Huawei Awarded for Agile, Open and Secure Data Center Network Solution at NetworkWorld Asia Readers' Choice Product Excellence Awards

SINGAPORE,Oct. 26,2018 --Huawei was awarded "Best Software-Defined Data Center Networking Solution" at the 2018 NetworkWorld Asia Readers' Choice Product Excellence Awards. The awards ceremony,organized by Questex Asia,was held at Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel,Singapore.

Reggie Xia,Chief DC Network Architect,Huawei Southern Pacific Region receives award from Mr. Ravi Dasari,Chief Information Security Officer,Deutsche Bank.

Award winners were determined based on five key criteria: reputation of vendor in the marketplace; features and unique selling points of the solution; widespread acceptance of technology and/or brand; users' feedback on the solution/deployment; as well as durability,scalability and quality of service.

The 'Best Software-Defined Data Center Networking Solution' award recognises solution providers who are shifting towards software defined data centers and providing the option of more open and disaggregated network solutions. This enables benefits such as faster and automated provisioning of workloads,improved security and management,as well as reduced hardware/software expenditure and OPEX costs.

Huawei's Software-defined Data Center Network Solution is designed to help customers manage and maintain agility to keep pace with the fast-changing cloud services. The solution provides a simple,open and flexible cloud data center network to accelerate digital transformation for enterprises.

CloudFabric is the brand name of Huawei's data center network solutions. It uses SDN technology to build next-generation cloud data center networks based on its service-centric open architecture. Core components of the solution are the industry-leading CloudEngine series data center switches and Agile Controller. The CloudEngine series includes the industry's highest-performance CloudEngine 12800 flagship core switches,CloudEngine 8800/7800/6800/5800 high-performance Top of Rack (ToR) switches,and the CloudEngine 1800V virtual switch. In addition to the CloudEngine series switches and Agile Controller,the solution also integrates a variety of transmission,routing,security,and network management products. These products together create a one-stop data center network solution.

Frank Lu,Vice President of Solutions Sales,Huawei Southern Pacific Enterprise Business Group,said,"We are thrilled to be recognized by the esteemed readers of NetworkWorld Asia. It is our honour to receive this prestigious award and it serves as a motivation to continue our efforts in putting our customer's needs at the heart of everything we do. We want to thank our customers and partners for believing in our vision and we look forward to working with them to further their Cloud ambitions."

The 13th Readers' Choice Product Excellence Awards recognizes both established and new solution providers that have made the most impact on Asian end-user organizations in 2018,based on votes from qualified readers of NetworkWorld Asia,Asia Cloud Forum,Security Asia and Storage Asia.

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains-- telecom networks,IT,smart devices,and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person,home and organization for a fully connected,intelligent world.

Huawei's end-to-end portfolio of products,solutions and services are both competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners,we create lasting value for our customers,working to empower people,enrich home life,and inspire innovation in organizations of all shapes and sizes.

At Huawei,innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research,concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have more than 180,000 employees,and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions. Founded in 1987,Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

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