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New ICT Era Creates a Win-Win Ecosystem | By Yan Lida, President, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

he new ICT era requires more than just new technologies and architectures — it T calls for a new ecosystem. As the digital economy transforms our personal and professional lives, new ICT technologies are fundamentally changing existing business models. Companies engaged in finance can obtain insights into users’ consumption habits from personal data generated by various types of terminals that can be used to form the basis for credit ratings and lending decisions. City administrators can improve public safety by creating protection functionality through the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data analytics that enhance dispatch utilization for police officers and related civil services. Intelligent metering enables electric power enterprises to optimize the efficiency of electricity supplies by quickly identifying problems over the transmission grid. These are examples of demands that must be enabled, and more are emerging in other industries at an accelerated rate. Against this backdrop, cloud computing and ICT technologies are providing scalable applications that rely on our new era of enterprise digitalization.

Generally, enterprise ICT infrastructures consist of business systems that generate mass data in real time and platform systems that are based on cloud computing and Big Data analytics to support business operations and decision making. The combined power of these systems allows enterprises to reach new levels of agility and automation. Huawei believes that the digital transformation of enterprises requires ICT infrastructures that provide centralized cloud computing.

These new infrastructures will reshape existing ecosystems. By 2025, global applications of ICT technologies are projected to result in 100 billion connections, with vertical industries running hundreds of millions of applications. While continuously providing new offerings that meet users’ needs, ICT enterprises must adopt new and open architectures and interfaces that combine cloud computing, networking, and devices; amass countless developers to help them integrate ICT solutions across growing industries; and promote ‘ecologically coordinated’ innovations that harness the power of the upgraded infrastructures.

New ICT technologies, architectures, and ecosystems will breed new rules of engagement. Huawei is committed to providing cloud-pipe-terminal solutions that maximize clouds, networks, and devices. Huawei is also committed to working with developers and partners to create customer-driven ecosystems that take advantage of its open ICT platforms that enable a path of innovation for every industry. This win-win ecological environment will unleash unlimited business opportunities for all.▲

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Comment P30 The Future of Telemedicine P1 New ICT Era Creates a Win-Win Ecosystem Huawei has recently partnered with the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University to develop a telemedicine system and joint innovation center. >> P42 AMI — The Power of Dynamic Systems News Electricity utility managers are exploring the potential of P4 Technology News AMI systems for benefits beyond their energy sensing and Focus control capabilities. >> P6 Industries Go to the Cloud P32 Storage is Changing, but are You? Innovative ICT is impacting businesses, productivity, and lifestyles. >> If you are looking for an infrastructure to better serve your company’s vision and stimulate growth, then let’s take a walk down ‘memory’ lane and see Success Features where it leads. >> P46 Big Data Refines Predictive Policing P34 SSD is Knocking P48 High-Performance Cloud Computing for P8 ‘New ICT’ Drives Innovation Is it time to get out in front of the crowd and move to SSD? >> Customer-centric, business-driven, and developer-defined ecosystems enable innova- the Broadcasting Industry tive modes of collaboration. >> P36 Automating OTA Software Updates for IoT P50 Threat Protection through Cloud Video Mender.io over-the-air services are built to support a growing ecosystem of Storage P12 Vertical Solutions Roundup embedded Linux devices. >> In whichever direction the world is changing, Huawei will be there to provide ICT solutions that solve the unique problems faced by business and industry. >> Last Word Ecosystem • Protecting Enchanted Kenya P52 5G for IoT and Mobile • Developing the Energy Internet P39 Easier Development for ICT Partners A research and technology roadmap, including real-world • Building a Learner-Centered Model Huawei’s eSDK platform enables third-party developers to create innovative examples, illustrates the range and complexities of an • Russia Commissions New Credit Card Payment System evolving 5G/IoT ecosystem. >> • Digitalization — Banks Transform to Outperform solutions that help customers accelerate their business transformation. >> • Time to Build an All-IP TV Station

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— brand new, cutting-edge technology designed to spearhead the next generation in commercial vehicle telematics. A highly powerful, integrated application Technology delivery system, IVG offers advanced features such as a larger display, superior wireless connectivity, and hands-free voice commands designed to improve News safety, efficiency, and productivity. IVG represents a breakthrough in mobile fleet management technology. | Source: PR Newswire Sagemcom Will Supply Enexis with the First Large-Scale, Smart-Meter Rollout

customer base. Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the intelligent networks requires huge investment and ROW acquisition, and the time RUEIL-MALMAISON, France, Feb. 2, 2016 — MEMS Revolutionized with Picosun’s Batch ALD network of things that communicate directly or indirectly with each needed for the rollout tends to be long. This trade-off means the time it takes Enexis selects Sagemcom as one of the suppliers for Cluster Tools other. to pay for this infrastructure investment is often protracted. Enter the Huawei LTE smart meters for the large-scale rollout in the ESPOO, Finland, Jan. 25, 2016 — Picosun Oy, the leading The IoT market is expected to grow to USD 1.7 trillion by 2020, Any Media Giga Access Platform, which is able to support fiber, copper, Netherlands. supplier of high quality Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) thin and the need for ready-to-use product platforms, rapid prototyping, coax, and combined fixed and mobile access methods. The innovative new Sagemcom has been selected for the development film coating solutions for industrial production, has revolution- and faster time-to-market are key elements for successful IoT tech going into the platform provides the way to the Gigaband era with ultra- and supply of the ESMR5.0 smart electricity meters ized cost-effective MEMS manufacturing with high throughput deployments in the enterprise market. broadband network enablement. in the Netherlands, which will contribute to the smart PICOPLATFORM™ batch ALD cluster technology. metering program of Enexis for the period Q4 2016 to MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems; Microsystems) are 2021 (with optional extensions to 2026). China Smartphone Shipments Hit a Record 438 Million E2open Announces Latest Product Release to Empower micrometer-scale, semiconductor-based components that combine Based on the Dutch DSMR4.2 specifications, these Units in 2015 Flexible, Scalable, and Adaptive Supply Chain Operations electrical, mechanical, and optical functions. They are present in LTE-adapted ESMR5.0 smart electricity meters will our everyday products such as hard disk read heads, inkjet printer BOSTON, Mass., U.S.A., Jan. 28, 2016 — According to the latest AUSTIN, Texas, U.S.A., Feb. 1, 2016 — E2open demonstrates the result of provide new features to enhance the communication nozzles, microphone and projector chips, airbag controls, tire pres- research from Strategy Analytics, China smartphone shipments its significant and ongoing investment in supply chain management technology interface with consumer gas meters and aim to improve sure monitoring, and driving stability systems in cars. grew 3 percent annually to hit a record 438 million units in 2015. with its latest product release announced today. The improved intercompany security for customer privacy concerns. This new solu- Xiaomi maintained first position and captured a 15 percent smart- connectivity, new shipment and material tracking and traceability, deeper tion, which complements the Enexis-installed base of phone market share in China last year. control of manufacturing processes, and better planning capabilities — all smart electricity meters with GPRS, offers real-time Huawei’s Next-Generation Firewall Solutions Receive Linda Sui, Director at Strategy Analytics, said, “China smart- within a more secure cloud-based operations environment — provide enriched information on energy consumption in order to reduce Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification phone shipments declined 4 percent annually from 123.0 million visibility and control while leveraging E2open’s powerful business network. energy usage and significantly decrease energy costs BEIJING, China, Jan. 26, 2016 — Huawei today announced that units in Q4, 2014 to 117.9 million in Q4, 2015. China smartphone for customers. its Unified Security Gateway (USG) and Eudemon series next- growth is slowing due to market saturation, inventory build, and EXFO Introduces the World’s First G.fast Handheld Test Set generation firewall solutions have been awarded Common Criteria economic headwinds. However, for the full year, China smartphone Synopsys Redefines Circuit Simulation with (CC) certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+). shipments grew 3 percent annually from 423.6 million units in QUEBEC CITY, Canada, Feb. 1, 2016 /CNW Telbec/ — EXFO Inc. Native Environment It demonstrates the security and reliability of Huawei’s next- 2014 to a record 437.8 million in 2015.” (NASDAQ: EXFO), (TSX: EXF) today announced the introduction of its generation firewall products. MaxTester 635G (MAX-635G) test set, a handheld G.fast CPE emulation MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, U.S.A., Feb. 3, The evaluation was conducted by Epoche and Espri, an indepen- solution that supports ITU-T G.9700 and G.9701 recommendations, as well 2016 — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today an- Huawei Releases Any Media Giga Access Platform to dent European security evaluation organization, which provides as current VDSL2 and ADSL2+ technologies. The MAX-635G is a must nounced that its circuit simulators will include a Deliver Gigaband Enablement security evaluation and testing services to industry-leading inter- for operators rolling out ultra-broadband to subscribers in today’s highly native environment for simulation management and national companies. EAL4+ is the highest assurance level that is LONDON, England, Jan. 28, 2016 — Huawei launched its Any competitive broadband residential services market. analysis. The included solution provides designers recognized globally for network products. Media Giga Access Platform that allows operators to make full use EXFO’s new MaxTester 635G test set provides technicians with a hand- with full access to the advanced features available of the various access media on their existing networks to quickly held solution to confidently install, turn up, and maintain G.fast, VDSL2, in Synopsys SPICE and FastSPICE simulators and deploy gigabit-capable ultra-broadband (Gigaband) networks with and ADSL2+ deployments with a single test tool, enabling the verification of eliminates the need for third-party environments. Prodapt and Sprint Partner to Power the Global IoT unified architectures, software, and management. The Gigaband subscriber data rates of up to 1 Gbit/s. As an early collaboration customer, Samsung Ecosystem Era is truly upon us now! Electronics’ System LSI Business evaluated the new DALLAS, Texas, U.S.A., Jan. 26, 2016 — Prodapt and Sprint Broadband networks are moving from the 100M-level to giga- environment with FineSim SPICE and has deployed Omnitracs Launches Intelligent Vehicle Gateway have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver industry specific level access at the home as 4K TV, virtual reality, holographic it to their analog design community.▲ IoT solutions. The partnership enables Sprint to leverage software imaging, and other new bandwidth-hungry services emerge. All- DALLAS, Texas, U.S.A., Feb. 1, 2016 — Omnitracs, LLC, a global pioneer products, platforms, and integration expertise from Synapt optical networks are the optimal medium for Gigaband. However, of fleet management solutions to transportation and logistics companies, All logos, products, and company names are trade- (Prodapt’s IoT division) to deliver solutions for Sprint’s enterprise in some regions, exclusive use of optical fiber to build gigabit today announced the introduction of Intelligent Vehicle Gateway (IVG) marks of their respective owners. 4 5 News News

Industries Go to the Cloud David Gould | By David Gould, Bloomberg News It will be the experienced cloud providers who can igital technology is shaping the future. The dramatic convergence of the cloud, mobile, networks, Innovative ICT offer innovative is impacting and Big Data is a catalyst that’s empowering business owners, consumers, and creative partners to Communications Providers (ICPs) to handle the partner. For that reason, leading global companies solutions to businesses, drive a new connectivity that can enrich all humanity. D end-to-end workflows of mission-critical applica- have chosen Huawei to help them offer innovative their customers, productivity, and Right now, the world is seeing how a new style of based platforms by 2018. IDC forecasts, in that tions. Doing so will allow them to more readily cloud solutions. This has happened across all sec- whether they are lifestyles. >> elastically scalable computing — the cloud — is im- same timeframe, public cloud spending will more take advantage of the new digital world. tors. in the financial, pacting business, productivity, and lifestyles. Cloud than double to USD 127.5 billion. According to a “It will be the experienced cloud providers In finance, adopting a cloud solution means urban government, platforms are already vital to enterprise application Goldman Sachs study, spending on cloud computing who can offer innovative cloud solutions to their satisfying an Internet generation that demands media production, strategies, with Forrester Research, an independent infrastructure and platforms will grow at a compound customers, whether they’re in the financial, urban promptness, reliability, and precision, as well as enterprise campus, technology and market research firm, estimating that annual growth rate of 30 percent through 2018 — government, media production, enterprise campus, building IT systems able to dynamically allocate or software one-quarter of developers globally are using cloud much higher than the five percent of growth forecast or software development markets,” adds Yan resources to keep pace with real-time changes in development services. for overall enterprise IT. Lida, President of the Enterprise Business Group business volume. In the Smart City of the future, markets. >> “Over the next four to five years, we expect a ten- “Cloud users are realizing benefits that impact at Huawei Technologies, Inc., a leading global keeping pace with digitalization means supporting fold increase in the number of new cloud-based solu- business directly via agility, simplicity, collaboration, Information and Communications Technology a culture of innovation that allows government tions,” says Frank Gens, Senior Vice President and and innovation,” says Robert Mahowald, Program (ICT) solutions provider. However, as they enable agencies to collect and share information that will Chief Analyst at the global market intelligence firm Vice President at IDC, and leader of IDC’s SaaS & digital transformation for their partners, ICT pro- achieve greater convenience and security for its IDC. “Many of these solutions will become more Cloud Services practice. viders will also face challenges. citizens by simplifying complicated bureaucracies. strategic than traditional IT has ever been. At the However, fully embracing digitalization and Likewise, virtually every other industry has been same time, there will be unprecedented competition transforming into a digital enterprise that doesn’t only Building a Better Connected World touched by these advances, from healthcare (where and consolidation among the leading cloud provid- use the cloud in an ad hoc way — a trend known as In a world that, by 2025, may have 100 billion digi- a patient’s information can be stored in the cloud ers. This combination of explosive innovation and ‘shadow IT’ — is an effort that’s beyond the capabili- tal devices connected to the IoT — an estimated so they can receive expert service even at distant intense competition will make the next several years ties of many organizations’ IT departments. For that USD 2 trillion global market — ICT providers facilities) and manufacturing (reducing the produc- a pivotal period for current and aspiring IT market reason, while some companies are on the way to will need to engineer a digital ecosystem with a tion cycle of cars to six hours) to education (where leaders.” becoming adept at leveraging the cloud, many have connected infrastructure and mobile broadband more students can share high-quality educational As this technology continues to evolve, the con- been slow to move ahead — even if they understand technology to the highest standard, faster than ever, resources) and media (allowing reporters to share nectivity it enables will drive economic transforma- that being inactive risks a competitive disadvantage. for everyone, everywhere. breaking news in real time with audiences using tion worldwide, as well as cause even more massive Given how vast this ecosystem needs to be, their laptop or mobile device). changes for individuals, businesses, and govern- The Power of Partnership it’s clear that no single company can serve every “There’s a need to develop ICT infrastructure ments. In short, the cloud revolution will not tolerate CIOs, technology vendors, and consultants all agree customer across the entire industry. Instead, enter- with an open structure through joint innovation standing still. that a serious shortage of cloud computing skills and prises will need to maintain close collaborations that provides enterprises with more cutting-edge a lack of understanding of cloud-centric business with hundreds of technology partners in order to products to drive business transformations and Quantifying the Cloud processes across the IT industry threaten to impede build a solid cloud ecosystem — one that’s based add value,” Lida concludes. “We believe that the Cloud computing has become the platform of choice to adoption and deployments. on cooperation, openness, and mutual benefit. impact of ICT should be measured by how many power the applications necessary to manage national An IDC survey shows just how naïve many IT To deliver the best user experience, organiza- people can benefit from it. Our aim is to act as a economies, industrial infrastructure, and consumer ser- departments are about their level of cloud adoption: tions not only need to construct future-oriented responsible corporate citizen, an innovative enabler vices. And, since it offers utility-scale computational They typically believe themselves to be one to two infrastructure that ensures agile innovation but also for the information society, and a collaborative power to support the burgeoning Internet of Things stages beyond where they actually are. “For these need to focus on the creation of a healthy and open contributor to the industry.” (IoT) and Big Data applications, the cloud’s continued companies, it’s a wakeup call that they need partners industry ecosystem where all players along the As long as companies and governments continue growth is a foregone conclusion. with skills to route them to the destination,” notes value chain collaborate and contribute. to adopt this outlook and recognize the power of According to the research firm Saugatuck IDC’s Mahowald. In the digital economy, no one company can technology to create new opportunities, the cloud Technology, more than 60 percent of enterprises will In the future, businesses seem likely to bypass their serve all customers, making it that much more holds unrivaled potential to enrich lives and improve have at least half of their infrastructure on cloud- in-house IT and look to experienced Information and important to create new solutions with the help of a efficiency through a better connected world.▲ 6 7 Features Features

