During recent event, Huawei and several telecom operators shared experiences with digital transformation enablement
HONG KONG–Huawei held the Operations Transformation Forum 2017 in China this week with the primary aim of discussing strategies on how to accelerate digital transformation in the telecommunications industry.
The global ICT vendor also showcased its solutions and services to allow telecoms operators around the globe to embrace digital transformation.
This event hosted more than 600 guests including executives from telecom operators, partners, financial analysts, research institutions, as well as media and analysts.
Howard Liang, senior vice president of Huawei and president of Open ROADS Community, said during his opening remarks,”Digital operations transformation ultimately is about creating additional business value while providing a better, more compelling experience to our customers. With Huawei’s solutions working hand-in-hand with our partners’ solutions, we can help operators to progress their transformation step-by-step, and harvest the expected business value improvement,” he added.
In his keynote speech, Ryan Ding, Executive Director of the Board and President of Huawei’s Carrier Business Group, highlighted how digital transformation can allow operators can gain benefits from digital transformation. “Enterprise IT and connectivity services, video services, and IoT services allow operators to give full play to their network advantages and are also well combined with digital technologies,” the executive said. “These services will boost operators’ business growth and become the most important new business opportunities in coming years.”
Ryan also said Huawei plans to invest $1 billion to develop digital transformation solutions within the next three years. “Huawei will continue to build solution-oriented business and technical capabilities, solution development processes, and digital business enabler platforms.”
During the Operations Transformation Forum 2017, operators, including Hong Kong Telecom, NTT DoCoMo, Deutsche Telekom (DT), Telefonica, KPN, Softbank, Kuwait VIVA, and Safaricom, shared their practices and experience regarding digital transformation processes.
During the event, Huawei unveiled a new solution designed for SDN/NFV testing dubbed TestCraft. The Testing as a Service (TaaS) solution provides alternatives to address the critical challenges by adopting a methodology model for multiple dimensional testing supporting the various purposes of SDN/NFV in different life cycle phases of the system development, testing, implementation and operations.
The Chinese company also released the indoor coverage digitalization business solution, which has been successfully deployed in Australia, China, and Mexico.
“Huawei’s indoor coverage digitalization business solution is provided to help operators achieve indoor network revenue growth. While ensuring superb mobile broadband services, this solution enables digital value-added services through network capability openness, such as smart shopping malls, smart airports, and smart stadiums. Such services provide a new source of revenues and a new way to maximize indoor network value,” said Zheng Ruguo, chief marketing officer of Huawei’s Global Technical Services.
