VAS Cloud, along with Huawei Managed Services, help CSPs consolidate network and service infrastructures and eliminate silos of business and operations management functionality, to enable CSPs' main communication assets modernization
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of value-added services (VAS) within the communications service provider (CSP) marketplace, Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan recognizes Huawei with the 2015 Global Stratecast Value-Added Service Enabling Technology Leadership Award. Huawei has demonstrated visionary leadership by leveraging technologies and solution designs that drive both network service consolidation and cloud enablement. This strategy has allowed Huawei to leverage its strong managed services expertise and advanced platforms to guide CSPs in their transition to the cloud. By focusing on VAS instead of infrastructure alone, Huawei has become a leader in cloud-based service delivery and support.
"Huawei has a strong services component within its solution portfolio and has quickly grown into a leading provider of managed network operations services and managed services operations," said Tim McElligott, Senior Consulting Analyst at Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan. "As networks evolve toward cloud, virtualization, and an all-digital world, Huawei continues to roll out solutions for these new architectures as well as the services and applications that run on them."
Huawei has aggressively built its presence in the managed services operations center (SOC) space by assisting in the building and operation of more than 20 SOCs, more than any other supplier. Although the SOC was not part of the VAS Cloud evaluation, it did establish Huawei as an innovator that supports CSPs with both technology and services.
As a part of the Huawei SDN/NFV solution, Huawei VAS Cloud provides an advanced ICT convergent solution based on the advantages NFV provides to CSPs.
The VAS Cloud solution helps CSPs break down the silos of support infrastructure built for each service and the correspondingly redundant and costly systems integration efforts required to make it work.
The VAS Cloud consolidates services into a single cloud environment that reuses network and IT components. By significantly reducing the amount of VAS infrastructure used by many of its CSP customers, it aids those CSPs in launching new services effectively. The VAS Cloud also reconstructs the service architecture, making it more flexible and open. Huawei VAS solutions already support 36 of the top 50 CSPs in the world. The combined Huawei VAS solutions serve 200 CSPs.
"Huawei's focus on leveraging telecom services, the main assets of CSPs, as an impetus to consolidation has allowed the company and its CSP customers to reduce costs and become leaner and more agile," McElligott noted. "This way, Huawei can help its customers prepare for a future in which they are able to enable the communication capabilities, the differentiated offer from CSPs, to be accessed by enterprise conveniently to grow their own business."
Another important role of Huawei VAS Cloud is to build a convergent communication platform for both voice and messaging that brings more value to the LTE network. Such a platform will help the huge user base of 2G/3G subscribers smoothly migrate to 4G. More importantly, it will deliver capabilities that support the evolution from B2C to B2B, and expand the enterprise and small-to-medium sized business opportunity in order to grow revenue. There are already services, like Cloud PBX, Aibaba "Ali Number", anti-harassment, virtual number etc, coming from diverse sources such as the CSP, third-party developers and Huawei's partners.
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to a company that has developed a pioneering technology that not only enhances current products but also stokes the development of newer products and applications. The award recognizes the high market-acceptance potential of the recipient's technology.
"Huawei Technology has enhanced the strength of its cloud services with its focus on Value Added Services (VAS). It is a great pleasure to recognize Huawei for developing a platform that CSPs can adopt to create better solutions for their customers," said Frost & Sullivan's Global President and Managing Partner Krishna Srinivasan.
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About Huawei
Huawei is a global leader of ICT solutions. Continuously innovating based on customer needs, they are committed to enhancing customer experiences and creating maximum value for telecom carriers, enterprises, and consumers. Their telecom network equipment, IT products and solutions, and smart devices are used in 170 countries and regions. Huawei ranked 228th on the Global Fortune 500 in 2015 based on its 2014 revenue.
Huawei invest over 10% of annual sales revenue into R&D and more than 45% of their 170,000 employees engage in R&D. They have built 16 R&D centers worldwide and 31 joint innovation centers with customers.
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