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Huawei and partners strategise to unlock ASEAN digital connectivity growth
[April 13, 2018]

Huawei and partners strategise to unlock ASEAN digital connectivity growth


New solutions to empower ISPs as region weighs unified digital market

SINGAPORE, April 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Huawei Southern Pacific ISP Summit 2018 gathered over 150 analysts and key industry players to exchange views on how the ISP industry could speed up digital transformation and promote a single digital economy in ASEAN.

The summit, in its third year, took the theme of "Leading New ICT, Achieve and Accelerate Digital Revolution with ISP". At the summit, Huawei and partners discussed key industry trends, connected with other industry players, and showed their latest innovations in cloud computing, among other smart technologies.

Collectively, ASEAN is the sixth largest economy in the world. Its rapidly growing digital economy generates about US$150 billion in revenue annually1. According to a recent study, the region has the potential to generate an additional US$1 trillion in combined GDP by 2025 with a robust digital agenda2. In ASEAN, the amount of cross-border bandwidth that is used has grown 45 times larger from 2005 to 2016. It is projected to increase by an additional nine times by 2021 as flows of information, searches, communication, video, transactions, and intra-company traffic continue to surge3.

The digital integration of ASEAN will promote rapid growth of the digital economy, including safe and smart city solutions, to stimulate economic development and inform social intelligence. As ASEAN sets the stage for a single digital economy to harness its full economic potential, it is crucial for key players within the ICT sector to collaborate and contribute to the robust infrastructure necessary to accelerate ASEAN's growth.

L-R: Mark Wu, Chief Technology Officer of IP Solution, Huawei Enterprise Networking Marketing and Solution; Patrick Low, Chief Technology Officer, Huawei Enterprise Data Center Solutions; Chu Xin, Vice President, Huawei Network Energy Product Line

Daniel Zhou, President, South Pacific, Huawei Enterprise Business Group said: "Technological innovation and an open ecosystem are critical to the success of digital initiatives. As ASEAN sets the foundation for unified digital economy, close collaboration between key industry players are key to ensure a solid foundation for a thriving digital economy. Huawei is committed to improving the region and working with our partners for a better connected future."



Randy Roberts, Research Director at IDC, shared in his keynote speech, entitled "Regional ASEAN ICT Development – Towards a Single Unified Digital Economy", that businesses in Asia Pacific have made progress in advancing digital maturity, but most of them are in the "Digital Explorer" stage, where digitally enabled customer experiences and products are inconsistent and poorly integrated. However, signs of a potential rise in the number of enterprises initiating digital transformation signal an opportunity for key players in the region.

Huawei is dedicated to working with partners across industries to empower their digital transformation and enrich their services to thrive in the new ICT era. As a case in point, Huawei is working with Converge, an ISP partner in the Philippines, to build an innovative next-generation network. Converge's legacy network had too many layers with an unclear architecture, affecting the fast rollout and configuration of new services. Huawei created a three-year network construction solution and formulated a service deployment plan so that Converge's new network is elastic, simple, and future-oriented to adapt to new services.


At the summit, Huawei launched the following products aimed at equipping ISP customers with the technology to effectively power ASEAN's single digital market ambition:

Keppel Data Center and SP Telecom, some of Huawei's key partners, also showcased their latest innovations on network technologies at the Huawei Southern Pacific ISP Summit 2018. To find out more about Huawei's solutions, please visit http://e.huawei.com/en/solutions/industries/isp.

References:

1 ASEAN Digital Economy: A New Pillar?, RSIS Commentary, 9 February 2018
2 The ASEAN Digital Revolution, A.T. Kearney and Axiata, 2016
3 Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025, 2016

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 180,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

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