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In this not calm spring, we are looking forward to a victory. At the same time, we are also looking forward to technological upgrading, industrial iteration and industry intelligence in 2020, which will bring more surprises to economic development and make up for the losses suffered by the world in the epidemic.

Among the many expected technology variables in 2020, 5G undoubtedly ranks first. At the same time, it should also be noted that 5G is maturing in synergy with a series of network iterative technologies. In the industrial space of the local area network, the highly anticipated technology with 5G is called Wi-Fi 6.

There has been a lot of discussion about how 5G affects the industry and drives the Internet of everything, but there seems to be much less analysis of how Wi-Fi 6 really affects the industrial landscape and completes the evolution from technological iteration to industrial upgrading.

Recently, there is just one node that allows us to see how Wi-Fi 6 acts as a technology gear to drive industrial evolution-the value of Wi-Fi 6 has begun to emerge in the industrial iteration of campus networks and in the process of campus intelligence.

Huawei Campus Network has just won the honorary title of "customer Choice" for Gartner Peer Insights wired and wireless LAN infrastructure in January 2020, making it the only non-North American supplier in the world.

We have introduced the industry value and selection system of Gartner Peer Insights. To put it simply, this award is a "Douban score" or "TripAdvisor comment" completed by industry decision makers and professionals within the IT industry. The platform contains assessments of more than 340 market areas, as well as 225000 verified comments. In each segment, Gartner recognizes customers' highest rated suppliers by awarding the honorary title of "customer's Choice", thus helping enterprise IT decision makers to make more informed purchase decisions.

The award won by the Huawei campus network not only reflects the reputation and user trust of Huawei's products and services, but also shows such a change in the industrial pattern: the industrial landing of Wi-Fi 6 technology is being accelerated through the market highland represented by the park network. Adapting to the technological capabilities of the Wi-Fi 6 era and the systematization of product solutions are becoming a new winner in the campus network market.

Wi-Fi 6: the ready Gear of the Times

To understand how Wi-Fi 6 affects the campus network market, we may first have to go back to the industrial value of Wi-Fi 6 itself.

Compared with the previous generation of WiFi technology, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 ax) achieves a 4-fold increase in network bandwidth and a 4-fold increase in the number of concurrent users. The ability to support large bandwidth, low latency and high concurrent users makes Wi-Fi 6 "5G in the field of local area network", and is one of the absolute network pillars of the next generation of enterprise digital transformation, high-definition video office, and industrial intelligence.

Such a highly anticipated technology obviously bears huge market expectations. According to a report released by Dell'Oro Group, the WLAN market declined in the third quarter of 2019, with global revenue down 2 per cent compared with the same period last year. This is the market has not experienced such a widespread malaise since 2009. Analysts believe that this global market weakness is not that the WLAN market has encountered long-term bottlenecks, but that the market has very strong expectations for Wi-Fi 6 and have transplanted the desire to buy products to Wi-Fi 6-related products and solutions. As expected, Wi-Fi 6 will drive a high-speed burst in the market with mature products in 2020.

Among the many markets covered by Wi-Fi 6, the value of the campus network market is undoubtedly the first among them. Campus network is the biggest docking point between enterprise network upgrade requirements and Wi-Fi 6 technology, and it is the first strategic highland for Wi-Fi 6 to move towards commercial maturity.

From the campus network application in the recent epidemic, we can directly see the value of Wi-Fi 6 to the campus network. Under the task of epidemic prevention and control, a large number of enterprise parks began to use AI mask identification system, big data access control management system, and service robot equipment. The rapid addition of new equipment and new technology capabilities in these special periods means that WLAN is facing a large number of new challenges, which makes Wi-Fi upgrade become a key requirement.

We can see that whether it is the demand for intelligent protection in the park during the anti-epidemic period, or the long-term intelligent business evolution in the future, the concurrent connection of the IoT system, or high-definition real-time telecommuting, Wi-Fi 6 has become a new era that campus network users must enter.

The advent of the Internet of everything is transforming the value of Wi-Fi from connecting data to connecting business and business intelligence. So following this logic, we should ask the next question: in order for the campus network to enter Wi-Fi 6, what kind of industrial channel should be built?

Behind the "customer choice" of Huawei campus network, it is to give its own answer to this question.

Systematic access: the first problem of Campus Network in the era of Wi-Fi 6

Wi-Fi 6 is a technical standard, which can also be said to be a goal of the campus network. However, under this goal, there are a large number of products, services and solution requirements in the campus network system.

In the stage when the IT degree of the campus network has been quite mature, service providers must prove to users that their products are mature enough to meet the long-term evolution of network business needs in the future. And be able to gain user trust in terms of security, reliability, deployment, and management without additional burden caused by Wi-Fi 6 upgrades.

As the main body of the campus, the most feared phenomenon when greeting Wi-Fi 6 is that it is unable to obtain a complete network evolution plan, and the network iteration is carried out in the sewing and mending mode, resulting in the phenomenon of barrel deficiency, which can not achieve the expected effect of network evolution, or the uncoordinated upgrade trajectory, resulting in the incompatibility between network equipment and solutions, resulting in a large number of operation and maintenance challenges.

