Huawei has launched a new industry-oriented intent driven network (IDN) solution at CEBIT 2018, targeted at vertical industries including ISPs, retailers and government customers.
The new solution aims to drive in-depth integration of ICT infrastructure, AI and industry-specific production systems to help customers accelerate digital transformation.
Huawei’s IDN solution is customized to the needs of various verticals and applications. For high-performance AI computing, the solution incorporates an ultra-high-speed lossless Ethernet AI fabric to shorten AI training times by up to 40%.
For the finance industry, the solution has been designed to help financial services organizations build ultra-large cloud data center networks scalable to up to 100,000 servers per cluster system.
For retailers, the solution converges Wi-Fi and IoT technology to allow all-wireless support for both networks, while for government and enterprise campus networks, the solution provides full lifecycle cloud based management leveraging big data analytics and AI.
Meanwhile Huawei has also announced an upgrade to its CloudFabric solution designed to make it easier for customers to adopt intent-driven networking for their data centers.
The intent-driven networking for CloudFabric solution helps enterprises identify intent to implement automatic network configuration, predictive analysis, and intelligent operations and maintenance with continuous verification and optimization, the company said.
