Huawei successfully delivered both a keynote and a sponsored speech as an exclusive Gold Sponsor at the 2012 SDN Summit held in London from November 13 to 14. Huawei’s two speakers – Li Sanqi, CTO of Huawei’s Carrier Network Business Group, and Dai Libin, Solution Marketing Department Director for Huawei’s Carrier Network Business Group – presented the company’s SDN ambitions and “SoftCOM” corporate strategy for SDN.
At the Summit, Li Sanqi described Huawei’s overall SDN strategy as one that “embraces” the next wave of carrier business transformations while “engaging” with the company’s customers, mainly carriers.
SDN allows service providers and enterprises to configure networks for automated provisioning and load balancing. This enables a new generations of expanded services while increasing operation efficiency and reducing costs. Huawei believes in SDN technologies as the next quantum leap for the entire industry.
If one were to look at Huawei’s success historically, one would see the innovative transformations that have taken place from TDM to IP, from voice to data, and from fixed to mobile. At every major industry breakthrough, Huawei grew to continue its role as a leading vendor. Moving forward, we see the transformation is more from closed networks to open networks, which is to make the network devices programmable and open, to monetize it and optimize it; and also from complexity to simplicity, as more intelligence is added at the edge.
Huawei’s next-generation technology migration path begins at its matured “Single” concept for standard-unified platforms, and is now going to a standard-equalized intermediary phase of “Flat”. And the next one would be “SoftCOM”, which is Huawei’s way towards SDN.
