HNS 2024 | Huawei Unveils All-New Upgrades to Xinghe Intelligent Fabric Solution for Middle East and Central Asia, Powering the AI Era

[Baku, Azerbaijan, May 13, 2024] The Huawei Network Summit 2024 was recently held in Baku, Azerbaijan. In the keynote themed "Xinghe Intelligent Fabric, Powering the AI Era", Huawei unveiled the latest Xinghe Intelligent Fabric Solution for the Middle East and Central Asia. This breakthrough solution enables the creation of ultra-intelligent, high-performance, and all-Ethernet data center networks, expediting the intelligent digital transformation of enterprises in the region. At the event, more than 300 customers and partners from the UAE, Azerbaijan, Oman, and other countries gathered to explore the future trends and technological advancements in data center networking. The event aimed to facilitate the upgrading of customer network infrastructure and drive continuous service innovation across the Middle East and Central Asia region.

According to Jacko Lee, vice president of Huawei's data center network domain, the advent of AI has propelled the data center network into a new era, presenting fresh challenges and demands for future network architecture. To tackle this challenge, Huawei has fully upgraded its Xinghe Intelligent Fabric Solution by incorporating AI technologies to enhance service deployment and O&M efficiency. This ground-breaking solution offers a highly reliable and high-performance network that supports AI training and enables flexible connections with broad spectrum of server types, seamlessly integrating intelligent computing, general-purpose computing, and storage networks. Huawei is dedicated to collaborating with partners to establish a robust infrastructure foundation for the digital transformation of enterprises in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Huawei, IEEE UAE Section, Daleel Petroleum, and Ankabut jointly released the L4 Data Center Autonomous Driving Network White Paper. This comprehensive document outlines a vision for building state-of-the-art data center autonomous driving networks that cater to the needs of customers, so as to propel a wide range of industries into a new era of enhanced efficiency and intelligence in network operations.

In terms of AI computing, Huawei, together with Tolly Group and Ankabut, published a test report titled Huawei Xinghe Intelligent Fabric vs. InfiniBand Network. According to the report, Huawei Xinghe Intelligent Fabric achieves an impressive 8% to 17% boost in effective throughput compared to InfiniBand under identical server settings.

At the event, Fahem Al Nuaimi, advisor and CEO of Ankabut, UAE's Advanced National Research and Education Network (NREN), as well as Salim Issa Al Balushi, a senior GRC expert from Daleel Petroleum shared their achievements and best practices regarding their cooperation with Huawei. Meanwhile, Muhammad Badar Farooq, CTO of Huawei's Middle East and Central Asia Region, presented Huawei's latest research findings on building data center networks with disaster recovery capabilities.

Huawei's Xinghe Intelligent Fabric solution has been recognized by many customers in Middle East and Central Asia, such as Ankabut, and Daleel Petroleum. It has also been successfully applied across a breadth of industries, including finance, government, Internet, and manufacturing, where it is driving intelligent digital transformations. Looking forward, Huawei will continue to collaborate with industry partners to advance research and innovation in data center network field, accelerate intelligent network upgrades, and foster evolutionary growth, ultimately creating greater value for customers and the industry at large.