Huawei Xinghe AI Unified SASE Solution Helps Nigeria's EEDC Build a High-Quality Intelligent Security Protection System

Two Core Pain Points Hindering Smart Power Distribution Transformation

Vital to national development and people's livelihoods, EEDC's distribution network directly impacts the stability of electricity supply and the quality of public services. With the widespread adoption of smart meters and distribution automation, the existing network architecture struggles to meet the high reliability and security demands of modern power operations. Two urgent challenges must be addressed:

Poor Equipment Performance, Frequent Service Interruptions

Aging devices suffer from weakened security protection and declining operational efficiency, leading to interruptions in accessing the core billing system. This disrupts electricity purchase services and real-time billing for both residential and commercial users.

Manual Troubleshooting, Time-Consuming Threat Response

The customer's annual security O&M expenditure is about US$50,000 to US$100,000. The root cause lies in excessive reliance on manual log retrieval, filtering, and analysis. This not only reduces efficiency but also increases the risk of human error, further driving up costs and operational risks.

To overcome these challenges, EEDC has partnered with Huawei to build an intelligent power network system, setting a new benchmark for digital transformation in Africa's energy sector.

Huawei's Xinghe AI Unified SASE Solution: Powering EEDC's Network Upgrade

Huawei's solution ensures 24/7 stability of the core billing system by eliminating interruptions caused by insufficient device performance or weak protection. Economic losses are prevented fundamentally. With legacy devices approaching end-of-service, Huawei will oversee the migration of 500 ESET EDR units and two FT firewalls (including management and analysis systems), establishing a unified control platform for centralized security management and collaborative operations.

Enhanced Performance and Security Defense

The new Huawei firewalls feature 10G forwarding capacity and a multi-core distributed architecture, easily supporting concurrent communications across industrial control systems (ICS) and massive IoT devices (meters, sensors, distribution terminals). Forwarding latency is reduced to microseconds. The USG6635F model delivers 7 Gbps threat protection and supports up to 20 million concurrent sessions, ensuring zero interruption for core billing and industrial control systems.

Rapid Threat Response with Endpoint-Network Synergy

Leveraging Huawei's iMaster NCE unified management platform, a deep endpoint-network defense system is established. Real-time synchronization of endpoint threat information and network security status enables immediate blocking policies across the entire network once anomalies or attacks are detected. Risks are mitigated at the access and edge layers to prevent lateral spread. Built-in standardized event response playbooks automate the full cycle—detection, alerts, policy enforcement, and attack blocking—reducing reliance on specialized personnel. Fault troubleshooting time has been cut from hours to minutes, saving tens of thousands of dollars annually in O&M costs.

A Benchmark for Africa's Energy Digital Transformation

As a flagship project integrating EDR and firewalls, Huawei has helped EEDC build a high-quality smart power network system, improving security and efficiency: A dual-layer "endpoint + network" defense system enhances protection and ensures stable, reliable power supply, the O&M efficiency is improved by 90%, and operating expenses are reduced by 80%.

Looking ahead, EEDC will deepen its strategic cooperation with Huawei, expanding the Xinghe AI Unified SASE Solution to cover renewable energy integration and power plant networks. This successful project not only provides a replicable benchmark for Nigeria's power industry but also positions Huawei's "endpoint + network" integrated defense system as the preferred choice for Africa's energy sector, ushering in a new era of intelligent energy networks.