GlobalData’s NFVI Competitiveness Report: Huawei Earns Full Scores in All Dimensions and Exclusive Leader Rating

GlobalData has released its 2024 Telco Cloud infrastructure competitiveness assessment report, which crowns Huawei as an industry leader across all dimensions. The report, titled Telco Cloud Infrastructure (NFVI): Competitive Landscape Assessment, provides a comprehensive evaluation of global Telco Cloud infrastructure vendors across key areas, covering architecture, management, market momentum, performance, platform intelligence, resilience, and professional services. Huawei’s Telco Converged Cloud (TCC) was given a perfect score in all dimensions, solidifying its leading position in the NFVI market. The report attributes this outstanding performance to its industry-leading, carrier-grade capabilities, including an innovative dual-engine architecture, seamless hardware and software collaboration, and streamlined operations and maintenance.

Huawei’s TCC leads the way with its carrier-grade container solution powered by a dual-engine (OpenStack and K8s) architecture, the report notes. The approach accommodates both VMs and containers and enables operators to seamlessly transition from VMs to containers through software upgrades, significantly reducing time to market (TTM). With the multi-OS technology, this solution removes associated CNF upgrades during NFVI upgrades, addressing a persistent industry challenge. It also enables on-demand upgrades and seamless capacity expansion, simplifying the transition process.

According to the report, Huawei’s TCC continuously enhances its full-stack carrier-grade software and hardware collaboration capabilities to deliver an optimal service performance. Through system-level interface optimization and cross-layer collaboration, the TCC solution streamlines resource utilization and improves service forwarding and throughput efficiency. Leveraging intelligent algorithms, the solution enables remote server power management, reducing fragmentation within the IaaS resource pool. Furthermore, with proprietary chips and drivers, Huawei is the only vendor in the industry capable of dynamically adjusting CPU frequency or entering hibernation mode based on service loads, thereby achieving low carbon emissions and energy savings.

Additionally, the report notes that Huawei’s TCC solution enhances O&M through the use of various automation tools. By creating digital assistants and experts built on a foundation model, the solution reduces service handling time and workloads. The integration of digital twins facilitates cross-layer fault demarcation and automatic root cause analysis, enabling operators to quickly identify faults and alleviate O&M pressure. This results insecure, agile, and efficient network changes.

• Being at a "leading position" in NFVI commercial deployments, Huawei not only "plays a leadership role in standards organizations and industry forums", such as ETSI, and open-source communities like OpenStack and K8s, but also significantly contributes to vendor interoperability testing, setting benchmarks for the global telecom industry’s development, the report states.