCube helps enterprises consolidate and optimize IT systems and migrate to the cloud platform conveniently. Providing simplicity, agility and high efficiency, it helps customers to focus their core business and increase the value of IT.
OceanStor HVS: The OceanStor HVS series of enterprise-level storage systems deliver the industry's highest specifications. Huawei's HVS series uses Smart Matrix Architecture, and is equipped with XVE, a virtualized storage operating system dedicated to high-end storage systems. The HVS series is designed especially for next-generation enterprise-level data centers, and is equipped to store core business data. The HVS series is reliable, efficient, and flexible, making it suitable for customers across different industries who have with large, data-intensive IT environments.
Universal Distributed Storage (UDS) Systems: The UDS features EB-level scalability, extreme reliability, and efficient integration to meet enterprises' increasing data storage, sharing, and management requirements. Specifically, the UDS achieves EB-level scalability using horizontal expansion technologies, protects data privacy and availability with a variety of safe and reliable storage technologies, and improves operation and maintenance efficiency with deployment automation and lifecycle management policies.
MVX Big Data Storage Solution: The Huawei Big Data Storage Solution uses the next-generation scale-out architecture and incorporates an innovative "X-in-one" approach to help users build a big data storage system. The Huawei Big Data Storage Solution is the first in the industry that integrates scale-out network-attached storage (NAS), scale-out databases (DBs), and scale-out backup, to provide a cluster storage system that manages the entire lifecycle of big data.
Openness and Collaboration to Achieve Win-Win Business Outcomes

At HCC 2012, Huawei joined hands with over 20 partners, including Intel, SAP, Citrix, Yonyou, Accenture, Centerm, Seagate, VMware, CA, Asigra and Hill Stone, etc, to showcase IT products and solutions. To date, Huawei collaborates with over 400 partners to create more value for customers by providing diversified and vertical solutions. This year, Huawei will continue to deepen the relationship with core partners through joint innovation centers, product development, as well as joint sales and marketing activities.

Huawei collaborates with Intel to bring new IT solutions to the global market

At Huawei Cloud Congress 2012 (HCC2012), Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Intel Corporation signaling the will of both companies to strategically cooperate in enhancing joint engineering efforts and bringing new IT solutions to the market.

The collaboration will include enhancing engineering cooperation and building competitive products and solutions for server, storage, data center and cloud computing as well as jointly going to market in China and other geographic areas. The combined advantages of both Intel and Huawei promises to bring significant value to customers in various industries by delivering compelling information technology that provide customers with new user experiences that can produce business return.

The aim of this MoU is to strengthen and highlight the continued focus on server, storage, data center and cloud computing products, and to share market development efforts, synchronize future strategies and shorten product development cycles. This will be done through improving solution alignment and joint innovation so that the time to deliver the right solution to customers can be shortened. As strategic partner in IT solutions, Intel strongly supports Huawei IT group’s growth capability, solution development, and channel promotion which have already led to a break through this year in high-end servers. Huawei launched 4 Tecal V2 high-end servers based on Intel® Xeon® processors E7 product families and Intel® Xeon® processors E5 product families in July.

"Intel leads in computing innovation, and builds advanced platforms for server, cloud computing, storage and data center solutions,"said Ian Yang, Intel corporate vice president and China president. "The strategic MoU between Intel and Huawei will bring the cooperation to a new level. The key advantage for both companies is the ability to bring new innovative product and usage models to market."

"Huawei has strong capability in server, storage, data center and cloud computing," said Mr. Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei IT product line. "We have had an excellent collaboration over the past ten years with Intel. The strategic global cooperation MoU on IT will only help to strengthen the Huawei and Intel relationship, and allow us both to innovate around customer demand – providing more efficient, more valuable ICT solutions to our customers."