Huawei Participates in OSCON Austin, Building Commercial Application Based on Open Source

[Austin, USA, May 19, 2016] The 18th Open Source Convention (OSCON) is held in Austin, Texas, on May 16-19, 2016. It attracts worldwide open source developers, businesspeople from vendors, and investors of all levels to share their insights and visions on open source trend, real-world practices, and open source implementation in workflows or projects. At OSCON, Huawei showcases its open source technologies, including a variety of cloud-related fields including OpenStack, container, and big data, as well as Android development. Moreover, Huawei shares its progress and experience in opening telecom pipeline capabilities, aiming to help customers build commercial application based on open source.

Huawei holds that full cloudification is the most effective way and technical support to satisfy market demands for a digitalization transformation. Service-driven platforms are key to achieving full cloudification for a fully-connected world. Huawei plans to implement this strategy using virtualization, container, and open ICT technologies, which are widely-accepted tools to automate services, optimize resource allocation, reduce operating costs, and promote new service development. Huawei has offered many platforms, including SDN/NFV, IoT connection platform, video platform, FusionStage PaaS platform, FusionSphere cloud platform, and FusionInsight big data platform, as well as various supporting platforms to empower digitalized service operation. Open source technologies play a critical role in implementing platform services. All these platforms utilize open source components, enabling a closer cooperation among Huawei, partners, and customers on building an open, cooperative, and sharing digital economy.

Sanqi Li, Huawei CTO of Products & Solutions, delivered a speech themed "Huawei's Open Source Journey"

Huawei has ample experience in promoting an open ICT environment and is committed to building an open ecosystem with partners. It has not only contributed code to all mainstream open source communities, including Hadoop, Spark, OpenStack, ONOS, OPNFV, and OCI, but also prompted commercialization of open source solutions. Sanqi Li, Huawei CTO of Products & Solutions, said, "Our active engagement with open source communities becomes an important part of Huawei core business strategy to embrace ICT cloud transformation."

Thanks to its long-term efforts in open source activities and contributions, Huawei was elected an OpenStack Gold member in November 2013, a Linux Platinum member in August 2015, and an OpenStack board director in January 2016.

So far, Huawei has established 10 connected Openlabs worldwide to help enterprises in different industries to make their digitalization transformation. The open collaborative platforms built on these Openlabs make it possible for Huawei, together with its partners and customers, to develop innovative solutions in SDN/NFV, ICT, cloud service, IoT, IoV, NB-IoT, and other related fields. They can also conveniently carry out integrated verifications for technical solutions in real network environments and work out competitive commercial solutions, aiming to rapidly respond to customer requirements and maximize commercial value for customers.