GEC NEWS WIRECampuses, the fundamental components of our cities, play a crucial role in bringing together people and industries. Huawei’s enterprise business market insights indicate that more than 90% of urban residents work and live inside campuses. Additionally, over 80% of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 90% of innovations are generated within these campus environments.
As digital transformation takes root, smart campuses have emerged. A smart campus requires an “everything-aware” converged network so that people, things, and services on campus are no longer isolated. Instead, they unite as a whole, interacting with and affecting each other. Furthermore, inter-system collaboration, information interaction, and service convergence have become the norm. Such interaction and convergence create added value.
The smart campus is the foundation of the smart city. This city of the future leverages advanced technology for efficient services, sustainable energy, transportation, and governance. Smart infrastructure, data analytics, and citizen engagement are deployed by stakeholders to drive progress in urban centers.
During the Ultra-Broadband Forum 2023 (UBBF 2023) in Dubai, Huawei, together with the UAE Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA), Omdia, etisalat by e&, MTN South Africa unveiled the 10 Gbps City Initiative, the next evolution in smart cities. This initiative calls for the construction of fully connected 10 Gbps cities to provide ubiquitous network experience, accelerate the digital-intelligent transformation of industries, and boost digital productivity.
The 10 Gbps City is a new type of infrastructure critical to implementing national digital strategies and boosting the digital economy. The construction of 10 Gbps cities involves delivering 10 Gbps to individuals, homes, enterprises, and campuses. It also requires 400GE/800GE converged transport networks and AI DCNs related to the preceding four 10 Gbps access scenarios.
Many cities around the world have released their 2030-oriented digital economy strategies. Cities such as Riyadh are actively exploring ways to implement 10 Gbps City and 10 Gbps Society to unleash the new momentum of the digital economy.
To help define the future of campus networks, Huawei released the High-Quality 10 Gbps Campus Network Construction White Paper supported by WBA (Wireless Broadband Alliance) at MWC Barcelona 2024, themed “Huawei Intelligent Cloud-Network, Accelerating Industrial Intelligence”.
This white paper puts forward the philosophy of experience-centric campus network construction; it also delves into how Huawei’s High-Quality 10 Gbps CloudCampus Solution offers three types of experience upgrade — wireless experience upgrade, application experience upgrade, and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) experience upgrade — to accelerate enterprises’ digital and intelligent journey.
The white paper defines the steps required to fully upgrade to a 10 Gbps campus. First is a comprehensive wireless experience upgrade. Huawei’s all-scenario Wi-Fi 7 is the first in the industry to facilitate the upgrade of wireless networks. The tested rate of a single terminal is up to 4.33 Gbps, which is twice that of Wi-Fi 6E. Ultra-large files can be downloaded in seconds. The exclusive converged scheduling technology implements converged scheduling of space domain, frequency domain, time domain, and applications, significantly improving the concurrency efficiency and supporting 30-channel 4K VR courses without dizziness.
Secondly, it proposes an application experience upgrade. Huawei’s exclusive application experience assurance solution accurately identifies 6000 applications and elastically slices traffic to build fast lanes to ensure zero frame-freezing for key applications. The exclusive VIP experience assurance solution enables VIP users to enjoy exclusive network lanes, ensuring zero impact on the VIP user experience.
Finally, the white paper recommends an O&M experience upgrade. The industry’s first campus digital map by Huawei, a four-dimensional map of networks, users, terminals, and applications, visualizes the E2E experience and locates the root causes of problems with one click, improving O&M efficiency by ten times. The optimal energy-saving period can be automatically recommended based on traffic tidal prediction, improving energy efficiency and saving energy by 30%.
Shawn Zhao, President of the Campus Network Domain, Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, gave a keynote speech at the session. He stated, “High-quality 10 Gbps CloudCampus experience-centric, aligning with enterprises’ expectations for wireless, application, and O&M experience upgrade, leading campus networks from the connectivity-centric era into the experience-centric era.”
As new technologies and application scenarios emerge one after another, high-quality 10 Gbps campus networks will become an essential infrastructure and the preferred choice for enterprises. Such future-proof networks will drive the intelligent development of diverse industries and inject new vitality and impetus into enterprises’ digital and intelligent transformation.
MWC Barcelona 2024 is held from February 26 to 29 in Barcelona, Spain. Huawei’s enterprise business booth is located at 1H50, Hall 1, Fira Gran Via.
