GlobalData Reconfirms Huawei Single Voice Core as Sole Leader in Competitive Landscape Assessment

[Shenzhen, China, July 8, 2026] GlobalData has again recognized Huawei's Single Voice Core (SVC) as the sole leader in its product class, awarding SVC a perfect score across all evaluation dimensions in its 2026 IMS and Voice Core: Competitive Landscape Assessment. The report, issued every two years by GlobalData, a leading, consulting firm, highlights the consistent leadership position achieved by Huawei’s exceptionally competitive SVC solution.

GlobalData Reconfirms Huawei Single Voice Core as Sole Leader

The report notes that the worldwide rollout of 5G is further accelerating the migration of services from 2G/3G networks to VoLTE/VoNR networks. The cloud-native architecture has become the industry consensus, and high-stability network redundancy, AI-powered service support, and smooth evolution of existing voice networks are now the key competitive factors for voice core networks of various vendors. The report comprehensively evaluated industry players across five dimensions: solution architecture, platform and performance, feature and application support, interoperability, and deployment experience. Huawei SVC achieved full marks in every category.

Huawei rated as "Leader" across all assessment criteria

• Solution architecture: Huawei SVC is the industry's only fully converged voice network solution. Built with cloud-native capabilities on bare-metal containers, an SVC network can support all 2G/3G/4G/5G, VoBB, VoIP, and VoWiFi services. This helps global operators with the quick retirement of 2G/3G networks or the long-term coexistence of multi-generation voice networks.
• Platform and performance: Huawei SVC is built on Huawei's innovative dual-engine container architecture. It guarantees operators' network investments are protected and enables a seamless evolution of voice networks to 5G/5G-A. Additionally, SVC's high-reliability redundancy architecture ensures uninterrupted basic calls even in extreme scenarios such as major disasters or large-scale network faults.
• Feature and application support: Huawei's AI Calling solution offers Pure Voice Calling, Easy Voice Calling, Secure Voice Calling, and Interactive Calling. These features have been commercially used by tens of millions of users in China. Globally, Huawei is embedding AI into native voice calls to deliver new services independent of device models, helping operators reshape the value of calls. These services include intelligent noise reduction, simultaneous interpretation, and AI call summary.
• Interoperability: Huawei SVC provides roaming interconnection across all RATs. It is a comprehensive solution that goes beyond standard 3GPP VoLTE roaming. Its innovative Single Voice Roaming (SVR) solution enables quick and seamless VoLTE roaming with no changes to existing 2G/3G roaming settlement mechanisms. This simplifies VoLTE roaming deployment and protects operators' roaming revenues.
• Deployment experience: Huawei SVC has been deployed on more than 420 networks worldwide, serving over 2 billion VoLTE/VoNR users and 200 million 2G/3G users. In China, AI Calling has attracted more than 80 million users.

As the era of AI agents approaches, calling is expanding from human-to-human interactions to human-to-agent interactions. This transformation presents significant opportunities for industry growth. Huawei will continue to innovate, helping operators build AI fundamental voice networks, enhance call experiences across security, quality, service, and interaction, and seize the AI service entry.