‘New ICT’ Drives Innovation David He | By David He, President, Marketing and Solution Sales Department, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. new competitors are entering the market, legacy Once a support system designed for operational banks are being forced to implement fresh prod- efficiency, ICT today is a production system for Over the next ucts, services, and customer support programs with driving value creation. An example from the five to ten years, unprecedented speed. healthcare field is the use of cloud computing industry will Customer- enter a critical centric, The Bank of Beijing has built a digital platform and Big Data technologies for data collection and that leverages the advantages of omni-channel analysis for DNA sequencing services to determine period of digital business-driven, transformation. and developer- collaboration that not only emphasizes ‘online’ customized drug treatments. services but also supports its ‘offline’ physical In 2015, Huawei Enterprise launched the Once a support defined system designed ecosystems outlets by meeting their requirements for customer Business-Driven ICT Infrastructure (BDII) pro- registration and risk assessment monitoring. gram to encourage close business collaboration and for operational enable efficiency, innovative Changes in the banking industry are only the joint innovation efforts between Huawei and our beginning. Industries across all market verticals partners. ICT today is a modes of production system collaboration. >> are experiencing digital transformations enabled by “At Huawei Enterprise, BDII is a guiding prin- the new ICT. History shows that only 10 percent of ciple for us to enable the new industrial revolution. for driving value enterprise service departments participated in ICT BDII consists of three core components — to think creation. >> construction in 1970. Recent surveys show that with a business-driven mindset, facilitate joint participation in 2014 was at 53 percent and project innovation, and focus on ICT infrastructure,” says an increase to 80 percent by 2020. A 2014 IDC Yan Lida, President, Huawei Enterprise Business survey of 2,492 global enterprises indicated that Group. “As part of building BDII, Huawei will CIOs were most concerned with how to upgrade continue to focus on developing ICT infrastructures their ICT infrastructures to meet changing business with an open structure to provide enterprises with requirements. differentiated, cutting-edge products and solutions

e have entered a new era of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in which business and technology are experiencing a ‘survival-of-the-most-agile’ evolution. W Today, we have the technology to query electricity consumption, account balances, and pay the bill from our mobile phones. Video-on-Demand (VoD) services enable television viewers to share their favorite programs via the WeChat ‘Shake’ function that is designed to find new friends in your immediate vicinity. Smart home functionality allows remote control of televisions, air conditioners, and water heaters through mobile Apps that accept inputs from ‘speech-to-text’ servers.

May the ‘Active Force’ Be with You shows that by the end of 2017, CEOs from 67 percent New ICT is an open, customer-driven ecosystem of 2,000 global enterprises will regard digital trans- in which developers are redefining expectations for formation as their strategic core. agile infrastructures centered on cloud-pipe-device The Transformation and Reconstruction of Banks collaborations designed to quickly adapt to change. in the Digital Era, a Deloitte white paper, describes Over the next five to ten years, industry will enter a new expectation for banking customers: anytime, a critical period of digital transformation. A report anywhere connectivity with access to tailor-made released by the International Data Corporation (IDC) services based on predictive analytics. And, because

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to drive their business transformations.” basic capabilities. In the new ecosystem, partners layer service software to offer an efficient, Highly flexible and collaborative, the open The new ICT are better positioned to demand innovation from convergent, private omnimedia private cloud capabilities of Huawei’s new ICT ecosystem Market competition industry has evolved Developer-Defined Ecosystems the vendor community based on end-user require- solution for media industry customers. are devised to attract more partners and meet motivates enterprises of from hardware- and The new ICT industry has evolved from hardware- ments in ways that optimize the joint delivery of Currently, Huawei is participating in the customers’ service requirements. all sizes to expand and software-defined to and software-defined to developer-defined, where leading-edge solutions. following partnerships: advance, as delays of even developer-defined, customers are in their best ever position to impose ICT vendors possess the advanced technology • Strategic partners: SAP, Accenture, VDF, Collaboration Drives ‘New ICT’ a few months can mean where customers an influence on the advancement of their business necessary for infrastructure development but often and Hexagon Market competition motivates enterprises of life or death for entire are in their best ever platforms. lack domain expertise in specialized vertical mar- • Solution partners: 300+, including all sizes to expand and advance, as delays product lines or online position to impose New modes of cooperation are reshaping a busi- kets — for instance, a vendor with mature solu- Microsoft, Alston, Siemens, and Honeywell of even a few months can mean life or death services. Enterprise ICT an influence on ness landscape in which no single vendor can or tions in the healthcare industry may be unfamiliar • Channel partners: 6,300+, including for entire product lines or online services. infrastructures must be the advancement will dominate the market. To compete effectively, with regulations in the financial industry. Synnex, Digital China, Array Network, and Enterprise ICT infrastructures must be able to able to support the rapid of their business Huawei must continually enhance and expand its The Huawei ‘1+1>2’ partner program is Indra support the rapid changes that come with high- changes that come with platforms. >> open system capabilities and support the growth designed to complement the advantages of each • Service partners: 1,600+, including ICT stakes markets. high-stakes markets. >> of developer-defined ecosystems that deliver party to achieve winning outcomes. One such Plus and Sequence Safe cities, omni-channel banking, smart commercial value for their customers, partners, example is the SAP-Huawei joint innovation In addition, Huawei has established the power grids, and the IoT are large-scale and vendors. Developer-defined ecosystems create center that was established in 2015 with locations ‘Smart City Industry Alliance’ and ‘eLTE examples of the rapid digitalization of govern- business innovations for customers and solution in Shenzhen, China and Walldorf, Germany to Industry Alliance’ to promote the developments and enterprises alike. innovations for partners. This strategy presents a extend the SAP HANA Solution into the cloud, ment of industry standards and demonstrate In all cases, each sector needs ICT-based win-win scenario for all. ‘Industry 4.0’, and IoT fields. Another important the principles of ‘Openness’ and ‘Being cloud computing to support their transforma- • Joint Exploration of Business Values cooperation pact is with China’s Sobey Digital Integrated.’ tion to modern business practice. In the traditional development channel, ‘collabora- Technology, where Huawei is providing an IaaS- • Using Open Platforms Tencent — the host of China’s largest tion’ is defined as partners extending vendors’ layer solution to optimize middleware and upper- Huawei leads in the exploration of new Internet user group — needed to add new ICT markets by providing an open ecosystem for infrastructure in three short months to support technology and platform development. In peak traffic. Huawei delivered a containerized, 2015, Huawei became a Platinum member custom Modular Data Center (MDC) solution of the Linux Foundation. A longtime major that reduced the deployment cycle from 600 contributor, Huawei won a Gold Member po- days to 60 days. sition from the OpenStack Board of Directors Shenzhen Media Group (SZMG) used in 2016. In the Big Data field, Huawei has Huawei’s Big Data solution to build a made significant contributions to the develop- large pool of virtual computing and storage ment of Hadoop and Spark and continues to resources that reduced the time needed to be a major driving force for implementation migrate HD video materials by over 15 times, of large-scale Spark deployments. from 48 minutes to 5 minutes. The result of The Huawei eSDK platform provides this dramatic increase in efficiency is a solid partners with standard interfaces and pre- foundation for the SZMG news business to integrated plug-ins for developers to easily leap further into the future. connect Huawei ICT-pipeline products with Cloud computing technologies enable en- upper-level applications to efficiently meet terprises to collect, store, and manage the vast customer service needs and gain a differenti- amounts of interaction data used by Big Data ated, innovative competitive edge. For exam- technologies to explore and extract value from ple, GIS mapping software provider Esri uses the information. The cloud-pipe-device ar- eSDK open interfaces to accelerate project chitecture of modern ICT systems is enabling development that, in turn, allows government enterprises to collaborate with their integration customers to benefit from convenient, easily partners to define the IoT era in which every- Please scan the QR code to visit our maintained cloud services. one and everything is connected.▲ ‘CeBIT 2016’ website. 10 11 Features Features

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oday, we can instantly connect with people across the globe, purchase products online, or check our bank balance at the click of a button, and Huawei is responsible for the delivery To keep pace in a T of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions that are solving the fast-paced global many unique problems of this rapidly changing world. market, Huawei Keeping people safe is a priority for those who protect and serve. Using technologies, such as will be there Internet of Things (IoT)-based security protection, video cloud storage, and Big Data analytics, to provide ICT Huawei helps governments plan safer and smarter cities. solutions that In Kenya, Huawei and the nation’s leading mobile network operator deployed Long-Term solve the unique Evolution (eLTE) emergency communications networks in Nairobi and surrounding suburbs to help problems faced control security threats against the nation’s natural resources. Field officers can now upload on-site in specialized High-Definition (HD) videos that stream to large screens in the command center simply by pressing vertical a button on their handheld trunking devices. The command center sends the videos to police cars industries. >> with vehicle-mounted trunking terminals, implementing visual command and collaboration. Huawei’s ‘better connected grid’ concept helps keep Internet companies competitive with connectivity for intelligent IoT terminals and cloud-based, open architectures. The emergence of eLearning and other IT technologies and applications are redefining higher education and are bound to promote changes to teaching models, learning methods, and education management. In Russia, Huawei’s data center solution was implemented to help set up the country’s payment system for processing credit card and ATM transactions across the nation. Huawei helps banks become digitalized to provide ‘anytime, anywhere’ financial services. Banks can offer financial products to the market quickly through data-driven requirement mining and product design, smart terminals, and remote banking. And, ushering in the “4K” era, Huawei has partnered with Sony to build competitive TV and media industry solutions and to assist stations in their move to an all-IP environment. Yes the world is changing, and in whichever direction it goes, Huawei will be there to meet it.

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Protecting Enchanted Kenya Developing the Energy Internet | By Zhang Aixue, Industry Marketing Execution Department, Enterprise Business Group, | By Gao Wei, Energy Sector Marketing Director, Enterprise Business Group, Zhang Aixue Gao Wei Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

enya, known as the ’Cradle of Mankind,’ is famous for its vast, picturesque landscapes and he China ‘Internet Plus’ action plan is organized to disrupt and transform businesses across multiple The Kenyan Progress is extraordinary animal life. Unfortunately, the beauty and vitality of Kenya are challenged by a variety industries, including the plan for a new energy market valued at hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars. government is making a huge of internal and external threats such as criminal incidents and terrorist attacks, as well as routine taking action K T impact in the public safety matters such as the handling of traffic accidents. to protect Hundreds of Billions processors over wideband backbone networks. energy sector its natural Informed Decisions Make Safer Cities Protecting Kenya’s Public Safety The Energy Internet is one of today’s hot topics. • Connected Intelligent Terminals: Open Machine- in the areas resources. >> Safe City solutions that require innovative ICT for Huawei’s Safe City solution includes interoperability Essence Securities estimates the value of China’s to-Machine (M2M) platforms are used to implement of intelligent security management are part of Kenya’s national among subsystems and functionalities based on a phased Energy Internet market will exceed USD 760.4 high-speed IoT interconnections between intelligent terminals, strategy. Huawei partnered with Safaricom, Kenya’s implementation schedule for future support products. billion. In the U.S., the General Electric IoT energy meters, sensors, and controllers. intelligent leading mobile network operator, and discovered the Huawei helped prioritize device configurations management platform is projected to provide value- service following challenges: based on functionalities like Geographic added service revenue of about USD 7 billion. Energy Internet Business Models systems, and • Legacy Systems: Analog trunk- Information System (GIS) and video In Germany, more than 1,100 companies The Energy Internet is poised to disrupt open platforms. ing systems were still being distribution. The ‘role ‒ function ‒ are selling electricity, and startup traditional energy markets and bring >> used for emergency commu- configuration’ architecture helped companies provide Photovoltaics new opportunities by adopting the nications; outdated devices users adapt easily to the new (PV), power storage, and electric following business models: left systems vulnerable to system. During project delivery, vehicle services from day one of • Transform the Ecosystem: interference from external when the two companies operations. Energy monopolies are typically signals, leading to unclear encountered problems finding asset-heavy, vertically integrated, communications. mature service resources lo- Energy Internet Advances and highly regulated. • Disparate Systems: cally, Huawei and Safaricom The Energy Internet is expected • Sustainable Power: Favored Kenya’s police system scheduled their own local to affect the following areas: by innovation-oriented startup included numerous agencies resources by assigning dedicated • Intelligent Terminals Connected companies, opportunities for new across the country, creating dif- teams from China and other countries to the IoT: Automated power distribu- forms of environmentally friendly ficulties in planning and building for reliable project delivery. tion and metering make the Energy Internet energy utilities extend from upgraded subsystems into the solution for quick use possible. electricity generation and transmission facilities to across agencies and multiple locations. ICT Builds Safer Cities • Intelligent Systems Based on Big Data Platforms: renewable power sources, economic models, and • Project Delivery: Complexity of the project re- Huawei believes that Kenya’s new security manage- Energy generation, storage, transmission, and con- marketing strategies. quired collaboration with upstream and downstream ment infrastructure opens an exciting new chapter for sumption systems collect real-time data streams that • Asset-Light Cloud Architecture: Asset-light enterprises in the industry chain. the country’s two largest cities, where features like work in conjunction with Big Data analytics. Internet companies operate on open cloud platforms, broadband trunking and visual command are actively • Open Cloud Platforms: Information and trading with consumer-oriented front-end information assets State-of-the-Art Solution protecting lives and property. The deployment of the exchanges are designed to interconnect between that allow data-driven competitive advantages over For visual dispatching, Huawei and Safaricom Safe City solution has drastically improved safety energy sectors. traditional energy suppliers. deployed eLTE emergency communications conditions in the country. According to a 2015 annual networks in Nairobi and surrounding suburbs, as report from Kenyan police, the crime rate in the cov- Fully Connected Grids Disruptive Innovations well as Mombasa, the nation’s second largest city. erage area decreased by 46 percent when compared to In 2014, Huawei proposed an Energy Internet based on Software-defined transformations in the ICT industry Field officers can now upload on-site HD videos the previous year. ICT technologies that we called the ‘Better Connected provide momentum to the Energy Internet market to that stream to large screens in the command center A longtime Kenyan journalist said, “I’ve heard about Grid,’ which includes the following features: break from siloed IT infrastructures that were built simply by pressing a button on their handheld the African people living in misery for years. Misery • Comprehensive Data Sharing: Allows the inte- using decades-old technologies. trunking devices. The command center sends the is not horrible. What is horrible is if we do nothing to gration of widely scattered digital resources on cloud Adopting advanced ICT technologies is a breakthrough videos to police cars with vehicle-mounted trunking change it.” computing and Big Data platforms. moment for traditional energy companies, as heavy, terminals, implementing visual command and col- Huawei’s commitment to improving the lives for the • Agile Communication Networks: Mass data fixed assets are leveraged into digitalized resources at the laboration. Kenyan people is creating that change.▲ collection is best connected to cloud information defining edge of an evolving Energy Internet.▲

