Huawei Executive Director and President of ICT Products & Solutions David Wang speaking during the conference yesterday.
Doha: Huawei has unveiled breakthrough innovations in several different domains, providing a first look at its comprehensive digital infrastructure range at the Huawei Connect 2021 conference yesterday. The release highlighted how these products and solutions are set to shape digital infrastructure for the next decade. Huawei, a global leading creator of digital infrastructure, is dedicated to building a fully connected and intelligent world.
In his keynote speech during the event, Huawei Executive Director and President of ICT Products & Solutions David Wang highlighted on the “Leading Innovation in Digital Infrastructure”. He said: “The intelligent world is fast approaching and digital infrastructure is the key to building this intelligent world. The world now faces unprecedented challenges and so Huawei will remain customer-centric and committed to innovation. We are dedicated to breakthroughs to serve major application scenarios such as digital offices, smart manufacturing, wide area network (WAN), and data centres, and accelerate the development of the global digital infrastructure”.
Wang explained how digital infrastructure of the future would need to be hyper secure, reliable, and deterministic, and need more efficient data circulation and computing power as the world dives into digital.
Huawei recently released its Intelligent World 2030 report, where it stated that global connections will top 200 billion; monthly data per cellular user will grow 40 times to 600 gigabytes; worldwide general computing volume will grow 10 times over; and data generated will increase by 23 times, reaching one yottabyte for the first time. All of this creates a picture of new challenges and opportunities for the digital infrastructure sector over the next 10 years.
In his speech, Wang highlighted the seven specific innovations Huawei has launched or is about to launch onto the market. These include the ‘Digital Meeting Rooms’ powered by intelligent “Office Twins” which bridge the world with ubiquitous gigabit and seamless collaboration. The newest “Office Twins” from Huawei are the AirEngine 6761 and IdeaHub. As part of the next generation of smart office tools, the 6-in-1 design of IdeaHub allows it to function as a projector, whiteboard, computer, conference endpoint, speaker, and microphone, enabling “frictionless collaboration” across different locations.
The Huawei OptiXsense EF3000 is designed to streamline oil and gas pipeline inspections, and will ultimately enable intelligent, unmanned pipeline inspections. Going forward, OptiXsense products will also support other domains, monitoring temperature, stress, and water quality.
Other innovations also include the industry’s first deterministic IP network solution, H-OTN, Huawei’s newest IP network solution, and OceanStor Pacific which is set to accelerate the digital transformation of oil and gas exploration and create digital basins and oilfields. While Huawei’s CC Solution helps customers roll out public platforms that provide diversified computing power.
In his closing statement during the event, Wang stressed that the future of digital infrastructure will need a thriving software ecosystem in addition to new and innovative hardware.
He promised that Huawei continues its “dive into digital” and will continue working with partners, developers, and open source organisations from around the world to build a diverse software ecosystem that is shared and open.
