[Hannover, Germany, March 23, 2017]
Huawei and channel partners from various western European countries have announced the launch of Huawei's 400G cloud Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solution. This announcement was made at this week's CeBIT 2017, following discussion of the DCI market development trends and emerging demands.
Left to right: Joe Zhou (Vice President of Huawei's Transmission Network Product Line), Lothar Frischholz (CTO of Access GmbH in Germany), Jeff Mitchell (Sales and Business Development Director of Magdalene in the United Kingdom), and Michael Scharn (CTO at Tallgrass Coöperatie U.A in the Netherlands)
In recent years, DCI bearer networks have begun facing many challenges due to the continuous "cloudification" of Internet services and substantial growth in traffic. For example, traditional optical network equipment is incompatible with data centers (DCs), deployment efficiency is low, and optical network equipment O&M is complex.
Targeted at the emerging DCI market, Huawei developed its DCI solution based on its extensive experience in order to meet DCI development requirements. This solution was put into commercial use in several countries in 2016 in collaboration with Huawei's channel partners. Huawei has now followed this by launching the 400G CloudDCI solution.
At the conference, Huawei invited three channel partners: Michael Scharn (CTO, Tallgrass Netherlands), Lothar Frischholz (CTO, Access GmbH Germany), and Jeff Mitchell (Sales and Business Development Director, Magdalene UK). These channel partners shared their opinions about DCI market development trends and requirements.
In the DCI market in Germany, rapid cloud DC development has brought explosive growth in bandwidth. As a result, customers are demanding solutions that support long-term bandwidth growth and focus on secure encryption.
In the DCI market in the United Kingdom, customers are also requiring that equipment support more-open management modes to adapt to cloud management in the future. This will automate equipment management and reduce operating expense (OPEX).
In the DCI market in the Netherlands, limited equipment room space in Amsterdam requires that transport equipment adapt to IT equipment room requirements. For example, transport equipment must provide high-density ports and support 600 mm-deep cabinets and modular replacement.
"We're glad we partnered with Huawei in 2016," Michael Scharn, CTO of Tallgrass Coöperatie U.A, said. "Huawei's solution meets DCI customer requirements for customization, economical prices, and easy O&M. We look forward to further cooperating with Huawei to provide more-competitive solutions."
Joe Zhou, Vice President of Huawei's Transmission Network Product Line, said, "Huawei's new 400G transport platform doubles its capacity and provides encryption features, meeting customers' security requirements. In combination with intelligent optical network architecture and open APIs, the platform supports fast and flexible service provisioning and provides differentiated value-added service level agreement (SLA) and DCI bearer networks that have higher bandwidth and are more energy-efficient."
CeBIT 2017 is held from March 20 to 24 at the Hannover Congress Centrum in Hannover, Germany. Huawei is represented at booth C30 in Exhibition Hall #2. For more information, visit the following URL:
http://e.huawei.com/topic/cebit2017-cn/index.html
