
Huawei South Africa launched its upgraded Huawei Xinghe Clever Community choices at its latest IP Membership 2025 occasion on the Indaba Resort in Johannesburg, which occurred on 12 and 13 March.
The 2-day occasion introduced collectively greater than 300 trade consultants, key opinion leaders, prospects and companions to showcase how these purpose-built choices assist enterprise prospects of all sizes speed up their digital and clever transformation in response to at present’s speedy developments in synthetic intelligence know-how.
Networks, the cornerstone for transmitting info, are present process unparalleled modifications as AI evolves. On this evolution, community infrastructure should be urgently upgraded to assist large information processing, real-time response, clever functions and safety safety. Past this, new necessities are driving the necessity for networks to shift progressively in the direction of larger ranges of intelligence as they change into key infrastructure.
In his opening speech, Gene Zhang, CEO of Huawei Enterprise South Africa, highlighted how Huawei’s AI and large information fashions are the driving drive behind digital transformation, notably in South Africa. “With enterprise approaching the clever world quicker than ever earlier than, all industries have to introduce AI at scale to create a high-quality, high-capacity, high-efficiency and high-security community expertise,” he mentioned.
Zhang additionally reiterated Huawei’s dedication to serving to native prospects and purchasers construct higher community infrastructure to drive digital transformation and assist the rise of the nation’s digital economic system.
Dr Haiwei Dong, chief AI professional on the Huawei Canada Analysis Institute, supported Zhang’s sentiment that as networks more and more change into key infrastructure, the event of AI applied sciences, starting from conventional AI to trendy LLMs, is accelerating. Over the course of the occasion, he delved particularly into how AI enhances networking applied sciences in numerous methods, together with however not restricted to visitors circulate administration, topology administration, community operations and upkeep, and community safety.
Standout options
Huawei’s 4 main Huawei Xinghe Clever Community options pertain to key areas inside campus networks, information centre networks, wide-area networks and safety domains, and have been totally upgraded with these standout options:
- Huawei Xinghe Clever Campus: A wi-fi expertise improve (10Gbit/s-plus throughput, 1Gbit/s entry wherever), software expertise improve (always-smooth video conferences, always-optimal VIP companies), O&M expertise improve (one-person managing a campus with 10 000+ customers), safety expertise improve (simple terminal entry, end-to-end wired and wi-fi safety, and nil leakage of key information).
- Huawei Xinghe Clever Cloth: Regular deployment for zero community errors, steady reliability for zero service interruptions, sensible O&M for fault auto-handling and sturdy safety for zero information leakage.
- Huawei Xinghe Clever WAN: A 3-layer structure of AI routers, AI new connections and AI new brains, which comprehensively improves community efficiency and intelligence. The improve positioned give attention to three core priorities — convergence, intelligence, and deterministic latency— reaching self-awareness, self-adjustment and self-optimisation of companies.
- Huawei Xinghe Clever Unified SASE: The Huawei Xinghe Clever Unified SASE answer builds a cloud-network-edge-endpoint built-in structure through which AI tremendously enhances defence and safety safety ranges, together with AI-powered operations for automated dealing with of 99% of alarms, AI-powered edge for environment friendly detection of 95% of unknown threats, and AI-powered endpoints for detection of 100% of ransomware viruses and 100 hops of supply tracing.
The revamped choices embody safe Wi-Fi 7 merchandise, new high-density routers and superior information centre switches. For the commercial and industrial market and SMEs, Huawei additionally launched 9 trade options protecting authorities, finance and healthcare in addition to industrial distribution flagship merchandise appropriate for South Africa.
Together with keynote addresses from consultants protecting a variety of matters associated to the upgraded Huawei Xinghe Clever Community choices, attendees additionally benefited from reside demonstrations that allowed them to preview Wi-Fi Defend’s capabilities and the real-world software of the Huawei Xinghe Clever SASE answer.

In the course of the occasion, trade companions shared insights into how Huawei’s options have supported their digital initiatives. A notable instance included associate testimony from Santosh Singh, gross sales supervisor at Greystone IT Consulting. Greystone is an ICT companies firm based in 2003. Huawei is a strategic associate of Greystone’s and gives high-quality merchandise to its prospects. Greystone is a part of the partnership programme and is an professional on the merchandise that Huawei gives to the South African market. Over the previous few years, Greystone and Huawei have carried out in-depth cooperation within the schooling and retail industries. Huawei’s high quality service and coaching have helped Greystone develop considerably.
All through the two-day occasion, it turned clear that Huawei’s give attention to clever innovation is laying a next-generation basis of ultra-high resilience, stability and high-security ubiquitous safety to unlock new alternatives within the clever period. Huawei is dedicated to continued innovation of its Huawei Xinghe Clever Community choices to speed up the nation’s digital-intelligent growth.
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