Huawei Enterprise Roadshow 2012

An end-to-end approach was highlighted at the Huawei Enterprise Roadshow with talks and demos surrounding unified communications, Cloud computing and data centers. By Jasmine Desai

The emergence of Cloud computing and the convergence of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) has transformed the industry. In line with its commitment towards creating solutions for the Indian enterprise segment, Huawei Enterprise showcased its ICT products and solutions as part of the company’s Enterprise Roadshow 2012. The roadshow offered a glimpse of the company’s array of  ICT products and solutions inside a 50 foot demo truck. The demo truck will travel to major cities across India including New Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore. The event also witnessed the unveiling of Next Generation Telepresence Business Solutions leveraging HD technologies.

Having a central theme of Innovation Unplugged as part of this activity, Huawei Enterprise had five different focus areas showcasing telepresence, video surveillance, ECC, Unified Communications and IPCC solutions targeted at the Indian enterprise. “The enterprise business in India is poised for growth and associated IT applications are undergoing radical changes. In light of this, the launch of our next generation enterprise products coincides with the growing willingness of enterprises to set up a next-generation ICT architecture. As part of our enterprise expansion plans here, we will focus on providing information and communication technology solutions for sectors such as transport, energy, telecom, finance and others. In order to offer enterprise users premium products and services, we will continue developing innovative enterprise networking products and solutions.” said Eric Yu, President, Huawei India

“As a frontrunner in the ICT space, Huawei has always focused its efforts towards meeting the specific requirements and challenges of various enterprises and, as a result, the company is providing Unified Communications consisting of IP telephony, multimedia conference, collaboration software, IP call center (IPCC) and telepresence solutions,” said Daniel Jiangqingsong, Vice President, Huawei Enterprise.

According to a Frost & Sullivan report, “On the rich communication front, video is becoming pervasive. Vendors are promising 3D presence on this front. There will be multi-modal access going forward. Solutions will also be context and presence aware. There is a rising need for collaborative, context-aware computing and telepresence.”

The adoption of conferencing solutions is growing. The government is the second largest spender on UC with a 19.1% share of this category. Within the government, judiciary, defense and administration are regular adopters of UC. There will be a major trend of Cloud communications, Web conferencing, audio-conferencing and these will likely go on the Cloud and will be managed by Cloud service providers. Focused on the requirements of various industries and enterprise clients, Huawei Enterprise’s UC solution is widely used in the government, finance, education, electric, petroleum, and hotel industries, large and medium enterprises and telecom carriers.

Huawei is also venturing forth into the data center space. In its transition from a CT to an ICT company, Enterprise Business would be a major thrust for Huawei and it is expected to clock $15 billion in revenues by 2015. Huawei has the capabilities to build tier 1 to tier 3 data centers. Cloud computing and virtualization are at the core of its strategy here. When it comes to the first, it is necessary to have the structure to begin with followed by the technology. Huawei’s primary focus is on government, BFSI, transport, power and energy verticals. It will be offering its data centers and Cloud services through partners. Its enterprise solutions strategy revolves around customization and joint innovation.

The company’s product IP is being developed out of Indian R&D centers. It has 2,000 channel partners and over a thousand service partners across the globe. Huawei’s primary focus in its venture in enterprise business would be around enhancing customer experience with a low TCO. The data center space is one of the fastest growing markets in India and Huawei Enterprise has charted out a strategy for this competitive market. As per Yu, Huawei wants to make just enough profit for 2012-13 to survive and grow from there.

As part of this live demonstration, Huawei Enterprise  featured its horizontal solutions of Cloud Computing, Telepresence, Enterprise Network solutions and vertical solutions comprising of Intelligent Video Surveillance, e-Education and Smart Governance.

The products in the demo truck included IP telephony, e-Conferencing, collaboration software, IPCC and telepresence.

jasmine.desai@expressindia.com