To think about the evolution of the campus network with users as the center, the top priority for service providers is to provide systematic access solutions facing the Wi-Fi 6 era, that is, to establish a systematic and comprehensively upgraded campus network product and solution system to help users remove a series of worries, so as to establish a brand mutual trust and ecological win-win situation in the Wi-Fi 6 era.

Based on this, Huawei has successively launched systematic Wi-Fi 6 era products and solutions in the campus network field, and has become the most completed campus network Wi-Fi 6 solution provider. The first opportunity of industrial strategy is also being transformed into a "customer choice" at the beginning of 2020 through the rapid perception and experience deployment of customers.

At present, Huawei campus network is oriented to the systematic construction of Wi-Fi 6 era, which is mainly composed of three-tier products and solutions.

1. In the field of the overall solution of the campus network, Huawei issued the Zhijian campus network solution in 2019 to help customers achieve automatic management, intelligent operation and maintenance and full-level opening of the campus network, thereby shortening the time for enterprise business to go online and ensuring business experience and quality in real time.

2. In the field of campus switches, Huawei has released the new CloudEngine S-Series campus switches for the Wi-Fi 6 era, in which the flagship campus core switch CloudEngine S12700E has 6 times the performance of the industry, which can meet the network evolution needs of large enterprises and campuses in the next decade.

3. In the field of WLAN, Huawei has won the widespread trust of customers around the world by relying on AirEngine, which originated from 5G technology, and has become the global (except North America) and Chinese market champion of Wi-Fi 6 in the past year.

Creating a systematic Wi-Fi 6 channel for campus users has become Huawei's basic idea in the face of the next network era. And its value is forming the industry joint force through customer feedback. The industrial pattern of the campus network, under the technical gear of Wi-Fi 6, has undergone a new round of adjustment facing the next decade.

From the Choice of customers to the Choice of Industry: the Market pattern Division of Park Network

From 2009 to 2012, a major industrial reshuffle took place in the regional network market. The WLAN system for the mobile era has been established, and the market demand and industrial pattern of the new campus network have been fixed.

Ten years later, a new round of network upgrade cycle arrived as promised. This time, the campus network will face more significant opportunities, and at the same time, the industry will usher in more complex industrial challenges. Industrial intelligence and the Internet of everything have become the tasks of the campus network in the era of Wi-Fi 6. In this process, who can occupy the industrial opportunity of the big era is a systematic problem, which not only needs technological leadership, but also needs the improvement of the industrial base, but also needs positive feedback and trust from customers.

From this point of view, the "customer choice" announced by Gartner Peer Insight can become an important value benchmark. Word-of-mouth of professional users, as the basis of the cross-era distinction of the park network, can help us to find out how the industrial pattern is changing.

Huawei ranked first with a customer score of 4.7 out of a total of 5 on the Peer Insights platform. As of Feb. 5, Huawei campus network has received 196 feedback from customers in various industries around the world in its Gartner Peer Insight system, covering products and solutions such as Huawei CloudEngine S series campus network switches, Huawei AirEngine series AP and AC products, and CloudCampus cloud management. Customer evaluation covers communications, service industry, finance, government, education and so on.

Looking at these comments, Huawei's ability to beat Cisco and HPE to the top of the list mainly comes from customers' recognition of Huawei campus network products in the dimensions of performance, reliability, easy management and so on.

For example, the network director of an education industry said: "Huawei campus network solutions provide us with a good large-scale network deployment and service experience." we have deployed more than 12000 wireless access points, as well as core, aggregation and access switches in 55 universities across the country. " A retail industry CTO said: "Huawei WLAN products have good signal quality, wide coverage and stability."

From the evaluation of a large number of industry users, we can see that the focus of real industry users is that they can firmly support the goal of network upgrade, and pay close attention to the deployment difficulty, compatibility, operation and maintenance, troubleshooting and other practical problems of related products. To sum up, we will find that "good performance, good quality, easy deployment" has become the main label of Huawei campus network.

These three tags are critical in the overall campus network upgrade for the Wi-Fi 6 era.

When a technology moves towards an industry, there are three factors that affect its market pattern: (1) technology leadership; (2) market demand; (3) product reliability and availability.

Judging from these three factors, Huawei contributes the most technology patents and standardization support in the Wi-Fi 6 technology system, and its several pillar products lead the industry in high performance, minimalist architecture and intelligence, while the expectations of the campus network market for Wi-Fi 6 have been fully reflected in the market data and customer analysis in 2019. Then the last factor that affects the network market pattern of the campus in Wi-Fi 6 era is the reliability and availability of products.

The best indicator of this index is the comments of professional customers and users. Therefore, the fact that Huawei campus network has won the Gartner Peer Insight "customer choice" essentially points to the industrial changes of the park network market in the era of Wi-Fi 6: many factors are integrated into the Huawei park network system, and new industrial changes are coming at an accelerated pace. The universality and depth of the application of Wi-Fi 6 in enterprise parks will also be deeply affected by the new technologies and product rules brought by Huawei.

The industrial reshuffle of the campus network is accelerating. For the global campus network users, the most fundamental change is based on the upgrade of the campus network brought by Wi-Fi 6. The process of enterprise digitization and industrial intelligence may be further accelerated.

This is the news you urgently need in 2020: when your business is connected to Wi-Fi 6, countless future possibilities are at hand.

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