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P04One Net: Connect Everyone, Connect as OneHuawei Agile Network Prospers in Ajax Stadium

Optimized Experience and Innovative BusinessHuawei Helps Dortmund Stadium Develop Its Wi-Fi Network

BovenIJ Hospital Future-proofs IT Infrastructure with Huawei 10G Campus Network SolutionHuawei 10G Campus Network Solution Provides a Highly-scalable, Easy-to-Manage, and Ultra-fast Network to Fit BovenIJ's Technical and Green IT Requirements

Efficient and Reliable Government Information NetworkNational e-Government Extranet Project

Facilitating Informationbased Social Insurance ServicesMulti-Service Convergence Solution for ZUS

Beijing Computing Center Accelerates the Transition Towards "Created in China" Using Huawei's Award-Winning SwitchesICCSP Platform Optimization Project for Beijing Computing Center

Facilitating Taxation ModernizationWAN Project for Hunan Local Taxation Bureau Golden Tax Project Phase Ⅲ

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P36Make IT Simple, Make Business AgileHuawei cloud storage shines at CERN

Shanghai World Expo Protected by New Emergency Command CenterHuawei Builds a Secure, Reliable ASON Project That Optimizes Fiber-optic Resources

Huawei Safeguards World-Class Computing Center in Shenzhen, ChinaHuawei Builds Secure Network for National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen

Huawei Works With RMIT to Improve Shiny PTY's Warehouse Management Efficiency

SWUN Plugs into a Next-Generation Campus with the Huawei Agile+Operable Campus Network Solution

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Shanghai Customs Addresses Service Performance Challenges Using Huawei Flash Arrays

Huawei OceanStor HVS: Building an Integrated Service Platform for the Hunan Local Taxation Bureau

The University of Lübeck Improves Storage Performance with Huawei S5500T

Huawei Helps UAE Rabdan Academy Build a Quality Education Cloud Data Center

Huawei OceanStor N8000: Ushering in a Digital Campus for Walter Sisulu University

Huawei IT Devices Modernize Historic Mackenzie Presbyterian University

Shanghai Maritime University Builds an Always-Online Logistics Research Center with Huawei FusionCube

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Bringing Multi-modal Enterprise Collaboration to Your Fingertips

Boundless, Professional Wireless Broadband

High-Definition Video Conferencing Links 66 Government AgenciesHuawei Helps Russian Regional Government Build a Platform for Improved Collaboration

Building Safe Lijiang with Huawei eLTE

Nanjing Builds a Smart City with Huawei eLTE

Public Health Emergency Command Powered by HD Video Conferencing SystemChina Ministry of Health e-Command System

Huawei Helps Uzbekistan Build Remote Education SystemHuawei's High-Defi nition Video Conferencing Solution Improves the Communication and Utilization of Educational Resources

Telemedicine Shortens DistanceTelemedicine Solution for the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University

Huawei eSpace IVS: Guarding Beijing's South Gate

Huawei provides a full series of network infrastructure products and solutions such as routers, switches, Wi-Fi, WLAN, network security, optical transmission, microwave, PON, and network management. Through the collaboration between

different technologies, such as network and security, wired and wireless networks, datacom and access, DCN and storage, Huawei can help enterprise customers build their network infrastructure platforms covering campus, branch offices, wide area connections, and data centers, to provide comprehensive enterprise network solutions.

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Huawei Agile Network Prospers in Ajax Stadium

Huawei Agile Network and the Giant Football Club Had Their First Met.Founded in 1900, Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax, also known as AFC Ajax, is a long-established giant football club that has won four UEFA Champions Cups. It is one of the top ten most successful clubs in the world and is revered as the "World's No.1 Talent Factory". Its renowned Youth Program has produced many elite soccer talents, including top soccer stars Johan Cruyff, Dennis Bergkamp, and Marco van Basten.In 1996, AFC Ajax moved to its current home ground-Amsterdam ArenA stadium, which was completed that year. Equipped with advanced and complete facilities and a seating capacity of 53,000, the stadium remained fans' favorite for a long time. Since the stadium had been in use for over a decade, poor network coverage remained a challenge, making it difficult for spectators to share their joy and experiences online with friends and families. This was in stark contrast with the stadium's intended purpose which was to provide spectators with a superb match watching experience by combining competitive sports with advanced technologies.In 2014, Huawei became Amsterdam ArenA's

overall network solution provider and partnered with K&H to provide full Wi-Fi coverage for the stadium. The stadium operator had high expectations on the Wi-Fi network and required the network to be highly reliable, easy to operate and maintain, and capable of providing full signal coverage for the stadium. To meet the expectations, constructing a fully functioning wireless network is the first step. Through the network, the spectators can access the Internet at anytime, from anywhere and the stadium can provision various value-added services, including online shopping, video replay, and indoor positioning.

Agile Network Creates Infinite Possibilities.Amsterdam ArenA uses Huawei's latest agile network solution, which deploys two S12700 agile switches as the campus core devices and the Campus Controller as the user policy and service management center. Paired with the next-generation firewalls NGFW USG6650, Huawei solution offers an all-round security guarantee.The currently used wireless coverage solutions all use independent wireless controllers to manage wireless networks and wireless user policies separately. Such solutions cause repetitive work of network administrators and increase the network


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As mobile Internet reaches out to almost every part of people's life, mobile users' demand for "stay connected" keeps increasing, presenting huge business opportunities. A stadium crowded with people on match days is challenged by building a network that is easy to manage with the minimum deployment and maintenance cost, to offer spectators ubiquitous access and innovative value-added services. >>

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The native AC technology applied on Huawei S12700 agile switches integrates wireless access controller functions on regular line cards based on the programmability. By implementing uniform AP management and control, and traffic forwarding, Huawei agile switches converge the wired and wireless networks to achieve unified policy control, forwarding, and management, greatly improving the user experience and simplifying network management.On match days when crowds of spectators delight in sharing their joys and excitements by FaceTime, a network fault will totally ruin the delights. Therefore, network stability is significantly important. Huawei's unique CSS2 technology virtualizes two S12700 agile switches into one logical switch to obtain higher cluster bandwidth and enhance core node reliability. The unprecedented CSS2 technology implements 1+N MPU backup, making the network extremely reliable.It is a very challenging task for the stadium to maintain and manage a network that can accommodate 53,000 users, especially that the stadium has more than one network service provider. Huawei agile network solution makes wireless network management and maintenance easy and simple for the stadium's maintenance team. Huawei eSight, the network management platform, enables unified management of wired and wireless users on the entire network. Through visualized monitoring, the network administrator can easily obtain information about wireless coverage, user access, interference sources, and rogue APs. Huawei eSight provides end-to-end monitoring on users, SSIDs, APs and ACs, which improves the O&M efficiency and user experience.In high-density access scenarios such as stadiums and concert halls, wireless signals easily interfere with each other, which is also the case in Amsterdam ArenA. Amsterdam ArenA has made various attempts and efforts to deal with access failures and terminal disconnection errors that occur on matchdays, but all failed. With 20 years of accumulated technical experience in the wireless communications field, Huawei formulates the Wi-Fi coverage solution well suited for the high-density access scenarios. Together with accurate network planning and innovative hardware and software features, Huawei's solutions overcome access difficulties in high-density environments, allowing a large number of users to access networks in some small physical spaces. Huawei leverages a series of innovative technologies and solutions to build an agile network for AFC Ajax, including wired and wireless in-depth convergence, unified user and device management, CSS2 switch fabric hardware clustering technology, and high-density Wi-Fi solutions. These technologies and solutions help improve the Ajax network quality and enhance the fan experience. Huawei will form alliances with more and more European giant clubs to boost agile network popularity, creating a new brand.


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Optimized Experience and Innovative BusinessHuawei Helps Dortmund Stadium Develop Its Wi-Fi Network

BackgroundThe mobile Internet era places higher demands on spectrum to accomplish ubiquitous broadband and deliver feature-rich mobile applications. Featuring low costs, high bandwidth, and quick deployment, Wi-Fi networks are widely used in public areas, such as stadiums, shopping malls, hotels, bars, and plazas, working as supplements to 3G and LTE. The Wi-Fi network deployed by BVB provides the following benefits:• Interactive experience and smooth communicationSpectators use the Wi-Fi network to view playback video stored in the local video server and interact with their friends on such social networks as Twitter and Facebook. The stadium's customized applications allow spectators to query information about clubs and players, access real-time game statistics, and view event schedules.• Expanded business channelsSpectators use the Wi-Fi network to reserve tickets, order snacks, and locate their seats. Shops utilize customized applications to receive orders and deliver merchandise. Event-goers are also able to utilize a navigation utility to locate parking spaces.

• Increased advertisement revenueThe stadium is able to increase revenue from advertisements placed by enterprises on the portal, applications, Wi-Fi service set identifiers (SSIDs), and browser pages. • Mobile office platform.The Wi-Fi network provides voice communication services for security personnel, mobile office s e rv i ce s fo r s a l e s pe r sonne l , and mob i l e communication services for event organizers.

Key ChallengesThe stadium faced the following challenges during network development:• Cons ider ing tha t the s tad ium i s ab le to accommodate over 80,000 spectators, an architecture that could support a high user density design placed high requirements on network bandwidth and core node reliability. • Massive numbers of users accessing the network would pose considerable security risks. As such, the stadium needed an advanced security system able to reduce threat exposure from user behavior.• Aware of the dynamic scenarios in terms of the


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Ballspiel-Verein Borussia (BVB) is a time-honored premier club in the German Bundesliga football league. Dortmund Stadium, situated in Signal Iduna Park, boasts a seating capacity able to accommodate 80,645 spectators during events. The stadium hosted the 1974 and 2006 World Cup. BVB deployed Germany's largest wireless network to improve user experience and capitalize on commercial opportunities. >>

customized and multiple service requirements and fluctuating user density in different locations of the venue in addition to the complexities in accommodating diverse device types, the stadium needed intelligent applications to authenticate users, control network access, and provide differentiated services.

SolutionBased on the stadium's structure and service requirements, Huawei provided the agile Wi-Fi solution to enable comprehensive Wi-Fi coverage throughout the venue. The network features dense network access, high reliability and security, and eco-friendly design.The solution has the following features:• High-Density AccessThe Wi-Fi network required optimized products, specific considerations to network design and deployment, and well-planned configuration, commissioning, and verification steps to meet the particulars of the stadium's architectural design and project requirements. The products had to support high-density access and deliver high bandwidth while network design had to fully consider the stadium structure and access scenarios.Huawei's WLAN products use cutting-edge 802.11 technologies, such as 802.11n, 802.11ac, and MINO beamforming to improve network throughput. The solution also supports rich intelligent resource scheduling mechanisms to enable high-density network access. A few examples of the mechanisms include Auto Radio Frequency Tuning that lowers AP signal interference, HD Boost High-Density Acceleration that improves RF resource usage, and Narrow Beamwidth Directional Antennas that allow precise coverage control in complex environments.In addition to high-density access and comprehensive coverage, the solution used optimized approaches in network design to minimize signal interference and maximize network capacity. Considering the complex structure of the stadium, additional difficulties in AP deployments and channel design also had to be overcome. Huawei used its proprietary intelligent network design tool to develop a Wi-Fi deployment solution suited to the stadium. The solution deploys over 400 APs in the seating areas and 700 APs throughout other locations in the stadium. The Wi-Fi network is able to support access for over 80,000 event-goers and 24,000 service channels.• Agile Network

Huawei deployed high-end wired network devices to provide sufficient bandwidth for the Wi-Fi network, ensuring secure and stable system operation. The solution uses PoE switches as the access switches to simplify AP deployment. These switches use 2 x GE uplink to meet access bandwidth requirements. The core switch uses S9700, iStack, CSS, and SFD technologies to ensure service continuity and improve user experience. Huawei's next-generation firewall (NGFW) covers the entire network to provide comprehensive security protection and mitigate threat exposure from user behavior. The solution also uses the Policy Center to authenticate users and employs the portal server to implement unified policy and security control.• Intelligent Network and Online Behavior ControlThe network covers both the standard seating area and VIP rooms. All those present in the stadium, from standard ticket holders to VIP users and stadium employees enjoy network services over their mobile phones, laptops, and other types of devices. Attendees and employees are able to surf the Internet, play back video, and enjoy other customized services. The solution automatically identifies users, locations, services, and devices to:• Ensure VIP users and VIP areas have sufficient bandwidth resources.• Enable service-based policy control.• Display portals based on user location and device type.• Provide video-service multicasting design.

Customer BenefitsHuawei used WLAN and NGFW products and integrated wired and wireless technologies to help BVB develop an efficient, stable, and secure Wi-Fi network. The network allows event-goers to enjoy better services, advertisers to share their message over broader media types, the club to further interact with its fans, and the stadium to enhance operational efficiency and expand revenue streams.


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BovenIJ Hospital Future-proofsIT Infrastructure with Huawei10G Campus Network SolutionHuawei 10G Campus Network Solution Provides aHighly-scalable, Easy-to-Manage, and Ultra-fast Networkto Fit BovenIJ's Technical and Green IT Requirements

BackgroundBovenIJ hospital is a mid-sized healthcare facility in the northern part of Amsterdam. The hospital provides a variety of medical services to Amsterdam and the surrounding community, ranging from emergency care, surgery, obstetrics and birth services, to the provisioning of basic healthcare, while always using modern and reliable diagnostic technology and equipment. A primary goal of BovenIJ is to "be a hospital of friendly character with open lines of communications and easy accessibility for all."The hospital has approximately 1300 employees working from 650 Windows desktops, plus numerous' computers on wheels' and other mobile devices used to provide patient care and monitoring. The previous network consisted of mostly legacy LAN switches and routers. Numerous critical medical machines are connected to the network,

including operating room equipment, patient monitoring systems, and imaging systems. The hospital has two data centers onsite, consisting of x86 servers and redundant data storage. All patient records are kept on-site, and in the future will be connected to the national EPD (Electronic Patient Dossier), in accordance with Dutch Ministry of Health regulations.

Key ChallengesBy the beginning of this decade, the previous network at BovenIJ had begun to show signifi cant signs of age and serious gaps in reliability. For example, in February 2011, the network failed for the entire day, leaving patient records and digital communication unavailable. BovenIJ and its partners were not able to pinpoint the exact reason for the network outage.

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Huawei provided a highly-scalable, easy to manage, and ultra- fast 10 GE campus network solution to fit BovenIJ's technical andGreen IT requirements, which helped BovenIJ hospital realizean extremely reliable network that has not experienced anysignificant downtime since its installation, and also improve itsscalability and flexibility greatly. Besides, the solution offeredmajor CAPEX cost savings and less space for data center. >>

the power redundancy….in all the technical requirements of BovenIJ, Huawei was the best. And not to forget, our trust in the system integrator TenICT. They were very open and skillful and created a strong feeling of confidence in the project."

Richard van Leeuwen, Coordinator of ICT Infrastructure,BovenIJ Ziekenhuis

During the same period, the hospital was facing increasing demands for network bandwidth, from both internal and external sources. For example, the transmission of ever-larger digital patient files and the growing number of connected devices were causing severe network congestion, while the age of the network made it impossible to increase the network scale or capacity. Also, the local Amsterdam metropolitanarea healthcare WAN network is being upgraded from 1G to 10G. As a result, all area hospitals are required to upgrade their own networks.Finally, the ICT management team at BovenIJ, like their colleagues throughout the world, must anticipate the future requirements that new applications and services will make to their network. In other words, the network installed today must be able to accommodate the new technologies and requirements that the medical community will require in the next decade.

"We are planning for at least an 8 or 10 year window with this network. We must be ready to accommodate new services and applications in the future, such as voice or video on the network. We must be ready for possible growth of the hospital. Huawei's campus 10G network provides us with future-proofing, as it can meet our capacity, performance and availability requirements for years to come"

Richard van Leeuwen, Coordinator of ICT Infrastructure,BovenIJ Ziekenhuis

SolutionFollowing intensive research and discussion with other ICT colleagues, BovenIJ outlined the following basic requirements for their network upgrade:• Reliability, high-performance and high-availability: A network that will deliver the highest level of uptime.• Bandwidth and scalability: A network with adequate capacity to accommodate high-bandwidth applications, and one that can be easily upgraded from 1G to 10G.• Simplicity and ease of management: Simple design, simple deployment and efficient management/monitoring.