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Building a Learner-Centered Russia Commissions New Credit Model Card Payment System | By Wang Yang, Product Manager, Network Switch Solutions, Enterprise Business Group, | By Shuai Junchao, Industry Marketing Execution Department, Enterprise Business Group, Wang Yang Shuai Junchao Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

eaching and learning models that encourage learner-centered education and mass participation are stablished and controlled by the Central Bank of Russia, a new National System of Payment Cards eLearning Using a pair of redefining higher education. The mobile Internet, online learning, and other IT technologies and (NSPC) has been installed. Signed into law in May 2014, the goal of the NSPC is to handle credit platforms new Huawei applications present more open, innovative approaches to higher learning. card and ATM transactions throughout the country and serve as a processing center for international continue to T E data centers, payment systems. The Central Bank of Russia chose Huawei to implement the NSPC infrastructure. transform Educators have found that learner-centered ap- ness and efficiency of the learning process by im- Russia’s higher proaches to improve the efficiency of core teaching proving the accuracy of their Big Data measurement NSPC: A Solid Foundation for Border Gateway Protocol (MP-BGP) to transmit payment education. >> and resource-sharing services in colleges and univer- and analytics tools as related to the large amounts Huawei leveraged its experience with financial MAC addresses between Layer 2 networks and system sities are accelerated by using informatization. of data generated by Massive Open Online Courses institutions worldwide, including China’s UnionPay forward Layer 2 packets using the generated MAC processes Four major technology trends illustrate the benefits (MOOCs), social media, and email. payment system, to model and build the appropriate address entries. credit card ICT offers to these institutions: Compared with traditional online courses, MOOCs levels of processing, security, and scalability for the To the benefit of improved financial data avail- and ATM provide interactive user forums to support com- NSPC data centers. Huawei worked with ability and to ensure continuity, when the transactions Mobile Availability munication between students, professors, local partners to deliver a custom transaction rate reaches 3,000 Input/ across the As the mobile Internet grows, and teaching assistants. In the U.S., solution that included two active- Output Operations Per Second nation. >> more curriculum services and ap- a single MOOC platform includes active data centers with high- (IOPS), the payment system is plications will be offered through 70 course providers. In the U.K., performance computing built to respond within 10 ms smart phones and tablet com- more than 470,000 students are platforms, cloud networks, after remote replication is puters that have been designed registered on MOOC platforms. and deeply integrated service activated. to suit different learning styles Big Data analysis of data gener- systems. The result is a To facilitate long-term and teaching approaches. To ated by MOOCs helps academic robust, agile, and future-proof upgrades, Huawei has used an succeed, WLAN networks must institutions direct the transforma- national payment system. elastic architecture with Layer implement ‘seamless campuses’ tion of online teaching and learning. Because the NSPC processes 2, TRILL-based networks at the that are flexible, deploy quickly, By analyzing course feedback, institu- transactions from all Russian core layer that enables 100 percent maintain low failure rates, and elimi- tions can provide students with personal- payment terminals and ATMs, the access to all network resources. nate gaps in coverage. ized and collaborative learning experiences system is built to handle enormous Further, the use of Huawei’s Data that help reduce dropout rates and prevent students amounts of service traffic, concurrent Center Interconnect (DCI) streamlines the Resources in the Cloud from losing money on dropped courses. processing, and throughput with an average pro- collaboration of resources between the data centers. Universities worldwide have an increasing need for cessing time per transaction of 10 ms. To meet the new IT platforms and technologies, though high Connected Silos requirement of 10 million settlement and clearing System Launches construction and O&M costs are often a constraining A stable, efficient network with adequate band- transactions per day, the two data centers have been On April 1, 2015, the official launch of the NSPC factor for investing in new technology, particularly width is essential for any ICT-based education model, provisioned with more than 100 sets of x86 server was announced by the Central Bank of Russia. in developing countries. The cost structure of cloud and reference designs are expected to include cam- clusters and a 2.8 petabyte storage capacity. Over the first three months of operation, the NSPC computing makes it possible to help every university pus-wide wireless networks, cloud-based resource The data centers are 70 km apart. Remote replica- processed the projected average of 10 million trans- meet new IT requirements within limited budgets. sharing, and cross-region eClass platforms. tion is a crucial requirement and, for maximum actions per day and has remained stable as expected Cloud computing provides dynamic, scalable The Huawei Agile Network Solution is based on availability, the two NSPC data centers back each in the months following. resource allocation for IT services and is capable of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) principles that other up. Huawei’s Cloud Fabric Data Center “The NSPC shoulders responsibility for maintain- charging users based on actual use. Cross-platform include: full programmability, quality awareness, and Network solution creates an Active-Active network ing a stable financial system in Russia,” observed environments enable schools and departments to smooth evolution. The solution enables operators to that employs Transparent Interconnection of Lots Sergey Bochkarev, Deputy CEO of the NSPC, “so customize their information systems within a single, launch services on the order of four times faster than of Links (TRILL) and the Ethernet Virtual Network the reliability and stability of the national payment multi-variant framework. comparable alternatives. For greater productivity and (EVN). system are crucially important. Huawei successfully information sharing, the Huawei solution also inter- EVN is a Layer 2 VPN technology that is based deployed the data centers within a short delivery Big Data for Teaching and Management connects the information silos that separate systems on the Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) tunnel. period and has effectively supported the rollout of the Educational institutions are improving the effective- and departments.▲ This technology uses the Multiprotocol Extensions payment system as scheduled.”▲

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Digitalization — Banks Transform to Outperform Time to Build an All-IP TV Station | By Liu Quan, Industry Marketing Execution Department, Enterprise Business Group, | By Deng Linwei, Industry Marketing Execution Department, Enterprise Business Group, Liu Quan Deng Linwei Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Banks Excel valuable for the foreseeable future. or TV stations, the era of omnimedia and Ultra-High Definition (UHD) has arrived. The emergence Establishing The Digitalization is sweeping the world and transform- • High-Performance Processing: Banks accumu- of 4K production and UHD display technologies has made cabling and transport bandwidths a critical digital banks broadcasting ing traditional banks into digital banks that are late more high-value data than any other sector. To issue for the production, transmission, and broadcast of digital TV signals. 4K/UHD signals are not requires the F industry is expected to quickly launch contemporary financial maintain this lead, and the profits that come with it, compatible with existing technical architectures of video plants that are based on Serial Digital Interface (SDI) digitalization adapting products designed to leverage modern, consumer their IT platforms must support the capture and pro- baseband interfaces and dedicated SDI digital video matrix switches. of customers, IP network data captured via smart terminals and social media. cessing of Big Data to find and track rules and trends, currencies, technologies • Data-driven Development: Analysis from inter- respond to customer requirements, seize market op- Numerous Cables — Short Transmission Distances simple cabling, and re-use of existing devices. products, to develop all- nal and external sources allows digital banks to grasp portunities, optimize operations, and transform from There are advantages to SDI, as long as Standard marketing, and IP television industry trends, identify customer pain points, and experience-dependent to data-driven institutions. Definition (SD) and HD continue to dominate TV Huawei and Sony Team Up services. >> stations. >> seize new business opportunities.. • Open Infrastructures Reduce Costs: Distributed standards; however, SDI signaling in 4K/8K UHD Huawei’s accomplishments in the field of media • Agile Response: In the Internet era, financial and high availability technologies address various re- environments present the following issues: and television prompted Sony Television to select products are especially vulnerable to imitation and source inventory issues in cloud computing. As is oc- • Numerous Cables Equal Difficult Maintenance: Huawei as a partner to develop an all-IP solution for replication. Banks must deliver new products that curring generally across all verticals, IT architectures SDI cables can number in the thousands. Migrating TV stations. Sony selected Huawei server and storage 1) meet access security and data integrity standards, for banking are evolving from closed and centralized from HD to 4K multiples that number by four. When components as well as its CE7850 and CE6850 series and 2) meet tightly budgeted R&D and go-to-market to open, software-defined systems running on general including the cost of terminal equipment, the process switches to meet strict delay and bandwidth require- deadlines. purpose hardware. By design, open source technolo- is too complex and expensive. ments. Sony is providing the 4K camera sources, • Access to Services Anytime, Anywhere: gies incur minimum costs relative to the high cost to • Limited Transmission Distance: SDI signals SDI-to-IP gateways, 4K live switchers, and LSM-100 Supporting existing customers always costs far less build and operate a ‘traditional’ mainframe cluster. cannot exceed 100 meters without introducing error audio/video screen management system. than acquiring new customers; therefore, the most • Mobility and Multimedia for Omni-Channel codes and image distortion. Advantages of all-IP stations include the capacity effective means for banks to maintain loyalty is to Financial Services: Digital banks are compelled to • Limited System Solutions: Specialized, niche of 10 Gigabit Ethernet cabling and IP interconnects improve the customer experience for current prod- present online solutions to their customers to reduce market SDI-based HD products, transmission cables, that support long distance transit and local transcod- ucts and services. the inefficiencies of operating physical branches. and backend storage products are few and expensive. ing to SD-SDI, HD-SDI, and 3G-SDI signals. Simply In the era of software-defined everything, the only adding IP gateways is all that is required to smoothly Banking 3.0 available development option is to build easy-to- All-IP TV Station — Disruptive but Inevitable migrate from SD and HD to 4K/UHD. In the next era of banking, customers will live in navigate UX/UI for both internal business systems TV stations will launch all-IP signal transport Sony and Huawei will continue to collaborate to hyper-connected information communities in which and customer-facing applications that are accessed solutions because IP platforms can provide wide build competitive all-IP TV and media industry solu- the data networks will grow more sophisticated and over smart phones.▲ coverage, mature compression and coding schemes, tions as the 4K/UHD era becomes a reality.▲

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IoT Drives Digital Transformation Tanja Rueckert | By Tanja Rueckert, Executive Vice President, IoT & Customer Innovation Unit, SAP SE leads the newly formed Waiting for the IoT to arrive IoT & Customer tomorrow will result in missed Innovation Unit at SAP opportunities to tap into the Impact on Business in this vision. The following breakthroughs are the SE, which, working digital economy and gain The Internet of Things (IoT) has been catapulted to enabling levers: in close collaboration competitive advantages now. the peak spot of ‘inflated expectations’ in the 2015 • Consistent increases in computing power based with customers and IT and business leaders need Gartner Hype cycle. on Moore’s law partners, focuses on to start small and think big — Leading analysts and consulting firms continue • Advent of cloud technology developing innovative starting today. >> software solutions, to make substantial estimates about its economic • (Predictive) Big Data analytics particularly for the IoT impact. McKinsey & Company, for example, predicts • New machine learning capabilities a range between USD 3.9 to 11.1 trillion per year in • Reduction in sensor and storage costs and Industry 4.0. Figure 2: IoT Stack 2025 and, in the past few years, venture capitalists This futuristic perspective carries a risk to which have invested several billion dollars in the IoT, ac- many businesses fall victim by presuming that the value of an end-to-end IoT scenario and some encouragement to IT SAP’s HANA Cloud Platform (HCP). It offers common services cording to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). IoT will happen to them as the technology evolves and business leaders to start small and think big — starting today. and standardized interfaces and API, and supports ‘reconfigurable,’ The Internet At the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, and disruptive startups bring it to market. The advent We will also examine the critical importance of strategic partner- closed-loop business processes by integration with the digital core. of Things (IoT) Switzerland, the IoT was predicted to be the fourth of the sharing economy that has posed similar threats ships. The Internet of Everything (IoE) is far too big to be led by a HCP also enables differentiating IoT analytics and applications at represents a industrial revolution that, following the historical to traditional business models may have contributed single company; it is dependent on an integrated ecosystem. This is the top layer. Customers and partners build, extend, and integrate tectonic change game-changers of water and steam, electricity, and to this passive ‘wait-and-see’ stance but fall short in why SAP is proud of its strategic partnership with Huawei and why IoT Apps and benefit from reusable IoT application services. that will transform electronics and IT, would lead to a new machine age. comparison to the sheer complexity of an IoT-based a description of our collaboration will form the conclusion of this For SAP, empowering and nurturing a rich ecosystem and of- industries across Fueled by hyperconnectivity — eventually with tens economy. article. fering customers an integrated and interoperable landscape are the all markets. >> or hundreds of billions of devices plus new levels of This article explores why SAP believes many un- key to IoT success. machine intelligence — the IoT is predicted to enable derestimate the IoT’s relevance today and its impact SAP’s IoT Path Along with this ecosystem is the responsibility for end-to-end complete digitalization of business processes, unpar- on the future. Waiting for the IoT to arrive tomorrow With more than 40 years of market leadership in enterprise ap- security across the entire stack. In particular, unprotected distrib- alleled operational efficiency, and disruptive business will result in missed opportunities to tap into the plication software, SAP has set out to realize the IoT for businesses uted Things can be easily compromised via the Internet or can model innovation. digital economy and gain competitive advantages and make it universally connected to close the ‘Thing-to-Insight- physically expose the integrity of the network and the edge data to Technological advances play a significant part now. Underpinning this argument is a case about the to-Action’ loop. Based on an end-to-end data and process flow, a wide array of cyber attacks. as shown in Figure 1, SAP’s solutions create intelligent insight Based on an end-to-end IoT security architecture, SAP is com- and drive impactful action, from the devices and machines at the mitted to keeping data secure in transit and at rest, and deploying edge to the business processes at the digital core of an enterprise. mechanisms that ensure data integrity and appropriate access Leveraging advanced machine-learning algorithms, these solutions controls with the use of strong cryptography. become more effective over time, as data is accumulated to predict events with increasing accuracy and automate preventive action. Digital Transformation Real customer cases have already delivered proof that these Powerful technology stacks that enable end-to-end IoT scenarios are closed loop scenarios not only drive unparalleled operational fundamentally changing traditional business models and creating efficiency but also enable entirely new business models, such as unprecedented value. For example, a busy shipping port is the result transforming a traditional product into an innovative service with of a prosperous economy and favorable location. A terminal manage- flexible pay-per-use billing options. These early adopters have ment enterprise at a busy port requires efficiency and effectiveness found in the IoT a means to ensure their survival and gain a com- and technologies that increase port throughput, reduce idle time, petitive advantage in the highly disruptive digital economy. save energy, and increase revenue. SAP’s answer is to provide IoT These end-to-end closed loop scenarios require the full IoT stack, technologies to connect every Thing in a port in real time. as shown in Figure 2, which SAP enables through key partnerships. Port business processes include waiting for ship arrivals, unload- The ‘Connected Things’ layer is where physical machines and ing/loading operations, delivering containers, and transferring sensors connect and generate data. The ‘IoT Backbone’ layer refers them to and from freight forwarders. Required port information is to the critical link between core business processes and Things. entered into a Terminal Operation System (TOS) days in advance; Figure 1: SAP’s Vision of the IoT for Business SAP provides a secure, open, and extensible IoT platform based on then, the system schedules all required activities based on this static 20 21 Features Features

