[Barcelona, Spain, March 3, 2025] At MWC Barcelona 2025, Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, officially unveiled the AI WAN Solution during the product and solution launch event. He noted that carriers are accelerating the convergence of networks and AI. AI WAN comprehensively empowers IP networks in the Net5.5G era using AI. The solution enables carriers to build networks with optimal TCO, expand service boundaries, improve operations efficiency, and stimulate new service growth.
Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, unveiling the AI WAN Solution
Three-Layer AI WAN Architecture: Enabling New Network Intelligence Capabilities
The AI WAN Solution features a three-layer architecture consisting of AI routers, AI new connections, and AI new brain, comprehensively enhancing network performance and intelligence. AI routers integrate millisecond-level flow reporting, high-accuracy flow identification, and efficient security protection engines, building an AI WAN foundation for intelligent capabilities. AI new connections enable flow-level scheduling to meet the diverse network requirements of various applications, allowing carriers to offer a wider array of value-added services. By harnessing Network Digital Map and Network Foundation Model, the AI new brain creates network AI agents to assist carriers in online change simulation, fault diagnosis, and fault handling, ultimately improving O&M efficiency.
AI WAN Inspires New Growth of Traditional Services and Opens Up New Market Space
Accelerated ROI for individual services: To address the challenges of base station traffic management for carriers, AI WAN utilizes predictive operations to efficiently identify sites with suppressed traffic, enabling carriers to make targeted investments. MTN South Africa operates over 7,000 base stations, and 10% of them experienced severe link congestion, compromising traffic experiences of users. By leveraging AI WAN’s millisecond-level traffic collection and minute-level prediction capabilities, MTN has secured an efficient capacity expansion solution. Following deployment, the dataflow of usage (DOU) in Johannesburg rose by 25%, while traffic grew by 15.4%.
Experience monetization–driven new revenue for home services: By harnessing AI-powered inference technology, AI WAN enables accurate identification of encrypted flows, unlocking new opportunities for carriers through monetization of differentiated experiences. Carrier CTM partnered with Huawei to optimize network services using an AI computing engine. This resulted in a dramatic reduction in game latency, a significant decrease in user churn rate, and an estimated 28% increase in average revenue per user (ARPU). In addition, another carrier cooperated with Huawei to conduct experience-centric operations based on AI-powered poor-QoE analysis, providing deterministic cloud-network services. This innovative solution not only significantly enhanced user experience but also attracted a substantial number of new cloud broadband package subscribers. Consequently, the ARPU is expected to see a substantial increase.
New service offerings with security protection and computing-network integration for enterprise services: AI WAN offers value-added intelligent flash defense services that can accurately identify attack flows, enabling carriers to provide efficient security protection services for enterprise users. The revenue is expected to increase by 35%. In addition, AI WAN provides elastic and lossless transmission capabilities, helping carriers expand new ToB integrated computing-network services. Huawei and China Telecom Shanghai have collaborated to innovate the AI WAN Solution for computing WAN scenarios, creating an end-to-end 400GE computing WAN plane. Key technologies, such as lossless WAN, were employed to enable efficient transmission of computing power services. Ultimately, computing power leasing and computing network services were provided to industry customers.
Wang emphasized that Huawei will remain at the forefront of network intelligence innovation, developing industry-leading products and solutions. It will work closely with partners to build AI WAN, accelerate carriers’ service growth, and jointly move toward the Net5.5G intelligent network era.
MWC Barcelona 2025 is held from March 3 to March 6 in Barcelona, Spain. During the event, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1.
In 2025, commercial 5G-Advanced deployment will accelerate, and AI will help carriers reshape business, infrastructure, and O&M. Huawei is actively working with carriers and partners around the world to accelerate the transition towards an intelligent world.
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