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• Energy saving and green design: A network with lower power consumption and a minimal physical footprint.Based on the nature of a medical environment, the most important factor was network reliability. According to Mr. van Leeuwen,

"…reliability is our number one requirement. Network speed is not #1 and neither is cost. When someone is on the table in the operating room and the doctors cannot view the medical images or patient data, then we have a big problem. The network must be running, and running without errors or outages."

The BovenIJ hospital evaluated a variety of systems integrators and equipment vendors in an attempt to find one that would meet all their requirements. Their evaluation resulted in an RFP short-list that included three locally respected systems integrators, who partnered with three well-known global enterprise technology brands (including Huawei).The winning solution was proposed by TenICT in cooperation with Huawei's Amsterdam enterprise team. Huawei and TenICT were the only vendors to provide the required reliability, scalability and performance in a cost-effective package, according to BovenIJ's ICT management team:

"Every requirement and nice-to-have criteria in the RFP were met by Huawei and TenICT. No concessions, no compromises. A very good proposal, good listeners, and good eye for details."

The campus network deployed by TenICT consists of two Huawei S6700-48-EI switches at the core layer and two Huawei S5700-52C-EI switches at the aggregation layer. As of September, 2012, the access layer uses older units, but BovenIJ expects to replace these with Huawei equipment in early 2013 to create a 10G campus network powered completely by Huawei switches.BovenIJ also demanded simplified network management and a monitoring system that could manage both the new vendor's equipment (in this case Huawei) and legacy equipment from other vendors. This requirement was met by Huawei's eSight Network Management Software which allows the hospital to manage both the Huawei switches and the legacy equipment. As BovenIJ replaces its legacy equipment with more modern wired/wireless Huawei access switches, eSight will provide even more advanced features and network management functionalities.

Customer BenefitsThe BovenIJ hospital realized a large number of benefi ts by upgrading to the Huawei 10G Campus Solution, and will continue to enjoy new benefits over the life-time of the network. The primary benefit is that BovenIJ now has an extremely reliable network that has not experienced any significant downtime since its installation. number of factors go into this reliability, including fully redundant component design, and "long-distance stacking" which allows for placement of a two distinct switches in two separate data centers to create a single logical and redundant switch. When one of the switches encounters a fault, the other switch can operate the network


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normally. The patients and staff at BovenIJ place their trust in the network. This trust is taken very seriously by Huawei and TenICT, who together realize the importance of a healthcare/hospital network in life-saving activities.Another key benefit of the Huawei 10G Campus Solution is its scalability and flexibility. With the new network in place, the BovenIJ hospital can quickly scale from a 1G to a 10G environment, ready to accommodate new services such as telemedicine on the network, voice over IP, and video over IP. Mr. van Leeuwen explains:

"We choose Huawei because they made it very easy to migrate from a 1G to 10G network, this was one of their strongest points. Our requirements for migration were very specific and strict, and Huawei was the most flexible, and ultimately the only vendor, able to meet them"

BovenIJ is also benefiting from a decrease in power costs, as the Huawei switches are up to 50% more power efficient than those offered by other vendors. In addition to these significant OPEX savings, Huawei offered major CAPEX cost savings.According to BovenIJ, the total cost for the Huawei/TenICT offer was 40% less than the next-closest competitor.

"Finally a carrier-class, non-blocking 10G infrastructure at an enterprise price. Plus, with the energy saving we accomplish in five years, BovenIJ can install Wi-Fi access points for the complete campus."

Martijn van Deursen, Director Network Management,TenICT

Furthermore, the Huawei switches take up a fraction of the space of the previous switches (from 20 U to 2 U of rack-space in the data center, a 90% reduction). These smaller switches will allow the hospital to use the free data center space for new projects, or to lease this excess capacity to possible technical joint ventures with other Dutch hospitals.


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Efficient andReliable GovernmentInformation NetworkNational e-Government Extranet Project

BackgroundThe nat ional e-Government extranet is the most important communication network for the development of China's e-Government project and the operation of service-oriented government. The e-Government extranet connects to multiple institutions of all levels such as government departments, councils, and courts to provide data bearing services. The extranet supports network connection, service collaboration, and information sharing to meet the requirements of social management and public services. The network bears public-oriented service application systems and enables nationwide basic information sharing.

Key ChallengesServices and organization expansion to the e-Government extranet brought several challenges.• Non-compatible IT systemsWAN IP addresses in some provinces and cities did not comply with China's unified network

development standards, slowing cross-level e-Government services deployment.• Inadequate network security protection systemThe legacy network security protection system could not meet service requirements because:• The network had no unifi ed security protection pol icy and the pro tec t ion sys tem was not standardized.• The legacy network, especially network egresses, suffered with low security protection level.

SolutionHuawei provided a state-of-the-art network architectural design for the national e-Government extranet project. The solution used advanced rel iabi l i ty protect ion technologies such as Hierarchical Virtual Private Network (HVPN) to enhance information security and key services protection without increasing investment.The solution provides the following functions:


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The network provides network access, application support, and security protection services for government departments, enabling level-based services classification and multi-service bandwidth resource sharing to improve bandwidth resource usage. When an active node or transmission link fails, the system supports the automatic service switchover within 50 ms, which improves the system stability and reliability.

Customer BenefitsThe solution provides the following customer benefits:• Economic benefitsThe stability of national e-Government extranet brings confidence to government departments of all levels. The unified platform integrates network resources, avoids repeated network construction, and lowers investment costs. Compared with the legacy decentralized network development mode, the e-Government extranet project is estimated to cut a total of CNY750 million CAPEX and CNY140 million OPEX costs annually.• Social benefitsThe e-Government extranet is the public government network that has the largest number of connected departments and regions. By mid-2012, the network is connected to 33,000 government departments and has a total of 570,000 terminals. The e-Government extranet helps build a unified government network platform, playing a major role in developing serviceoriented government for China.

The national e-Government extranet chose the Huaweihigh-end NE series routers to develop the governmentbackbone that covers large scale areas and connectsmost of the government departments in China. Thisextranet plays an important role in integratingresources of government departments of all levels,enabling information sharing, and promoting servicecollaboration. >>

• Isolates departments of different levelsThe solution used the Huawei NE80E and NE40 routers to develop the central MAN, backbone WAN, Internet egresses, network management center, provincial access network, and ministry access networks. The solution enables VPNs in all levels to directly access the e-Government backbone and departments from municipal level and county level, all access to Internet through municipal VPN, and the internet visiting traffic is being put into a special VPN; therefore, the internet surfing data streams separate with service data, which can better secure service information.• Enables departments interconnectionThe system adopts MPLS VPN technologies to allow for interconnection among ministries in central government level and provincial level in the horizontal plane. Vertically, it achieves the interconnection inside a department among different government levels. Huawei network management software is deployed to keep the original service model unchanged while upgrading the extranet, and realize service reorganization, connecting departments both horizontally and vertically.• Isolates e-Government subsystemsThe Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnels are deployed to classify government extranet into ministry networks and services networks. The hierarchical VPN (HVPN) technology separates the ministry networks from the services networks, thereby enabling the system to locate and rectify faults in a VPN without interfering with services outside the VPN, enhancing network reliability.


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Facilitating Information-based Social InsuranceServicesMulti-Service Convergence Solution for ZUS

BackgroundZUS has more than 40,000 employees, 43 affiliated agencies, 216 supervision departments, and 67 foreign branches, providing social insurance services for 24 million Polish citizens. ZUS has set a good example for e-Government system development in Europe and won the European Union's "eEurope" award.ZUS's Kompleksowy System Informatyczny (KSI) processes more than 100 million transactions each month and has 40 TB of stored data. The original network covered more than 500 branches. ZUS planned to upgrade the network for providing multi-media services.

Key ChallengesZUS's information-based office construction requires Office Automation (OA), information-based management, and information sharing. The institution needed a comprehensive network upgrading solution to improve network Operation

and Maintenance (O&M) efficiency while lowering investment costs. The original network faced the following challenges:• ZUS network resources were dis t r ibuted throughout the whole Poland, which resulted in repeated construction, heterogeneous platforms that were difficult to maintain, and information silos.• The original network suffered low performance from legacy WAN routers and LAN switches. The network had no enough bandwidth to develop a video conferencing system, multi-media application platform, or intranet learning platform.• The original network couldn't carry voice services, had no Power over Ethernet (PoE) feature supported from legacy equipment, and was unable to support Voice over IP (VoIP).• The original network did not support WAN data encryption.• Traditional 10G bit/s multi-mode optical modules had only short transmission distance support.• Most of the device warranties in the legacy network had expired resulting in high maintenance costs.


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In 2011, Zakład UbezpieczeńSpołecznych (ZUS, the Social InsuranceInstitution of Poland) began upgradingnetworks in its 100+ branches. They chose products and solutions provided by Huawei and its partner, offering data, voice and video services. In 2013, ZUS is going to carry out the phase II of this project covering additional 400+ branches. >>

SolutionBased on ZUS's service requirements, Huawei provided an information-based, multi-service convergence solution with unified flat-network architecture.Huawei deployed the S series LAN switches in aggregation and core layers of the network. Each LAN switch supports as many as 480*10 Gbit/s interfaces for end-to-end, high-bandwidth, congestion-free Ethernet transmission. Huawei also deployed AR series access routers in branches to significantly improve network access ability. Hardwarebased OAM/BFD technology is deployed to enable network failure detection within 10ms, ensuring quick fault recover so that the users are not aware of network faults.To enhance system security, the solution used BGP/MPLS VPN technology to isolate services, terminals, servers, and network resources of different levels and departments.The solution upgraded the network for more bandwidth resources and used IP PBXs, IPSec VPNs, WLANs, and firewalls to integrate data, voice, video, security, and wireless services. PoE devices use inexpensive twisted-pair cabling to provide both data and power connections, simplifying cabling and reducing investment costs.

Customer BenefitsThe solution provides the following customer benefits:• Integrates the network system and service workflow, improving ZUS's work efficiency and substantially reducing social insurance service processing time.• Provides a customized and open LRM solution to enable smooth upgrade from a 1 G network to 10 G.• Integrates the new network with the legacy network and enables easy network expansion, maximizing ZUS's Return on Investment (ROI).• Fundamentally simplifies network management and reduces O&M workload.


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Beijing Computing Center Accelerates the Transition Towards "Created in China" Using Huawei's Award-Winning Switches ICCSP Platform Optimization Project for Beijing Computing Center

Over the past three decades, China has emerged as a global manufacturing center, earning the title, "Factory of the World." Despite its fast growth, China's manufacturing industry also faces many issues and challenges, for example, products with little added value and lacking in innovation.The advent of cloud computing is a new driving force for industrial production. To keep up with the growing trend of cloud computing, the Beijing Computing Center has built the ICCSP platform to streamline production procedures, empower SMEs to transform themselves, and ultimately drive Chinese enterprises to move from "Made in China" to "Created in China." ("Created in China" refers to China's move to transform itself from the world's factory to the world-leading generator of creativity.)

"Created in China" Encountered Network ChallengesBy focusing on industrial production in the manufacturing industry, the ICCSP platform has provided a variety of stable, reliable cloud services to numerous SMEs. For example, the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing uses this platform to conduct biological computation as part of its medication research; Beijing Changcheng Huaguan Auto Technology Development Co., Ltd simulates automobile functions and designs automobiles using this platform; also, iFLYTEK in Beijing has used this platform to launch a voice cloud that translates text to speech and vice versa, enabling mobile phones to speak and listen like


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human beings.The ICCSP platform is currently one of the largest industrial cloud platforms in China. Behind this platform, what is an IT environment like? According to the responsible person of Beijing Computing Center, all IT hardware resources of the ICCSP platform, including 42 cabinets, more than 500 servers, and approximately 10,000 CPUs, are centralized in a 300 m2 equipment room. These hardware resources enable powerful computing capabilities with speeds of 200 trillion operations per second.This ICCSP platform relies on very expensive advanced software and hardware resources. If SMEs purchase devices on their own, the purchase costs are far too great. The Beijing Computing Center has decided to employ virtualization technology to virtualize IT resources into a resource pool. As a result, SMEs would have a pay-as-you-need method to obtain affordable high-quality services from the resource pool.To achieve their goals, the Beijing Computing Center needed to set up a robust switching network capable of large-scale virtualization. The ICCSP platform has more than 500 physical servers. Each physical server can be virtualized into 4 to 20 virtual machines (VMs), and up to 10,000 VMs may be created. Such a huge number of VMs place high

China has long been recognized as a large manufacturing nation. The manufacturing industry is crucial to China's gross domestic product (GDP) and comprehensive national power (CNP). China has announced its goal to shift from a large manufacturing nation to a powerful manufacturing nation.The Beijing Computing Center has optimized its Industrial Cloud Computing Service Platform (ICCSP) using Huawei's award-winning CloudEngine switches. The ICCSP platform is currently providing premium cloud services to small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), helping them make the shift from "Made in China" to "Created in China." >>

"Huawei's CloudEngine switches provide as much as 64 Tbit/s switching capacity, and they can implement a 360 Tbit/s non-blocking switching network - the best performance in the world. In addition, these switches provide comprehensive network virtualization capabilities and use a strict front-to-rear ventilation channel design as well as innovative energy-conserving technology. So, Huawei is the ideal choice for us."

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requirements on the reliability, scalability, switching capacity, and packet forwarding capability of the switching network. In addition, after server virtualization, computing resources can flexibly scale up or down and be easily allocated based on changing resource demands. To achieve this, VM migration must be implemented. This requires the switching network to support VM migration under a Layer 2 network environment.The ICCSP platform performs a huge number of engineering, scientific, and biological computing tasks. Standalone servers cannot handle such a heavy computing workload. To overcome this issue, the Beijing Computing Center decided to implement server clustering – which uses parallel computing to provide more powerful computing capabilities. However, server clustering places high demands on the reliability and switching capacity of the switching network. In addition, to avoid network congestion caused by data bursts, switch ports must have significant buffering capacity.

Huawei Award-Winning CloudEngine Switches Facilitate SMEs in Transition to "Created in China"The Beijing Computing Center required a robust switching network for its ICCSP platform. Such a switching network is crucial because it directly affects the ICCSP platform operations and the quality of services provided by the platform.The Beijing Computing Center chose Huawei as its trusted partner to build their switching network. The core devices on the switching network are Huawei's flagship CloudEngine switches.Huawei's CloudEngine switches have five unique features: orthogonal switch fabric design, Clos architecture, cell switching, Virtual Output Queuing (VoQ), and large-scale buffering. These switches are available in chassis-shaped and box-shaped models. They provide GE, 10GE, 40GE, and 100GE access capabilities, supporting non-blocking switching in data centers.Huawei's CloudEngine switches methodically addressed the issues faced by the Beijing Computing Center. Specifically, Huawei's CloudEngine switches provided comprehensive network virtualization capabilities using Huawei's "Cluster Switch System (CCS) + Virtual System (VS) technology. This completely satisfied the Beijing Computing Center's large-scale virtualization and clustering requirements. In addition, Huawei's CloudEngine switches support Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) and nCenter technologies to efficiently implement VM migration functions under a Layer 2 network environment.A single network set up using Huawei's CloudEngine switches supports a maximum of 13,000 10GE servers or 50,000 GE servers and can facilitate the evolution of four generations of servers (from GE/10GE to 40GE/100GE). As a result, the ICCSP platform can easily scale to support future service demands.In the test led by the Beijing Computing Center, Huawei's CloudEngine core


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switches outperformed comparable products from other vendors. The responsible person commented on their partnership with Huawei: "Huawei's CloudEngine switches provide as much as 64 Tbit/s switching capacity, and they can implement a 360 Tbit/s non-blocking switching network - the best performance in the world. In addition, these switches provide comprehensive network virtualization capabilities and use a strict front-to-rear ventilation channel design as well as innovative energy-conserving technology. So, Huawei is the ideal choice for us."In this project, the ICCSP platform used several of Huawei's high-end CE12800 core switches and dozens of downstream top-of-rack (TOR) switches. These switches efficiently handle large amounts of high-speed service traffic on the ICCSP platform. By deploying Huawei's CloudEngine switches, the Beijing Computing Center has set up a non-blocking, flat, fat-tree network with the best performance and largest switching capacity in the industry. With this network in place, the Beijing Computing Center has connected tens of thousands of VMs to support engineering, biological, and scientific computing requirements of all sizes. In addition, microsecond-level network latency and 100 millisecond-level large-scale buffering ensure a non-blocking network free of service interruptions. With Huawei's CloudEngine switches, the ICCSP platform encourages the transition from "Made in China" to "Created in China."