data. However, in today’s world, schedules based improvements in quality and safety as an essential The current market for maintaining port Individually connected with a powerful data Shipping ports on static data do not always meet customer needs, component of their services. Numerous vehicle equipment is full of vendors that provide Together with SAP’s analytics engine that extracts intelligence are at an apex of as customers prefer IoT-based dynamic scheduling networking applications, such as SAP Connected qualified maintenance services at relatively low dominant market position from the system, each piece of equipment is information flow solutions that can deal with unexpected changes. Transportation, address this need. In the commer- costs, compared to the prices quoted by the in high-performance, optimized for its task, with green production and logistics in For example, when the Automatic Identification cial market, overland transportation management Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in-memory computing, and improved work safety levels. the transportation System (AIS) discovers a delayed ship arrival, tools focused on safety-best practices are readily — making it clear that the business model of Huawei will provide industry. The vast all allocated resources — cranes and vehicles — available. Within these applications, telematics providing maintenance services is more profit- comprehensive end-to- SAP and Huawei Strategy accumulation of past must be automatically rescheduled, rather than data is collected from the vehicle On-Board able and sustainable than selling equipment end IoT solutions to drive SAP and Huawei have joined together to more and current cargo being held offline. If GPS data indicates vehicles Diagnostics (OBD) interfaced with other types of alone. Equipment manufacturers win back the IoT adoption to the next closely explore IoT market opportunities and information offers are stuck in traffic, pick-up times for the gantry sensor data, such as weather, noise levels, CO2 technical services market from independent level. >> leverage their respective advantages. As a vast opportunities to cranes are recalculated in real time to avoid an concentrations, GPS signals, and even wearable maintenance vendors with the IoT. Equipment world-leading communications and network find business value unnecessary container queue. Real-time Location- devices. The telematics and sensor data is cor- vendors are in the best position to remotely device provider, Huawei, with its IoT smart in patterns mined Based-Service (LBS) platforms auto-connect with related by the central server for output as driver- collect operational data, such as temperature gateway, is an important edge component for from the data. >> all vehicles that are inside the port perimeter, giv- behavior and driver-fatigue analysis, vehicle and equipment vibration, and return it to the remote data collection. Together with SAP’s ing vehicle drivers a full picture of traffic on the health checks, and others. Based on the results, factory. By fusing operational and IT data, the dominant market position in high-performance, port grounds, as well as an optimal route to freight dynamic task planning and mechanical/behavior OEMs build reliability models that automati- in-memory computing, Huawei will provide stations, parking areas, and fuel. Major ports like optimizations are presented to Machine-to- cally schedule maintenance tasks, preventing comprehensive end-to-end IoT solutions to Hamburg, Germany have widely adopted IoT-LBS Machine (M2M) or a graphical UI/UX for people large business losses. drive IoT adoption to the next level. services delivered by SAP solutions, showing sig- and integrated with Enterprise Transportation The IoT is a key lever to realizing the smart Transportation is a remarkable example. The nificant improvements in port logistics, as shown Management and Human Capital Systems, such as port, and the core of the IoT is connectivity. Traffic Safety Culture Index in the U.S. shows in Figure 3. employee care and training programs. Each asset inside and outside a port, includ- that car crashes rank among the leading causes Apart from increasing the efficiency of job Shipping ports are at an apex of information ing ships, cranes, cargo, etcetera, is well- of death. SAP is developing an IoT-based trans- execution, the IoT is also helping ports digitally flow and logistics in the transportation industry. connected through IoT-enabled smart devices. portation solution to help guarantee driver and transform traditional business processes by creat- The vast accumulation of past and current cargo passenger safety by using IoT data collected ing new services. information offers vast opportunities to find from public transportation vehicles, such as ‘Track & Trace’ is a most valuable service that business value in patterns mined from the data. school buses, coaches, and heavy vehicles. enables the logistics life cycle to use IoT technolo- Port management enterprises can use data mining Huawei plans to install a smart IoT gate- gies, such as RFID, AIS, and GPS. technologies to provide unique analysis of varia- way device inside vehicles so that, while a Traditionally, freight forwarders, purchasing tions in supply and demand for all categories of vehicle is on the road, different kinds of sensor agents, and goods owners must seek out very goods by using key factors like seasonality, eco- data will be collected and saved into SAP detailed information from multiple parties, such nomics, weather, and climate. By performing risk SQLAnywhere, which serves as local storage as which container holds a specific package, assessment and making use of the results, they can on the IoT gateway. The IoT data will then be current ship locations, and estimated arrival date offer business innovations, such as procurement uploaded to the SAP HANA database via 3G and time, etcetera, with limited results. Therefore, consulting services, that include future demand or Wi-Fi, either in real time or as scheduled. port management operators can use centralized forecasts based on Things like the upstream Then, SAP HANA uses its powerful calculation Track & Trace services to sort all these fragments supply of raw materials, thus transforming port capability to perform analytics, such as driver of information and provide access to the assorted management enterprises into purchasing agents or behavior and fatigue detection, enabling intel- stakeholders. Any port that is newly equipped with even financial service providers. ligent insights to fleet managers. the latest in information-services support positively IoT technologies drive the digital transformation A reference case solution has already been impacts its suppliers and customers. Once the goods of specialty equipment manufacturers that produce successfully presented to large enterprises in are transferred to the freight-forwarding carrier, the and sell equipment to ports and are anxious to find various countries. This cooperation is only life cycle enters into the land carriage stage. new opportunities for expanding their businesses. the beginning for SAP and Huawei in the IoT Many larger terminal management enterprises Predictive Maintenance is one example of an arena. Soon, this alliance will enable the full own large vehicle fleets; therefore, the land IoT-based innovation that manufacturers wish to IoT stack in unprecedented ways for a broader transportation sector must focus on continuous improve upon. Figure 3: IoT-Enabled Digital Transformation for Shipping Ports ecosystem.▲ 22 23 Features Features

Large Enterprises Encouraged As-a-Service Comprises a Stack of Five Components: to Adopt ‘As-a-Service’ Operations Samantha Zhu | By Samantha Zhu, President of the Corporate Citizenship Council of Accenture Greater China Business processes are optimized by applying industry and functional expertise alongside automation and Business analytics technologies to drive greater efficiencies and For many large oday, markets are inundated with rapidly changing customer requirements, increasingly short Processes productivity, capture new value, and unlock actionable enterprises, product life cycles, and innovative competitors. In this context, ‘being lean and responding quickly insights that drive faster innovation and deliver increased ‘being lean and T to market changes’ is impossible to ignore. Large enterprises respond slowly to change due to vast revenue at reduced costs. responding assets, numerous employees, and complex processes and regulations. Though most enterprises appreciate the importance of agility for survival, a report sponsored by Accenture in 2015 reveals that roughly two-thirds of quickly to Every business process requires a supporting application businesses appear unprepared for what’s coming. market changes’ or platform. Using new and emerging digital technolo- remains the Applications For example, let’s assume that you have entered a how do you launch a counterattack? The answer for gies ranging from robotic process automation to artificial elephant in the and Platforms new field in which the number of customers increases enterprises struggling with these problems is to access intelligence and SaaS platforms, enterprises can stan- room. >> rapidly. How do you scale your customer relationship the outsourcing market for As-a-Service operations. dardize, analyze, automate, drive, and support business management system to assure the continuous presen- processes, as well as deliver high-quality data. tation of high-quality services? During an economic What Is ‘As-a-Service?’ downturn and/or period of shrinking production, how Typical examples of the As-a-Service model include do you reduce operating expenditures in a timely Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a- Cloud The cloud provides enterprises with the agility to ac- fashion? When competitors force themselves into Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) celerate innovation by enabling them to plug into core markets where you have long-established advantages, products, as the As-a-Service model is designed to application services and scale them up or down quickly, on demand.

Comprehensive, proactive, and adaptive threat protection Security is embedded into the fabric of digital business systems at speed and scale.

An intelligent infrastructure is dynamic, in real time, Infrastructure and always on, enabling businesses to take advantage of the latest technologies that allow rapid deployment and provisioning of resources.

Analytics Expertise Underpinning the entire stack of capabilities is analytics On-demand access to industrial, operational, and technical — descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive — embedded specialization within each layer of the ‘stack.’ The combina- in business processes that help companies identify trends tion of forward-thinking leadership and transformational and opportunities to streamline processes, innovate, and consulting to operational expertise enables continuous improve competitiveness. innovation.

Figure 1: As-a-Service Component Stack 24 25 Features Features

enable the integration of enterprise-grade rather than committing to hardware, services, intelligent business solutions for companies The ultimate goal or functionality that may not be needed One of the many that are more concerned with running their of the As-a-Service • Outcome-oriented: Working relationship positive aspects business than buying and maintaining an in- model is to provide in which the buyer and provider are commit- of an As-a-Service house IT infrastructure. companies with ted to clear business outcomes model is that it The marketplace is moving toward a new standardized, end- • Standardized: Shared services model for allows companies era of service delivery in which applications, to-end, business- standardized and scalable processes for pro- to start small and infrastructure, and business processes are oriented solutions duction and delivery; achieve repeatability in scale fast in ways brought together and delivered as plug-in, that enable them multi-client and multi-tenant environments that other models scalable, consumption-based services sup- to focus on market • Vendor-agnostic: Providing deep knowl- do not. Buyers can ported by Big Data analytics, the cloud, and development, edge and experience across multiple provider consider starting automation to deliver successful business customer offerings to assemble the right combination with functions that outcomes at lower costs. Figure 1 shows a engagement, and of solutions appropriate to the desired busi- are less business stack of components that comprise the As-a- innovation. >> ness and performance outcomes critical and create Service model. • Innovation-enabled: Committed to ongo- the types of ing innovation in business, infrastructure, small successes Plug-and-Play and application processes that build Traditional service delivery structures are • Future-protected: Shielding the buyer commitments based on fixed infrastructure, terms of from the potential disruption of upgrades and needs,” “What is the fair market pricing for this financial value proposition is compelling, however, from both senior service, and Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) future changes; services that are always up- service,” and “What terms and conditions should be especially when it comes to technology upgrades or and middle overhead. By comparison, the As-a-Service to-date and led by buyers who have continu- in our contracts?” changes. For a significantly less total cost of own- management. >> model is flexible, outcome-oriented, and ous access to funding and expertise ership, buyers gain access to continuously updated based on a modular design that allows com- As-a-Service disrupts existing business Active Reform software platforms rather than bear the burden of panies to employ plug-and-play, scalable, processes and supports new business models. Research from Accenture and Hf S Research found their implementation from scratch. and consumption-based services at hourly, For instance, Rio Tinto, a global diversified that most large enterprises have not yet transitioned One of the many positive aspects of an As-a- weekly, or monthly rates. The result is that mining company headquartered in London, to As-a-Service infrastructures. Seven out of ten Service model is that it allows companies to start companies can scale services up or down England, is moving to a new information enterprises over USD 10 billion in revenues do small and scale fast in ways that other models based on business volumes or changes in the systems and technology delivery model that not expect their core operations to adopt the As- do not. For most buyers, the As-a-Service model market with a degree of freedom that would will migrate their legacy enterprise informa- a-Service model for at least another five years, starts with an overall roadmap and then proceeds be impossible in a traditional service delivery tion system to a cloud-based, As-a-Service even though they face pressure to double IT function-by-function to examine how the As-a- environment. solution — including pay-for-use pricing to requirements and service resources on an annual Service value proposition transforms each function The ultimate goal of the As-a-Service keep costs fully flexible and services prop- basis against limited budgets. Forty-two percent to deliver specific business outcomes. Buyers can model is to provide companies with stan- erly scaled based on business demand. of small and medium enterprises see As-a-Service consider starting with functions that are less busi- dardized, end-to-end, business-oriented Since As-a-Service platforms provide as either necessary or absolutely critical for their ness critical and create the types of small successes solutions that enable them to focus on market services to multiple clients, platform opera- organizations versus twenty-five percent of large that build commitments from both senior and development, customer engagement, and tors are positioned to enable clients to obtain organizations. middle management. innovation. Specifically, As-a-Service offers valuable insights into their businesses. One In China, enterprises are looking for advanced The As-a-Service model allows two collaborat- the following major value levers: global food and beverage company saw an solutions to shift large capital investments into ing parties far more flexibility than traditional • Plug-in: Access services quickly — in opportunity to reach aggressive cost reduc- much smaller operational expenditures. To do outsourcing models in which the supplier must days or weeks, not months; modular designs tion targets and transform an internal process so, enterprises must transform their management exhibit world-class capability and continuously that enable companies to set up and tear by outsourcing parts of its procurement practices and take all measures to clarify new prove its value to the buyer. The best suppliers down services rapidly when necessary operations. Adopting an As-a-Service model operating models from top to bottom. Executive are not simply transaction machines; rather, they • Scalable: Ramping up or down to match can bring new insights via digital applica- leadership must be educated about how to purchase are consultants to the buyers, doing whatever they actual business volume needs tions that answer questions for companies As-a-Service resources, as many do not yet know can to help the buyers identify and extract more • Consumption-based: Paying for use, like, “Who are the best suppliers to meet our how to buy in this piece-by-piece method. The value.▲ 26 27 Features Features

Internet Transforms Chinese Education Industry Wang Lei | By Wang Lei, Consulting Director, and Zhou Yi, Senior Consultant, Ernst & Young Financial and strategic investors in ransformation is a familiar theme in education. In recent years, developments in various market the Chinese segments that have illustrated large-scale changes include Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), th market favor Kindergarten through 12 Grade (K12), online education, online language training, and online T enterprises in vocational education. the Internet Major players in the Internet education industry reached on the critical role of online-offline content education see room for more growth. Content providers deliver integration. Institutions that produce online courses industry. Zhou Yi educational materials that meet the requirements of and products and take advantage of Online-to-Offline Currently, specific market segments. Platform providers are (O2O) models will have more opportunities. startups in transforming to digitally driven enterprises that yield The content of K12 educational products falls into many market profits through Big Data analytics to attract users and two categories. First are exams, exercises, and assigning because training products can be standardized their service integration with offline training institu- segments Content, achieve increases in their user base. And technology ments that meet public education requirements. The rather than tailored for different regions, and the tions, and Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) platforms are the top platform, and providers may have the greatest opportunity for second category offers preschoolers additional cur- repeat-exam policy enables institutions to set more should enhance user participation through better investment technology market breakthroughs and business expansion due to riculum materials whose content can be taught both nodes in their training processes. community outreach to improve user loyalty and targets. >> providers are new technologies, such as wearable devices, artificial online through mobile terminals as well as offline. encourage enrollment. uncovering new intelligence, and the Internet of Things (IoT). These Driven by favorable policies on educational ICT International Education opportunities technologies will continue to change the education construction, the state-run K12 education system has International education is extending to more and Financing in the Internet industry dramatically and attract institutional inves- achieved remarkable results in the deployment of more students — even younger ones. Customization Another sign of opportunity is the development of education tors and entrepreneurs seeking opportunities in new Internet education infrastructures. However, Internet- is a growing trend in this market, with some institu- multi-layer financing channels. Financial and strate- industry. >> industries. based reform still has a long way to go. Current tions delivering value-added benefits such as free gic investors in the Chinese market favor enterprises Various market segments of the education industry circumstances indicate that providers will succeed in services on the Internet to attract attention and in the Internet education industry. Currently, start- must actively explore and develop models that suit providing comprehensive solutions if they enter the increase page views. Institutions that provide diversi- ups in many market segments are the top invest- their goals. Each segment has the following opportu- education system through technical services. fied services, customized requirements, or deliver ment targets, including language and vocational nities available to them. one-stop services to other areas of the industry chain training and K12 education. Additionally, China’s Higher Education will seize more opportunities. new Over-The-Counter (OTC) market, which al- Preschool Education In the post-secondary market segment, ICT infra- lows Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) Preschool Apps are thriving, and software subscrip- structures are relatively mature. Governments and Language and Vocational Training to raise funds, provides a pre-IPO platform for tion models are readily adopted in this market. universities have formulated clear policies that en- Intense personnel recruitment and career competi- educational institutions, allowing them to develop Preschool educational products should be fun, courage open learning systems. Rapid developments tion have created a surge in language training and financing and management capabilities. Moreover, easy to use, and interactive. Most importantly, the of MOOCs platforms are accelerating the penetration vocational education market segments. Institutions the simplified listing procedures in China’s A-share products should systematically match the preschool of the Internet into the higher education system. with positive brand images and expertise in particular market and reforms in the IPO registration system curriculum. Technology and solution providers with distinctive fields are enjoying the competitive advantages that are facilitating the listing of educational institutions. Due to concerns for the safety of preschool chil- advantages in creating digital course content are most come with meeting the students’ functional require- This facilitation provides primary market investors dren, smart watches and smart bands with security likely to own future market share. ments for improved results in the form of exam with easier exit channels and has led to the current functions are expected to be highly popular — and Policies on college entrance exams are affecting performance and marketable skills. boom in educational investments. Finally, in recent some Internet education companies have already higher education markets, such as recent changes to years there has been a growing recognition in the entered this field. China’s college entrance exams that require more Interest Cultivation U.S. of the stock markets in China and Chinese provinces to use unified national exams and allow Cultivating interest involves a wide range of services. Hong Kong that are helping China’s educational K12 Education students to take exams on certain subjects multiple Diversified institutions are competing in this market institutions find rich financing sources. As Internet Many institutions are attracted by the huge potential times within a year. These changes offer great op- segment, but not a single one has gained prominent education becomes increasingly global, there may market scale of K12 education, though some are portunities to online and offline training institutions. advantages. To overcome this concern, Business-to- be additional links between China’s A-shares and only succeeding temporarily. A consensus has been Unified national exams support Internet-based train- Consumer (B2C) Internet institutions should promote the stock markets in the U.S.▲ 28 29 Features Features

