Huawei Single Voice Core Won the "Most Innovative NFV or SDN Solution" Award

[Singapore, September 16, 2019] Huawei Single Voice Core won the "Most Innovative NFV or SDN Solution" award at the Network Virtualization & SDN Asia 2019 Summit in Singapore. This fully affirms Huawei's position as a leader in voice network innovation and evolution.

David Fang (left), Solution Marketing Director of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, receiving the award

Voice service is still one of the indispensable basic services for telecom carriers in the 5G era. As in 3GPP specifications, 5G mobile voice services can be implemented through voice over NR (VoNR) on the IMS, and EPS fallback to the LTE network rather than fallback to 2G/3G is recommended during initial 5G network deployment. Coexistence of different radio access technologies (2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G) will make voice network O&M more complex and service experience inconsistent. Therefore, multi-network convergence has become a necessity for carriers.

To simplify the voice network and address these problems, Huawei has launched the Single Voice Core solution, which converges multiple voice networks and allows all types of subscribers (2G/3G/4G/5G/fixed-line) to access an agile and efficient all-in-one voice network. This simplifies the voice network and the CS network can be removed, reducing operating expense (OPEX). The solution accelerates smooth subscriber migration (for example CS-to-VoLTE and CS-to-Vo5G migrations), which paves the way for future voice network evolution and protects carrier investments.

"It is a great honor to win this award for the Huawei Single Voice Core solution. Thank you for your recognition", said Zhao Yue, president of CS&IMS Product Line of Huawei Cloud Core Network. "Huawei will continue to invest in real-time audio and video services and will focus its efforts on service innovation, technical architecture, and evolution strategy, to help carriers innovate services and achieve business success."

Owing to its constant investment in voice services, Huawei now has mature voice solutions and extensive experience. Huawei's VoLTE solution has been used commercially by more than 60 carriers worldwide, serving more than 400 million subscribers. Huawei will help carriers build an agile and efficient all-in-one voice network, optimize network assets, ensure user experience, and reduce operation costs, achieving high-quality 5G voice services.