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Facilitating TaxationModernizationWAN Project for Hunan Local TaxationBureau Golden Tax Project Phase Ⅲ

BackgroundIn September 2008, the National Development and Reform Commission (China) officially launched the third phase of the Golden Tax Project. The project covered a total of 27 tax categories in China, including value-added tax, consumption tax, business tax, enterprise income tax, and individual income tax and was a significant improvement to the original taxation information system. A four-level Wide Area Network (WAN) platform would be constructed, to cover State Administration of Taxation, provincial local taxation bureaus, municipal local taxation bureaus, and county local taxation bureaus.

Key ChallengesWith the launching of the third phase of the Golden Tax project, the two networks built in 2001 and 2004 could no longer satisfy taxation service requirements and a third network was required. Hunan local taxation bureau faced tremendous challenges, including:• Insufficient bandwidth and limited coverageThe bandwidths of the two links between provincial and municipal local taxation bureaus were only 10

Mbit/s and 2 Mbit/s respectively, while bandwidths for the two links between municipal and county bureaus were even lower at 2 Mbit/s each. This made it impossible for the business separation of taxation services from administrative services. In addition, information and service sharing with other related departments (such as finance, industry & commerce, and civil affairs) was difficult to be implemented.• In need of higher network reliability to support new applicationsWith the expansion of taxation management services (such as common invoice management, tax payment evaluation, and remote business tax handling), the management became more complex.The Hunan Local Taxation Bureau therefore intended to optimize its management system with new IT technologies supporting interactions with tax payers. This expansion and transformation of service required a reliable network to improve taxpayer's satisfaction.

SolutionHuawei meticulously designed and presented a data and transmission network solution that covered the


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core layer, aggregation layer, and access layer.Huawei's solution has the following compelling features:• Complete product portfolio for network-wide coverageTo set up an integrated IP network, Huawei deployed the NE80E core router on the central node of the provincial bureau and NE40E-X3 on the nodes of 14 municipal bureaus, all connected to routers on the original administrative network through Gigabit Ethernet (GE) or Fast Ethernet (FE) links. In addition, an active NE20 router was deployed for each node of the 89 county bureaus and 45 municipal branch bureaus. These NE series routers share the same hardware, software, and network management platforms that ensure consistency of network architectures and functionalities.• Clear network and routing hierarchy for higher network bandwidth The network adopts the mainstream hierarchical structure design, allowing for service separation and clear division of work. The network core layer specifically deals with IP/MPLS fast switching, while the municipal bureaus are responsible for service convergence and QoS. Thanks to this hierarchical design, the routing is more focused, enabling the core area to be free from the impacts of edge link flapping. Network bandwidth was significantly improved, allowing two 34 Mbit/s links to work in load balancing mode between provincial and municipal bureaus, and two 4 Mbit/s links between municipal and county bureaus.

Customer BenefitsHuawei's solution helped the Hunan Local Taxation Bureau optimize its networks and resolve major issues. The networks have become more information-enabled from various points of view, including information security, network stability, communication with other government departments, and platform setup for the taxation management information system.• Increased link bandwidth and easier network expansion; key services isolationThe establishment of two 34 Mbit/s links for taxation services between provincial and municipal bureaus and two 4 Mbit/s links between municipal and county bureaus allows the network to function in load-balancing mode. These links serve as a backup for each other to carry the separated administrative services.• Improved security and reliability and better information linkage for higher efficiencyThis solution allows seamless connection with external e-government networks for exchange of data, information sharing, and service association with other related departments (such as finance, industry & commerce, and civil affairs).

Huawei's solution helped the Hunan Local Taxation Bureauoptimize its networks and resolve major issues. The networkshave become more information-enabled from various pointsof view, including information security, network stability,communication with other government departments, andplatform setup for the taxation management informationsystem. >>


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Shanghai World Expo Protected by New Emergency Command CenterHuawei Builds a Secure, Reliable ASON Project That Optimizes Fiber-optic Resources

BackgroundTo ensure that the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai could go without a hitch, the Shanghai Police Bureau (SPB) planned to reconstruct its emergency command center to improve the promptness of its emergency response. The ECC is one of the core service systems for SPB which carries audio, video, and data information. As a result, it requires stable, highly efficient, and intelligent transport products. SPB hoped to construct a dedicated emergency command center to provide a foundation for future network development.

Key ChallengesIn response to the requirements of existing networks, future networks, and service expansion, SPB decided

to develop a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) transport network. SDH networks feature multi-service, multi-interface, and large-bandwidth access. SPB also wanted to choose an intelligent architecture design, but faced the following challenges:• How to ensure device, network, and service reliability is SPB's top concern. Although fiber resources at the backbone layer of its existing network were quite sufficient, fiber resources at the aggregation and access layers were limited. SPB was also concerned about optimizing all fiber resources to enhance service scheduling efficiency.• As the World Expo approached, personnel also faced enormous workload and time constraints.


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With the deep understanding of the Emergency Command Center (ECC) of the Shanghai Police Bureau (SPB), Huawei uses mainstream Optical Switch Node (OSN) series devices to build a secure and efficient network for SPB. >>

SolutionHuawei answered the bureau’s concerns with a highly secure and efficient Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) that focused on: • Industry-leading devices Huawei chose mainstream OSN series transport products that are equipped with future-proof network technologies:• Huawei provided OSN7500 devices at the core layer, OSN3500s at the aggregation layer, OSN2500s and OSN1500s at the access layer, and OSN500s at the access layer.• All OSN series products support ASON and Multi-Service Transmission Platform (MSTP) technologies. The devices provide rich service access and end to end intelligent scheduling and management. • All Huawei OSN products have passed rigorous tests conducted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the top three carriers in China, and carriers outside China, which have owned the largest global market share. They are the most widely used products in ASON networks. • Service configuration: high reliability and redundancy• All key boards, including the main control board, cross-connection board, clock board, and power board, support 1+1 hot backup. • All 2 Mbps/s services are configured with 1:N Tributary Protection Switching (TPS). Huawei’s proprietary Sub Network Connection Protection (SNCP) and silver-level protection technologies are both used to protect services at the aggregation layer. This protective measure ensures network, device, and service security and makes the best of the customer's existing fiber resources.• Huawei OSN devices have multiple redundant slots and interfaces that enhance the redundancy of the Network Management System (NMS) by more than 40 percent. The devices have enabled the SPB to expand system capacity at zero cost, and satisfied future capacity expansion for five to eight years.• Service assurance: experienced project management and cut-overs, and comprehensive after-sales serviceHuawei organized a project implementation and after-sales service team to ensure efficient project management. The team included supply chain management personnel, project supervisors, service managers, R&D contact personnel, and market co-ordination personnel. Huawei also customized an ASON project implementation and cut-over solution, ensuring quick, lossless, and easy service cut-over.

Customer BenefitsHuawei helped SPB upgrade its emergency command center and build a highly secure and reliable fiber-optic platform. The ASON transport platform was completed on time and ensured that the World Expo succeeded. Also, as the first national police organization to construct an ASON emergency command center, the SPB has set a great example for the entire public security sector.


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Huawei Safeguards World-Class Computing Center in Shenzhen, ChinaHuawei Builds Secure Network for National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen

BackgroundChina developed the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen (Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center) as part of the country’s high-tech research and development program. As a major scientific and technological infrastructure project, the Supercomputing Center has covered 43,000 square meters and cost a total of CNY1.23 billion to build. In 2010, as measured by the national supercomputer organization, the LINPACK performance benchmark of its mainframe system was confirmed as 1.271 PFLOPs/s (one quadrillion floating point operations per second), which made it the second in the world at the time. The center serves Southern China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia with a variety of large-scale scientific computing and engineering computing tasks, while providing cloud computing services with its data processing and storage capacity. The goal is to implement a

world-class, energy-efficient, high-performance computing research and development center and cloud computing service center with full-featured platforms.

Key ChallengesThe construction of the National Supercomputing Center was divided into three parts: facilities, supercomputing center, and information network system. Building the information network system was an indispensable step for the Supercomputing Center implementing and administering internal applications, as well as providing reliable bundled services to customers. With the information network system, the Supercomputing Center could efficiently manage top-notch computing capabilities and stably and securely deliver such capabilities to customers. However, when deploying this network, managers at the Supercomputing Center had faced two major challenges:


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• Millisecond-level switching for service continuity at the network convergence layerThe network convergence layer is required to have both vertical protection (from other network layers) and horizontal protection (from its internal equipment) to minimize network security risks. To achieve this, Huawei has deployed USG9500 series products in two-node clusters in each area of the Supercomputing Center to prevent security threats from spreading. This deployment of USG9500 series products also ensures service continuity with the µs-level switching technology.• Secure end-points at the service access layerThe best means of preventing the spread of security threats is to implement security filtering and detection at the end-points of data streams. Huawei deployed the Terminal Security Management (TSM) system, which protects terminals in the Supercomputing Center by using identity identification and security check features. The TSM system features high automation (such as simple deployment and single sign-on), which lets terminal users get rid of clumsy tutorials.• Professional security consulting service for a comprehensive information security management systemIn addition to security equipment, Huawei has also provided an information security consulting service that complies with international information security standards, laws, and regulations (such as ISO27001 and ISO17799) and other related industry standards. The consulting service is based on service requirement management and encompasses different dimensions, including technology, operation, and management. The consulting service helped the Supercomputing Center set up a scientific, operable and sustainable information security management system by taking the center's IT development strategy and the information system’s actual conditions into consideration. The system setup ensures the maximum implementation of IT security strategies and service objectives.

Customer BenefitsHuawei provided a s ta te-of- the-ar t , re l iable , manageable, and controllable information network system that:• Guarantees fast service growth needs over the next several years. • Safeguards the evo lu t ion of a wor ld-c lass supercomputing center with imperceptible and trouble-free security protection.

Through analysis of the special requirements of National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, Huawei has provided a network security solution encompassing internet access, network convergence, service access, and security consultation. >>

• Trouble-free, imperceptible security protection for customersSupercomputing facilities need to continually improve their supercomputing services in order to remain competitive. This requires strict security requirements. As a result, the information network has to provide trouble-free and imperceptible security protection. Trouble-free protection means to minimize and even eliminate network security risks and to ensure non-congested delivery of supercomputing capabilities to customers. Network security protection must also be imperceptible to the staff. A network security solution with high-standard security equipment was required to meet these strict requirements.• Comprehensive protection and highly trained personnel Because people implement solutions and use equipment, the O&M personnel in the Supercomputing Center must have a strong understanding of network security and be able to quickly resolve network security issues. In this way, the Supercomputing Center will not only be highly protected, but also provide quality customer services.

SolutionThe Supercomputing Center's special requirements included support for super-heavy data traffic and super-high stability. Huawei has fully considered security risk variables at different network layers and provided a network security solution encompassing Internet access, network convergence, service access, and security consultation. • High performance and high reliability at the Internet access layerHuawei has deployed USG9500 series products (cloud data center firewalls) and SIG9280 series products (traffic inspection and control equipment) to guard against Internet security threats and attacks. With 99.9999 percent stability, ultra-100 Gbits/s processing performance, and Layer-7 anti-DDoS protect the Supercomputing Center without compromising its computing performance. Network Intrusion Protection (NIP) series systems were also deployed to provide fine-grained traffic monitoring and attack prevention, comprehensively protecting the network from the network layer to the application layer.


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Huawei Works With RMIT to Improve Shiny PTY's Warehouse Management Efficiency

RMIT is a global university of technology and design and also the largest university in Australia. RMIT holds the leading position in multiple disciplines in Australia, such as ICT, design, international business, communication, international relationship, healthcare, and sustainable city development. RMIT provides high-quality education and extensive scientific research services, which contribute to RMIT's global reputation. In the 2010 Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking, RMIT was listed among the top 100 engineering technologies universities worldwide. Shiny PTY is a textile manufacturer whose products are well accepted in Australia. RMIT deployed its RTLS in five of Shiny PTY's warehouses for scientific research. These warehouses take a total of 30,000 square meters, storing a large number Shiny PTY asset.Huawei deploys a Wi-Fi network in Shiny PTY's warehouses to improve the warehouse management efficiency and to help RMIT develop its RTLS.

Comprehensive Network Solution is the KeyThe rapid development of logistics has changed the warehouse industry. Traditional warehouse systems use paper-based manual operations. Modern warehouse systems feature intelligent applicat ions, wireless communicat ion, and real-time asset management. These advanced systems are now widely applied by enterprises and colleges. Comprehensive and reliable Wi-Fi networks effect ively support intel l igent warehouse management. These networks meet office requirements, facilitate asset management, and develop high-quality research environments for RMIT's RTLS.Wi-Fi technologies feature wide coverage and high-speed transmission. Shiny PTY's warehouse system is a typical example. The system uses barcode applications, efficient wireless-communications technologies, and wireless handheld terminals to


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Huawei deploys a Wi-Fi network in Shiny PTY's warehouses to improve the warehouse management efficiency and help The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) develop its real-time location system (RTLS). >>

provide automatic real-time warehouse management services. On the one hand, using a Wi-Fi network allows Shiny PTY to enjoy cost-effective storage, view real-time warehouse information, and prevent errors in counting inventory and asset management. On the other hand, the network also brings challenges. First of all, asset information in the warehouse changes dynamically, causing RF changes. These changes have the potential to negatively impact Wi-Fi performance, including connection and performance problems. To ensure real-time connection between handheld scanners and barcode readers, Shiny PTY needs a fast Wi-Fi network that supports seamless roaming and switchover among multiple access points (APs). To add to this complexity, Shiny PTY's five warehouses are separated from each other. As a result, Shiny PTY needs an easy-to-use system to efficiently connect, manage, and maintain its warehouse networks. Last but not least, the warehouse system must meet RMIT's scientific research requirements, a fact that has forced RTLS to play an increasingly important role in logistics development. RMIT must make full use of its wireless network resources to develop this value-added service.

Proper Network Design Simplifies Wi-Fi CoverageDevelopment personnel face challenges in network design, challenges that include densely deployed metal racks, changing logistic information, and constantly moving handheld scanners. Wi-Fi signals suffer considerable attenuation when passing through metal racks. Because of this attenuation and without sufficient APs, the network cannot cover the entire warehouse. Scanners in some areas may fail to receive Wi-Fi signals, or the signals received are weak. In such an environment, employees cannot obtain timely asset information or efficiently process services. On the other hand, if the system has too many APs, the network


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suffers signal interference when the metal racks are empty. (Signal attenuation is lowered when racks are empty.)Huawei thoroughly analyzed Shiny PTY's warehouses and warehouse services and as a result developed a simulation environment using the WLAN Planner, a dedicated network design tool. The simulation environment allows Shiny PTY to accurately and efficiently design its network and oversee project delivery. When successfully deployed, Huawei's wireless network will completely cover the five warehouses. Scanners will be able to obtain real-time asset information. The network significantly simplifies warehouse management and improves system management efficiency.In addition, the WLAN Planner allows RMIT to design wireless channels, preventing signal interference and improving frequency resource usage. Scanners will be able to roam effortlessly between APs, allowing efficient network access.

