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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Huawei announced today that, in The Forrester Wave(TM): Open, Programmable

Switches For A Businesswide SDN, Q3 2020 report, their CloudEngine data center

switches were recognized as a leader by Forrester. These switches achieved the

highest score in current offering as well as full marks in all of the following

seven criteria -- hardware support, switch hardware and OS strategy, automation

and programmability strategy, evolution training, open networking, engineers,

and partners. Huawei believe this fully reflects the leading position of its

products and services.

"Firms need the flexibility to distribute applications and data across private

cloud, public cloud, and edge compute areas....A single, businesswide switching

fabric will become the de facto architecture." These are future trends

recognized in the Forrester Wave(TM) report. This also means that there is still a

large gap between many enterprises as they are still using networks that lack

flexibility and agility.

According to the report, "With a large number of engineers and support staff,

[Huawei] has been working on new ASICs and advanced monitoring solutions to

develop an autonomous driving network, in conjunction with ensuring that the

switching platform and operating system support a wide range of tools,

hypervisors, and cloud platforms. Reference customers told Forrester that

Huawei provides a lot of support deployment and guidance on what the

organization should be doing. Firms looking for a vendor with wide global reach

and leaning on a deep product portfolio rather than developing their

configuration tools should put Huawei on their shortlists."

The Forrester report also fully affirmed that, "Huawei has one of the largest

data networking portfolios across enterprise networking vendors and retains the

largest networking market share in China, with a strong presence in Africa,

Asia, Europe, and South America."

"We are honored that Forrester named Huawei's data center CloudEngine switches

a leader," said Leon Wang, President of Huawei Data Center Network Domain.

"Huawei believes that leading switching performance, openness, and flexibility

are very important. The CloudEngine switches perform well in these aspects and

win industry recognition. We will also focus on 400GE super capacity,

zero-packet-loss intelligent experience, and autonomous driving network to

provide the optimal solution, building data center networks in the intelligence

era and helping customers achieve business success."

Since the series' launch in 2012, Huawei CloudEngine switches have maintained

robust market growth due to their leading product capabilities and have been

serving more than 9200 enterprises in over 140 countries, especially in the

finance, Internet, cloud service, and telecom industries, accelerating the

digital transformation of thousands of industries.

For more information about Huawei CloudEngine switches, visit:

https://e.huawei.com/en/products/enterprise-networking/switches/data-center-switches 

SOURCE: Huawei