A Glance at Huawei Xinghe Intelligent Target Financial Network White Paper

Recently, Huawei released the Huawei Xinghe Intelligent Target Financial Network White Paper to guide the financial industry's transition to the era of Bank 5.0. Here's a snapshot of how the Huawei Xinghe Intelligent Network tackles major challenges with its innovative features.

Four Network Challenges

Data Surges: Networks must handle vast amounts of data and highly concurrent requests from up to 1 billion customers and 17 billion service calls per day.

Network Resilience: Financial institutions demand a minimum of 99.995% data center uptime, with less than 26.28 min of service downtime per year. Leading banks even aim for 99.999% reliability.

Operational Complexity: Digitalization spurs countless new applications, with tens of thousands of versions released yearly at top Chinese banks. Frequent network changes lead to inaccurate judgments, incomplete views, insufficient insight, and extended Operations and Maintenance (O&M) periods.

Security: In 2023, global ransomware attacks soared by 37.75%, and malicious payloads jumped by 57.50%. Total ransoms hit US$1.1 billion, averaging US$1.54 million—double the previous year. Cybercrime is a huge drain on the sector, and prohibitive to advancement.

Five Key Features

High Intelligence Is Driving the Finance Industry Towards Bank 5.0

• Simplified network architecture allows for smooth expansion to 10,000 Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) or more, reducing network ports by 30% and slashing deployment costs.

• Huawei's innovative Network Scale Load Balancing (NSLB) technology enables the average effective network throughput to be 10% higher than InfiniBand (IB).

• Real-time visualization of key network indicators, minute-level exception detection, and 90% improvement in troubleshooting efficiency.

Ultra-Resilience Empowers Best-in-Class Fault-Tolerant and Always-on Services

• Huawei's exclusive all-scenario iReliable technology ensures service continuity upon network faults and quick application failover.

• Huawei iMaster NCE-Fabric's simulation technology displays network change impacts in real time, helping detect 100% of configuration problems in advance.

• Huawei's iLossless solution supports 100 km lossless transmission, reducing intra-city active-active cross-data center links by 90% and ensuring zero data leakage.

Agile and Efficient Operations Achieve an Autonomous Driving Network

• One-second simulation of network changes ensures zero errors resulting from changes and supports rapid rollout of financial services.

• Multi-cloud networks displayed on one map ensure 99%+ accuracy and real-time awareness of financial services.

• Swift network fault locating within 3 min, facilitating minute-level anomaly demarcation and locating for financial services.

• Automatic management of numerous firewall policies shortens the ticket processing time to less than 1 min.

Enhanced Security Ensures Secure and Reliable Financial Services

• High threat detection rate: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) detection rate exceeds 90%, 10% higher than the industry average.

• Quick backtracking and handling: Source tracing and handling in minutes, compared to several hours in the industry.

• Fast data recovery: The data recovery speed is 170 TB/hour, more than five times the industry average.

• Huawei's secure and touch-free access technology prevents terminal spoofing and unauthorized network access.

An Excellent User Experience with Scenario-Specific Intelligent Branches

• Huawei's Wi-Fi 7 terminals are one generation ahead of the industry, increasing access bandwidth and concurrency by three to four times.

• Huawei's Experience-Centric Network Architecture (XNA) engine effectively ensures the high-quality transmission of key services.

• Huawei's integrated Cloud-Network-Security-Endpoint Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions ensure End to End (E2E) branch access security.

Unleashing AI Power for the Future of Finance

By 2030, Huawei predicts there will be over 200 billion global connections, 3.3 ZFLOPS (FP32) in general-purpose computing power, and 105 ZFLOPS (FP16) in AI computing power — a 500-fold increase. The finance industry is advancing to Bank 5.0, with AI revolutionizing innovation, risk management, investment, transaction supervision, and customer service. This revolution requires massive computing power and next-generation networks, which Huawei's Xinghe Intelligent Financial Network is designed to provide.