Reliable and Efficient Wireless Backhaul Allows Network ConvergenceShiny PTY's five warehouses have no cable connection. Developing a wired network would require high investment costs and require a long construction period. Shiny PTY needs a comprehensive wireless network now to connect its warehouses and to simplify system operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM), and to improve asset management efficiency.After conducting a meticulous study on the application scenario and customer requirements for wireless backhaul, Huawei developed a dedicated wireless network solution. This solution uses outdoor APs and high-gain directional antennas to enable large-scale wireless signal coverage, to shorten the project's development period, and to simplify system deployment. Huawei's wireless network has high transmission speed (160-Mbit/s bandwidth and 5-km single hop), improved security and reliability (wide-range working temperature, and dustproof and waterproof design), simplified deployment and OAM, and lower investment costs.

RTLS Helps Maximize the Solution ValueAs one of the most successful education institutions in Australia, RMIT focuses on industry trends and customizes its courses and training sessions accordingly. Network technologies witnessed rapid development in the last few years and attracted much attention from the RMIT.Huawei uses open interfaces to simplify integration with the industry-leading vendors' RTLSs. These high-performance devices and


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professional network design allow Huawei to develop and deliver RTLS projects worldwide. These projects feature high positioning accuracy (2–3 meters for indoor scenarios and 5 meters for outdoor ones) and receive high appraisal from customers.Huawei's wireless network solution not only helps RMIT improve warehouse management efficiency, but also provides an experimental environment for RMIT's research on its RTLS. This high-quality network will meet RMIT's scientific research requirements for the foreseeable future and will bring considerable benefits to RMIT.

Huawei Works with Its Industry Partners to Meet Future Service RequirementsAs a world-renowned engineering and design university, RMIT has high requirements on ICT system development and campus construction. Huawei developed the advanced Wi-Fi network to carry the RMIT's RTLS and provide efficient warehouse management services for Shiny PTY. The close cooperation among the RMIT, Shiny PTY, and Huawei ensures the success of the project.The successful implementation of Shiny PTY's wireless warehouse network has set a bench mark in the warehouse industry. Huawei has leveraged its extensive experience in industry solution development, innovative products, and cutting-edge technologies to meet RMIT's service requirements and to help develop value-added services. This project has proved to be a win-win for RMIT, Shiny PTY, and Huawei.


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SWUN Plugs into a Next-Generation Campus with the Huawei Agile+Operable Campus Network Solution

BackgroundSWUN is a multi-disciplinary higher education institute that offers a wide range of academic disciplines, including literature, history, philosophy, economics, management, law, education, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, and arts. The university is located in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province in Southwest China, also known as the "Country of Heaven" (often translated as "Land of Abundance") and the "City of Hibiscus."SWUN was founded in July 1950, making it one of earliest minority universities in China. It got its existing name from "South College for Nationalities" on April 2003 and is currently under the direct control of the State Ethnic Affairs Committee.SWUN occupies roughly 3,000 mu (about 200 hectares) of land and has three campuses, with more than 35,000 administrators, teachers, and students

working and studying there. Most students currently enrolled in the university come from China's ethnic minority groups.SWUN's original campus network was constructed many years ago. The now-outdated network used an 802.1X authentication approach, which was very complex and difficult to manage. In addition, a large number of network devices at the access layer (especially switches) had aged significantly after their many years of service. As a result, there were frequent network issues.In order to overcome these issues, the university decided to introduce a new network design and upgrade their devices accordingly to provide better network services across the entire campus. As social networking became more and more pervasive, the university also intended to enhance the management of its campus network.


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Located in China's Sichuan Province, Southwest University for Nationalities (SWUN) constructed an environmentally friendly, efficient and smart campus network by deploying Huawei's Agile+Operable Campus Network solution. This new campus network enables teachers, students, and administrators to better experience Internet services while dramatically reducing operation and maintenance (O&M) costs. >>

Key Challenges• Facilitate more effective university operations and managementSWUN is home to students that come from all ethnicities across China. The university faces more complex management tasks than other colleges and universities with lower diversity. Therefore, the campus network must have better management capabilities to facilitate management. Due to limited maintenance staff, the campus network must also have a good ease-of-maintenance.The 802.1X authentication approach used on the original network was inflexible, error-prone, and inefficient for maintenance. The university needed a new solution that would be easier to manage and more flexible to use.• Manage a large number of network devices at the access layer more effectively A large number of network devices that ran on the original network were aged and encountered many issues. Especially, network devices at the access layer (primarily switches) often had issues, such as power outages and port shutdown due to long-term usage and unsatisfactory equipment room environments. Constantly resolving these issues resulted in heavy workloads, which were time-consuming and labor-intensive. The university intended to build a highly reliable and stable network where environmentally hardened switches would be deployed to replace original aged ones. In addition, network devices at the access layer should only undertake necessary upper-layer functions, but not many, in order to minimize maintenance.• Build a campus-wide WLAN networkNowadays, smart mobile devices have become pervasive, and wireless is increasingly penetrating into teaching and learning. To keep up with this growing trend, the university planned a campus-wide WLAN network for higher efficiency and better experience. Due to large wireless coverage and diverse wireless scenarios (including varied wireless demands in dormitories, cafeterias, libraries, office buildings, and conference rooms), the WLAN network must suit all these situations and provide wireless services efficiently and cost-effectively.• Construct a cloud data center to power education at high speedsTo modernize education using IT technologies, SWUN also planned a campus-wide cloud data center with which teachers and students could derive more value. The cloud data center raised the requirements for the campus network in terms of traffic support, security, and stability. Therefore, the new campus network must be capable of accommodating the planned cloud data center and also be future-proof to support demands for years to come.

SolutionThe solution implemented in this project is characterized by:• Refined managementReal-name authentication is implemented across the entire network. The BRAS (ME60) uniformly manages all Internet access across the entire campus. After a successful PPPoE authentication, each user is assigned an account-specific virtual LAN (VLAN). The upper layer shares channels using QinQ technology. All Internet


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access accounts are securely isolated, avoiding mutual impact. In addition, hierarchical quality of service (HQoS) is enabled for lower-layer traffic for refined management. All these factors provide a solid framework for service stability.The entire network is easy to manage and maintain, with refined management of users and applications.• Flattened large Layer 2 networkThe BRAS implements network-wide authentication management while functioning as a gateway. All downstream switches at the access and aggregation layers have only Layer 2 forwarding enabled. Logically speaking, the entire network is simply a large Layer 2 network. In addition to enabling VLAN functionality, downstream switches are only responsible for forwarding basic data. This approach eliminates large amounts of complex and time-consuming device maintenance workload.In such a large Layer 2 network, the BRAS ensures secure network usage without mutual impact among users based on the VLAN information associated with each user account.• Hybrid wired and wireless accessThe original 802.1X authentication approach was obsolete. As a substitute, PPPoE authentication and WEB authentication are adopted for wired and wireless access, respectively. Wired and wireless access can now use the same account, without compromising the account rights.The authentication device and the security device can exchange account information with each other. This approach achieves convenient, refined management across the entire network.

Customer Benefits• Ease-of-maintenance and refined management for reduced O&M costsSWUN uses Huawei's ME60 to optimize authentication. Specifically, original 802.1X authentication is replaced with PPPoE authentication. During PPPoE authentication, all authentication access and management work is aggregated to the ME60, which dramatically reduces the maintenance workload related to the connected downstream network devices. The downstream devices are only responsible for forwarding basic data; therefore, the probability of network faults is greatly reduced.


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As part of PPPoE authentication, each account is assigned a separate VLAN. This ensures that they do not affect each other, guaranteeing network-wide stability. In addition, PPPoE authentication does not have special requirements for connected network devices, so SWUN could easily expand its network in the future without relying on the network vendor.• A highly efficient, reusable network to simultaneously support a variety of complex campus servicesBy deploying Huawei's CE12800 series switches, SWUN has built the largest 360T non-blocking switching platform in the industry. The switches have distributed large buffers to efficiently handle computing requests from super large server clusters on the core network and data center.Thanks to the "VS+CSS synergy" technology in Huawei's CE12800, SWUN has also built a "resource reusable" network platform on its core network and cloud data center to support the concurrency of multiple campus services and large amounts of user access.• Hybrid wired and wireless access for better Internet access experienceSWUN uses Huawei's ME60 for centralized account authentication and management. Authorized users, irrespective of wired or wireless access, can use their accounts to log in to the network and obtain consistent experience from anywhere, on any device (including PCs and smart devices). In addition, students are free to seamlessly move around the campus within the coverage of wireless access controllers (ACs).• Highly reliable and stable network devices, ensuring the continuity of digital and IT-enabled campus services SWUN uses a large number of Huawei Sx700 series switches at the access and aggregation layers. The Sx700 series switches ensure high network reliability by adopting a variety of reliability technologies, including hardware-based BFD, hardware-based OAM, and Smart Ethernet Protection (SEP) (a unique technology developed by Huawei). Like Huawei's outdoor APs, the Sx700 series switches have prominent features such as strong adaptation to environments, 6 kV surge protection, and high dustproof capabilities.• Strong security for a better campus environmentWith Huawei's assistance, SWUN incorporates strong security technologies into its network. The Huawei ME60 implements network-wide real-name management and enables a 5-layer HQoS to ensure network usage is stable. In addition, Huawei's USG5500 firewalls are deployed on network borders for security protection. The ME60 and the USG5500 exchange account information with each other, forming a comprehensive security system that keeps the entire network secure and controllable.


With the development of cloud computing, Huawei offers customers storage, servers, cloud computing and data centers, and ICT products and solutions. Huawei also cooperates with more than 400 partners such as Intel,

SAP, and CA, to provide IT industry solutions. These solutions enable customers to build advanced, efficient IT platforms which help them adapt to changes in enterprise business.

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Huawei cloud storage shines at CERN

BackgroundCERN is the world's largest particle physics research organization, boasting over half of the scientists in the international particle physics community as its users. It is the cradle of numerous scientific breakthroughs since it was officially founded in 1954, such as the world’s first proton-proton collider in 1971, discoveries of weak neutral currents in 1973, and the W and Z particles in 1983, to name just a few. On July 4th, 2012, the laboratory declared that two Large Hadron Collider (LHC) general-purpose experiments, ATLAS and CMS, had evidenced the presence of a new subatomic particle with a mass of roughly 125-126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) and the expected profile of the long-sought Higgs boson, which is thought to give mass to all matter. A discovery that led Stephen Hawking, the preeminent physicist being out a hundred dollars, as the iconic author of A Brief History of Time had previously doubted the existence of the Higgs Boson.

Huawei UDS Could StorageCERN open lab was created to develop innovative and advanced IT systems to be used by the LHC community through bringing together the efforts of science and industry. CERN open lab’s fourth

phase which started in January 2012 heralded the launch of more in-depth cooperative activities in projects involving automation & controls, databases, networking, and platforms, for all of which the storage system is indispensable. Huawei became a CERN open lab contributor in 2012 and is now a CERN open lab partner since 2013.As a storage expert, Huawei is committed to developing innovative next-generation cloud solutions and decided to join CERN open lab as a contributor in 2012. Given the promising results of the first year of collaboration, Huawei became a full CERN open lab partner in 2013. Huawei has developed and tested a cloud-based Universal Distributed Storage (UDS) system to meet the challenges of exascale data storage (one exabyte = 1,048,576 terabytes). In addition to this scalability, Huawei UDS cloud storage features reliability and broad compatibility. It also employs dense nodular distribution and is based on the energy-efficient Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) architecture. UDS enables storage and sharing of bigdata on its mass object-based storage infrastructure, which integrates object-based storage, a P2P dis t r ibuted s torage engine , and c lus ter ing applications. The system also intelligently adjusts the workload at each node to break through previous performance bottlenecks, so system performance

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grows evenly with each capacity expansion.Huawei UDS cloud storage system features reliability to the tune of 99.999999999% (that’s eleven nines), while facilitating redundancy across data centers. It also ensures data security throughout the system’s lifecycle through multi-layer protection at the node, storage, and data center level through multiple copies, erasure codes, and multi-layer encryption verification involving the interface, storage, and transmission processes.This technology is also cost-effective. Maintenance costs are curtailed through the use of desktop hard drives, intelligent & automatic fault recovery, energy-efficient ARM chips, efficacious cooling technology, and various other self-maintenance measures (which effectively enhance storage availability & reliability), while compatibility with S3 interfaces, NFS/CIFS protocols, and mainstream backup software ensure an E2E public cloud solution that is easy to use, while meeting the storage access requirements of different applications.

UDS is Ready for Greater ChallengesIn early 2012, Huawei delivered its UDS cloud storage system to CERN, with installation and benchmark performance evaluations completed three months later. The read/write performance proved excellent in large-scale data environments, while scalability proved not too shabby either. On the whole, these scores were deemed worthy of the very organization that gave birth to the World Wide Web.

"Establishing the link with CERN open lab gave us a fantastic opportunity to further develop our cloud storage products, and proved their worth in the extreme scientific research and mass data environment."

James Hughes, Huawei’s Chief Architect of Cloud Storage.

CERN pushes further into the strange boundaries that define the quantum realm. CERN is now undertaking more in-depth studies to define more precisely the new particle so as to explore other enigmas of the universe. In this exciting context and based on the successful outcome of the benchmark performance evaluation, Huawei and CERN decided to upgrade their engagement from contributor to full partnership in 2013 for the three upcoming years. Hence Huawei’s UDS cloud storage system should have further opportunities to distinguish itself, on a scale that you’d have to be a particle physicist to really grasp.

Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will now attempt to use the recent discovery of a particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson to unravel some of the fundamental forces of the Universe, and Huawei UDS cloud storage is being tested. >>

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Huawei E9000 Helps Deltares Improve Data Analysis and Processing Efficiency

BackgroundDeltares is the new Dutch institute for Delta Technology. Established on 1 January 2008, Deltares is a new and independent institute for applied research and specialist advice in the field of water, soil and the subsurface. It is front runner in the development, distribution, and application of knowledge for meeting the challenges in the physical planning, design and management of vulnerable deltas, coastal areas, and river basins. The Netherlands is a low-lying country. One fourth of its territory is below sea level and another one fourth is at an altitude less than 1 m. About 55% of the country's population lives in flood-prone areas. Hydrological conditions are of vital importance for people's livelihood in the Netherlands. To eliminate the threats of flood and drought, the Netherlands government launched the "Digital Delta" big data project to improve flood control strategies and water resource management in the Netherlands.Deltares provided the Deltares-Flood Early Warning System (Deltares-FEWS) to predict flood risks.

The institute also customizes functional modules for organizations, helping them develop more comprehensive water resource management systems.

Key ChallengesThe "Digital Delta" project studies how to integrate, analyze, and utilize water resource data, bringing the following requirements:• Massive data analysis and processingRaymond Feron, director of the "Digital Delta" project, said that "The database in the Dyke Data Service Center alone processes 2PB sensor data per year." The "Digital Delta" project analyzed over 100 historical water resource management projects. This generates 10 TB to 30 TB structured and non-structured data every year. Deltares required a high-performance system to analyze and process collected data.• Real-time information sharingDeltares-FEWS aims to improve the efficiency of comprehensive water resource management. The system required a unified GUI to monitor water

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"Huawei's solution features higher computing capabilities, simplified management, and quick deployment, helping us lower investment costs."- Schotmeijer Deltares, IT Department Director >>

conditions in real time and to share collected information among research institutes and government agencies. A Deltares-FEWS developer said. "We need a GUI to guide incident response. Government agencies can also use the GUI to efficiently distribute resources and manage incident processing." Deltares-FEWS's legacy IT architecture could no longer meet service requirements due to the following shortcomings:• Limited computing performanceThe legacy Deltares-FEWS servers were developed using the traditional closed architecture. These servers could not effectively process PBs of data collected from meteorological and hydrological sensors.• Closed architectureDeltares-FEWS required open interfaces to develop functional modules and to enable smooth system expansion. The legacy infrastructure used a closed architecture, bringing difficulties in resource virtualization.

