Huawei announced the unveiling of “Cloud Edge” solution for mobile broadband networks.
Cloud Edge employs a cloud-oriented mobile network architecture to achieve automation of whole-network management.
Cloud Edge is part of Huawei’s SoftCOM roadmap for introducing advances in cloud and software-defined networking (SDN) technologies into the global telecoms market over the next ten years.
SoftCOM provides a path for operators to leverage existing “hard” and “soft” assets (existing network infrastructure and core service capabilities) while continuing to cost-effectively implement “revolution-in-evolution” technology innovations as they are developed and become commercially available.
Several top tier operators in Europe and in the Asia-Pacific region have conducted Cloud Edge trials that have demonstrated its leading architecture design and service innovation capabilities. Early use cases have included applications for M2M, MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), and service chaining.