Huawei Launches Its All-New CloudWAN 3.0 Solution to Empower Connectivity for Numerous Industries

[China, September 24, 2021] At HUAWEI CONNECT 2021, Huawei launched its new CloudWAN 3.0 solution to help enterprises build a flexible, reliable, and deterministic network, addressing the numerous challenges enterprises face during digital transformation in the cloud era and ultimately injecting new momentum into their digital development. Snow Yang, Vice President of Huawei's Router Domain, Data Communication Product Line, unveiled this solution in his keynote speech titled "Huawei CloudWAN 3.0 Solution Empowers Connectivity for Numerous Industries".

As millions of enterprises are moving to the cloud and production networks are evolving towards IP, digital transformation is gathering speed among enterprises and entering a critical period. WANs are the foundation of digital economy, but are facing with three new trends and challenges:

First, as the cloud and network are separated on a traditional network, it can take months to provision network services, even though cloud services can be provisioned in minutes. The agile nature of cloud services cannot be used to its full advantage. Second, as production systems are cloudified, the requirements on network experience increase significantly, but it is difficult to implement isolation for security and SLA assurance between different services. Third, as the scope of network connections expands, so does the scale of the network, and exponentially so. O&M becomes difficult to the point where manual O&M alone is insufficient.

To cope with these new trends and challenges, Huawei's newly upgraded CloudWAN 3.0 solution, powered by IPv6 Enhanced Innovation (IPE), provides four capabilities: one-hop cloud access, one-fiber multipurpose transport, one-click fast scheduling, and one-network wide connection. This E2E all-scenario solution is designed to accelerate enterprise digital transformation.

One-Hop Cloud Access

In the past, it took several months for enterprises to connect to clouds, involving more than 10 stages and multi-level cross-department collaboration. With the help of CloudWAN 3.0, technologies overcome process barriers. Specifically, SRv6-based cloud path technology eliminates the need for E2E cross-domain configuration and allows services to be provisioned in just minutes. This ultimately leads to agile access to multiple clouds for the enterprises. Furthermore, Huawei's latest innovative virtual link/virtual node technology allows Huawei devices to mix with non-Huawei devices on the live network, enabling intelligent path computation across other vendors' devices. This significantly reduces costs as devices do not need to be replaced network wide, and improves intelligent O&M capabilities, enabling enterprises to quickly and efficiently move their services to clouds.

One-Fiber Multipurpose Transport

Traditional production and office services are carried on multiple independent physical networks. The coexistence of these networks causes repeated construction and difficult O&M. CloudWAN 3.0 slicing stands out from the rest, addressing this issue with four industry-leading advantages: over 1000 hierarchical slices, slice ID-based slicing (eliminating the need for address planning), 10 Mbps slicing granularity, and full port coverage, enabling one network to carry multiple services and hard isolation between office and production services. Slicing maximizes the utilization of network resources while adapting to a broad array of industry applications. Huawei's latest 10GE port FlexE technology enables enterprise traffic to immediately enter a slice after leaving an enterprise egress, extending slicing to the last 500 meters. Huawei has invested great efforts into its FlexE hard slicing technology, making it the only vendor that provides slicing across full port series