Huawei Wins 5 Best of Show Awards at Interop Tokyo 2018

[Tokyo, Japan, June 15, 2018] Recently, Huawei won 5 Best of Show Awards including the Grand Prize in the cloud computing category for AI Fabric Ultra-High-Speed Ethernet at Interop Tokyo 2018, Japan’s largest ICT exhibition.

Liu Shaowei (left), President of Network R&D Department, Huawei, receives Grand Prize for AI Fabric Ultra-High-Speed Ethernet

The Best of Show Awards receives around 300 entries from exhibitors every year. A panel of ICT industry experts reviewed these entries and selected the best products and solutions for the Grand Prize, Runners-Up, and Special Prizes.

"This is the sixth time that Huawei has received awards from Interop Tokyo,” said Jeff Wang, President of Huawei Japan. “Huawei puts customer needs at the heart of our innovation and our pursuit of quality. We are pleased that our efforts have been commended by our industry peers here in Japan. We are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. In the spirit of openness, collaboration, and shared success, Huawei will continue to work closely with partners to help our customers in Japan go digital."

Huawei's R&D spending totaled CNY89.7 billion in 2017, accounting for 14.9% of the company's total revenue. In recent years, Huawei has concentrated on building out the next generation of digital infrastructure by driving innovation in cloud, artificial intelligence, and 5G technologies. It continues to funnel 10%-15% of its annual revenue back into R&D each year.

Interop Tokyo 2018 is taking place June 13–15, 2018 at the Makuhari Messe near Tokyo. Please visit the Huawei booth at No. 4M33, Hall 4. For more information on Huawei at Interop Tokyo 2018, please visit: http://e.huawei.com/topic/interop2018/cn/ (Available only in Japanese and Chinese).

Huawei's Award-winning Products

• AI Fabric Ultra-High-Speed Ethernet: Grand Prize, cloud computing category
• Intelligent cloud hardware platform – Atlas: Runners-Up, others (server & storage) category
• World's first 400GE core router joint test with optical interface (TOYO Corporation, Spirent, Huawei): Silver Award (Management, Monitoring and Testing Category)
• NetEngine 40E-M1A: Special Prize, network infrastructure category
• NetEngine 40E-M2K: Special Prize, 5G category