SolutionDeltares required an open, flexible, high-performance IT architecture. After meticulous study on the industry's mainstream servers, Deltares chose Huawei's servers and storage devices to develop its next-generation FEWS.Huawei leveraged its rich experience to provide a comprehensive server solution to meet the customer's service requirements. Huawei deployed the convergent E9000 server, S5600T storage device, and 15 computing nodes for each station, supporting 60 high-performance virtual machines (VMs). Each VM has a four-core CPU, 64 GB memory, 310 GB storage space, and 1500 IOPS reading and 6000 IOPS writing capabilities. These VMs use 10GE, FC, IB interfaces to enable flexible access.Huawei's E9000 server provides 30 sets of CH121 high-performance, large-capacity blades for computing nodes, meeting Deltares-FEWS's requirements on cluster integration, performance, flexibility, and scalability.The solution boasts the following features:• High computing performance, improving Deltares-FEWS's data processing capabilitiesThe high-performance E9000 server has high computing performance. Each rack supports a maximum of 16.2 TFLOPS computing capability, allowing Deltares-FEWS to efficiently process historical project data and live data collected from meteorological and hydrological sensors.

• Convergent, f lexible, and highly-scalable architecture, allowing real-time information sharingThe E9000 server uses the convergent architecture to integrate computing, storage, and network resources. The server provides diverse interfaces to enable seamless integration with Deltares-FEWS, allows customization of functional modules, and features easy configuration. Deltares-FEWS's analysis data is shared between institutes and government agencies in real time using E9000 and relevant storage devices.

Customer BenefitsThe solution brings the following customer benefits:• Higher computing performanceE9000's convergent architecture enables Deltares to manage its IT resources in a unified manner, significantly optimizing resource distribution.The E9000 server can complete a design task in 6 hours, while the legacy system requires 10 days. The solution improves the efficiency of processing data by over 10 times, meeting the customer's requirements for improving data analysis and processing efficiency which is of vital importance for Deltares' core services, such as modeling, design, and analysis, allowing Deltares to effectively predict flood risks.• Open architectureDeltares aims to develop "A New Way of Work" that will allow employees to connect to the working system at anytime, from anywhere. Huawei's server solution uses virtualization technologies to enable flexible system access and real-time data sharing. This substantially improves Deltares' resource usage and R&D efficiency.E9000 supports diverse network access modes, which simplifies system maintenance, improves management efficiency, and lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO). The server uses 12U blades and 4U storage controllers, reducing the system's footprint. (The legacy system requires three racks for each station, while the new system requires only one 22U rack.)

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Shanghai Customs Addresses Service Performance Challenges Using Huawei Flash Arrays

BackgroundThe General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China is a government agency that supervises and manages all arrivals to and departures from the customs territory of China. Its primary tasks include customs control, duty collection, supervision and management of bond operations, compilation of import & export statistics, audit-based control, intellectual property rights protection, anti-smuggling, and port management.Shanghai Cus toms i s a subordina te off ice under direct management of China's General Administration of Customs.

Key ChallengesShanghai Customs contributes to one quarter of China's annual import & export goods amounts and customs revenue. Port supervision and management workload has consistently increased by approximately 20% year on year.Shanghai Customs is tasked wi th cus toms declaration, clearance, trade supervision, and

statistics collection for about 200,000 batches of goods daily. Such a heavy workload complicates service type analysis and poses immense challenges for Shanghai Customs' IT system response speeds.The IT system has a "3e" structure, known as e-Administration, e-Customs, and e-Port. Daily customs declaration and clearance data is transmitted from e-Port to e-Administration during the day, and is then incorporated into e-Customs for batch processing (that is, batch data analysis) at night. The data processing results can be used for next-day routine operations. Customs data is bulk processed in e-Customs at a fixed time starting from 00:30 to 06:00 daily.In recent years, the volume of imports and exports has rapidly increased. e-Customs originally used HP's EVA8000 storage device, and as a result batch data processing efficiency dropped rapidly. Batch processing took more than seven hours every day, which exceeded the fixed time period and negatively affected subsequent data backup. As a result, increasing batch data processing efficiency became a primary concern for Shanghai Customs.

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"Huawei's flash arrays have helped us reduce the time devoted to batch data processing at night to an acceptable level. They truly resolve our issues. We feel assured that even though import & export service volumes will double in the future, our processing capabilities will not be compromised. Stability is not an issue, either. In the coming five years, we will not even need to consider buying new devices. The performance test results further convinced us that Huawei's flash arrays were the appropriate choice for our needs."- Director of Shanghai Customs' IT Department. >>

"With the daily data volume we currently deal with, it requires more than seven hours to complete batch data processing, even if no task failures occur. If data further increases, we have no choice but to only process partial data each day, and then handle the remainder next day," said Director of Shanghai Customs' IT department. "Due to such delayed data processing, customs officers are unable to promptly obtain data processing results and latest task assignments. This affects the next-day routine operations and leads to increased operational risks."

What countermeasures could be taken to improve batch data processing efficiency? A possible option was to change the service systems running on the live network by optimizing data analysis scripts. However, existing service systems have been running for many years since they went live in 2008, with many deeply rooted processes, including customs clearance, risk analysis, statistics collection, and logistics management processes. Any changes to those systems would have a ripple effect, seriously affecting related service processes. Therefore, optimizing data analysis scripts was infeasible.

"Optimizing data analysis scripts? It is not a solution. Our service systems have been running for a long time, and any changes to them will incur heavy redevelopment costs and significant workload devoted to retesting the system. Once a fault occurs, losses will be immeasurable," said Director of Shanghai Customs' IT department. "Furthermore, we don't have time to carry out redevelopment or retesting. What we need is to resolve our issues as soon as possible."

After system analysis, it was found that the root cause lied in inefficient interactions between hosts and disk arrays: When the input/output operations per second (IOPS) value of the original equipment reached 120,000, access delay could be as high as 11 ms. As a result, 87% of the time was spent waiting for IO responses, and a significant amount of valuable CPU resources were wasted. Therefore, the batch data processing time was seriously prolonged.So, was it possible to immediately improve application running efficiency while retaining the existing IT architecture and without changing any service processes? The best option for Shanghai Customs was to introduce all-flash arrays.

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SolutionAfter a meticulous selection process, Shanghai Customs was impressed by Huawei's Dorado Flash Array Solution, and decided to conduct a 3-month joint test of this solution with Huawei.Huawei's Dorado Flash Array Solution is built using an all-flash design and implements deep integration between storage systems and solid state drives (SSDs), thereby maximizing flash performance. Huawei's Dorado flash arrays use an open, standard storage area network (SAN) structure. Two main control units work in active-active mode; all components are redundant for backup purposes; each component is hot swappable. All these factors greatly improve system reliability and ensure ease-of-maintenance.Huawei's Dorado solution performed well in performance tests. According to the test results, batch data processing only took 3.6 hours at night (about half the original 7.5 hours), leaving enough time for subsequent data backup while ensuring routine daytime operations the next day.

The Director of Shanghai Customs' IT Department stated, "Huawei's flash arrays have helped us reduce the time devoted to batch data processing at night to an acceptable level. They truly resolve our issues. We feel assured that even though import & export service volumes will double in the future, our processing capabilities will not be compromised. Stability is not an issue, either. In the coming five years, we will not even need to consider buying new devices. The performance test results further convinced us that Huawei's flash arrays were the appropriate choice for our needs."

Shanghai Customs ultimately chose Huawei's Dorado Flash Array Solution. In October 2013, Huawei's OceanStor Dorado 5100 was successfully deployed within five hours, without any change to ongoing applications.

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Customer BenefitsBy deploying Huawei's Dorado Flash Array Solution, Shanghai Customs has resolved its existing issues and is capable of addressing future service demands in the face of a rapid increase of imports and exports.Specific benefits of Huawei's solution include:• Doubled system efficiency by reducing the batch data processing time from 7.5 hours to 3.6 hours.• Sufficient time for subsequent data backup, which facilitates timely release of service plans and thereby prevents any increase in operating costs due to delays.• Capable of meeting future service demands and ensuring efficient routine operations.• Easy and efficient deployment, without having to change service processes or redevelop applications.

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Huawei OceanStor HVS Building an Integrated Service Platform for the Hunan Local Taxation Bureau

BackgroundHunan Local Taxation Bureau, founded on September 1, 1994, collects and manages taxes from 853,700 taxpayers (including 171,200 individuals and 682,500 self-employed households) across the Hunan province. The bureau administrates a great number of sub-bureaus, including 14 cities, 88 counties, 45 districts, 138 suburban, and 366 rural bureaus. In 2010, total tax collections were CNY 62.05 billion, which increased by 32.05 percent compared with 2009.Hunan Local Taxation Bureau initiated the Golden Taxation project in 1994. In 2009, SAT initiated the Phase III Golden Taxation Project, launching 27 new tax categories. Following this expansion, the bureau gradually began failing to meet requirements for emerging services and encountering problems with aging devices in the network.

Key ChallengesHunan Local Taxation Bureau managed many independent taxation service systems, with little interoperability, often employing different device models, and managed separately from each other. The bureau was besieged by inefficient storage resources management, insecure service data storage, and low operational efficiency, requiring a next-generation storage platform. Unable to support unanticipated service expansion; the bureau urgently needed an unified, scalable taxation system built to accommodate the rapid development of working solutions in a critical environment.The specification from the bureau detailed an integrated, multi-threaded processing platform capable of more than one million Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS), and a next-generation storage system designed to meet the

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Recognizing that taxation is necessary for fast and healthy economic growth, the State Administration of Taxation of the People's Republic of China (SAT) determined the need for a state-of-the-art service processing platform to maximize the efficient implementation of its Phase III Golden Taxation Project., SAT is enthusiastically promoting this project, which is intended to reinvent its taxation system with more Information Technology (IT). In response to this national initiative, Hunan Local Taxation Bureau chose Huawei's OceanStor HVS solution to optimize its taxation system by building a high-performance, reliable, and scalable service processing platform. This platform integrated all taxation service systems over the Hunan province and ensured high data availability and service continuity. >>

scope of the problem. During construction of the Phase III Golden Taxation Project, the bureau faced the following challenges:• Aging devices with low usage.• Separately managed taxation service systems.• Low-level Service Level Agreement (SLA) environment.• No support for system expansion and upgrades.

SolutionAfter a thorough analysis of the Hunan Local Taxation Bureau requirements, Huawei chose to employ the OceanStor HVS next-generation storage platform. All taxation services were deployed at the Changsha data center, in the capital city for Hunan province. A DR center was deployed in Xingsha, 25 kilometers from Changsha. Core data is copied asynchronously from Changsha to the Xingsha. The OceanStor HVS85Ts solution, with Solid State Drives (SSDs), offers the following features: • Service system integration; for example, combining the individual income tax, stamp tax, and land appreciation tax systems into a central services platform, which increased resource usage and simplified device management. • The HVS85Ts uses diverse storage media and supports SmartTier and SmartQoS software to optimize storage resources and enable the availability for Service Level Agreements (SLA) targeted for the extension of core services. • Combined with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), the HVS85Ts DR protocol supports data snapshots, cloning, and copying from the main data center to the DR center. • Supporting a maximum of 16 controllers, the intelligent matrix architecture enables a scalable and functional service processing platform.

Customer BenefitsHuawei's OceanStor HVS solution is highly-integrated and scalable.

The Hunan Local Taxation Bureau is now providing reliable taxation services, without interruption, and able to easily respond to unexpected service expansions and data storage requirements.As services levels increase to include all subsidiary offices, the bureau will replace all storage devices and complete construction of the organization-wide Disaster Recovery system.

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The University of Lübeck Improves Storage Performance with Huawei S5500T

BackgroundThe University of Lübeck is a public university that specializes in medicine and medicine-related sciences. Founded in Germany in 1964, the University is home to around 3500 students, 160 professors, and 100 lecturers. It offers 16 medical institutes and 21 clinics with about 1200 beds on its campus. Employing over 5300 staff, the University and its teaching hospital belong to the largest employer in Lübeck.

Key ChallengesIn order to improve education quality, management efficiency, and scientific research conditions, the University of Lübeck decided to use cutting-edge information technologies to build a digital campus.Mr. Illig said:

"In terms of campus applications, scientific research, and academic exchange, existing storage devices had insufficient capacity and performance. It was necessary to increase storage space for teaching resources and research data without compromising the existing VMware architecture or interrupting service operation."

The University planned to add storage devices to accommodate a wide assortment of campus applications, including an e-library, forum, online storage, and file sharing. However, new storage devices might not be fully compatible with the existing, outdated devices, which would compromise storage performance, reliability, and scalability.After consideration, the University decided to deploy a new high-performance storage solution that would alleviate existing storage pressure and allow for

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"In terms of quality, performance, and efficiency, Huawei offered the best solution. The storage solution was tailored to our needs in performance, scalability, and optimal integration with VMware."- Dipl.-Inf. Helge Illig, Director of the IT Service Center at the University of Lübeck >>

smooth capacity expansion in the future. More than 150 campus services and applications were implemented in the VMware environment, so easy integration with VMware server virtualization software played a particularly important role.

SolutionThe University started an open bid to identify a suitable vendor. EMC, Dell, HP, Huawei, and other vendors took part to showcase their products. Eventually, Huawei's cost-effective OceanStor S5500T won the bid due to the solution meeting the exact needs of the University.The OceanStor S5500T delivers a 25 TB capacity and offers Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard disks to meet differentiated performance requirements.In the SPC-1 performance test and tests in the actual environment, the solution demonstrated its high storage performance, and with its redundant hardware design, such as dual controllers and power supply modules In the event of a fault, service continuity and research data security can be ensured.To comply with the existing VMware server virtualization environment, the solution is VMware-certified for vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI), vStorage API for Storage Awareness (VASA), and Site Recovery Manager (SRM), which fully meets the University's requirements.

Customer BenefitsHuawei's OceanStor S5500T has been running stably since its deployment in early 2012. The solution:• Significantly improved storage space and performance to accommodate campus applications and services.• Delivered high reliability to effectuate 24/7 service operation.• Integrated with the VMware server virtualization environment to provide optimal services.

"We were able to meet all of our requirements on the storage solution with the OceanStor S5500T. Both the performance and simple implementation in our VMware server virtualization environment completely convinced us. We are optimally positioned with regard to future growth of the storage system."

- Dipl.-Inf. Helge Illig

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Huawei Helps UAE Rabdan Academy Build a Quality Education Cloud Data Center

BackgroundTAWAZUN is a strategic investment holding company, which was born out of the long-established TAWAZUN Economic Council in 2007. TAWAZUN aims to develop ventures through industrial partnerships and strategic investments that enhance the UAE's industrial manufacturing, national defense, aeronautics, and astronautics sectors.Established by TAWAZUN in 2013, Rabdan Academy is a world-class, professional education institution. Its mission is to train and educate safety, security, defense and emergency preparedness professionals across all sectors to meet challenges and threats faced by the UAE today and in the future.

Key ChallengesTAWAZUN plans to construct the new Academy in phases. The campus in Abu Dhabi will be home to 7 buildings, covering an area of about 20,000 square meters and accommodate about 10,000 teachers and

students. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2020.As the main IT infrastructure of the project, the data center is responsible for hosting IT services of the Academy. While planning and constructing the data center, the Academy faced the following challenges:• Unclear IT planning for the next ten yearsThe IT personnel assigned by TAWAZUN to build the IT system for the newly established Academy did not have much experience in planning or building IT systems of such complexity for such a high-level institution.TAWAZUN urgently needed a suitable vendor to provide holistic IT planning that would direct its IT system construction over the next ten years.• Mutually independent service systems, resulting in high deployment costs and poor compatibilityBecause of the limited number of students in the early stages, the Academy wanted to build a holistic architecture that required a small investment, which would meet immediate needs and support smooth

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"In 2013, TAWAZUN singled out Huawei's cloud data center to support the first phase of Rabdan Academy. We have forged a cooperative framework with Huawei. Together, we are building an efficient, reliable, and secure cloud data center for the Academy."- TAWAZUN's CIO >>

capacity expansion in the future.The Academy is dedicated to the research of national defense and military manufacturing, posing high requirements on system reliability, security, and confidentiality. However, participating vendors recommended various service systems in the service of their own interests, resulting in high deployment costs and poor compatibility.• Complex and costly operation and maintenance (O&M)The Academy did not have a dedicated O&M team with a clear division of labor. In addition, the IT system consisted of numerous closely-related subsystems, resulting in complex fault management and troubleshooting. TAWAZUN expects their IT system to improve IT management efficiency and ensure service quality even after capacity expansion.TAWAZUN's CIO said:

"We needed a holistic cloud data center for the IT system in the newly established Academy. Meanwhile, we needed an intelligent management system featuring high availability and rich functionality to reduce O&M workload and cost."

