Huawei’s Agile Network 3.0 Architecture Launched at Huawei Network Congress 2015
Huawei Network Congress 2015 focused on Agile Network 3.0 Architecture to enable enterprises to build an agile IoT infrastructure
Organised in Beijing, the Huawei Network Congress 2015, brought together more than 6,000 of customers, channel partners, journalists, analysts, and others from more than 43 countries around the globe and 41 exhibitors including Intel, SAP, IBM, VMware, Infosys and China Telecom. The theme of the Congress was “From Agility to Imagination”.
Huawei announced the launch of its Agile Network 3.0 Architecture. As a highlight of the latest version of Huawei’s Agile Network architecture, Huawei introduced its Agile Internet of Things (IoT) solution. The solution enables enterprises to build an agile IoT infrastructure to capture infinite business possibilities and to realise the digitisation of areas such as production, manufacturing and logistics. Huawei launched its Agile IoT Solution, which consists of three core components: Agile IoT gateway, Agile Controller and LiteOS, a lightweight IoT operating system (OS).
At the Congress, Huawei predicted that by 2025, a total of 100 billion connections will be generated globally and two million new sensors will be deployed every hour. The view was also expressed that today our networks today cannot provide the connectivity to support this. “Huawei believes that standardising ICT infrastructure will foster the development of Internet applications, including IoT applications. To address this, Huawei is launching our IoT OS, LiteOS,” said Mr. William Xu, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Huawei, at the Congress.
William Xu informed the guests that the LiteOS is the world’s most lightweight IoT OS. It is small in size at 10KB and supports zero configuration, auto-discovery, and auto-networking. It can be widely applied to different areas including smart homes, wearable, connected vehicles and other industries. The LiteOS helps to simplify the development of smart hardware to enhance IoT connectivity. In addition, Huawei announced that LiteOS will be opened to all developers, which enables them to quickly develop their own IoT products.
In his keynote speech, Yan Lida, President of Huawei Enterprise Business Group, explained part of Huawei’s approach to develop and provide Business-driven ICT Infrastructure (BDII). “BDII requires close business collaboration and joint innovation efforts between Huawei and our partners. We have been involved in industry alliances, worked with standard organisations in the area of IoT, and established innovative research centers, open labs, and development communities to foster industry development,” he said.
“Over the last three years, Huawei has been involved in a number of in-depth technological collaborations with our global industry partners in IoT. We have developed a series of IoT solutions that have already been applied to buildings, electricity meters, vehicles, gymnasiums, factories, retail outlets, and street lights. In line with our approach to provide BDII, Huawei will continue to work with more partners to launch solutions based on our Agile Network architecture for different vertical industries,” said Liu Shaowei, President, Switch and Enterprise Communication Product Line, Huawei.
The Congress also saw Huawei launching the world’s first software-defined networking (SDN)-based Agile Internet of Things (IoT) Solution at Huawei Network Congress (HNC) 2015. The solution enables objects to connect to the Internet and communicate with each other, while enabling convenient network management and maintenance.
“IoT is the future of our increasingly digitised world and networks are key to driving value creation for enterprises. With Huawei’s IoT technologies and offerings, we hope to support the digital transformation of traditional industries and the development of the IoT ecosystem”, said Li Xianyin, General Manager, Enterprise Gateway Domain, Switch & Enterprise Communications Product Line, Huawei.
