Sectors across the economy are clamoring to upgrade their infrastructure and add more intelligence into day-to-day operations – including organizations in the government, education, finance and healthcare spaces.
While this ambition is a noble one, it can be hard to enact without initiating at least one major digital transformation project. That's why such organizations might instead turn to the intelligent campus – a framework that allows them to combine smart and emerging tech with existing physical infrastructure to boost services, improve decision making and give sustainability efforts a much-needed push.
One of the world's most advanced solutions, Xinghe Intelligent Campus by Huawei, has lately received a major upgrade – with added Wi-Fi and networking capabilities, improved application experience, and streamlined operations and maintenance (O&M).
Tapping into the fully-upgraded Xinghe Intelligent Campus Solution also means receiving a much-needed security boost, with the next generation of the intelligent campus ensuring organizations are primed to make the most of the technologies available to them.
What's new in the intelligent campus?
There are four major upgrades that the organizations tapping into the Xinghe Intelligent Campus are set to benefit from. These are:
- Enhanced Wi-Fi networks, especially Wi-Fi 7 experiences
- AI-powered improvements to smoothen video conferencing and VIP services
- AI-powered intelligent O&M experiences
- AI-powered end-to-end campus security that blocks data leakage
This is a big year for Wi-Fi 7, with the first elements beginning to emerge as we enter an explosive period for the industry. With the competition heating up, Huawei has emerged as a leading contributor to devising this technology – contributing 22.9% to the standards, which is more than any single entity.
With the terminals rapidly increasing globally, Huawei's contributions have positioned the company well for integrating the technology into the next-generation intelligent campus.
There are 30 Wi-Fi 7 products available for sale in various scenarios at the time of writing, but Huawei is the first to offer enterprise-class Wi-Fi 7 products, including in the Internet of things (IoT) contexts as well as indoor and outdoor scenarios. Enterprise campus networks have much higher requirements than domestic environments, and the new AI-powered Wi-Fi 7 upgrade guarantees over 10Gbps throughput with 1Gbps access anywhere.
AI is also massively contributing to both improving VIP services and O&M experiences. With 90% of VIP users suffering from poor application experiences, including frame freezing and loss of signal, Huawei offers an exclusive VIP Lane and VIP FastPass technology to guarantee that no delay extends beyond 50ms, which also increases the throughput by 30%.
This also has a knock-on effect for the IT team, with technologies like AI all-flow scheduling and AI analysis ensuring a reduced latency of up to 75% and zero frame freezing for key applications. O&M, meanwhile, is being massively augmented with added intelligence.
Shawn Zhao, president of the campus network domain, Huawei's data communication product line, said: "In the AI era, Huawei actively integrates AI into campus networks, achieving AI-powered wireless, application, O&M, and security experience upgrade. By leading experience-centric campus networks, Huawei further drives faster AI adoption and industry intelligence to thrive in the AI era together with customers and partners."
NetMaster, the industry's first network foundation model, leverages 100 billion training parameters to master 30 scenarios in seven categories in data communication.
Combined with a digital map that offers quadruple-layered visualization of users, terminals, applications, and networks, O&M can transition from manual to intelligence. In theory, one person can manage an entire digital campus of 10,000 users.
As part of the O&M offering, Huawei AI Energy Saving and Wi-Fi CSI sensing can sense the presence of staff and wire this into sustainability policies. This could save 30% of network energy and 10% of campus energy overall.
Transitioning into an all-wireless era is also top of mind for organizations, but this shift also incurs security concerns. That's why Huawei has introduced Wi-Fi Shield, a game-changing wireless security innovation, to the next generation of intelligent campuses to fill the security gap on wireless networks. Wi-Fi Shield directs valid data to only target users while jamming non-target zones.
Intelligent campuses in action
One of the best examples of an organization taking on this form of digital transformation – integrating intelligence into its physical infrastructure – is The University of Hong Kong (HKU).
According to Huawei, the institution has integrated new teaching models, technologies that have solidified and improved wireless networks, and streamlining processes. One of the key upgrades has been the transition from a pure physical-based library to an expansive and immersive hybrid approach that also incorporates e-books and online courses.
"The transmission and gathering of knowledge has become more diverse, thanks to the help of new technologies," says CIO and University Librarian of HKU in a video. "Among the complex layout of shelves and reading areas in the library, students and faculty staff can still have stable network access anywhere in the library."
Another example is where a Huawei manufacturing customer is using Huawei's iMaster NCE-CampusInsight, a key component in Huawei's Xinghe Intelligent Campus solution, to gain unprecedented network visualization experiences.
"It provides a granular view of my company's network topology, allowing us to visualize the layout and connectivity of my entire network," the IT manager wrote in a peer review with Gartner.
They added: "Core switches, access switches, and wireless APs can be clearly displayed on the GUI and their status information can be upgraded in real time. This intuitive network visualization allows us to quickly locate problem devices and improve troubleshooting efficiency."
City Savings Bank in the Philippines is another company that used Huawei's technology to build an intelligent financial campus. In physical branches, the business found that the traditional network architecture was overburdened and could not support a much-desired upgrade to allow digital access to banking.
With Huawei's help, City Savings Bank completed an SD-WAN deployment for all sites and built cloud-network synergy networks with easy O&M. The benefits afforded by the Simple Campus Solution included a balanced load base on link quality, dynamic selection of best links for branches, and ensuring that services were online 99.99% of the time.
Intelligent ultra-broadband and on-demand interconnection were also delivered, ensuring reliable interconnection between branches, headquarters, and the cloud networks.
Huawei's Xinghe Intelligent Campus solution has already been used in various industries and sectors, with its components often allowing businesses to unblock operations and streamline processes so they can give end users the best possible experience on the ground.
To learn more, visit Huawei's website, or register your organization's specific project requirements for detailed pricing information.