SolutionIn response to TAWAZUN's requirements, Huawei customized a reliable and scalable data center solution as well as an intelligent management system with the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) process.• Future-ready IT planningTo eliminate the customer's confusion about IT planning, Huawei offered IT consulting services based on its experience in IT-led education, helping the customer set up a clear and future-ready IT construction strategy: smooth evolution to a distributed cloud data center.This strategy would not only meet the customer's immediate needs, but also support future capacity expansion, in line with the Academy's development route.• Holistic cloud data center tailored to customer needsHuawei provided a holistic cloud data center solution tailored to the

customer's needs for high security, reliability, scalability, and low initial investment costs. The data center solution has the following features:• The network access layer is deployed in one step to ensure secure and reliable network access.• The network core layer meets existing customer needs and will use high-performance switches as core switches to enhance system performance.• The storage system uses storage devices of different levels in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and core zone. In the core zone, mid-range storage devices are deployed to store structured and unstructured data, supporting follow-up capacity expansion through storage virtualization.• The computing system provides reliable and scalable services through a virtualized resource pool, accelerating service deployment and expansion. The database system provides highly reliable services through four-channel high-performance servers.• A variety of security devices are deployed at different layers to deliver end-to-end system security.• All-in-one desktop cloud devices featuring high performance and scalability are deployed to enable secure and reliable office.• I n t e l l i g e n t m a n a g e m e n t s y s t e m ManageOneHuawei offers a customized O&M system ManageOne for the customer to build an ITIL-based intelligent management system. The intelligent management system dramatically reduces IT maintenance personnel workload and enables quick and accurate fault location and rectification. The standards-compliant system allows the customer to manage a large number of systems and devices with limited personnel. The ITIL streamlines O&M processes and lays a solid foundation for high service-level agreement (SLA) compliance.

Customer BenefitsHuawei's solution helped the customer:• Establish a future-ready IT architecture that supports smooth capacity expansion over the next ten years.• Build a holistic cloud data center that meets immediate needs and reduces initial investment costs by 30%.• Reduce O&M labor cost by 50% and improve SLA compliance.

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Huawei OceanStor N8000: Ushering in a Digital Campus for Walter Sisulu University

BackgroundWalter Sisulu University, founded on July 1, 2005, is the youngest university of science and technology in South Africa, as well as the fastest growing university in the country. 24,000 students and teachers are spread across one primary and four subsidiary campuses. Existing service systems were deployed at each campus, including teaching, digital library, VoD, and email systems. Each campus worked independently of the others; and therefore, teachers and students on different campuses were unable to share resources. The university understood that a modern communications infrastructure was required to meet their many educational and research goals. To solve these problems, Huawei built a centralized storage system on a unified applications platform. In addition to the OceanStor N8000 platform, Huawei enabled DR and key data backup across all five campuses. Overall, the university has gained a

greatly simplified management interface and sharp reduction in maintenance costs.

Key ChallengesWalter Sisulu University’s five campuses were equipped with independent service systems and storage devices. Each had its own mix of inefficient storage technologies - some overloaded and others near idle - and history of poor maintenance.Reacting to demand, administrators would deploy more and more servers in increasingly uncoordinated ways.

SolutionHuawei deployed an OceanStor N8000 clustered NAS storage system for each campus to centralize service system data storage. Under the layered storage technology, the system can allocate high-performance Fiber Channel (FC) disk resources to the database and Serial Advanced Technology

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Walter Sisulu University is a technology university in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The university needed to unify communications, lower costs, and simplify management and maintenance. Huawei’s OceanStor N8000 clustered Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution was deployed to provide centralized storage capabilities for the school’s teaching system, Office Automation (OA), digital library, and video on demand (VoD) services. In addition, the OceanStor N8000 NAS storage solution has incorporated backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) schemes to fortify data security and long-term storage. >>

Attachment (SATA) disk resources to the Network File Server (NFS). An additional OceanStor N8000 clustered NAS storage system was deployed in the main campus as the DR center. Service system data from various sources (for example, VMWare/OS images, NAS files, and Oracle database management files) at the main campus and four sub-campuses are copied to the DR center. In addition to the DR center, a backup center was built at the main campus. Key data from all five campuses are copied to the Virtual Tape Library (VTL) in the backup center by Symantec NetBackup (NBU) software. Due to seamless integration and full compatibility with Symantec NBU, the backup center further fortifies data security and increases backup efficiency.To speed adoption of their state-of-the-art digital campus, the N8000 storage platform is complemented by cutting-edge IP-SAN and FC-SAN networks, each supporting high-performance data transmission, DR, and more-to-one backups. Additionally, Huawei deployed 20 rack servers to meet demands for new services from all five campuses.

Customer BenefitsThe Huawei OceanStor N8000 clustered NAS storage system brings many benefits to Walter Sisulu University, including:• Centralized storage resources help lower Operation and Maintenance (O&M) costs • Clustered architecture that combines DR and key data backup technologies, facilitated by custom Service Level Agreements (SLA) for all installed systems• Highly-scalable platform for system expansion and future service upgradesIn the three years since deployment, the OceanStor N8000 NAS cluster at Walter Sisulu University has operated smoothly, and significantly enhanced the availability of their new digital campus. Designed to support the continuing advance of Walter Sisulu University’s digital campus, already in early 2013 a storage space expansion was implemented to meet increased expectations and additional service requests.

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Huawei IT Devices Modernize Historic Mackenzie Presbyterian University

BackgroundFounded in 1870, Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Mackenzie) is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Brazil. Since its establishment, the university has graduated over 300,000 students, including numerous important names in Brazil. Currently, the university boasts over 40,000 students enrolled across all its campuses, including its main campus in São Paulo.

Key ChallengesLeveraging information technology to streamline teaching processes, optimize management activities, and build digital campuses is an important approach to enhance teaching efficiency and management. Mackenzie is focused on research and innovation in various aspects of information technology, particularly in teaching and management activities.

Mr. Brito Pereira, Director of the Information Center of the University, said, "In recent years, our technological innovation and infrastructure

modernization have been fully supported by the school board and the executive council. To optimize the campus IT infrastructure and meet the requirements of students, teachers, and researchers, the university plans to build the Mackenzie Television video storage system and a file sharing system alike."

Mackenzie Television is an online distance education center with High-Definition (HD) television laboratory capabilities. With the rapid penetration of smart terminals, network-based television teaching is becoming common in most colleges and universities. Mackenzie Television planned to gradually increase the proportion of high-definition video and required a data center to accommodate two million hours of video. To meet storage requirements for video files of various resolutions, a team, led by Mr. Brito Pereira, figured that the data center required a PB-level storage capacity.The "information silo" phenomenon had become increasingly serious due to separated University

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"Huawei offers a stunning one-stop solution that has neatly resolved a variety of IT construction difficulties without compromising historic buildings on campus. The cost-effective solution perfectly meets our service requirements and is just the solution we had been looking for."— Brito Pereira, Director of the Information Center, Mackenzie Presbyterian University >>

IT systems. Almost 30 scientific and administrative departments had deployed IT systems with independent storage devices. The storage space was unable to be shared among devices, resulting in low space usage (less than 50%), and file sharing was difficult to manage because storage devices were geographically dispersed. Consisting of numerous device models, capacity expansion and maintenance was extremely difficult, increasing the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Mr. Brito Pereira added, "Obviously, we are severely challenged by these storage systems. Capacity expansion or upgrade on legacy devices is unable to fundamentally resolve the problem. We have no choice but to deploy a new storage system featuring large capacity, flexible scalability, and easy management."

A new problem arose when Mackenzie decided to deploy a new storage system as a solution. Deploying a large-capacity storage system would occupy too much space in the existing equipment room, which was already nearly full. The university had two choices: remodel the existing data center to increase space, or build a new data center equipment room.In such a historic university, buildings spanned many generations of architecture and even the more modern buildings were at least 20 years old. Remodeling the existing data center equipment room would pose a host of challenges, including floor load, power supply, air conditioning, refrigeration, and fire suppression. The remodeling might also compromise the architectural style, structure, and appearance of the buildings. This solution was completely unacceptable to Mackenzie, which is very committed to protecting historical traditions.In this context, building a new data center equipment room was inevitable. The new equipment room had to meet business requirements without disrupting the existing layout of buildings. After in-depth research on data center solutions, Mr. Pereira's team chose a container data center as the best option. Additionally, the team had a specific technical requirement: The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) value of the data center should be less than 1.6 in order to reduce energy consumption and overall TCO.

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SolutionMr. Pereira's team had communicated with many vendors during the second half of 2010, hoping to find a cost-effective solution that would meet their requirements.To help Mackenzie face the challenges in data center construction and storage system reconstruction, Huawei proposed a one-stop solution consisting of Huawei's IDS1000 Container Data Center and OceanStor N8000 Clustered NAS Storage System. Unlike solutions offered by other vendors, Huawei's solution not only met the customer's technical requirements, but also had an outstanding advantage in terms of cost effectiveness.Mackenzie Presbyterian University chose an empty land outside the teaching building on the main campus to deploy Huawei's IDS1000 Container Data Center. IDS1000 uses a unique natural cooling design that reduces the PUE value to 1.55, resulting in 30% energy consumption reduction compared to the original data center.

Mr. Pereira explained, "It is not difficult to find that the highest operating expense for data centers is power consumption. In compliance with the highest design standards, Huawei's data centers are remarkably energy efficient, which is consistent with our energy-saving, environmentally-friendly concept."

For the unified storage system, Mackenzie deployed two OceanStor N8000s: one as the video storage system for Mackenzie Television to provide storage services for network-based television systems in the university, and the other as the file-sharing center to meet the need for information exchange between scientific and administrative departments.The Huawei OceanStor N8000 uses scale-out storage architecture to support a maximum of 16 Network Attached Storage (NAS) nodes and offers a storage capacity of up to 15 PB. In addition, the system throughput capacity can grow linearly as the number of nodes increases. The university can deploy NAS nodes on demand without worrying about system performance deterioration.The university also purchased eight Solid-State Drives (SSDs) for the OceanStor N8000 file sharing center to enable Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST), significantly accelerating hotspot data access and improving user experience.

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Customer BenefitsIn the second half of 2011, Huawei delivered its IDS1000 Container Data Center and OceanStor N8000 Clustered NAS Storage System to Mackenzie Presbyterian University. The OceanStor N8000 system has been running without interruption for the last two years. In early 2013, the first capacity expansion was implemented to meet business growth requirements.Huawei's one-stop tailored solution delivered the following benefits to the customer:• Reduced investment by approximately 40%.• The container data center occupied little space and simplified deployment, protecting historic buildings in the university.• The PUE value was reduced to 1.55, 30% energy consumption reduction compared to the original data center.• The unified storage system greatly reduced the number of devices, maximized existing storage devices, and simplified system operations and maintenance, leading to a 20% reduction in TCO.

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Shanghai Maritime University Builds an Always-Online Logistics Research Center with Huawei FusionCube

BackgroundFounded in 1909, Shanghai Maritime University (SMU) is a multi-disciplinary university with fields of study in engineering, management, economics, law, literature, and science. SMU places a special emphasis on shipping technology, economics, and management, and has produced many of China's top shipping specialists.

Key ChallengesEstablished over a century ago, SMU was eager to modernize its IT system to streamline teaching, learning, and management. In particular, the IT system in the Logistics Research Center still relied on physical servers. The IT system faced the following challenges:• Changeable teaching and learning

• Provide teachers and students with easy access to IT resources around the clock, facilitating distance learning.• Allow users to accurately manage software and hardware assets in the Logistics Research Center.• Speed up application deployment as well as virtual machine (VM) provisioning and automatic updates.• High costs• Physical server resources could not be shared or quickly provisioned to teachers and students, resulting in low resource usage. To address this problem, additional physical resources were deployed, increasing hardware costs.• The IT system could not centrally manage computing, storage, network, physical, or virtual resources, raising infrastructure maintenance costs.• Maintenance and management

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"Huawei's FusionCube solution helped us reduce the time for launching, deploying, migrating, and upgrading an application by about 60%. The all-in-one solution also delivers high integration and automation features that substantially improve operation and maintenance efficiency."- Wang Jie, IT Infrastructure Director of the Logistics Research Center, Shanghai Maritime University >>

• Due to lack of dedicated IT maintenance personnel, troubleshooting consumed a large amount of time.• The Logistics Research Center had deployed various devices, including servers, storage devices, and network devices, increasing management complexity.• With a limited IT budget, the university had not introduced high-availability (HA) design into the existing IT system.

"We needed a vendor to provide an all-in-one IT solution for our Logistics Research Center. The solution had to simplify operation and maintenance and accommodate high-performance computing and virtual desktop office scenarios. The solution had to enable the lab to quickly respond to resource access requests from teachers and students. More importantly, the solution had to deliver higher availability than the existing system."

SolutionAt the end of 2012, SMU started to communicate with vendors to find a cost-effective solution that would meet their service requirements.In response to SMU's requirements, Huawei proposed an all-in-one FusionCube cloud computing solution for the Logistics Research Center. The solution leverages cloud platform virtualization technology to virtualize, share, and allocate computing, storage, and network resources, accommodating increasing business requirements.FusionCube is an IT infrastructure platform based on an open and integrated architecture, and it is Huawei's flagship product in the cloud computing field. FusionCube neatly integrates blade servers, distributed storage devices, and switches into its 12U chassis.Huawei's FusionCube solution for the Logistics Research Center converges Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), cloud computing, and 3-dimensional (3D) development features to eliminate "information silos" arising from heterogeneous hardware. The all-in-one solution:

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• Offers centralized management, automatic deployment, and efficient maintenance for software and hardware resources, dramatically simplifying operation and maintenance (O&M).• Provides a converged architecture to deliver high bandwidth, low latency, and multi-protocol switching capabilities, greatly improving system performance.• Pre-integrates Huawei's proprietary cloud operating system FusionSphere to quickly virtualize physical resources and flexibly allocate IT resources, allowing teachers and students to access the IT system around the clock.• Leverages distributed storage software to provide high-performance storage with built-in hard disks, facilitating capacity expansion.• Deploys the hardware accelera t ion card, intelligent network interface card (iNIC), and graphics processing unit (GPU) card to improve network, floating-point arithmetic, and graphics display performance in 3D development and high-performance computing scenarios.

"It is easy to see that Huawei's FusionCube is an extremely robust IT infrastructure platform. In addition to high storage I/O, high network I/O, and high-performance scenarios, it also applies to 3D acceleration and VDI scenarios. With built-in distributed storage software, it has greatly reduced our storage costs. FusionCube is high-density, cost-effective, and provides us with a high-performance experience in diverse scenarios."

In this project , the customer deployed two FusionCube chassis, 12 four-socket CPU blades with iNIC, one two-socket CPU server (equipped with four GPU cards to implement 3D development), three storage blades, one desktop cloud system, and one unified cloud platform.The two chassis were cascaded through four 10GE interfaces. Inter-chassis blade boxes have built-in switch fabric units (SFUs) for switching and intra-chassis blade boxes support backplane switching. No extra switch was required, simplifying cable connections.

