Carrier-class IP Network Becomes Reality

Huawei Technologies launches the Quidway® ME60 MSCG

Tuesday June 21, 2005, Paris / Beijing---Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., the largest telecommunications vendor in China and one of the world’s leading networking and communications equipment companies today announced the global release of the Quidway ME60 MSCG (Multi-Service Control Gateway), its flagship product for next generation IP networks. The Quidway ME60 MCSG is the first tailor-made product for carrier-class IP networks which provides telecom operators with the capability to solve the problems concerning IP network QoS and security.

The Quidway ME60 MSCG is a next-generation multi-service solution. As the first 10-Gigabit multi-service control product, it enables large capacity, high performance, strong service integration, service intelligent processing and control as well as broadband access capability. It supports rich services, including terminal access authentication, service identification and classification, safety protection, session agent, hierarchical QoS scheduling, service distinguishment and VPN services. It is an ideal network platform positioned at the core edge of carrier-class service networks, including 3G and NGN networks.

Patrick Wen, Vice President of Huawei Technologies Europe, comments, “The increase in the number of broadband subscribers has sped up the integration of telecom network and IP network, putting the telecom industry under much pressure to transform their networks. The IP network is being transformed from bearing single Internet services to multiple services, for example voice, data, video, 3G and NGN services. It has become clear that few operators are able to handle the business potential the IP network can now offer due to the shortage of practical network transformation solutions. The launch of Huawei’s Quidway ME60 MSCG solution will enable our customers to transform their IP networks to gain immediate advantage over their competitors.”
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In designing the product, Huawei took operation convenience into the most consideration. Via the service management system, the ME60 connects the service layer and the bearer layer, facilitating service call control, service dynamic awareness and strategy control, service QoS guarantee, network resource allocation, user and service identification, network and service protection. It organically integrates different functions of different network equipment, for example user management, safety management and service control, and meets the operation requirements for single-point control and multi-point services. The ME60 effectively overcomes the disadvantages of traditional routers, firewall and DPIs, which are limited in separate stream-based control, hence greatly reducing CAPEX and OPEX.

Huge investment in R&D has led to the success of Huawei’s data communications products, and the company is gaining recognition from more and more operators. On July 5, 2004, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) selected British operator FiberNet as the best Metro Ethernet service provider in Europe. The success of FiberNet can also be attributed to Huawei, which provides FiberNet with its fifth-generation NE80/NE40 routers. In 2004, Huawei is No.2 in the global core router market with 33.6% market share based on shipment information (In-Stat, May 2005).

British Telecom (BT) announced its 21CN network transformation strategy two years ago, to fully transform its existing PSTN to carrier-class IP network. According to the overall strategic plan of BT, such an IP network would integrate multiple services, reduce OPEX and help exploring a variety of telecom value-added services. Other mainstream operators in the industry have also been seeking for network transformation solutions so as to form new competition strengths in operating carrier-class IP networks. Many operators have announced their network transformation plans, e.g. NTT’s RENA Plan, Telstra’s FNE Plan and Deutsche Telekom’s 2010 Plan.

All these plans show the operators’ ideas about future network developments. A key element in all these plans, however, is to solve the problems concerning QoS and security in existing IP networks via the service control gateway. It was reported that the ITU-T has accepted a new Y.1291 Recommendation for IP Network QoS frame solution after over two years’ technical study. The recommendation, oriented to the carrier-class IP networks, is to regulate the development of IP network equipment to support carrier-class IP network construction. All major equipment manufacturers in the telecom industry have been devoted to the research and development of this recommendation.

About Huawei
Incorporated in 1988 and headquartered in Shenzen, China, Huawei Technologies specialises in the R&D, production and marketing of telecoms equipment, providing customized network solution in different telecom fields. Huawei is now the largest telecom vendor in China’s telecom market and is quickly becoming a leading player in the global telecoms market. Currently Huawei provide telecom products and solutions for over 300 operators worldwide and 22 of the world’s top 50 operators are using Huawei’s products and solutions. Huawei focuses on areas such as WCDMA, CDMA2000, NGN, xDSL and data communications. Huawei has 24,000 employees and sales in 2004 reached 5.58 billion USD.