Huawei's CloudEngine 16800 data core switch won Frost & Sullivan 2020 Global Data Center Switch Technology Leadership Award, receiving 9.6 points for its technology leverage and 9.2 points for client influence (10 points in total). It is the first 400GE switch in the industry to win this award.

This award is supposed to research and evaluate flagship data center switches from mainstream suppliers in the industry. After 10 rounds of selection, Huawei CloudEngine 16800 ranked first in both technology leverage (9.6 points) and client influence (9.2 points), surpassing competitors' products and showing its industry-leading strength.

"5G and AI have attracted wide attention from both the industry and society, and network infrastructure, as an essential part of the new infrastructure, is also gaining attention. Huawei CloudEngine 16800 has made breakthroughs in high-density 400GE switching, intelligent lossless network performance, and intelligent O&M. It is Huawei's flagship product in the AI era." stated Leon Wang, President of Huawei's Data Center Network Domain, "I am delighted that Huawei has received this expert award in the industry. We are also assured that we will stay customer-centric, constantly make investments in innovation, and keep our global leadership."

In January 2019, Huawei launched the industry's first data core switch oriented to the AI technology CloudEngine 16800. The CloudEngine 16800 helps the industry's highest-density 400GE interfaces and offers a switching functionality five times the enterprise average, meeting easy evolution requirements for the next 10 years. The CloudEngine 16800 is used to construct the intelligent and lossless Ethernet with zero packet loss, enhancing the computing efficiency and storage IOPS. In addition, Huawei CloudEngine 16800 makes use of AI technologies and works with iMaster NCE FabricInsight to discover faults within 1 minute, discover faults within 3 minutes, and rectify faults within 5 minutes, accelerating evolution to the autonomous driving network. Furthermore, Huawei CloudEngine 16800 series switches overcome multiple hardware engineering technical difficulties, such as ultra-high-speed signal transmission, excellent heat dissipation, and efficient power supply, lowering the per-bit power consumption by 26% and saving energy.

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Omdia Report: Huawei Routers Take Top Spot in 2019 Global Carrier Market

Separately, Huawei routers also took top spot in the international carrier market in 2019 in accordance a current report by Omdia (formerly IHS Markit), an authoritative global research institute.

Huawei routers maintained their leading role in 2019, following their rise to the top of the carrier market in 2018. In the backbone router market, Huawei routers have maintained their top place for three consecutive years. Moreover, this is the first time that Huawei routers took top spot in the metro router market, making Huawei routers No. 1 in the overall international carrier market as well as niche markets.

Huawei's constant investment and efforts in the router field are the key enablers of this achievement. Adhering to a customer-centric philosophy, Huawei constantly carries out technological innovations in modern products and solutions, next-generation protocols, and smart O&M. To tackle the fast growth of traffic in the 5G and cloud era, Huawei launched the NetEngine 8000 series the industry's only router that supports E2E 400GE.

Huawei additionally launched the industry's first IP network solution with dedicated SLA to meet the stricter bandwidth, latency, and availability requirements of 5G vertical industries. Technologies such as FlexE-based network slicing, latency-based routing by SRv6, and iFIT-enabled fault finding within minutes offer committed network bandwidth, assured latency, and high network availability, making sure first-rate transport of vertical industries. In addition, iMaster Network Cloud Engine (NCE) allows full-lifecycle automation and intelligence of networks, driving networks to evolve towards autonomous driving networks.

Following 25 years of non-stop R&D investment, Huawei has turn out to be a leading provider of intelligent IP networks, with its products and solutions being deployed in more than 130 countries and regions.