Huawei has launched SD-WAN and Wi-Fi 7 Series products and innovations in Saudi Arabia for the first time at the IP Club KSA forum on November 30, 2022, in Riyadh. The Huawei IP Club aims to create an open, free, and friendly thought-sharing platform for network technical supervisors, engineers, industry analysts, and key opinion leaders under the theme “Intelligent Cloud Network, Unleashing Digital Productivity.” The best minds in the industry will be present at IP Club to engage in thought-provoking conversations about future network technology trends, share perspectives on digital transformation, and chart the way forward.
SD-WAN is a significant datacom market segment with numerous applications. The majority of industry vendors are primarily concerned with routing devices for branch interconnection. Huawei SD-WAN is a comprehensive solution that combines branch interconnection routers, campus switches, Wi-Fi access, and a unified network management platform. Furthermore, Huawei is the market leader in converged LAN-WAN management, which includes branch network provisioning, deployment, and unified O&M, significantly improving management efficiency and O&M experience.
Huawei experts can guide customers through the numerous benefits of the Huawei SD-WAN solution through IP club activities. Huawei SD-WAN was named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for WAN Edge Infrastructure in 2022 for the third year in a row, with the solution already deployed across industries.
Huawei has also released its first enterprise-class Wi-Fi 7 AP, the AirEngine 8771. As previously stated, Wi-Fi 7 improves space resource utilization and increases the theoretical Wi-Fi rate to 30 Gbps, achieving a threefold increase over Wi-Fi 6. According to a 2021 industry report, Huawei has always been the primary contributor to Wi-Fi standards such as Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 6, and Wi-Fi 7. Overall, Huawei has amassed a plethora of innovative technologies and patents and has been at the forefront of Wi-Fi industry standards.
Daniel Kirk, vice president of Strategy Huawei Enterprise Business said, “Robust connectivity is the backbone of the digital era. By bringing these innovations in SD-WAN and Wi-Fi, we enable our customers and partners in KSA to offer differentiated services to end users cost-effectively. The Huawei IP Club in Saudi Arabia has the largest community membership outside China, demonstrating the Kingdom’s appetite for innovative technologies to drive digital transformation in line with Vision 2030.”
Every person, family, and organization requires network access anytime and anywhere to enjoy convenient digital services in the cloud era. As a result, enterprise digital transformation has accelerated, and there is an urgent need for upgraded connections. Huawei’s Intelligent Cloud-Network solution establishes a new type of service network capable of cloud-based network migration as well as cloud-network-security integration. This solution is applicable to a wide range of industries, including e-Government, smart healthcare, smart education, smart mining, smart port, and smart manufacturing.