The Future of Telemedicine Gui Lin, Medical Industry Solutions Sales Marketing Manager, Enterprise Business Group, Gui Lin | By Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Telemedicine Center of Henan Province platform will enable distributed data had deployed 128 sets of teleconsultation Voice of Customer storage and service operations in both the devices in 108 counties of Henan Province provincial data center and municipal sub- Huawei has and connected to hospitals in other prov- “By establishing a joint innovation center, centers to ensure the high availability and recently inces, such as Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous the mission to facilitate the analysis and reliability of the platform. partnered Region, and Shanxi and Sichuan provinces, application of medical Big Data would • Teleconsultation for Mobile, Grassroots with the First through cooperation with more than ten significantly accelerate the rollout of tele- Coverage: A convergent teleconsultation Affiliated leading domestic and international medical medicine in Henan Province.” platform will be established to upgrade the Hospital of information enterprises. — Zhai Yunkai, Director of the Telemedi- existing telemedicine platform. The platform Zhengzhou cine Center of Henan Province will provide client applications through University Upgraded Telemedicine Services PC workstations and iOS or Android smart to develop a In 2014, the telemedicine center conducted phones and tablets. The host platform also telemedicine more than 10,000 consultations on intrac- allows for customized terminals at grass- system and table cases, gave more than 30,000 special- county-level hospitals in Henan Province roots medical institutions to further increase joint innovation ist diagnoses, and received more than and associated hospitals in other provinces: coverage. center. >> 40,000 inquiries through the telemedicine teleconsulting facilities, specialist centers • Big Data Analytics: The Huawei platform. On average, there had been 70 (imaging, ECG, and pathology), emergency FusionInsight Solution — including the audio and video telemedicine consultations care, surgical recording and playback, FusionInsight HD distributed data process- conducted every day — up to 120 in peak intensive care, call center, data center, and ing system and the FusionInsight Miner periods — and more than 100 specialist medical education. analysis platform — will be used for the diagnoses a day. During peak hours, the Based on these achievements and to hospital’s new medical Big Data initia- elemedicine has the potential to improve medical services for large populations in rural communities three specialist consultation rooms, one reduce service pressures brought by growth tive that is designed to capitalize on the where quality care or medical services are limited. By enabling fast delivery of medical resources, multidisciplinary consultation room, and in demand for consultation, mobile infor- analytical strengths of third-party medical telemedicine plays an important role in promoting hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, strengthening the command center were overloaded. matization, and Big Data analytics, Huawei application providers. T Though impressive, this high level of ac- and the hospital have launched a next-step • Active-Active Platform Ensures Service medical collaboration, and fueling new ICT technologies for services. Huawei has recently partnered with the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in a pilot project to develop a telemedicine system and joint tivity was insufficient to meet the demand project in the Joint Innovation Center that Continuity: The networks and services of innovation center in Henan Province, China. for services, so much so that the goal of leverages the talent and technology ad- each medical institution in the province extracting better information through data vantages of both parties. The project aims will be connected to two data centers. With a population of over 94 million and a rich the hardware and software platforms throughout the mining and analysis was hindered by the to build a flattened telemedicine service During normal operation, the two centers cultural heritage, Henan is a large province that re- alliance to bring diagnosis and treatment services to operational priority of scheduling and man- system with these features: will simultaneously provide services. If a mains economically underdeveloped. And, although more patients through telemedicine. With Huawei’s aging day-to-day telemedicine services. • Top-Level Design and Step-by-Step fault occurs in one center, the other center the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University advice and support, Zhengzhou University built the Implementation: Huawei and the hospital will smoothly take over to ensure service provides top medical services for the region, qual- Telemedicine and Medical Big Data Joint Innovation Constructing a Four-Level will jointly explore future implementations continuity. ity resources for the province rank well below the Center inside the hospital. Telemedicine Service System of telemedicine, formulate a panoramic By collaborating in the construction of national average. As a result, the hospital sought As joint partners in the development of a plan for the entire telemedicine ecosystem, the Telemedicine and Medical Big Data partners to help build a telemedicine system to dis- Telemedicine for the Public Welfare second-generation, ICT-based telemedicine and sort out implementation steps based on Joint Innovation Center, Huawei and the tribute quality healthcare, medical treatment, disease Based on the resources of a top, large-scale, and platform, Huawei and the First Affiliated this top-level design. First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou prevention, education, research, and rehabilitation to full-service hospital, the Henan public telemedicine Hospital of Zhengzhou University have • Two-Level Distributed Cloud Platform University are expanding the quantity and vast regions within and outside Henan Province. system has the advantage of accessing primary medi- built a four-level (province-city-county- for Data Sharing and Collaboration: Large quality of telemedicine services throughout The hospital first created a regional medical cal and health services that balance affordability with township) telemedicine service system that hospitals in the 18 cities across Henan Henan Province. collaboration alliance in 2012 and adopted ten access to expert resources. defines the future of telemedicine for the Province will be tightly coupled with The hospital has optimized the provincial technology support measures to member hospitals, Today, Zhengzhou University Hospital has the region. the Zhengzhou telemedicine system. A multi-level telemedicine service system such as 10 Mbits/s optical fiber connectivity, telecon- largest-scale telemedicine system, the highest techni- The project began with an upgrade to province-wide collaboration platform will and created a model for mobile platform sultation terminals, and access to other free digital cal standards, and the most sought-after telemedicine the following telemedicine infrastructure be constructed with a two-level (province- solutions for the Internet+ era of China and resources. The hospital invested heavily to upgrade capabilities in China. By the end of 2014, the that is now connected with more than 120 city) distributed cloud architecture. This the world at large.▲ 30 31 Focus Focus

Storage is Changing, but are You? Jarrett Potts, Worldwide Director of Storage Marketing, Enterprise Business Group, Jarrett Potts | By Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. We are at the crossroads for the next era of mass data t is 2016, but your storage infrastructure thinks it’s 2000: Islands of storage, multiple technologies, If you are 4,096-bit Selectron Memory storage. The Huawei vendors, workgroups, and project silos… your storage infrastructure is a mess. It is not difficult to looking for an Flash Storm could be infrastructure to understand how such fragmented environments were created. The question is how does the problem get computers are now routinely equipped with 500 and almost three quarters expect to increase their I GB to 1 TB of non-volatile storage. available storage over the next two years. the perfect choice to better serve your resolved? Conventional wisdom says to know your history and learn from the past. The average growth rate for total data in the We have come a long way from the earliest ensure that you and company’s vision your organization are and stimulate Once Upon a Time ment, to IBM for their ThinkPad pen computer at an world is upwards of 40 percent year over year, and days of capturing electrical signals on open-reel German engineer Fritz Pfleumer started the data stor- OEM price of USD 1,000, or USD 50 per MB. In there are industry analysts who say that a jump to tape and vacuum tubes. not left behind the growth, then let’s technology curve. >> take a walk down age revolution in 1928 when he patented magnetic 1995, SunDisk changed its name to SanDisk. 80 percent annual growth is not out of the question ‘memory’ lane tape for the purpose of recording sound. Reel-to- Magnetic tape, magnetic platters, and solid-state if and when certain developing countries bring their The Future is Now and see where it reel tape was followed closely by the invention memory have provided the world with three primary populations online. We are at the crossroads for the next era of mass leads. >> of the magnetic drum in 1932 by Austrian Gustav sources of mass storage, though derivative technolo- • Big Data is driving the creation and storage data storage. Is it possible that you continue to Tauschek. In 1948, Jan A. Rajchman and his team at gies such as CD/DVD optical and DRAM have also for vast quantities of data and is helping drive think: “It’s just storage. How could it possibly RCA developed the Selectron tube, a very early form made large contributions to the market. the fundamental changes we see today in IT affect sales or customer service?” of digital memory. environments. By 2020, upwards of 7.1 billion Huawei believes it is essential that every Jumping ahead to 1963, Dutch technology leader Recent History people will be creating data on a day-to-day basis aspect of your IT infrastructure be assessed for Philips introduced the compact audio cassette, which The cost for SSD memory has been driven down well through their personal and household electronics. its impact on people and operating processes. Sony Corporation further adapted to create Digital over 50,000 times and has now fallen below USD With an estimated 30 billion active devices by Has an aging storage infrastructure lost the Audio Tape (DAT) in 1987. After numerous DAT 0.0007 per MB or USD 0.70 per GB. 2020, more data will create more fragmentation. ability to serve your core business needs? True, replacements, in 1998 Linear Tape Open (LTO) and Smart phones are typically pre-installed with 32 Increasingly, more and more devices will be it reads and writes bits, but is it giving your other forms of high-density, scalable data storage GB to 64 GB of random access memory, and personal communicating directly without human interven- customers the level of service that keeps them machines based on Pfleumer’s original magnetic tion ― a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) network coming back? recording technology began to surface. that we are coming to know as ‘the Internet Production databases today run on industry Fixed storage began its journey when IBM released of Things,’ or IoT. By 2020, the total digital standard 15,000 RPM HDDs. Alternately, SSD the first Hard-Disk Drive (HDD) in 1956. Using footprint is forecast to be over 45 Zettabytes (ZB), provides the same storage capacity in the same rotating platters to read and write binary electrical noting that 1 ZB equals one billion terabytes. footprint, with a 30 to 40 percent increase in states over flat magnetic surfaces, the ‘305 RAMAC’ The Internet has been organized to collect and transfer speed and a greater than 80 percent sav- was small in storage size (5 MB) but physically store the data streams of people, devices, and ings in energy consumption. imposing (1 ton) and famously unreliable. applications, from the mundane to the important And, while SSDs have typically cost many In 1980, IBM broke the 1 GB limit with the 3380 and, with conditions, to allow access to any data times more than traditional enterprise HDDs, HDD, which was the first HDD to use magneto- from any point at any time. Huawei’s Flash Storm has altered that paradigm resistive heads. • The IoT is a relatively new name for the forever. In 1984, Fujio Masuoka invented flash memory network of networks that is growing around us. Selling for the same cost per TB as the 15K ro- while working for Toshiba. Capable of being erased How do we connect, ‘make sense,’ and ‘make tating disks, Huawei’s NVMe PCIe Flash Storm and re-programmed multiple times, flash memory use’ of all this data. Every last detail can now be SSDs are the perfect tool for future-proofing quickly gained traction in the computer memory captured; for example, the number of steps you your IT environment. industry. walk daily is uploaded from your Fitbit Tracker Planning ahead is always a good idea, but for In 1994, U.S. storage manufacturer SunDisk to your phone and then sent over the Internet businesses that depend on the efficient use of released CompactFlash (CF), which continues to where it’s added to your medical records so your IT, 2016 could well be the year for your next be used in cameras and other handheld devices. doctors can confirm that you are following their big step. The Huawei Flash Storm could be According to the company’s “History of Innovation” advice. the perfect choice to ensure that you and your summary, in 1991, SunDisk shipped the world’s first Research shows that seven out of ten business- organization are not left behind the technology Flash-based SSD, a 20 MB 2.5-inch HDD replace- Fritz Pfleumer Invented Magnetic Recording es have implemented data sharing significantly, curve.▲ 32 33 Focus Focus

SSD is Knocking WangTao, Marketing Manager, IT Storage Product Line, Enterprise Business Group, WangTao | By Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. • Impact on Existing Systems: People always “The move to integrate flash memory for want new and better storage systems; however, “Huawei is determined high-capacity data storage will deliver optimal they do not want their existing systems to be to take the lead in user experience and low power consump- delivering high- hen digital cameras came onto the scene, people using film-loaded cameras were hesitant to make compromised. tion,” says Yuan Yuan, CTO of the Huawei IT Is it time to get capacity, solid-state the switch. However, the speed, convenience, and cost advantages of digital cameras delivered In September 2015, Joy Huang, Vice Solutions Sales in Western Europe. “It is well out in front of the storage at a price crowd and move benefits that ultimately led to a wholesale shift in the market for the new technology. Something President of the Huawei IT Product Line suited to customers’ business needs now and in W announced the company’s ambitious SSD point competitive with the future and is a vital tool in addressing the similar is happening in the storage industry as Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are primed to overtake traditional to SSD? >> rotating media. The era Hard-Disk Drives (HDDs). strategy, including the goals of matching HDD challenges of Big Data. Our cooperation with capacities and price points. Realizing that the of all-SSD storage will Micron for flash memory is a shining example Three Problems for SSD scaled their manufacturing capacity over decades of trend would sweep the industry and knowing happen earlier than of Huawei’s long-term commitment to build a How much longer will it take for SSDs to complete factory upgrades. Enterprise-level SSDs require the that none of today’s big players wants to be left many in the market sustainable ecosystem for partners within the the move and place the technology within reach of same level of capital development to rise to a leading behind, storage manufacturers have begun to have anticipated.” >> industry chain, where we are exploring op- enterprise-scale application, completing its historic position in the marketplace. ramp up their SSD factories over recent years. portunities to jointly develop industry-specific mission as the baton is once again handed off in the • Affordability: An enormous price point differen- Yet, many vendors continue to hesitate. product solutions.” storage arena? Before SSD can accomplish a full- tial puts SSD technology out of reach for all but the “Customers have long waited for the abil- In October 2015, Huawei launched an scale takeover, production capacity, affordability, and most demanding customers. To bring SSD to the fore- ity to move fully into SSD,” says Fan Ruiqi, OceanStor Flash campaign across Europe to impact on existing systems must be resolved. front, the technology must be priced comparatively to President of the Huawei Storage Product Line. accelerate the process of replacing HDD-based • Production Capacity: HDD manufacturers have traditional HDDs. “Huawei is determined to take the lead in storage systems with SSD systems and widen delivering high-capacity, solid-state storage at the adoption of flash in data centers. The core a price point competitive with rotating media. of the strategy is to help customers step into an The era of all-SSD storage will happen earlier ‘all-flash’ era in which high performance and than many in the market have anticipated.” excellent reliability are the norm. The goal is to integrate Huawei SSDs into the full range of Huawei’s Flash Decision storage products. With research begun in 2005, and products Knowing that collaboration with key industry appearing in 2010, Huawei now commands a partners is essential, Huawei seeks to combine sizable share of the enterprise SSD market. Huawei’s 600 GB HSSD Solid- the wisdom and knowledge of multiple parties “Huawei has mastered the core technologies State Drive in the supply chain to develop unique solutions. required for scaling the manufacture of SSD “We cannot achieve innovation by ourselves. components,” Fan Ruiqi points out. “We build Everything we have created, obtained, and our own industry-leading controllers and own achieved would not be possible without the many key patents in the field. These factors joint efforts of our partners and the unflinching together give Huawei great technical advan- trust of our customers,” says Yuan Yuan. “As tages.” the open source IT market continues to grow, With a partnership that began on September Huawei looks forward to teaming up with 19, 2015, mainstream memory supplier additional partners to build targeted solutions, Micron Technology of Boise, Idaho joined continuously improve our levels of industrial with Huawei to support the application of flash innovation, and support the company’s long- memory technology. “Huawei has its own ad- term commitments.” vanced production lines that are complimented Industries and markets across the globe by the manufacturing capabilities of our pivot around access to advanced information partners,” Fan Ruiqi adds. “With this coupling technologies. Given the choice to act, will you of manufacturing capabilities between the two answer or hesitate? The best possible decision companies, our production costs are cut in is to get out in front and commit to moving to half.” SSD.▲ 34 35 Focus Focus

