Huawei Enterprise has a massive product portfolio, and touches a wide range of industries. These will be available to a wider range of customers through the company’s new commercial business unit.
“The way Huawei puts together its products to build solutions for customers is unique,” says Jacques Visagie, chief technology officer of the Huawei Commercial Division EBG.
The CloudCampus technology underpins and enables services like wireless, switches, SD-WAN, storage, video surveillance, IdeaHub S2 and digital power products.
Huawei CloudCampus 3.0 is a fully wireless, intelligent cloud campus network that inspires digital innovation, Visagie says. And customers can consume it as a service to enable multiple solutions.
CloudCampus enables intelligent operations and management (O&M) and cloud management.
Huawei underpins CloudCampus with its market leadership in WiFi 6, optical solutions, switches, routers and intelligent O&M.
Fully wireless networking is vital, with WiFi 6 continuous networking replacing wired communications and accelerating wireless transformation. Huawei’s WiFi 6 has zero signal blind spot, zero interruption during roaming, no speed reduction for applications, and data backhaul.
Its Dynamic-Zoom smart antenna are an industry first for Huawei which give more coverage, distance and performance.
Huawei boasts a huge product portfolio when it comes to WiFi, Visagie says. These include routers, hybrid cables, switches and remote units.
The AirEngine WiFi 6 range includes access points (APs) for a range of user environments, customer premise equipment (CPE) and wireless accessory configurator (WAC) devices managing up to 6 000 managed APs and 64 000 users.
The Cloud Engine S-Series switch comes in a range of configurations that support any customer environment, complemented by a line-up of standard Gigabit Ethernet switches.
Specific products include full-featured routing switches, enhanced all-optical switches, the Ideal Core switches, and high-end smart routing switches.
The NetEngine AR router range offers solutions for enterprise, medium and small customers and branches.
Next-generation firewalls help to protect small office, home office and campus branches, as well as campuses and data centres of all sizes.
The NetEngine Series backbone router enables cloud WAN access and aggregation, while the CloudEngine Series data centre switch includes a range of products that include artificial intelligence for additional functionality.
The iMaster NCE line-up is an autonomous driving networking management and control system for campus, data centre and backbone networks.
Huawei is a leading supplier of SD-WAN, fully connecting multiple branches and centrally managing network services, offering flexible networking, intelligent traffic steering and intelligent O&M.
Huawei is making waves in the storage world, offering a diverse range of storage solutions that put it in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant for many of its technologies.
Huawei can craft storage solutions that suit a customer’s needs, in the cloud or on-premise.
OceanStor Dorada all-flash storage caters to all customers, from entry-level to mid-range and high-end enterprise. Hybrid flash storage is enabled by the OceanStor 2200, the OceanStor 2600, the OceanStor 5310/5510/5610 and OceanStor 6810/18510/18810 solutions.
A new offering in the storage portfolio is the OceanStor 2000 V3, setting what Visagie says in a new benchmark in entry-level enterprise storage. It enables simple IT, ease of use and secure reliability that is all-flash.
Huawei also offers distributed storage with the OceanStor Pacific Series, the OceanStor 9000 scale-out NAS storage and the IVS3800.
The DCS brings customers a data centre virtualisation solution, while the FusionCube line-up offers hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).
OceanStor data protection is enabled by disaster recovery, backup and archiving solutions, as well as a data protection appliance and OceanProtect backup storage.
Meanwhile, DME offers data-centric automation and full lifecycle data management for allows for better planning, deployment, O&M and optimisation.
The OceanStor SNS FC switches and Fabric Vision technologies work with storage devices to provide a convenient, reliable and high-performance service experience.
Video surveillance is a growing market, and Huawei offers the Holowits products and solutions for industry digital transformation. This enables intelligent transportation, intelligent grid, intelligent city, intelligent campus and intelligent retail.
The Huawei IdeaHub S2 for smart offices provides a next-generation hardware platform, HD intelligent conferencing and boundless collaboration. The IdeaHub Board for education includes ingenious design with easy interaction and various education scenarios.
Power is an ongoing issue in South Africa, and commercial business unit customers will have a number of solutions to help them overcome loadshedding and unplanned outages.
These are led by the new SmartLi UPS2000-H in 6kVA dn 10kVA.