Chinese technology giant Huawei has launched CloudCampus 2.0, a campus networking product with intelligent upgrades in connectivity to help enterprises build fully wireless smart campus networks.
 
More than 90% of office and production activities take place in enterprise headquarters and branch campuses, according to Huawei’s enterprise business market insights. And as office and production terminals go wireless, more latency-sensitive and bandwidth-hungry applications need to be carried on the same campus network.
 
Traditional campus networks, however, are incapable of ensuring bandwidth per user, guaranteeing the quality of key services, or quickly locating user and application experience faults. It is these pain points that are hindering the digital transformation of campuses. As such, building an intelligent campus network is the sustainable way that enterprises can connect everything in their campuses and accelerate their digital transformation.
 
The fully wireless access of campus terminals is no longer just a trend; rather, it is the go-to for early-adopter enterprises on their digital transformation, improving office and operational efficiencies. Additionally, there is a growth in popularity of bandwidth-hungry and latency-sensitive applications, such as 4K, virtual reality, augmented reality, cloud storage, virtual desktop infrastructure and cloud collaboration. This trend means campus networks will soon be expected to be fully wireless while delivering speeds of 100Mbit/s to 1Gbit/s anytime, anywhere.
 
In response, Huawei has launched a line of high-bandwidth and high-performance wired and wireless network devices. These additions can help enterprises of any size build a campus network that delivers a peak rate of over 1Gbit/s per terminal and continuous network connections anytime, anywhere.
 
For the wireless access layer is AirEngine 8760, a Wifi 6 AP to support 16 spatial streams and deliver 10.75Gbit/s throughput, meeting high-density and high-bandwidth demands of modern offices.
 
For the wired access layer is the CloudEngine S series of multi-GE switches providing up to 48 ports capable of GE, 2.5GE, 5GE and 10GE speeds and allow on-demand rate upgrades through software. This protects investments while meeting the high-speed switching requirements of Wifi 6 networks.
 
For the aggregation and core layers, CloudEngine S12700E provides 40-port 25GE line cards with a buffer of 4Gbyte, and combines these with QoS to ensure uncompromised experience of key users and applications.
 
As campus networks carry an increasing number of key services, user and service experience on the network has a direct impact on the operational and collaboration efficiencies of enterprises. CloudCampus 2.0 responds to this by introducing AI technologies to the entire network and leveraging Huawei’s 5G technologies to help enterprises:

• Intelligently learn of network environment changes, automatically optimise and reduce co-channel interference of wireless networks, and improve wireless network performance. As verified by Tolly, Huawei’s intelligent radio calibration feature improves network-wide performance by 58%.
• Intelligently and automatically detect terminal roaming and achieve device-pipe synergy to push down the packet loss rate to near zero. According to tests conducted in Huawei labs, the roaming success rate of Huawei smart terminals soars to 100% on a wireless network built with AirEngine Wifi 6 products.
• Intelligently detect application types and dynamically adjust resources on the entire network. Resources are reserved for key users and applications to ensure uncompromised experience for key applications, even when unexpected congestion occurs.

Rapid service rollout is the key for enterprises to succeed in the market. Traditionally, it takes weeks or even months to deploy a campus network consisting of thousands of wifi APs and campus switches.

To address this, CloudCampus 2.0 introduces AI-based iMaster NCE and CampusInsight to roll out networks and services in minutes.

Built on an autonomous driving network architecture, it uses only one system to manage LANs, WANs and WLANs centrally. New branches, buildings and warehouse networks can be automatically deployed regardless of their size and location, shortening the time to provision digital services.

An AI-based intelligent system analyses continuously the experience of each user, in each application, and at each moment on the entire campus network. In particular, the wired and wireless network knowledge base containing more than 100 fault inference rules and optimised fault locating algorithms can proactively identify root causes and automatically locate and rectify faults before user complaints.

“We are pursuing full-wireless campus networks that fully meet the office and production demands of enterprises and, more importantly, serve all places in our cities to redefine our life, office and travel experience,” said Li Xing, president of the campus network domain for Huawei. “In this way, we will step into a gigabit fully-wireless intelligence era. These expectations align perfectly with the goals of the Huawei CloudCampus 2.0, with its comprehensively upgraded architecture and products.”

He said Huawei would continue to help customers build a future-proof campus network that features super capacity, intelligent experience and autonomous driving.

“By adopting the intelligent campus network architecture, we will, as always, bring customers a digital network that delivers ultra-fast experience,” he said.

Since its commercial use in 2017, Huawei’s CloudCampus has been serving users across industries in more than 100 countries and regions.