Automating OTA Software Updates for IoT Eystein Stenberg | By Eystein Stenberg, Head of Product, Mender It is clear that automated software updates must become ounded in 2015, Mender is an early-stage software company located in Palo Alto, California. The Mender Over- standard practice for company is developing an open source, over-the-air solution for updating embedded Linux devices in The-Air (OTA) the IoT to continue the field and operates under Apache License 2.0. In addition to developing and publishing the software services are F growing, and those for enabling updatability in products, the company offers commercial support to customers. built to support who obtain this ability a growing first have a significant ecosystem of Besides developing the embedded updater, Mender witnessing a sea change with a lasting impact. is an advocate in the Internet of Things (IoT) market Chances are that the IoT is here to stay because the advantage over the embedded Linux rest of the industry. >> devices. >> that automated software updates be an integral com- drivers behind it are fundamental for every business: ponent of open source embedded products. improved operational efficiency plus new products Initially, Mender will support products based and services equals new net revenue streams. on Linux and the Yocto Project, which is a Linux There are many examples in business today of Foundation workgroup that provides templates, tools, how billions of dollars in operational efficiencies and methods to help users create custom software are gained through the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) for embedded products regardless of the hardware connection of sensors and devices, as well as the architecture. application of analytics on the collected data. In agri- Software-driven transformation has been taking culture, sensors are placed in the field to measure the place in the IT infrastructure industry for decades, as moisture, fertilizer level, temperature, and other key ries of products and services. A notable example • Bug Fixes: When critical problems are found servers became connected to networks, executables metrics that affect crop yield. By leveraging this data, is the self-driving car, which would dramatically with a product, the ability for quick remedia- were abstracted through virtualization, and, finally, farmers know precisely when to water and fertilize change the way we commute. For instance, in- tion avoids negative customer impact. Industry services were made available on demand through their crops to maximize yield. Water schedules can stead of parents driving their children to football statistics reveal that there are up to 25 bugs per public clouds. be correlated with weather forecasts to determine that practice, the car could do it alone — and more 1,000 lines of software code and, as products get A similar software-driven transformation has taken even though moisture levels are falling below normal, safely than is humanly possible. This innovation more intelligent and complex, there is no reason place in the consumer electronics industry through nothing need be done because rain is expected the is only feasible because of a growing wealth of to believe that this rate of problems will drop. the advent of smart devices and Apps that replace next day. new sensors, intelligent devices, and cloud-based • Security Vulnerabilities: An unfortunate everyday physical items like Auto GPS units, news- In the U.S., the overland transportation industry in analytics that the IoT promises. reality is that software contains security vulner- papers, cameras, maps, alarm clocks, music players, 2012 was a USD 1.33 billion business, or 8.5 percent abilities that put customer safety and data privacy and ATMs — to name just a few. of GDP. It is clear that improving efficiency in this Business Needs for IoT Updates at risk. Companies that experience devastating The IoT will bring many software innovations to sector will have a massive impact. One company A key part of the intelligence required for IoT losses will also suffer brand damage if the embedded devices that have previously not been con- discovered that trucks driving very close to one innovations is implemented in software running weaknesses are left unaddressed. The press tends nected to a network. The IoT will change the business another on the highway to reduce air resistance could on embedded devices. It is only natural that all to be very unforgiving when this type of issue landscape in ways similar to a pattern seen in the IT use up to 30 percent less fuel. The problem is that this new software intelligence brings with it a becomes public. infrastructure and consumer electronics industries, because of the time it takes a human to react when great deal of complexity and a constant need to As seen in the past growth of the IT infrastruc- where companies that adopt new technologies tend the vehicle in front applies the brakes, humans cannot improve and update it. ture, the updatability of embedded devices is to thrive, while those that pass on the opportunity safely drive at such close distances. The solution is We can break down the types and business expected to evolve over the same three phases: expose themselves to greater risk. to install a connected device in each truck to assist value of software updates into these three catego- • Static Updates: In this phase, it is not pos- with emergency braking. The devices in the trucks ries. sible to deploy improvements and updates to Two IoT Business Drivers are networked with one another. Any one device will • New Features: Delivering new features to remote devices after they have been placed in The increasing interest of business executives in signal the other devices that ‘hard braking’ is hap- products that customers have purchased will in- the field. After a device has left its manufactur- the IoT is accelerating the explosive growth we are pening, which results in the other trucks quickly and crease the customer value of the product, thereby ing plant, no improvements can be made to it. seeing in today’s marketplace. When new trends automatically being slowed down safely. allowing increased revenue through higher prices Companies that don’t evolve from this phase will arrive, discernment is required to look past the buzz There are also major innovations enabled by the and/or higher margins over extended device become less competitive and are more than likely and evaluate if this wave is a passing fad or if we are IoT that facilitate the creation of entirely new catego- lifetimes. on the way to losing their business. 36 37 Focus Ecosystem

Easier Development for ICT Partners | By Xia Yunqi, Senior Marketing Manager for Products & Solutions, Enterprise Business Group, Xia Yunqi • Manual Updates: Field technicians and, in • Unreliable and Expensive Network Traffic: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mender is some cases, end users can apply updates to devices Most connected devices use wireless networks, developing a while they are used in the field. Typically, this is like 3G, that have frequent and intermittent con- standalone open only done when a critical issue is encountered that nectivity losses, such as when a mobile device is igitalization has been penetrating enterprise and telecommunication businesses for decades. And Huawei’s eSDK source software must be fixed by installing new firmware provided moved to an area with low cell coverage — like the future looks bright across all enterprise vertical industries for every company committed platform enables updater that by the manufacturer. For example, this is the way underground. The software update process must to unleashing new commercial opportunities by leveraging the full gamut of advanced ICT third-party manufacturers most car manufacturers work today. If you need to take such interruptions into account to ensure D technologies. developers to and embedded update the software in your car, you will probably that update integrity is maintained in the event of create innovative product companies take it to the dealership. The obvious disadvantage lost connections. Ideally, the update process will Greater Cooperation scale collaborative efforts across each industry chain. solutions that can integrate into of this approach is that it is prohibitively expensive conserve network traffic by resuming a partial Businesses in different industries vary greatly in As an ICT infrastructure supplier, Huawei acted on help customers their products. The and therefore does not scale. update through applying intelligent compression their information service needs. Common ICT solu- the fact that increased collaboration with industry accelerate benefit of using the • Automated Updates: This is where the in- or differential segmentation. tions may be inconvenient to use, have high O&M partners is a necessary function. To that end, Huawei their business Mender solution is novators of today are and the mainstream will • Unsecure Networks: With updates happening costs, or both. To realize the greatest benefit from and its partners have combined their strengths to transformation. >> the ability to cost- go. Companies taking advantage of automated over wired and wireless networks or Internet con- their ICT investments, end-users often need the ser- provide a development ecosystem that facilitates effectively deploy software updates gain significant competitive nections, the update process is exposed to threats vices of specialized integrators who have a detailed open, tailored, and innovative solutions. automated software advantage by having the ability to improve their from attackers who can intercept and manipulate understanding of their specific industry. updates to remote products over time without leaving their custom- network payloads. There have been several Keeping up with current demands for digital Full-Process Developer Support devices. >> ers’ hands. Automation ensures that the cost of examples of lax security in update processes, al- transformation services has become a concern for Huawei’s ecosystem Software Development Kit deploying mass-scale updates is very low, which lowing attackers to inject malicious software into ICT service providers. This challenge calls for large- (eSDK) unlocks the capabilities of its ICT infrastruc- allows updates to be deployed frequently. embedded devices. It is clear that automated software updates must Tackling these challenges requires domain become standard practice for the IoT to continue expertise and technical skills that the majority of growing, and those who obtain this ability first IoT product teams do not have. With time and have a significant advantage over the rest of the investment, such skills can be acquired but only at industry. the expense of resources that can be better used to create product value. Designing for Automated Updates The economics of every company investing to There are clear analogies to what has happened in build a software updates solution in-house is not the IT infrastructure industry and what has begun justified because of the significant investment to happen with updatability for connected devices. required to achieve reliability. There is typically However, there are also issues that make deliver- no business-specific logic in a software updates ing updates to connected devices more challenging solution, which is exactly why it makes sense to than in other domains. find a third-party solution to leverage in the update • Expensive to Reach Physically: A connected process. device can be physically located very far away At Mender, we are developing a standalone from its manufacturer. This means that a critical open source software updater that manufacturers problem with the update could leave the device and embedded product companies can integrate unusable and require physical access to fix — a into their products, independent of industry very expensive solution whose costs may never be verticals. The benefit of using the Mender solution recovered. is the ability to cost-effectively deploy automated • Unreliable Power Source: Many connected software updates to remote devices. Today, Linux devices rely on battery power or may otherwise be is enjoying an explosive growth in embedded disconnected from their power source at any time. devices, in particular because of the Yocto Project, This requires the software update process to have whose goal is the creation of custom distribution the ability to safely recover from a loss of power. for embedded Linux products.▲ 38 39 Ecosystem Ecosystem

ture products to third-party developers. By End-to-End Support (IDE): The eSDK includes an IDE tool that can — a solution demonstration platform on which adopting standard interfaces and integrated Access to the eSDK The eSDK provides partners with end-to-end be used as a plug-in for popular development ISVs demonstrate their applications and end Using open interfaces plug-ins, the eSDK allows developers to includes the usual support, from knowledge buildup to com- environments. The IDE tool allows developers customers obtain the latest solutions. provided by the eSDK, easily create upper-layer applications that basic toolkits and mercial launch. to connect to remote labs to obtain field-proven • Social Media: The eSDK provides the Esri delivered ArcGIS, respond to customer needs quickly. documentation and, • Developer Community: Developers obtain eSDK packages, debugging resources, and ap- ‘Huawei Developer Community,’ an official featuring access to Huawei’s ICT products have been deployed most importantly, the the required toolkits from the online Huawei plication releases for the purpose of improving account on WeChat, and ‘Huawei eSDK,’ an government cloud within customer networks in more than 170 types of full-process developer community. This community also their development activities. App that allows developers to access the latest services, high work countries for a wide range of data storage, service support that provides the latest updates on Huawei open • Marketplace: End users, ISVs, and Huawei updates anytime, anywhere. Social media allows efficiency, and ease of processing, and transmission services. are needed for after- product capabilities and success stories. share the common goal of achieving success. To more than 4,000 developers to discuss common maintenance. >> Although Huawei’s capacity for providing market solutions • Remote Labs: Although Huawei products facilitate this goal, Huawei provides Marketplace interests and share experiences.▲ customers with high-performance, high- development. >> are provisioned for after-market development, reliability equipment and software is an the cost for procurement, transport, installa- advantage, the end-use customers in various tion, and commissioning of the hardware nec- Case Study industries often need custom solutions to be essary for secondary development can require integrated into existing business processes. a big initial investment of time and money. eGovernment Cloud Solution To this end, Huawei is collaborating with If the up-front costs are too high, developers partners who have a deep understanding of may hesitate to start. With this understand- Huawei collaborated with Esri, an international supplier of Geographic Information System (GIS) soft- particular vertical industries to build solutions ing, Huawei has built multiple laboratories ware, web GIS, and geodatabase management applications, to develop an eGovernement Cloud solution that directly benefit enterprise end users. populated with a full range of Huawei for customers in the government sector. Using open interfaces provided by the eSDK, Esri delivered Arc- Huawei incorporates Application products that can be accessed remotely by GIS, featuring access to government cloud services, high work efficiency, and ease of maintenance. Programming Interfaces (APIs) in almost all registered developers for development and The ArcGIS solution provides a GIS platform that displays and manages the correlations between geo- its product lines, including cloud computing, testing purposes. Huawei’s developer services graphical location information and land use, as is necessary for routine government operations. Esri ad- unified communications, enterprise mobile include shared tutorials, Beta software trials, opted the cloud-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) approach to build its private cloud management security, Software-Defined Networking and application authentications. system to allow customers to obtain resources on demand and allocate them to specific tasks at the lowest (SDN), and the analytics applications used The remote lab in Suzhou, China has possible cost. For example, data loading consumes hard disk resources; data analysis tasks generate heavy for Big Data. The partners who have tradi- provided support to over 300 Independent CPU workloads; and imagery requires Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) cycles. tionally performed secondary development Software Vendors (ISVs) and more than 1,000 The Huawei eSDK provided the following FusionSphere APIs: for Huawei products required both domain developers. The recently completed remote • Resource Invocation: Queries resources and assigns identifiers to create service nodes correctly. For expertise and significant time and labor lab in Munich, Germany offers an even wider example, a service node will be created only if the corresponding resource pool conditions exist, such as investments to train on Huawei products. In range of services to developers. There are the virtual hardware configuration, network policies, mirroring policies, and traffic volume. If the required 2013, this changed with the launch of the plans to build seven more remote labs world- resources do not exist, they can be created using the resource invocation interface. eSDK platform. This platform provides stan- wide to provide developers with a free, cloud- • Template-Based VM Generation Interface: Allows ArcGIS service nodes to be automatically created by dard APIs that can be invoked by developers based lab environment. the GIStack or manually created by users based on resource loads when map caches are being generated. using a variety of common programming • Multi-Channel Technical Support: This functionality improves efficiency by reducing the time needed to process individual tasks in multi-node languages and protocols for accessing the Developers occasionally encounter problems and multi-process modes. open capabilities of Huawei products. The that cannot be resolved using reference • Resource Deletion Interface: Recovers computing resources after the completion of a task, such as map result is that developers are freed to focus documentation. The goal is to train develop- slicing and map cache construction, to prevent resource wastage. on innovating custom solutions for their cus- ers to understand the system logic and open Esri used the Huawei FusionSphere Cloud Computing Solution for the underlying layer of ArcGIS. To sim- tomers without having to possess an overly capabilities of Huawei products. To achieve plify system maintenance, Esri invoked Huawei’s FusionSphere APIs to develop an ArcGIS management detailed understanding of each component. this result, Huawei provides one-to-one sup- system, GIStack, which is based on the IaaS service provided by local private clouds. The GIStack enables Access to the eSDK includes the usual port via email, online consultation, and a tele- maintenance personnel to implement integrated and automatic delivery of all IT resources and ArcGIS basic toolkits and documentation and, most phone hotline. Additionally, Huawei conducts software stacks that the GIS application system requires. The GIStack also helps monitor system O&M and importantly, the types of full-process service face-to-face training by subject-matter experts scale resources up or down dynamically. ArcGIS end users need only focus on the construction of their own support that are needed for after-market for all different levels of development. application services. solutions development. • Integrated Development Environment 40 41 Ecosystem Ecosystem

AMI — The Power of Dynamic Systems Neil Strother | By Neil Strother, Principal Research Analyst, Navigant Research charging. and flexibility. Today, MDMS vendors see more • Data Analytics: MDM systems provide a more utility companies prioritizing data architectures Beyond billing complete picture of system status for helping as a critical implementation factor that must be in and managed rate structures, dvanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) or ‘smart metering’ is an integrated system of wired and utilities take more informed actions, make better place before any smart meter deployment, whereas Electricity utility AMI systems wireless technologies that supports dynamic data management for electricity utilities and their investment decisions, and enable applications, such traditionally, the data management component has managers are provide real-time exploring the customers. as outage and distribution management, DR, TOU been treated as an afterthought. A rates, power quality monitoring, behind-the-meter and near-real- potential of Beyond billing and managed rate structures, AMI compare costs. Distributed Energy Resources (DER) integration, AMI Telecommunications time responses AMI systems that enable new for benefits systems provide real-time and near-real-time re- • Cost Control: Because electricity cannot be and home energy management. Many smart meter benefits require an AMI com- sponses that enable new services, such as Home Area stored, prices vary substantially depending on munications network to link the devices with services, such beyond their as Home Area energy sensing Networks (HANs), connected thermostats, in-home supply-demand conditions and time of day; advanced Smart Meters the data centers to enable the real-time and near- displays, and energy management systems. Analytics meters record usage in short time intervals that allow Smart meters are at the core of AMI deployments real-time data flows that utilities and customers Networks (HANs), and control connected capabilities. >> based on Meter Data Management (MDM) systems, dynamic pricing or tariffs to be applied to residential and must meet certain requirements, independent must rely on for making moment-to-moment which include Geographical Information Systems customers; and Real-Time Pricing (RTP) passes the of the communications network or specific local, decisions. Numerous wired and wireless technol- thermostats, in- (GISs) and Volt/Volt-Ampere Reactive (Volt/VAR) actual electricity cost to the customer. regional, or federal regulations. ogy choices are available to facilitate this level of home displays, control, help make utility operations more efficient • Demand Response (DR): DR programs help Basic requirements include: Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) connectivity. and energy and facilitate better customer engagement. utilities operate more efficiently during peaks by pro- • Capture and storage of two or more channels In general, Radio Frequency (RF) or wireless management viding hourly and sub-hourly responses to incoming of usage data at programmable intervals — typi- mesh technologies prevail in North America, while systems. >> AMI Systems data. cally from five minutes up to one hour or more and Power Line Communication (PLC) leads in Europe AMI systems offer many advantages for flexibility • Consumption: AMI deployments link smart stored for a minimum of 30 days and sometimes up and is gaining in the Asia Pacific region — though and scalability: meters with smart thermostats for residential DR. to a year there are always exceptions as market dynamics • Pricing and Billing: Smart meters enable utili- The goal is to motivate customers to better manage • Certified to accuracy standards for measuring continue to shift. In other regions, the technology ties to use Time-Of-Use (TOU) rates for dynamic usage. For example, Electric Vehicle (EV) recharg- power consumption choices are defined by regulatory factors, the spe- kilowatt rates based on daily, monthly, and seasonal ing and prepaid billing allow charging stations to • Certified to meet environmental and reliability cific needs of each utility, and prevailing metering fluctuations. Customers are able to easily see and be integrated with TOU rates to encourage off-peak standards for outdoor environments technologies. • Prepared to meet or exceed standards for physical and communications security PLC • Secure, remote firmware upgrades without PLC uses existing power lines as the com- interrupting service munications medium. Multiple types of systems • Support for sub-metering to co-located gas, are associated with many standards and PLC, water, or temperature controllers including Low-Speed PLC and Narrowband PLC (N-PLC). Some systems are targeted for use on Data Software the Low Voltage (LV) portion of the grid (from the As new applications emerge, Meter Data transformer to the premises) and/or the Mega-Volt Management Systems (MDMSs) are needed. (MV) portion of the grid (neighborhood regional MDMSs collect, process, and store meter data to distribution to local transformers). help utilities improve the value and efficiency of Broadband-over-Power-Line (BPL) systems grid operations. generally refer to PLC systems supporting data Though meter data repositories have existed as rates over 1 Mbit/s. One example is Huawei’s part of the utility IT suite for years, the widespread Broadband PLC (BPLC), which is designed to introduction of AMI platforms overwhelmed accommodate greater numbers of transformers in legacy MDMSs with unanticipated amounts of series, real-time monitoring, remote upgrades, and interval data from smart meters. The updated programmable measurement control. Like N-PLC, MDMS solutions offered increased throughput there is no shortage of BPL systems and proposals capacity plus a new focus on analytics, scalability, for in-home use. 42 43 Ecosystem Ecosystem

