Can AI And Networking Transform Industry? - Huawei Certifications

It’s no secret that advances in networking can disrupt entire industries. One only has to look at what 4G connectivity did for birthing ridesharing and disrupting a taxi industry plagued by inconsistent service and pricing. I believe AI (Artificial Intelligence) can be equally transformative when applied to networking for both cellular operators and enterprises. As an analyst that covers the entire networking infrastructure space, I read of companies big and small that tout the advantages of AI. Whether it’s the application of new algorithms or machine learning to make networks smarter and autonomous, I’m often left wondering what does all of that mean for the end consumer. I would like to examine the retail and healthcare sectors and provide my insights into how these markets might be reimagined through smarter connectivity.

Brick and mortar retail re-invention

Amazon has brought its own form of disruption to retail. The massive online retailer has leveraged connectivity to bring merchants together and streamline logistics to provide an endless assortment of products at compelling prices. Brick and mortar has suffered, causing many large retailers to close locations or go out of business entirely on a global basis. So how could AI and  connectivity re-level the playing field? Wireless networking married to beacon technology can provide wayfinding, proximity messaging alerting shoppers to special promotions, and personalize the overall shopping experience. AI could analyze prior shopper purchase data and make intelligent recommendations for new product considerations. Delighting customers will foster loyalty and repeat purchase behavior.

 Smarter doctors

 I know several physicians and their path to earning a medical degree involved years of study and residency. AI and networking has the potential to link that knowledge as well as late-breaking research to individual patient data history and make it accessible to a wider audience of caregivers. AI won’t replace a physician, but it could speed the process of diagnosis and patient treatment. More lives could be saved with illnesses treated faster and more accurately. Smart healthcare networks could also enhance physician assistant capabilities at national pharmacies and “minute-clinics” that are much more accessible to lower income and non-insured individuals.

Wrapping up

Retail and healthcare are only two examples of the potential of applying AI to networking. I found it interesting that while attending Huawei Connect 2018, rotating Huawei CEO Eric Xu claimed that only 4% of enterprises globally have deployed AI, which represents a tremendous opportunity for companies such as Huawei that are willing to make the investment in silicon, application development tools, and human resources.

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Huawei’s AI Strategy and Product Portfolio

Huawei’s new vision is a call for an intelligent world powered by artificial intelligence (AI). This in turn has shaped our AI strategy – a strategy that’s predicated on ten factors that will pave the way for widespread AI adoption. These are:

1. Faster model training
2. Abundant and affordable computing power
3. AI deployment and user privacy
4. New algorithms
5. AI automation
6. Practical application
7. Real-time, closed-loop system
8. Multi-tech synergy
9. Platform support
10. Talent availability

In a series of Huawei Connect-themed posts, we’ll be looking at each of these factors in more detail, as well as Huawei’s AI product portfolio and industry applications.

How Do We Reach The Stage of Pervasive Intelligence?

As well as providing the digital infrastructure that enables AI, Huawei has a mature full-stack AI strategy comprising five key areas of focus:

Invest in AI research to develop capabilities for machine learning in domains like computer vision, natural language processing, and decision and inference. Research areas include:

• Data and power-efficiency that requires less overall data, computing resources, and power use
• Security
• Automation

Build a full-stack AI portfolio:

• Deliver abundant and affordable computing power
• Provide an efficient and easy-to-use AI platform with full-pipeline services
• Make the portfolio adaptive to all scenarios, both standalone and cooperative scenarios between cloud, edge, and device

Develop an open ecosystem and talent: Collaborate with global academia, industries, and partners.

Strengthen the existing portfolio: Introduce an AI mindset and techniques into existing products and solutions to create greater value and enhance competitive strengths.

Drive operational efficiency at Huawei: Apply AI to massive volumes of routine business activities for better efficiency and quality.

Huawei’s AI portfolio: full-stack, all-scenario, and inclusive

First, let’s define what we mean by the above terms.

Full-stack: refers to the functionality of Huawei’s technology, which includes chips, chip enablement, a training and inference framework, and application enablement.

All scenarios: indicates the different deployment scenarios for AI, including public clouds, private clouds, edge computing, industrial IoT devices, and consumer devices.

Inclusive AI: refers to Huawei’s commitment to working with all stakeholders to turn AI into a practical reality, making it inclusive and available for every person, home, and organization.

Telecom Asia News Huawei bags three awards at Telecom Asia Readers’ Choice & Innovation Awards

Huawei today announced that it has received top honours in three categories, namely VoLTE Innovation of the Year, LTE Innovation of the Year and Smart City Innovation of the Year at the 11th Readers' Choice & Innovation Awards, organised by Telecom Asia Readers’ Choice & Innovation at The Mira, Hong Kong.

Hailed as the leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, Huawei continues to empower the industry by providing winning technologies that are innovative and sustainable.

On winning the three awards, Lim Chee Siong, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Huawei Southern Pacific Region, said, “The constant evolution of digital technology in every sphere of life in recent years has made the technology industry highly dynamic. At Huawei, we recognize this need of the day, and strive to achieve technological breakthroughs centred around customer needs and open partnerships. Our smart city solution, Voice over 5G and cloud solutions are competitive end-to-end products, and bear a strong testimony to our commitment to innovation. It is a matter of pride to be continually recognized for this work and our efforts in the space of digital and ICT transformation.”

“In the digital economy, the success of a business hinges on its ability to securely communicate with partners, customers and regulators. Consumers and enterprises are looking for service providers able to create reliable, secure and scalable platforms. To create this environment is no easy task. Service providers will need to partner with leading technology providers like Huawei to be able to mask the complexity of systems and processes while creating avenues for innovation and growth,” said Allan Tan, Chief Editor, Telecom Asia.

VoLTE Innovation of the Year: Huawei Vo5G

In this category, Huawei presented the development of Vo5G (Voice over 5G) standard and the voice and video codec standard solutions. This solution is the first to provide basic and enhanced functions to ensure a smooth evolution to 5G. Vo5G features flexible architecture-based designs, enabling real-time communication (RTC) services to gradually reach Home, enterprise, and industry users. Further, Huawei has redefined RTC as a microservice, and can orchestrate it to meet the requirements of various industries, such as Internet of Vehicles, industrial control, agriculture, and energy.

LTE Innovation of the Year: Huawei CloudAIR

Mobile operators will go through key transitions from year 2018-2025 including 2G and 3G phase-out, continuous deployment and densification of 4G, and the evolution to 5G. Huawei’s CloudAIR solution is the industry’s first air interface cloud-based solution, which aims to reshape networks, to efficiently share resources such as spectrum, power and channels. This solution improves air interface efficiency to enhance operator’s flexibility to deploy complex radio networks, huge synergized capacities and provide better user experience. The solution can be implemented using existing equipment with only software upgrades. Huawei CloudAIR solution was released in 2017 and is expected to achieve 100 commercial deployments in live networks by end of 2018.

Smart City Innovation of the Year: Huawei Smart City Intelligent Operations Centre

Huawei Smart City Intelligent Operations Centre enables a digital twin of the physical city. Through IoT sensors (video/non-video) across the city, data is collected and transmitted back to the IOC backend platforms using wireless and wired network. The backend platform include Cloud, IoT sensor management, GIS (city visuals), big data (analytics), Video management & analytics, and reporting dashboards (presentation) for better urban management. The solution was developed in partnership with China Government and was implemented in ShenZhen Longgang area covering approximately 400 square kilometer with a population of more than 3 million people.