Huawei Xinghe AI Unified SASE Solution Powers the Rapid Retail Business Growth of Morocco's Marjane

Building a Secure Branch Store Network: The Key to Retail Growth

As a core strategic priority, Marjane plans to accelerate the expansion of its retail network, opening 40 to 45 new stores annually. With the continuous growth of its retail footprint in Morocco and the rising demand for digital transformation, a series of network security challenges have emerged. The existing network architecture struggles to ensure secure and reliable operations. Marjane faces three major challenges in branch store expansion and network security:

Lengthy Deployment Cycles Restrict Market Expansion

With the pace of adding 40 to 45 new stores each year, Marjane requires greater efficiency in network deployment. Traditional private line setups take 7–10 days, slowing down market expansion. A new deployment model is urgently needed — one that supports automated rollout through a multi-branch security solution, enabling plug-and-play deployment and streamlined operations.

Unstable Connectivity Undermines Critical Retail Experiences

Systems such as POS checkout, inventory management, and supply chain management are vital to Marjane's retail operations. For example, POS terminals must communicate with headquarters in real time or near real time to upload sales data and update inventory. Network instability leads to slow device response during peak hours, doubling customer wait times and negatively impacting the shopping experience. Building a network that ensures reliable performance for critical branch operations has become a pressing need.

Public Internet Transmission of Sensitive Data Creates Security Risks

To reduce costs, branches connect with headquarters via the public Internet. However, this approach exposes sensitive data to risks of theft and tampering. Each store processes over 10,000 customer payment transactions and personal data records daily. To prevent data leaks, all member information, payment data, and commercial offers transmitted over public networks must be strictly encrypted.

Huawei Xinghe AI Unified SASE Solution Building a Secure Foundation for Marjane's High-Quality Retail Growth in Morocco

To effectively address the challenges of rapid expansion, Huawei has deployed its Xinghe AI Unified SASE Solution to safeguard the high-quality development of Marjane's retail business. At its core is a unified operations platform that enables fast branch network deployment and automated policy management, significantly improving operational efficiency. With high-performance gateways and intelligent uplink selection, the solution ensures smooth and stable operation of critical business systems. By deeply integrating AI with advanced security capabilities, it delivers "Intelligent Deployment," "Intelligent Experience," and "Intelligent Defense," upgrading Marjane's branch networks with enhanced performance and robust protection.

Plug-and-play Store Security Gateway: Intelligent Deployment

Huawei's USG6510F-D serves as Marjane's store security gateway, offering plug-and-play convenience. Branches can complete initial configuration and go live within minutes. With advanced EVPN auto-provisioning technology, topology orchestration can be automatically completed for thousands of sites in minutes. These capabilities free Marjane's retail expansion from deployment delays, enabling rapid rollout and onboarding of new stores with Huawei's Xinghe AI Unified SASE Solution.

Safeguarding Critical Retail Operations: Intelligent Experience

Through multi-dimensional techniques — reducing congestion, minimizing packet loss, and enhancing compensation — Huawei ensures an exceptional experience for Marjane's critical retail operations. During promotional campaigns, when transaction volumes surge, Huawei's global intelligent uplink selection algorithm, industry-leading application identification (20% higher than competition), and application-level dynamic QoS prioritize POS and VIP membership services. Even under congestion or packet loss, critical services are guaranteed priority, making checkout faster, reducing wait times, and elevating customer satisfaction.

Dedicated Security Engine: Intelligent Defense

Huawei's integrated security gateway leverages three hardware acceleration engines — NP forwarding, encryption/decryption, and pattern matching — to boost performance and secure sensitive data transfers between Marjane's headquarters and over 40 newly opened stores.

• NP engine ensures ultra-low latency forwarding.
• Encryption/Decryption engine guarantees secure and efficient data transmission.
• Pattern matching engine strengthens intrusion prevention and antivirus capabilities.

Additionally, AI-powered detection algorithms and an Emulator-based polymorphic malware unpacking engine raise unknown threat detection rates to 95%, effectively defending against ransomware, zero-day exploits, and polymorphic malware. This comprehensive protection fortifies Marjane's branch security perimeter and safeguards its core data assets.

AI + Security: Steering the Future with Intelligence

Huawei Xinghe AI Unified SASE Solution deeply combines AI and security capabilities, delivering "Intelligent Deployment," "Intelligent Experience," and "Intelligent Defense," to enhance capabilities across all scenarios. This provides core support and assurance for Marjane's retail expansion and digital transformation journey.

Looking ahead, Marjane will establish a strategic partnership with Huawei. Together, the two companies will drive joint innovation across multiple domains, with a strong focus on network security and other critical areas. Based on Huawei's Xinghe AI Unified SASE Solution, they will build a comprehensive cloud-network-edge-endpoint security protection system, reinforcing Marjane's security foundation and safeguarding the high-quality growth of its retail business.