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Customer BenefitsIn the first half of 2013, Huawei delivered the all-in-one FusionCube cloud computing solution to SMU and helped them smoothly migrate to the new IT system. Because the new IT system had been so stable, SMU requested a capacity expansion in early 2014.Huawei's all-in-one solution:• Eliminated information silos, facilitating resource sharing.• Built a unified platform to suit 800 logistic research scenarios, shortening the time for obtaining research resources from a week to a matter of minutes.• Leveraged cloud computing technology to maximize resource usage and deliver high return on investment (ROI).• Delivered a converged architecture to simplify O&M and reduce the operational expenditure (OPEX) by about 30%.• Enhanced service reliability from 99.9% to 99.998%.

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High-Definition VideoConferencing Links 66Government AgenciesHuawei Helps Russian RegionalGovernment Build a Platform for ImprovedCollaboration

BackgroundThe Ryazan region of the Russian Federation has multitudes of sub-administrative units that were creating communication problems and increasing expenses. Ryazan (Ryazanskaya Oblast in Russian) covers an area of 39,600 square kilometers and includes 25 sub-regions, 4 state-level cities, 8 district-level cities, 4 intra-city districts, 28 towns, and 505 villages.The regional government itself consists of 31 agencies located throughout the capital of Ryazan City. Communication among these agencies had become nearly unmanageable.

Key ChallengesJust as businesses are using information technology to become more proficient and reduce operating

costs, so are governments, which face similar challenges: slow internal flow of information, low productivity, and high operating costs. The government of Ryazan was desperately searching for a solution that would solve its communication gridlock and increase productivity.

SolutionHuawei proposed a platform for high-definition (HD) video conferencing that would enable all government agencies to collaborate more efficiently. Relying on Huawei's cutting-edge products and technologies, the government implemented a video conferencing system in 66 meeting places across the region.The system employs 2 VP9620 Mult ipoint Control Units (MCUs) and 66 VP9030 HD video conferencing endpoints. The solution has the following advantages:

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• Flexible construction and easy expansionDesigned according to standard protocols, the system can be linked with other existing equipment in the network, providing maximum protection for the client's

investment.The system can also easily be expanded in the future, further enhancing its

investment value.• High performance and all-around HDThe MCUs allot necessary resources to each individual endpoint, ensuring the quality of video conferences. Superior audio/video decoding technologies guarantee flawless transmission of HD audio, video, and other data for optimum conference experience.• User-friendly interface

The VP9000-series MCU has a user-friendly interface that features active calling, ad-hoc conference creation or participation, and remote control,

making the system simple and easy to use.

Customer BenefitsBy working with Huawei, the government now has a platform for region-wide collaboration. The system has helped the government to speed up its flow of information, work more efficiently, and cut its operating costs. Huawei's remote conferencing system also has improved the government of Ryazan's capacity to respond to public emergencies.

Ryazan Oblast, as part of the RussianFederation, has numerous sub-administrative units with a lot of inter-communication problems whichleads to low work efficiency. Huawei'sHD video conferencing solutionshelped the government to create aplatform for collaboration amongdifferent government agencies .Thisdramatically removed the inter-communication obstacles and greatlyimproved their work efficiencies aswell as saved the business travelexpenses. >>

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Public HealthEmergency CommandPowered by HD VideoConferencing SystemChina Ministry of Health e-Command System

BackgroundThe Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China has 32 provincial health departments and 21 subordinate units covering the whole country.Health emergency work is an important government responsibility which includes: developing health contingency plans and policy measures, monitoring, early warning and assessing risk for public health emergencies, guiding the implementation of public health emergencies prevention control and emergency response, and releasing public health emergency response information. Adopting advanced communication technologies is an important way for the Ministry of Health to improve emergency response efficiency.

Key ChallengesThe legacy video conferencing system contains SD equipment from different vendors and needs to be

integrated and upgraded urgently. It is urgent to set up a project to build a health emergency command video conferencing system covering the headquarters and 14 provinces.• In order to improve the efficiency of emergency command and decision-making in sudden public health events, it is required that a real-time video conferencing system is able to be set up from any site with higher stability.• The existing video conferencing system is in SD quality and cannot meet the needs of largescale access. It has no backup function resulting in lower reliability.• Different kinds of video conferencing equipment a re f rom d i ffe ren t vendors , which causes interoperability issues. A unified conference scheduling and management system is required.• The video image resolution is only at CIF (352* 288) level, which results in the poor conference experience and lower work efficiency.

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In response to diverse public health emergencies,the Ministry of Health of China decides to build anemergency command video conferencing system.Huawei provided the extreme HD real-time videoconferencing solution with an image quality of1080P to support Ministry of Health to solve publichealth emergencies timely and efficiently. >>

SolutionHuawei proposed 20 sets MCUs and 246 sets of HD terminals to be deployed at the headquarters and 14 provincial centers. The MCU at the headquarters supports up to 70 channels of HD 1080p VC terminals and can be easily extended to 1000 channels. The MCU can connect with video conferencing terminals and other MCUs at the branch centers. The MCU deployed in the provincial center can support up to 50 channels of HD 1080p VC terminals from different cities in the region. The MCUs in the headquarters and different provinces can be cascaded together as one large video conferencing system to provide unified conference scheduling and management.The whole system is deployed in the national e-government extranet which makes the conference participants from the headquarters, provincial departments and the subordinate departments able to share video, audio and data with each other in real time.• SMC2.0, a conference management system is deployed to support unified conference m a n a g e m e n t a c r o s s t h e w h o l e n e t w o r k . Administrators in the headquarters can manage all resources, but those in provinces manage locally.• MCUs support board, power module, network port, chips redundancy backup which enhances the reliability of the system.• The system supports the standard Dual-Stream Protocol--H.239 and provides users the experience

with both video and data sharing up to 720p.• Support AAC-LD, the latest audio protocol which supports twochannel audio in CD quality for real-time communication.• The system has the network recording function which is able to record up to 5 online meetings simultaneously to provide live or video replay for internet users.• In some places where there is no video conferencing device, users can join the conference by IP phone, analog phone or cell phone.• The system employs the latest video compression technology and anti-packet loss technology. For 1080p video streams the lowest bandwidth can be 1 Mbit/s while the video quality is not affected at a packet loss rate of up to 5%.• The system uses standard communication protocols and video codec protocols to support seamless connectivity with existing video conference devices.

Customer Benefits• Excellent experience of audio and video with 1080p high-definition image quality, dual 720p media streaming and Hi-fi CD level audio quality. Unified conference control to help administrators in the headquarters view and control any conference site.• Huawei SiteCall function allows participants to initiate a multisite conference at any time. Without the support from the video conferencing administrator, the user can still easily initiate conferences, which greatly improves the emergency command efficiency for the Ministry of Health.• The MCU has the capability of smooth expansion. One MCU supports up to 1000 channels VC terminals, which is easier for the emergency command system to scale to the county level by adding MCU ports and MCU cascading.

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Huawei HelpsUzbekistan BuildRemote EducationSystemHuawei's High-Definition Video ConferencingSolution Improves the Communication andUtilization of Educational Resources

BackgroundThe government of Uzbekistan attaches great impor tance to nat ional educat ion, 11-year compulsory education, to investing 10% of the national budget of US$200 million for education. Uzbekistan has carried out multiple educational reforms and in 2010, a Government Report on Social and Economic Situation required Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan, to build a tele-education system covering all major education institutions in the country.

Key ChallengesThe information explosion, rapid population growth, and uneven development in different areas bring

unprecedented challenges to traditional education.How to improve the quality of teaching is the major problem faced by the government of Uzbekistan with no exception. For example, there is no effective sharing of resources among its 100 universities and 1,500 high schools. Communication difficulties slow the spread of the teaching methods. The government wants to change this through the implementation of a remote education system using its national broadband network.

SolutionHuawei's high-definition video conferencing solutions can support simultaneous access to multiple sites. Therefore, the classroom in a

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Through the collaborationbetween Huawei and theUzbekistani government,Uzbekistan hassuccessfully implementeda remote educationsystem. By the end of 2012,Huawei's solution had beendeployed in 80 educationinstitutions with a total of117 sites. >>

multimedia center has the capacity of remote education. The first phase of construction in Uzbekistan began in 2011 and involved 80 universities. Huawei provided the high-capacity Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) and HD conferencing endpoint in each multimedia classroom.Based on Huawei's advanced technologies, this solution has the following advantages:• Flexible Construction and Easy Expansion:The solution is based on an advanced hardware platform that supports hybrid networking. Configurable boards make expanding capacity easy, protecting the customer's investment.• High Capacity and Quality:The large-capacity MCU enables over 100 sites to access meetings simultaneously. Meanwhile, superior video and audio decoding technologies ensure the stable transmission of HD video, audio, and other signals, enhancing the remote education experience.• High Security:Huawei's proprietary Super Error Concealment (SEC) technology, Intelligent Rate Control (IRC), and media-stream encryption technologies guarantee a secure educational environment.

Customer BenefitsThrough the collaboration between Huawei and the Uzbekistani government, Uzbekistan has successfully implemented a remote education system. By the end of 2012, Huawei's solution had been deployed in 80 education institutions with a total of 117 sites.Huawei's HD video conferencing solution is helping Uzbekistan build its nationwide educational network to achieve highly efficient communication, information sharing, and improved interaction.

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Telemedicine Shortens DistanceTelemedicine Solution for the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University

BackgroundAs one of the few modern, comprehensive hospitals in China, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University integrates teaching, research, preventive healthcare, and rehabilitation into its service offerings and possesses leading medical treatment and research capabilities. As a leader in China domestic medical care, it provides 4,350 sick beds in 98 wards across21 provincial-level medical service centers.

Key ChallengesHealthcare reform is an important initiative in China's 12th Five-Year Plan. In 2011, the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China appointed the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University as one of the first hospitals in China to implement a telemedicine pilot system. The intention was to spread the hospital’s advanced medical services across county-level medical institutions in the province., In this way, the school could help county-level hospitals improve their medical services

and improve the balance of access to advanced medical capabilities across Henan Province, while accumulating experience that would in turn drive further reforms in China’s healthcare industry.In consideration of the university’s existing ICT investments, the hospital wanted to deploy a telemedicine system based on Ministry of Health's requirements, that was able to spread advanced medical services throughout Henan province. In doing so, it was confronted with four challenges:• In order to satisfy healthcare reform requirements, effective interaction and high-definition broadcasting for provincial, city, and county-level hospitals was required. The system had to provide an effective solution for remote diagnosis, as well as surgical observation, academic exchange, and training.• Interoperability had to be achieved between a variery of imaging and physiologic monitoring devices, including high-definition endoscopy, digital radiography (DR), computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR), and digital subtraction angiography (DSA). Interoperability between the

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Huawei successfully provided a customized telemedicine solution that today serves as the largest telemedicine system in China, and the system satisfies the highest technical standards as defined by China’s Ministry of Health. The system is fully functional and today, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou is actively sharing its advanced medical services to county-level medical institutions across Henan Province. >>

telemedicine system and existing medical devices included the ability to retrieve and share patient health records.• Unique medical services operating scenarios required that customization be delivered in support of the emergency command center, multi-expert consultation center, surgical training center, and expert diagnosis center.• Diagnostics experts required the ability to communicate and guide staff in the mobile emergency rescue vehicle.

SolutionBased on these specific needs, Huawei provided a customized telemedicine solution covering emergency command screens, uni-screen telepresence, tri-screen telepresence, and medical emergency vehicles.Huawei telemedicine solution can provide:• Advanced technologies and outstanding experienceHuawei's telemedicine solution offers advanced features like mobility support, system stability, ease-of-use, and ultra-high definition video to satisfy remote diagnosis, remote surgical observation, academic research, and training requirements. The solution also facilitates online learning via search capability and high-definition video recording and rebroadcast capability.

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• Healthcare industry vendor interoperabilityHuawei works closely with major medical equipment vendors such as General Electric (GE) and hospital information system vendors such as Neusoft, Easycares & Fugle, and Kingstar Winning. Huawei’s telemedicine system allows seamless connectivity and information sharing with existing imaging and physiologic monitoring devices as well as information management systems.• CustomizationIn response to special demands from the hospital’s emergency command center, multi-expert consultation center, and surgical training center, Huawei customized the solution to support large-screen displays of multiple images in remote locations, as well as special display in the multi-expert consultation center.• MobilityHuawei has equipped emergency command vehicles with high-definition video terminals that support 3G and satellite access, enabling experts from the diagnosis center to communicate and instruct staff in mobile emergency vehicles in the rescue of emergency patients.

Customer BenefitsThe University has successfully implemented the largest telemedicine system in China. By meeting the highest technical standards and providing the most complete functions, the program is a key pilot project in China’s Ministry of Health distance diagnosis strategy.

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• Healthcare industry influenceBy successfully fulfilled a request from China’s Ministry of Health to conduct an ICT reform pilot program, the first Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University succeeded in setting an example for other hospitals. On September 28, 2011, the Minister of Health in Ghana and his colleagues paid a visit to view the system in action, and on March 1, 2012, Minister of Health Chen Zhu also saw the telemedicine system in action and spoke highly of the solution.• Remote diagnosis for emergency patientsPrior to the rollout of Huawei’s telemedicine system, it took more than 10 hours for a patient to travel roundtrip from the city of Xinyang to the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University. Using the new telemedicine system, the time needed to diagnose the patient is a matter of minutes.• Improved quality of medical servicesBy applying the telemedicine system to multi-expert consultation, surgical observation, and training practice fields, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University was able to dramatically improve the overall quality of medical services provided for citizens of Henan province.

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Huawei eSpace IVS: Guarding Beijing's South Gate

Background Langfang covers 6500 square kilometers and has a population of 4.2 million. Its location close to Beijing has made Langfang the "south gate of China's capital city". As an important high-tech product and modern manufacturing base within the Beijing-Tianjin economic circle, Langfang has high public security requirements. To maintain social stability and improve crime-fighting efficiency, Langfang launched the Skynet project and used video surveillance systems to obtain timely public-security information.

Key Challenges After years of effort devoted to public security, Langfang had a video surveillance system that covered most urban areas. Developed in phases, the surveillance system consisted of devices provided by various vendors. These devices did not support unified management and could not meet public security protection requirements due to the following disadvantages:

• Low resolutionThe existing video surveillance system used a large number of analog cameras that were outdated and could export only standard definition (SD) video. As a result, monitored objects were hard to identify. When an incident occurred, police officers could not obtain useful clues and evidence from the SD video clips. Local police officers joked about the SD video clips, calling them "impressionist paintings made from Tetris elements".• Difficult maintenanceThe existing video surveillance system used digital video recorders (DVRs) to store video clips. These DVRs did not support cluster deployment and could not ensure service continuity during system faults. Without security protection mechanisms, DVRs are prone to data loss. Exceptions, such as camera faults, cable disconnection, signal interference, and lens block, prevented video from being recorded normally. Security personnel can discover these exceptions only when reviewing video clips.• Lack of resource sharing and intelligent searchingThe existing video surveillance system had many

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The Beijing suburb ciry of Langfang deployed the Huawei's eSpace Intelligent Video Surveillance (IVS) system to cover key areas of three districts. The system provides valuable clues and evidence for the Langfang public security department's crime fighting activities. In the areas where the system was deployed, the crime rate decreased by 30 percent and the detection rate increased by 20 percent. >>

information silos and did not support cross-system and cross-department resource sharing. When an incident occurred, security personnel could not obtain all the associated video clips in a timely manner. To find clues and evidence, security personnel needed to manually check each video clip, which was time-consuming and ineffective.Langfang urgently needed to upgrade the existing video surveillance system to:• Enhance system reliability and availability with advanced products and technologies. • Extend surveillance coverage areas.• Integrate surveillance resources to facilitate resource sharing.• Improve the city's detection rate and public security level.