Because BPL technologies generally operate licensed spectrum allocations at transmit power HAN may also connect other meters, such as gas would be used instead. The market for smart at carrier frequencies well above the CENELEC levels sufficient to communicate between cen- and water, to the NAN. AMI and IoT trends • High tariffs in developing countries have electric meters is bands used in N-PLC and defined by EN 50065, tralized tower-based nodes and multiple nodes will continue to inhibited the wide-scale deployment of smart meters very much in flux. they experience inconsistent and challenging (including meters) within range. Wireless cellular Business Outlook overlap and, in so — which, in turn, has prevented the creation of an The conditions in spectrum characteristics. Reliable communications phone infrastructures are public RF P2MP net- The market for smart electric meters is very doing, will bring insurmountable financial hurdle for local populations. different countries are difficult to achieve and often cause significant works, where each cell tower has a limited range much in flux. The conditions in different coun- third-party vendors • A legal framework or favorable policies in and regions vary electromagnetic interference. and multiple towers provide overlapping coverage. tries and regions vary and are affected by local to supply hardware, support of new deployments are lacking. and are affected by Business experiments in which electric utilities In private RF P2MP NAN implementations, tower- regulations, economic conditions, and technical software, and services • Multiple standards for meters and communica- local regulations, offer Internet services to consumers via BPL based gateways provide overlapping coverage practices that impact meter data accuracy, energy to support deployment tions protocols produce device incompatibilities. economic have failed, forcing utilities to refocus on their to all nodes and meters within range. These are efficiency and conservation, grid moderniza- opportunities. >> • Small and midsize utilities may lack the in- conditions, and core electrical distribution businesses. In-home characterized as star topologies, where each node tion, and high loss rates due to theft of services. house competencies necessary to support AMI de- technical practices broadband technologies may be deployed for HAN is within direct range of the center of the star — Regulatory policies are a major force driving velopment, deployment, and ongoing operations. that impact meter applications and potentially could be expanded to the network gateway. many smart meter deployments, as policymak- • Customer concerns over health and privacy data accuracy, external LV segments in the future. Where the expense is justified, smart meters ers believe smart metering is a key technology force regulators to mandate opt-out programs for energy efficiency Most BPL services intended for use by utilities with integrated cellular modems are in widespread for helping to reach goals related to climate individual customers. and conservation, are planned to be future-proof to supply adequate use for Commercial and Industrial (C&I) custom- change, increased energy security, and greater grid modernization, bandwidth for both current and over-the-horizon ers over public P2MP infrastructures. There are, on-premises energy efficiency by enabling better AMI’s Future and high loss rates applications such as home energy control, dis- however, financial obstacles for using the public peak demand shifting. Utilities are adopting AMI systems as part of a due to theft of tributed generation tools, and EV management. cellular network for residential NAN applications, The primary reasons for utilities to deploy long-term transformation to create a more intel- services. >> N-PLC systems often fail the future-proof test, particularly in North America where wireless smart meters are largely operational: ligent grid. New AMI installations and upgrades as the increase in modern security controls over carriers tend to treat smart meters like consumer • Remote service connections and disconnec- to existing smart meter platforms offer significant advanced networks requires too much bandwidth. cell phones. The typical business model for mobile tions reduce labor and operating costs. growth potential. In the past, meters were replaced Fatter pipes are needed to adequately secure state- wireless subscribers yields high revenue-per- • Remote meter reading eliminates the cost of about every 20 years; however, North America, of-the-art utility communication networks down to node operating costs compared to the overhead for field personnel having to visit each and every Europe, and China have recently been experienc- the meter level. private networks, and the wireless carriers do not customer site. ing disruptive replacement cycles as large-volume The Huawei HiSilicon Semiconductor Business see a profitable business case for smart-meter con- • Two-way meter communications enables smart meter deployments changed the norm. AMI Group developed a Hi-PLC carrier chip with a nectivity. Cellular wireless is commonly used for more accurate outage detection and swifter and IoT trends will continue to overlap and, in data rate of 2 Mbits/s for bi-directional, real-time, Wide–Area-Network (WAN) connectivity to NAN service restoration. so doing, will bring third-party vendors to sup- high-speed communications over power lines for concentrators where the cost for individual nodes • Exact billing eliminates of-use estimates. ply hardware, software, and services to support improved performance over narrowband systems is amortized over hundreds or thousands of smart • Active theft detection has increased total deployment opportunities. that, unlike wireless solutions, does not require meters. energy supply up to 20 percent in some markets. Although the adoption rates vary by region, peripheral devices or RF antennae. An emerging NAN solution promoted by GE • Demand response programs are enabled to advanced meters will increasingly become the Energy and its partner Grid Net is the combined help utilities operate more efficiently during standard. AMI solutions provide grid operators Other Technologies use of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave periods of peak demand. with highly granular data collection and control RF mesh networks form web-like topologies. Access (WiMAX) and 4G/LTE solutions. • Trends analysis helps utility operators better capabilities that enhance system efficiency. Smart When a node is not in range of its target destina- gauge loads and determine appropriate invest- meters are vital to a future of increasingly distrib- tion, such as when a meter transmits data to a AMI Connectivity ments in new equipment. uted energy resources, including rooftop solar, EV, concentrator, intermediate nodes in the mesh The components of a typical AMI system include • Timely rates-of-consumption and costs-of- and new energy storage options. Old-style meters will relay that node’s data. Data packets en route a HAN to connect all devices in the home, such service data enable better informed decisions by were never designed for connectivity to an intel- between source and destination nodes in a mesh as displays, thermostats, load-control devices, each utility and increased customer engagement. ligent grid. The bottom line is that smart meters network may hop through many intervening and smart appliances, to the smart metering node. There are a number of barriers that have enable customers to self-monitor the efficiency nodes, thereby extending the effective range of NANs connect each smart meter within a neigh- slowed the growth of smart metering: their electrical energy consumption, which is an the network well beyond that of any single trans- borhood to the local utility’s WAN communication • A German cost-benefit analysis determined essential function for consumers and industries mitter or receiver. infrastructure, and the WAN links the meter data that a national rollout was unwarranted and looking to reduce costs and regulators seeking to RF Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) systems use concentrators to the local utility’s IT system. The would not be mandated; a selective approach define equitable rates.▲ 44 45 Success Success

Big Data Refines Predictive Policing Wu Yubin | By Wu Yubin, Independent Economist optimal norms for patrol behaviors and information of each old crime with real- eliminate or ban ineffective tactics. time inputs as new crimes were reported. The importance of worldwide Other factors incorporated into the model public security has never been greater, and the application of n recent years, Big Data has revolutionized policing and police management in the U.S. Even though The Santa Cruz Experiment included Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) Big Data Big Data technologies brings violent crime rates have been falling since 1992, police departments must still cope with limited budgets. Despite these impressive results, CompStat locations, bus routes, and local weather technologies are new opportunities with the driving policing One result is that police departments are looking to Big Data to improve work efficiency and take may have weaknesses. In CompStat mode, conditions. I police departments tend to react to the The predictive policing experiment in advent of predictive analytics proactive measures to anticipate and prevent crimes. Successful experiments working with Big Data in the U.S. management for policing management. >> tactics towards are likely to accelerate the deployment of data analytics technologies for managing police services worldwide. recent trends rather than taking preven- Santa Cruz demonstrated a real-world data-enabled tive measures against emerging trends. application of Big Data technologies. public safety. >> CompStat Aids Policing Management arrests, and contact information for individuals that As important as it is for police to remove Initially, the crime maps produced in Santa Officer patrols consume the largest part of police have established a foundation for decision making. criminals from the streets, some consider Cruz looked similar to those generated by resources and are essential for maintaining high- Today, CompStat includes four generally recognized that the best option is to prevent crimes CompStat, but soon the maps rendered quality interactions between police and communi- components: timely intelligence, rapid response, ef- from ever occurring. But how? from the Big Data set identified by Mohler policing is a strategic management system ties. The use of Big Data technologies to manage fective tactics, and complete follow up. Research scientists have determined had a much higher level of accuracy. The that integrates the factors required to make neighborhood patrols is enabling police departments With CompStat, precincts with the greatest number that some types of crime can be predicted Santa Cruz experiment identified the Top effective decisions by police officers at all to maintain the twenty-three-year reduction in violent of incident reports are allocated the most resources. using mathematical models. For instance, 10 potential crime locations at a mapping different levels. Predictive policing is not criminal activity. Typically, police patrols involve In the case of the NYPD, quantitative indicators were burglaries are largely determined by three resolution of 500 square feet. Projections only goal-oriented but also adjustment-ori- call-driven activities focused on rapid responses provided to assess the performance of each of New location-related variables: ease of access, were generated for when and where future ented. In other words, better decisions are to crimes in progress. When public safety officers York City’s 77 precincts. Though some argue that relative affluence, and security measures. crimes were likely to occur within these possible when police departments have fast leave their stations on patrol, the operational details, other economic and demographic factors are respon- George Mohler, then a mathematician and areas and which of them presented the access to deep and timely insights about the including task and time, are directed by duty officers sible for the dramatic reduction of crime through researcher at the University of California highest risk. By patrolling these areas more quality of crime strategies and crime reduc- who remain indoors. the late 1990s, others credit CompStat for making Los Angeles (UCLA) and now Assistant intensively, local police officers found that tion measures, and accountability for the Beginning in 1994 with the New York City Police New York one of the safest cities in the U.S. In New Professor at Santa Clara University and they were able to deter or prevent potential resulting decisions. Management personnel Department (NYPD), many police departments Orleans and Minneapolis, police departments saw Director of Data Science at Metromile in crimes. Over the course of the six-month are charged with the duty to modify or across the U.S. have adopted a computer-based double-digit reductions in the rate of crime following San Francisco, proposed that it was pos- experiment, property crimes in Santa even abandon ineffective prevention crime policing management method called CompStat. Short the adoption of CompStat, and overall, the emergence sible to predict certain crimes by modifying Cruz decreased by eleven percent over the strategies and adopt and promote effective for COMPuter STATistics, CompStat combines a of CompStat has propelled police departments across an algorithm used to forecast earthquake previous year and by four percent over the ones. management philosophy with organizational manage- the U.S. to incorporate data- and intelligence-driven aftershocks for use in property crime pre- historical average for the same period. • Quick Resource Deployments: In ment tools designed for accountability. The NYPD methods for managing patrol activities. Additionally, diction. The result was a far more accurate predictive policing modes, tactical units at set up a data center to keep track of crime reports, CompStat has helped police departments standardize property crime map than had been pro- Policing with Big Data every level compete for limited resources. duced using traditional approaches, such as Big Data technology brings advantages to Big Data analytics can be used to support CompStat. Following the implementation other police activities as well, including: public safety strategies and deploy limited of Mohler’s Big Data predictive policing • Targeted Enforcement: With Big Data resources with maximum flexibly. technique, the police department in Santa analytics, specific policing targets can be • Effective Follow Up: Predictive policing Cruz, California saw a significant drop in set to reduce specific types of crime with modes provide management with effective the number of burglaries over the next six- breakdowns of tactical responsibilities. methods for judging if a particular crime month period. • Intelligence Collection: Big Data tech- prevention strategy has succeeded. The re- The Santa Cruz experiment set up a nologies enable police officers to respond sults are optimized policies for performing benchmark for predictive policing and be- promptly and effectively to incident reports continuous follow up and accountability of came a model for police departments in Los with the accurate collection and transmis- public service performance at all levels. Angeles, the U.K., and the Netherlands. sion of time and location data. When The importance of worldwide public se- This experiment predicted the locations of processed using Big Data pattern matching curity has never been greater, and the appli- future property crimes by analyzing 5,000 techniques, this dataset forms the basis for cation of Big Data technologies brings new historical crime records. The prediction analysis, planning, and results assessment. opportunities with the advent of predictive algorithm compared time and location • Effective Crime Strategies: Predictive analytics for policing management.▲ 46 47 Success Success

High-Performance Cloud Computing for the Broadcasting Industry Ricky Abdoelrahman | By Ricky Abdoelrahman, Digital Marketing Manager, Western Europe, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Link

