JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwired) — 11/08/16 — Today, MTN and Huawei jointly launched the Smart Water Metering solution, the first Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) solution in Africa. The solution is designed to help MTN develop their NB-IoT services to explore new markets.The Smart Water metering solution enables the automated collection of utility meter data, while manual meter reading leads to high labor costs and missing or inaccurate data. Through sensors installed in wat
WUXI, CHINA — (Marketwired) — 11/08/16 — Huawei has recently completed the system function and performance verification test on the 3GPP-compliant narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) at the 5G Joint Innovation Lab of China Mobile. Huawei was also the first to complete such verification among China Mobile–s partners. Tests at the China Mobile Research Institute are famous for being authoritative and rigorous. The entire test strictly followed the 3GPP requirements. Its successful completi
SHENZEN, CHINA — (Marketwired) — 10/26/16 — True, the top operator in Thailand, and Huawei recently announced the use of Atom GPS to deliver high-precision time synchronization for 4.5G networks. This innovative time synchronization solution addresses the challenges in traditional GPS deployment, greatly saving the total cost of ownership (TCO), achieving network-wide anywhere clock synchronization, and greatly improving users– network experience.True has over 20 million wireless subscriber
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwired) — 10/21/16 — The awards ceremony for the Broadband World Forum 2016 was held in London yesterday. Telefonica and Huawei won the –Best Innovation in Virtualization– award for their IP and Optical SDN network, the first commercial deployment of such a solution in the industry.Operators– traditional IP backbone and optical backbone bearer networks are independent, lacking linkage in terms of network planning, service provisioning, resource management, a
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwired) — 10/21/16 — Openserve, Africa–s largest integrated communications company, and Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, have jointly announced the successful deployment of a high-speed fibre packet and optical transport network. This will enable Openserve to respond to the exponential growth in demand for data services across South Africa, with trial results indicating a seven-fold increase in the s
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwired) — 10/21/16 — Today, Huawei released its Gigaband Network Development White Paper at the Broadband World Forum (BBWF). This white paper is the industry–s first guide for developing Gigaband networks with higher efficiency and lower cost. This is a new contribution that Huawei as a leader in the ultra-broadband industry has made for the development of global Gigaband industry and also proven its industry leadership.It has become a consensus of the entire
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwired) — 10/20/16 — Huawei today announced that its MA5800 access platform has won the –Best Fixed Broadband Innovation– award at the Broadband Awards, part of Broadband World Forum (BBWF) 2016. This award showcases Huawei–s innovation in the fixed access domain, especially in broadband bandwidth, network quality and user experience.At the Broadband World Forum 2014, Huawei released the industry–s first distributed MA5800 access platform. Unlike traditiona
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwired) — 10/19/16 — Huawei–s NG-fast (next-generation G.fast) prototype debuted at the Broadband World Forum (BBWF) 2016. According to the test report from Huawei–s FBB Innovation Lab, this prototype provides a bandwidth of 3.8 Gbps @ 50 meters and 2.4Gbps @70 meters over a single twisted pair. This development exemplifies Huawei–s capability for continuous innovation in the DSL access field and also helps carriers worldwide further tap into the potential o
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwired) — 10/19/16 — At this year–s Broadband World Forum, Huawei released the industry–s largest-capacity SuperVector solution through copper lines. This innovative solution enables a single device to support a maximum of 384 subscriber lines.Under this solution, existing VDSL2/vectoring devices in fiber to the curb (FTTC) scenarios will be accelerated to 2-3 times the rate of original sites through board replacement. This solution also supports a downstream
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwired) — 10/18/16 — At the Broadband World Forum 2016 held in London, Huawei announced the CloudFAN access network solution. Huawei also showcased its existing large-capacity distributed Optical Line Terminal (OLT) which supports open protocol and works with the network controller to achieve the smooth evolution of CloudFAN.To implement the all cloud strategy, the operator–s network needs to migrate to a DC-Centric architecture, where network functions and se
