Huawei’s SmartPCC Solution Wins 'Most Highly Developed NFV/SDN Operational Architecture for PCRF' Award

[Berlin, Germany, April 5, 2017] The Huawei SmartPCC solution won the ‘Most Highly Developed NFV/SDN Operational Architecture for PCRF’ award at the Policy Control Conference held in Berlin, Germany.

Operators' communication services are increasingly enabling intelligent people-to-people, thing-to-thing, and people-to-thing interconnection. As a result, services are becoming more diversified and the differences among them are greater than ever. The Huawei SmartPCC solution can simultaneously manage multiple access networks, such as MBB, FBB, SDN and Wi-Fi.

The solution provides operators with subscriber-specific, end-to-end unified policy management across networks, unified access-independent service experience, and a differentiated experience guarantee for subscribers. This implements traffic monetization based on subscriber lifecycle management, maximizes the value of data traffic per bit, and increases revenue for operators.

The Huawei SmartPCC solution's design is based on the Cloud Native concept. The solution supports a three-layer software architecture composed of a distributed load balancer, a distributed database, and a stateless service processing unit. This architecture can achieve scaling in seconds without any session loss, ensuring infrastructure-independent carrier-grade capabilities. A series of intelligent tool platforms ensures automatic service deployment, on-demand resource orchestration, and quick fault handling, implementing agile and intelligent O&M after network cloudification.

To address more complex scenario-based requirements in the future, operators' policy management centers are expected to evolve toward a service-based architecture. This implements flexible policy orchestration and service innovation, and meets operators' individual demands for services and fast service launching.

Huawei, receiving the award from Susan Welsh de Grimaldo (Right), Director of Strategy Analytics

"We are thankful for the industry's recognition of Huawei's policy management capabilities and all cloud practice," said Edwin Zhang, Vice President of Huawei's Cloud Core Network Marketing Execution, "Policy management is expected to play a more important role in network evolution and cloud transformation. Huawei plans to continue collaborating with operators and partners to provide a much better optimal service experience for subscribers."

According to the research reports released by IHS Markit and GlobalData, Huawei SmartPCC has continuously ranked number one in global PCRF market share, and is recognized as the unique industry leader in the PCRF field. As of the first quarter of 2017, the Huawei SmartPCC solution has entered the markets of more than 240 operators from 90+ countries. The solution has also helped drive the cloud transformation of many global leading operators, including Vodafone, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom and UK EE.