Huawei CloudEngine S5755-S-HT Twins Switch Wins the "Best of Show" Special Prize at Interop Tokyo 2026

[Tokyo, Japan, June 10, 2026] At Interop Tokyo 2026, Huawei stood out among global ICT vendors to receive the "Best of Show" Special Prize for its CloudEngine S5755-S-HT twins switch, recognized for its ultimate reliability, self-healing network architecture, and exceptional commercial benefits. Evaluated rigorously by a panel of authoritative experts and scholars, this award serves as a key barometer for technological innovation in the global ICT industry. Winning this recognition underscores Huawei's technological leadership and innovation prowess in building resilient production networks.

With digital transformation advancing to advanced stages, critical sectors covering smart manufacturing, smart healthcare and smart airport demand highly reliable, interruption-free networks. 90% of industry terminals now use single-port connections. Conventional single-node networks feature poor fault tolerance, and faults on access equipment will instantly suspend production. Huawei's CloudEngine S5755-S-HT twins switch steps in to bridge this gap. This high-reliability switch introduces multiple redundancy mechanisms and intelligent fault identification technologies to ensure uninterrupted campus network services, boost the robustness of mission-critical operations, and establish a next-generation resilient foundation for production networks.

Three stand-out features set this switch apart:

• Uninterrupted services against single-control-plane failures

The CloudEngine S5755-S-HT twins switch adopts an innovative two-planes-in-one-box architecture, where dual independent control planes leverage M-LAG for high reliability. This design ensures production-grade control redundancy within a single physical device.

• Sub-second recovery from single-forwarding-plane failures

The CloudEngine S5755-S-HT twins switch is designed with dual forwarding chips to create dual forwarding channels on each port, delivering both physical and logical redundancy for traffic paths. In the event of a link failure, the switch completes an automatic failover in less than a second, boosting overall network reliability to five-nines (99.999%). Furthermore, this dual-channel architecture can load-balance service traffic, effectively preventing performance fluctuations induced by link congestion.

• Zero downtime upon software upgrades

With built-in M-LAG capabilities, the CloudEngine S5755-S-HT twins switch completes control-plane switchovers in milliseconds during software upgrades or patch updates. The dual control planes can be independently and seamlessly upgraded. This capability eliminates the long-standing pain points of traditional networks—downtime upon upgrade and interruption upon maintenance—and guarantees 24/7 non-stop operations.

Huawei CloudEngine S5755-S-HT Twins Switch Wins the "Best of Show" Special Prize

As highlighted by the Interop Tokyo 2026 judging panel, Huawei's CloudEngine S5755-S-HT twins switch is purpose-built for single-uplink endpoints such as production devices, providing them with ultra-reliable connections. Its core innovation is how it ingeniously integrates dual-device active-standby configurations and port switchers into a single, compact device. This not only slashes deployment costs but also delivers exceptional cost-effectiveness. With this unique and creative design, the product successfully fills a critical market gap and precisely addresses a major customer pain point.

This award recognizes Huawei's deep technical expertise in the campus network domain and its commitment to integrating technology directly into production scenarios to resolve critical reliability challenges through innovative solutions.

Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to drive the seamless integration of digital technologies with production environments and launch more tailored network solutions to help industries overcome reliability bottlenecks and build a resilient foundation for future-ready campus networks.