Solution Based on a comprehensive study of Langfang's requirements for public security protection, Huawei leveraged advanced products and extensive experience in developing safe-city projects to offer the end-to-end HD eSpace IVS solution for Langfang's public security department. The solution covers multiple types of end-to-end products, such as an integrated video surveillance platform, HD IPCs, network devices and decoders, and has the following features:• HD IPCsHuawei HD IPCs feature the new-generation HD CMOS, back-illuminated sensor technology, Huawei-developed HME1 media encoding

algorithm, and industry-leading image enhancement functions (such as fog proofing and noise reduction). These IPCs can deliver HD video streams at lower bit rates (including 2 Mbit/s@720p and 4 Mbit/s@1080p), which can significantly lower bandwidth requirements and recording storage costs.The IPCs are deployed at the following important surveillance areas:• Commanding heights of the cityIn Lanfang's commanding heights, Huawei eSpace IPC 5902-Z20, an outdoor 2-megapixel infrared HD PTZ IPC that uses 1/2.8" SonyExmor CMOS and has a resolution of 1920 x 1080, is deployed. The eSpace IPC 5902-Z20 supports H.264 encoding (including the H.264 High profile), 20x optical zoom and 12x digital zoom, 3D image positioning, and embedded infrared light that covers a maximum distance of 100 meters. Security personnel can remotely control the surveillance angle and adjust the focal length to perform large-scope and multi-angle HD video surveillance.• Urban districts In urban districts, Huawei eSpace IPC 5601-P and eSpace IPC2902-Z18 are deployed. The eSpace IPC 5601-P is a 2-megapixel day/night HD IPC that has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080 and uses 1/2.7" high-performance CMOS image sensor that features high color reproduction rate and light sensitivity. The IPC supports H.264 encoding (including the H.264 High profile) and has 3.8 mm–13 mm and 8 mm–80 mm HD lenses. The eSpace IPC2902-Z18 is a 1.3-megapixel HD infrared speed PTZ IPC that has 18x optical zoom and an embedded infrared light that has a coverage distance of 100 meters. Users can set touring tracks for the IPC to perform multi-angle video surveillance and remotely control the IPC's focus and shooting angle to perform dynamic video surveillance. These two cost-effective IPCs were deployed in key areas of the city to provide HD live video surveillance.• Integrated video surveillance platformThe Huawei video surveillance platform uses multi-level and multi-domain architecture to manage a large number of peripheral units (PUs). The surveillance system of each level and domain can function independently to provide surveillance services. When a local surveillance system is

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disconnected from the central platform, surveillance services are still available.• Advanced media serversThe solution uses state-of-the-art media servers that feature integrated architectures to offer storage, distribution, and forwarding services. Deployed in clusters, multiple media servers back up each other to eliminate single point of failure (SPOF) and ensure platform-level reliability. Meanwhile, media servers use optimized video-data RAID storage technology (Huawei proprietary), enabling the system to play video clips even when multiple hard disks in the array are faulty. The system provides security protection for video data at hard disk and host levels.• Video quality diagnosisThe platform automatically generates alarms to notify security personnel when video quality exceptions (including video signal loss, video brightness exception, resolution exception, strip interference, color distortion, image blur, image freezing, lens block, and video jitter), PU operation faults, or security events occur. The alarm notification function simplifies system management, reduces labor, and improves Lanfang's detection rate and public security level.• Intelligent analysisThe management platform integrates an intelligent behavior analysis function, allowing the system to automatically monitor and analyze objects. When detecting exceptions, the system automatically generates alarms to notify security personnel. This proactive surveillance function is applicable to various scenarios and can substantially lower security personnel workload.• High compatibilityThe management platform supports various industry standards and protocols, including GA/T669, GB/T28181, and the Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) protocol used worldwide. By integrating all existing video surveillance platforms and mainstream vendor PUs, the Huawei eSpace IVS platform allows users to manage video surveillance resources within the city in a unified manner. Huawei provides SDKs to allow users to view live video, control PTZs, and accept alarm signals from other government department systems. The management platform eliminates information silos by enabling video data sharing.• Support for mobile surveillanceThe management platform also supports access from mobile terminals, such as mobile phones, to view live surveillance video anytime, anywhere. Mobile phone cameras can be used for live video surveillance. Huawei deployed the SVN2260 VPN server to support the access of extranet mobile phones. • Comprehensive management functionsThe Huawei video surveillance platform has multiple management functions that can significantly simplify system management and video query. The platform supports video playing using mainstream media players.

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Users can attach labels to recordings and query recordings based on these labels. Recording query results are displayed along the time axis. Users can obtain information such as whether a time segment has any recording and how many alarm and schedule recordings are available. (Alarm recordings and scheduled recordings are marked with different colors.) The platform supports multiple alarm linkage functions, such as video recording, onsite voice recording, live surveillance video display, and electronic map display. When an incident occurs, the system preferentially processes alarm information.• Push video clips to video wallsHuawei provided the eSpace DEC6001 HD decoder to push surveillance video to video walls. Huawei also deployed the S9706 high-density optical-electric switch to ensure the non-block transmission of video and control signaling.This project started in July 2012. Huawei, as the end-to-end HD intelligent video surveillance system provider, delivered equipment room devices such as video surveillance platform, storage devices, and servers. Huawei cooperated with other parties, completed system deployment, and delivered the project in a timely manner.

Customer Benefits The solution provides the following customer benefits:• Better public securityThe solution deployed 2030 HD IPCs to cover key areas in Guangyang, Anci, and development districts. The first stage of the project has been completed and put in use, providing valuable clues and evidence for public security protection and crime fighting. After the system was deployed, the crime rate in covered areas was reduced by 30 percent and the detection rate improved by 20 percent.• Higher surveillance efficiencyHuawei's eSpace IVS management platform significantly improved video surveillance quality. The system has not encountered any severe faults that may affect case investigation. The video query and labeling functions increased clue and evidence collection efficiency by 200 percent. The intelligent video analysis function allows the platform to automatically detect security incidents, trigger alarms, and label video clips. Public personnel can obtain key information from video clips based on event labels, which significantly improves video query efficiency.• Integration with other systemsThe video surveillance platform is integrated with service applications in other police systems such as alarm linkage, emergency command, online police, and public security management systems.In the next stage of construction, the Langfang public security department plans to expand the surveillance system to cover other districts and counties, and integrate the existing video surveillance systems in these areas to enable centralized surveillance resource management.

"The safe city video surveillance system needs to integrate a video surveillance software platform and relevant IPCs, servers, storage devices, and network devices to support industry standards and provide full services. We studied many vendors, and Huawei can provide the end-to-end solution and cost-effective products. Based on our service requirements and its own safe city project development experience, Huawei provided the most appropriate solution design. We have every confidence that our cooperation will be a successful one."

Mr. Liu, director of the technical defense office of Langfang's municipal public security department

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Building Safe Lijiang with Huawei eLTE

BackgroundThe Lijiang River is located in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It stretches 83 kilometers from Guilin to Yangshuo, where the Karst mountain and river sights highlight the famous Lijiang River cruise. Every year, the river attracts tens of thousands of tourists from China and beyond.However, the tourism prosperity has led to a variety of security issues, such as theft, robbery, or travel accidents. To address these issues, the Lijiang Scenic Spot Sub-Bureau of Guilin Municipal Public Security Bureau started the "Safe Lijiang" project in 2012. The project aims to crack down on criminal activities and maintain public security in the Lijiang River Scenic Spot.

Security challenges along 83 kilometersThe Lijiang Sub-Bureau administrates 83-kilometer land and waterway travel routes with high-density tourists. The Sub-Bureau has deployed several police stations along the river, but it is quite challenging to effectively effectuate police patrols by relying on existing police forces alone.Broad and open waters in the scenic spot have

hindered tourists from calling the police and seeking help in a timely manner, and brought difficulties to police response and evidence collection, lowering the law enforcement efficiency of public security organs to some extent.Meanwhile, riverside public security involves numerous functional departments, including transportation, water affairs, fisheries administration, and maritime departments. Because different departments are constrained by different law enforcement r ights, i t is difficult for these departments to work collaboratively.

Huawei eLTE: building "Safe Lijiang"After several rounds of technical demonstration and testing, the Lijiang Sub-Bureau eventually singled out Huawei's enterprise Long Term Evolution (eLTE) safe city solution to build "Safe Lijiang." The eLTE-based next-generation safe city solution has maximized its large bandwidth, wide coverage, and high-speed mobility advantages in the project. Thanks to large bandwidth and wide coverage advantages, Huawei helps the Lijiang Sub-Bureau build one single bearer network to integrate multiple services, and deploy 20 LTE devices with each

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device covering a radius of 5 to 7 kilometers, placing 83-kilometer land and waterway travel routes under control. Additionally, Huawei has installed high-definition (HD) day and night cameras to perform uninterrupted video surveillance around the clock, obtain real-time HD video images, and control the waterway security dynamically.Huawei also helps the Lijiang Sub-Bureau set up water police stations. Because Huawei's eLTE solution still supports large-bandwidth access in case of high-speed movement, the Lijiang Sub-Bureau have installed HD mobile surveillance cameras in patrol boats to reinforce video surveillance on the water surface. Cameras connect to LTE devices and transmit real-time video images to the land surveillance center where police officers easily monitor boats and people on the river. Once detecting any criminal activity or emergency, they can take appropriate measures, such as collecting evidence, monitoring law enforcement, or allocating rescue resources, in a timely manner.With the broadband trunking service offered by the eLTE solution, the Lijiang Sub-Bureau has built a mobile command post on the river. The mobile command post interoperates with the land surveillance center and waterway patrol boats. The eLTE solution supports voice trunking, video upload, and video distribution. Field staff can use voice trunking to perform service dispatch. They can also use the video upload function to deliver real-time onsite images to the land surveillance center, offering data support for remote command. Administrators can make the most appropriate decisions within the shortest possible time. Then, the land surveillance center can use the video distribution function to distribute video images to subordinate emergency response institutions and other field staff, accelerating information delivery and improving emergency response efficiency.Huawei's eLTE solution helps the Lijiang Sub-Bureau build land and waterway surveillance platforms, enabling unified command, dispatch, patrol, and linkage.

Lijiang Sub-Bureau: playing different roles in serving touristsHuawei's eLTE solution seamlessly covers the 83-kilometer land and waterway travel routes, keeping the Lijiang Sub-Bureau abreast of the security status in the scenic spot. The solution has dramatically improved law enforcement efficiency and addressed the problem of insufficient police forces. After water police stations and HD cameras are deployed, the Lijiang Sub-Bureau is able to collect evidence about suspicious events and boats, transmit data to the surveillance center, and respond to emergencies in a timely manner.The solution has brought compelling benefits to the customer. The Lijiang Sub-Bureau leverages the land and waterway surveillance platforms to crack down on criminal activities at close range. The Lijiang Sub-Bureau has collaborated with other functional departments to form a rapid response unit, combating against 294 criminal activities. A team with less than 50 members is able to guard the 83-kilometer river. They work as servants and guardians to tourists, becoming another name card of the Lijiang River.

Based on Huawei eLTE solution, the Lijiang Sub-Bureau deployed comprehensive management of public security of intelligent information platform to succeed the “Safe Lijiang” project. >>

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Nanjing Builds a Smart City with Huawei eLTE

According to the city plan of Nanjing, the local government is actively building information infrastructures and promoting the wide application of smart technologies to optimize city management service, improve citizens' quality of life, and create a favorable environment for smart industries and high-end talents. Therefore, the Nanjing municipal government is endeavoring to build a secure and efficient ubiquitous private network.In addition to Asian Youth Games (AYG) in 2013, Nanjing will also host the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2014. Building a high-performance e-government network to provide communication and command dispatch is the foundation of successful games.The Nanjing municipal government entrusted the e-government private network construction and operation to Nanjing Commway Wireless Network Communication Ltd. Commway is a government-funded high-tech communication company that specializes in e-government private network construction, operation, and service development. Commway has a proven track record in this aspect.

BackgroundThe Nanjing municipal government buil t a broadband-based e-government private network to meet the following requirements:

First , the Nanjing government required an e -government p r iva te ne twork to p rov ide communication support for major events, including AYG and YOG. The e-government private network was supposed to provide high-quality and -reliability communication services to enable collaborative work among organizing committees, security departments, and transportation departments. Mobile and wired video surveillance would monitor traffic and stadium conditions in real time, facilitating the smooth progress of games.Second, the Nanjing government required an emergency communication network to cover the entire city. In case of a major disaster or terrorist attack, the carrier network may be paralyzed or shut down. The government needed such an emergency communication network to perform disaster relief or fight against terrorism. The government wanted the private network to play critical roles at critical moments.Third, the Nanjing government needed to converge dispersed information systems. Over the past decade, information systems had been built by various functional departments of the Nanjing government, including police, firefighting, healthcare, electric power, and water affairs. Information could not be shared among these departments, preventing unified dispatch and command. The core concept of "smart city" is the free mobility and processing of

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Nanjing builds an e-government private network based on eLTE (Huawei's Enterprise LTE) featuring superb performance, open platform, and flexible interface. The eLTE broadband trunking solution converges wired and wireless access as well as cross-departmental IT systems to build an information backbone architecture, laying a solid foundation for Smart Nanjing. >>

information. The Nanjing government needed an information center to converge these separated information systems.Last but not least, the e-government private network was supposed to offer broadband capabilities to accommodate mobile office requirements in the future.In aspects of investment and operation, Commway required vendors to provide cost-effective products featuring large signal coverage as well as low deployment and maintenance costs.

Building an Outstanding E-government Private Network with Huawei eLTESince 2012, Commway started to figure out a suitable technical solution for Nanjing e-government private network. However, traditional solutions, including Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Tetra, and carrier networks, could not fully meet private network requirements for performance, reliability, large bandwidth, or scalability.In early 2013, Huawei proposed its eLTE solution to Commway. The solution would totally meet construction requirements based on the Proof of Concept (POC) result and initial service demonstration. Huawei won the first-phase contract from Commway in March 2013 while the AYG would be held five months later.Why did Commway single out Huawei? According to Doctor Hua Han, the company's deputy general manager, Commway was attracted by the following highlights of Huawei's solution:First, the solution was able to provide voice and video command dispatch with a single network. The eLTE voice trunking is equivalent to traditional trunking, delivering a consistent user experience. Moreover, the eLTE trunking also provides video dispatch which is not supported by traditional trunking. Users can distribute live video feeds to visualize command and dispatch. This highlight was highly recognized by Commway.Second, the eLTE solution would offer favorable signal coverage and large bandwidth. With the eLTE solution, government agencies and their employees can implement mobile office or bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices anytime, anywhere. Such a ubiquitous network also brings infinite possibilities for service innovations in the e-government sector.Third, the eLTE solution would interoperate with third-party systems. For example, the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Tetra network can access the eLTE dispatch platform to effectuate unified command. Once deployed, fixed cameras can also connect to the eLTE

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dispatch platform to integrate wired and wireless communication. A single platform converges all networks.Forth, the eLTE solution would be highly scalable. The eLTE solution would provide the software development kit (SDK) for Commway to develop its own comprehensive command and dispatch platform. This platform would connect information systems from functional departments to eliminate information silos and achieve collaborative work cross departments.Fifth, the eLTE had been an end-to-end solution with mature devices. Along with Huawei's quality delivery capabilities, the eLTE network would be deployed within a short period of time, facilitating service rollout. Huawei's eLTE devices feature easy installation and maintenance, telecom-level reliability, disaster recovery, simple network structure, and quality service. All these features were well recognized by Commway.From March to July 2013, Commway and Huawei jointly built the first-phase network involving 34 base stations to cover key areas, including the Olympic Stadium. The eLTE network successfully met communication requirements for the AYG in August.Li Nan, director of the communication and network department of the AYG, commented the eLTE network as follows:"The eLTE delivered voice and video dispatch for the organizing committee to visualize command operations. It played a significant role in the success of the games."At present, Commway and Huawei are building the second-phase private network that will include 110 eLTE base stations to cover the urban area in Nanjing. Meanwhile, the eLTE-based comprehensive information platform is also put into use. Commway and Huawei have implemented network construction and service development together.

Exemplary effectNanjing Smart City is a typical example of smart cities in China. Governments are continuously exploring to reinvent existing information architectures of functional departments, provide emergency communication capabilities, and build smart and safe cities. The success of Nanjing's e-government private network sets a positive example for other cities.The cooperation between Commway and Huawei has proved that Huawei can provide elastic, competitive, and customer-centric solutions by combining industry partners' rich experience into Huawei's high-performance products and high-quality services.

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