Broadcasters, he arrival of 4K/Ultra-High Definition (UHD) is causing a stir within the European television Huawei Solutions at IBC 2015 industry broadcasting industry. While UHD-ready TV sets are widely available in Europe for lower prices Huawei showcased its cutting-edge addi- manufacturers, T than six months ago, it appears that few broadcasters have in place an end-to-end system to capture, tion, the Huawei Media Cloud Solution, post-production ingest, edit, playout, and archive UHD file-based content. The main reason is that the existing infrastructure in Amsterdam at IBC 2015 (September companies, dedicated to Standard-Definition (SD) and High-Definition (HD) production has not reached its technical 11 to 15). The Media Cloud Solution is and content end-of-life cycle and — more importantly — hasn’t been written off financially. However, broadcasters, the world’s first media cloud solution puting is that your regular IT infrastructure in a broadcasting environment. “Yes,” says distribution industry manufacturers, post-production companies, and content distribution aggregators are on the watch capable of supporting concurrent editing can be used for up to six layers of UHD/4K Schep, “because our 4K/UHD solutions are aggregators are for next-generation technology that may change the way they work when using shared computing power and of up to six layers of 4K/UHD video. It video clips,” says Bernard Schep, Senior used with regular existing IT infrastruc- on the watch for virtualization. features smooth video editing capabilities Networking Solution Manager of Huawei. tures.” next-generation at 25 frames per second, 120 Mbit/s code UHD: Demanding a Radical Change for demands a radical change in the way the industry Thin clients at the fingertips of editors com- Imagine all the rendered effects in the technology that streams for programs produced within TV Industry works. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the next municate with super computers that have a cloud that have to been shown on the high- may change stations, and dedicated GPU boards for The media industry in Europe is a mature but con- big wave after Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). lot of shared computing power. Schep con- resolution screens of two hundred journa- the way they rendering. The Media Cloud delivers a stantly evolving market. As a newcomer, Huawei is tinues: “We will see a shift towards shared lists and editors. Such is the case at the work when service-defined hybrid cloud IT infrastruc- focusing on broadcast offerings that can be integrated Stand-Alone Systems Stand Alone computing power as broadcasters have Shenzhen Media Group. This broadcaster using shared ture compatible with open cloud platforms into an existing IT infrastructure. “I know broad- While similarities exist between the migration from good experiences with shared storage.” operates 12 TV channels, five radio fre- computing such as OpenStack. casters have a long relationship with their existing HD to 4K/UHD and the transition from SD to HD, quencies, and has more than 20 subsidiary power and OceanStor 9000 is Huawei’s flagship suppliers. So, when I speak to a production house or the transformation to UHD is more challenging. Huawei R&D: Tuning in to the enterprises. “Our equipment can fully com- virtualization. >> media storage system. High-performance a playout facility, I ask them what is the next thing Broadcast-related technology up to now has been Challenge municate with standard IP technology and storage is the cornerstone of high-quality they want to do now, but they can’t answer,” says dedicated to the process of editing, rendering effects, “In Soho, a part of London, every second can use 10G connectivity very efficiently.” video editing. To avoid bottlenecks while Richard Brooking, Account Manager for broadcast and sending programs directly to the end-user. Highly building seems to be a media company Schep adds: “They have extremely high keeping costs down, solutions enabling media at Huawei. “The natural replacement cycle of skilled creative artists and engineers have trusted with large racks for storage and comput- buffer capacity, ultra-low latency, head-of- high throughout and reducing OPEX are broadcasting gear is between five and seven years,” their standalone systems and, while sharing cloud ing,” adds Brooking. The prices to rent line blocking prevention, and embedded required. Huawei’s OceanStor 9000 is able Brooking adds, “but in IT there is a replacement storage has been in place, these systems work more or buy property in certain European cities data management software. Data loss is to deliver 300 Mbit/s sustained throughput cycle of three years. So if a post-production house or less independently, only signalling to each other are skyrocketing. In Amsterdam, where no option, and data transfer speed is key. for a workstation, 1.6 Gbit/s throughput just bought a very fast HD editing machine with a lot when a task is finished so another task can start com- the International Broadcasting Convention These solutions can easily work together per node, and 400 Gbit/s per system, of computing power, how will they get a return on puting the next process. However, with the enormous (IBC) took place in September 2015, many with the IT hardware you bought earlier but making it the fastest scale-out Network-At- investment if a customer knocks on their door to edit amounts of data that have to be rendered and shifted video production companies have left for have yet to depreciate.” tached Storage (NAS) system in the world. UHD this year?” without a technician or TV director observing, the other cities with affordable property prices Currently, Huawei ranks No.228 in the Certainly, the industry is used to newer technology high specifications for such standalone systems have despite desperate attempts to keep to them Fortune Global 500, reaching USD 60 bil- replacing the existing infrastructure. When HD video become too expensive to afford. within the borders of Amsterdam. “Together lion in sales revenue in 2015. The company entered the scene, it was the final blow to traditional “By moving high-performance computing to the with our partners, Huawei is able to move runs 16 R&D centres worldwide. Huawei’s videotape-capturing technology. However, prior to cloud and by virtualization, broadcasters and con- storage and computing power to places R&D department employs 79,000 of the the arrival of HD, a hybrid of digital tape and SD co- tent producers will reduce their CAPEX expenditure more affordable, making room for more company’s 176,000 employees and invests existed. The shooting was digitally captured on tape, to OPEX expenditure,” says Brooking, referring creative processes to take place on the same more than 10 percent of its sales revenue followed by non-linear editing that was then exported to the software industry in which one can get the floor. And, when ingest time is reduced and annually in R&D, earning its standing as to a master file for distribution from a control room. latest version by applying for a subscription. This media file migration time decreases, I have the world’s fifth most-innovative company. This situation created the time and space for SD and model is great whenever companies are in between more time to spend on creative storytell- “When I hear about a customer’s pain, I the tape-based-oriented industry to slowly migrate to projects. By subscribing to flexible online plans, ing.” continues Brooking, who previously say let me return back to you in a couple the new HD universe, which made the pain to invest companies can scale down or scale out whenever worked as a video editor. of weeks,” Brooking says. “I heavily rely more bearable since the existing infrastructure could there is a need. The question before Huawei is whether on our R&D department to produce a new be used or upgraded. However, the advent of UHD “The advantage of high-performance cloud com- it’s ready for UHD/4K shared computing solution which is not on the market.”▲ 48 49 Success Success

Threat Protection through Cloud Video Storage | By Victor Yu, Director, Industry Marketing & Solution Department and He Junhong, Principal Engineer, Victor Yu Government Solutions, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. The Huawei Cloud-based Video Storage Solution is built on thorough research of actual ideo surveillance is a city’s first line of defense, as is evidenced by the wide utilization of existing user practices. The solution surveillance systems that help and protect people from traffic tie-ups, fires, criminal activities, and offers transparent access to terrorist threats. V devices from multiple vendors The cost of this protection includes the huge warded. Even if the disks or devices are immediately and large-capacity elastic amount of storage space needed to capture and sort fixed or replaced, formatting, reconfiguration, and storage. >> video data. It is common that video files stored in restoration steps must occur. The rule of thumb for He Junhong legacy systems are separately managed and stored the amount of time necessary to restore 3 TB of video in decentralized systems that have been supplied by data on a legacy storage system is 32 hours. Needless different vendors. Equally common is the absence of to say, operations will be dramatically slowed. • Cities that redesign their storage archi- long-term operating costs. • Data Reconstruction Accelerates Data standardized or open interfaces for accessing or shar- Comparatively, the Huawei solution needs just one tectures to up-to-date standards gain the • Sharing Network Videos and Providing Restoration Huawei’s cloud- ing these files from outside each silo, which makes hour to restore 3 TB of video data — more than benefits of easy deployments, simplified Concurrent Access Data can be evenly distributed to each based video effective use of them extremely difficult. Huawei’s meeting the public security industry requirements of configurations, and fast service rollouts. A cache, or temporary storage block, has disk without hot spot data. This approach surveillance Safe City Cloud-based Video Storage solution 8 hours. much faster data read-write speeds than improves the ability to restore concurrent storage solution changes all that by permitting fast sharing of videos • Excessive Investment Huawei Advantages hard disks. However, single nodes have data, reduces time spent reconstructing offers Safe Cities and concurrent access across all networks. Some cities try to expand video storage by increasing • Multiple Industrial Interfaces only limited room for cache expansion. data, and shortens the time needed to an alternative. >> Huawei has created a systematic engineering the number of existing devices or purchasing a large The Huawei solution complies with indus- Huawei uses a global cache method that restore data in the event of data corruption. process that makes construction of these large-scale number of devices that do not meet the actual need — try standards and provides easy access to a provides a pool of virtual cache resources The result is that a terabyte of data can be surveillance systems easier — systems that can and only succeed in wasting large amounts of money. variety of cloud-based video storage sys- with a maximum capacity of 55 terabytes. restored within one hour. involve thousands of video surveillance cameras For example, video surveillance storage devices tems. Industry standard interfaces include Any data file stored in the cache pool can • Remote Backup for Redundancy Protection and a thousand or more video storage devices with configured for Standard Definition (SD) and High the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) be accessed by any node. The result is Huawei’s remote backup provides geographic petabytes of capacity. Features and benefits include: Definition (HD) may be used to record surveillance for streaming media via the Network File a reduction in the number of disk reads, redundancy. Data in one place, for example, a • Simplified planning, deployment, and configura- videos for 30, 90, or 180 days. To save money, some System (NFS) connected through SCSI, writes, and access latency — and an police station, can be backed up easily by an- tion cities have chosen to replace all-SD storage devices iSCSI, and CIFS device interfaces. improved overall system performance. other police station or an upper-level bureau. • Concurrent access to videos by large numbers of with HD devices or to automatically erase files after • Data Redundancy Plans Remote backup features are provided for up first responders and managers 30 days, with the option to manually archive select Flexible data redundancy plans are useful Huawei Security and Reliability to 300,000 directories. This huge capacity • Smooth load balancing and scalability of record- videos for 90 or 180 days. for reducing the cost of storage resources Features enables remote backup at all surveillance ing devices, even if provided by multiple vendors • Heavy Workloads by enabling storage resource optimization • Cross-device Security Assurance levels. If a storage system is faulty, all video • Formatting, reconfiguration, and quick restoration In urban environments that may have thousands of routines for setting disk utilization rates up Huawei’s Erasure Code (EC) redundancy surveillance users are still able to access the of faulty disks and devices deployed surveillance Peripheral Units (PUs), manual to 95 percent. algorithm is a superset of RAID that system from a remote disaster recovery center • Large-capacity storage that can be scaled elasti- reconfigurations or upgrades are very labor intensive • Expand Capacity improves overall system performance over a dedicated video network. cally and carry the risk of leaving sections of the city Although it is possible to expand legacy and resource utilization. Data written into The Huawei Cloud-based Video Storage without video protection during the service cycle. systems by adding inexpensive resources, the system is distributed among different Solution is built on thorough research of Legacy Problems Research and surveys show that, as Safe Cities the time and labor resources required for physical nodes — an approach that pre- actual user practices. The solution offers Many cities want to upgrade their legacy solutions to grow, the number of surveillance cameras, especially installation and configuration will over- vents data loss caused by single points of transparent access to devices from multiple modern systems that support interworking and single- HD cameras, will increase. The result can be an ex- whelm the savings. The Huawei solution failure and ensures service continuity and vendors and large-capacity elastic storage; view monitoring across multiple software platforms. plosive growth in the amount of video data that must uses a scale-out storage architecture that system availability. network sharing of videos and concurrent Cities that operate legacy video networks face a be captured and stored. automatically identifies every storage node • Automated Data Recovery access to those streams; and zero storage variety of serious problems that Huawei has solved: • The total volume of video data can quickly reach added to the system. Single nodes can be The Huawei solution optimizes and simpli- downtime, including auto-recovery of • Faulty Disks and Devices multiple petabytes, with no realistic expectation that added in less than 60 seconds, and single fies hard disk management. Users need services and hot backups that ensure the When more than two disks or storage devices fail, a legacy storage solution has the capability to scale- file systems up to 40 petabytes can provide only choose the most appropriate protection availability of the video surveillance system videos can no longer be stored, replayed, or for- out to that level. ‘scalability on demand’ to ensure reduced models for their specific data types. at all times.▲ 50 51 Last Last Word Word

5G for IoT and Mobile Walter Weigel | By Walter Weigel, Vice President, European Research Institute, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. M2M Is Only One of Many Important information from car-to-car communica- Parts of the IoT Another crucial point for the tions; and third is information from the Industry is obliged to deliver an IoT wire- IoT is the ‘value chain,’ which, infrastructure — in other words, data from for instance, would comprise 5G Has Two Flavors: Mobile Broadband and IoT Will Be the Main Traffic Driver for the less communication platform that fulfills all the cloud transmitted from base stations and A research and the ‘Thing’ with a sensor and IoT ‘Internet of the Future’ requirements. roadside terminals. In combination, these technology wireless module, network The research in 5G, especially for future radio inter- The numbers of ‘Things’ predicted for the IoT are all The critical success factors include reli- three sources will optimize autonomous ve- roadmap, connectivity over a 5G circuit, faces, has to be seen under two quite separate aspects: quite large and vary by the source and year. Cisco is ability in very different use cases, such as hicle safety to the maximum possible extent. including real- a collection of data in the • Use cases for mobile applications are about forecasting 50 billion connected devices while Intel high sensor density, building coverage and In eHealth, pharmaceuticals are pre- world examples, cloud, and, finally, the ability to very high bit rates, such as future terminals with is projecting 200 billion. Huawei estimates that the penetration, guaranteed QoS and secure end- scribed at specific times or intervals of illustrates the analyze the data, which means 3D-displays at 8K-resolution or holographic dis- number will be 100 billion. In all cases, the suggestion to-end communication and, not least, power time. In a diabetes case, one can imagine range and Big Data analytics. >> complexities of an plays. Thinking about peak data rates as a function is clear that this large number of Things will probably sources that fit the use case. For instance, it insulin pens equipped with sensors and evolving 5G/IoT of millimeter waves with carrier frequencies up to generate the majority of traffic in the future Internet is neither realistic nor practical to frequently wireless modules that, when connected to ecosystem. >> 100 GHz may be necessary to provide throughputs when compared to the traffic originated by human change batteries for sensors or wireless the IoT, have a range of possible interac- of 10 Gbit/s or greater. users. We can assume that use cases will involve all modules during use in Building Technology tions with the patient, from simple remind- • For the Internet of Things (IoT), among the use manner of sensors and active tags, and that the readers applications or smart medicines. Research finally, the ability to analyze the data, which ers to the release of a recommended dosage cases under study are Industry 4.0 environments for for passive tags will be wireless. Such cases can in- in 5G is working on the exact solutions that means Big Data analytics. Having the value mechanically. Time of use, actual usage, future factory automation, Intelligent Traffic Systems clude a range from cross-regional mobile devices like will offer these connectivity technologies for chain work end-to-end is an area of research and other data can be provided in real time (ITS) for autonomous vehicles, eHealth for smart containers or cars to moving units with fixed locations public and private networks to cover these that requires more study, as today it is a to an intelligent health monitor for use medicines packaged with wireless modules, and and a constrained range like industry robots or rotating and other use cases. Many such services will challenge to combine data from different in improving the treatment and drawing smart energy with the IoT as the enabling technology production units, or the remote devices in a smart be carried, we expect, by telco networks and IoT sources that populate different databases conclusions about future procedures. for communication over complex ‘Smart Grids.’ electrical transmission grid where wireless connectiv- others via private solutions. Research activi- in different data formats. This is exactly the Industry 4.0 is being organized by the In each case, the requirements look very different, ity provides the same simplicity and flexibility that are ties concentrate on both radio interfaces and type of situation that will happen in ‘Smart German government to be the future of though each one typically requires only a few kilobits advantageous in production environments. In each of the fixed architecture that has to be kept flex- City’ environments where different data manufacturing production systems. Within per second but with guaranteed 10 ms latency and/or these cases, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communica- ible for future adoptions. Software-Defined sources have never been integrated and this context, the IoT will play a crucial role 99.999 percent reliability rates. tion is of the highest importance. Networks (SDN) and Network Function grown larger or separately over time. More alongside other key technologies like Cyber Virtualization (NFV) will enable these offer- difficult yet are the tasks involving time Physical Systems in which all parameters ings by partitioning network resources into stamps with very different time intervals, of a production line, such as sensors, actua- ‘slices.’ or time stamps that are derived asynchro- tors, tags, and readers, will be collected and Perhaps the most critical factor for deter- nously. Fortunately, companies like Huawei uploaded to a cloud. Analysis of this data will mining the success of the IoT will be cost. have competencies across all parts of the occur in near-real-time in order to predict We assume that the cost of all connected IoT value chain and are well positioned to equipment status and operating compliance. ‘Things’ attached to all goods in a supermar- address these types of issues. Models and projections will trigger predictive ket, plus the cost of the necessary infrastruc- maintenance activities. Further analysis may ture, need all be affordable — especially as Example Solutions for eHealth, reveal inefficiencies that can be rectified to the Business-to-Business (B2B) advantages Intelligent Traffic Systems, and achieve faster throughput or cost savings. in logistics and supply-chain management Industry 4.0 Each of the preceding examples provides will not be obvious to the consumer. It is difficult to imagine the full range of focus on the importance of our research research topics without a few concrete into 5G-communications and the entire IoT The IoT Value Chain Includes Cloud examples. Intelligent Traffic Systems and value chain. It is essential that Huawei and Storage and Big Data Analytics autonomous cars are receiving a lot of atten- others are committed to the necessary long- Another crucial point for the IoT is the ‘value tion. It is assumed that in high-speed, high- range planning and technology develop- chain,’ which, for instance, would comprise density traffic that autonomous vehicles ments in preparation for the widest range of the ‘Thing’ with a sensor and wireless will use three different information sources concrete use cases. There is really no other module, network connectivity over a 5G to maintain safe highway travel: First are way that our customers and, in turn, their circuit, a collection of data in the cloud, and, on-vehicle cameras and sensors; second is customers will succeed in the long run.▲ 52 53 Message

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