Huawei has held its first Africa Carrier Cloud
Transformation Summit in Marrakech, Morocco for government officials, carriers, and consulting companies on the African continent to
discuss consequential topics such as IT development trends in the telecom
industry, carriers' cloud transformation strategies, and successful business
practices of B2B cloud-based services.
The Summit organized on the theme ‘ + Cloud, Grow Together’ is
aimed at helping carriers accelerate the adoption of cloud technologies, create new businesses, and unleash Africa's digital productivity.
At the
conference, Huawei released the carrier-oriented distributed cloud solution,
which helps carriers efficiently cloudify internal IT systems and better
support carriers in building on-premise B2B clouds. Through cloud-network
integration, the solutions accelerate carriers' network monetization and open new
industry markets.
In his
opening speech, Hou Wei, President of Huawei Northern Africa Carrier Business
Department, pointed out that cloud technology has been integrated into the
digital transformation of various industries and has become a key force in restructuring
their economic structure. Africa, he noted, has huge opportunities with digital
transformation. He advised carriers to adopt the "CT+cloud" mode for
cloud-based transformation, fully exploit the advantages of the telecom
industry, and leverage cloud-based transformation to unleash the full value of
telecom networks and services.
Kris Szaniawski, Research Director of Omdia, said that the
compound growth rate (CAGR) of the enterprise cloud service market in the
Middle East and Africa is expected to reach 21% in the next five years, higher
than the global average of 17%. The development of cloud services in Africa is
still in the initial stage, he said. With the deepening of digital
transformation strategies in African countries, enterprises' requirements for
cloud services are increasing rapidly.
Tariku
Demissie, CTO of Ethiopia Telecom, observed that cloud services have become a
key engine for Ethiopia Telecom to achieve new levels of business growth.
Huawei’s cloud-based industry scenario solution has helped Ethiopia Telecom
quickly open up the digital market for large and medium-sized enterprises. In
November 2022, Ethiopia Telecom released the B2B cloud solution for all
industries. Five days after its cloud went live, all phase 1 cloud resources were
sold, reflecting the huge pent-up demand for digitalization in the industry.
To close
the event, Chen Xuejun, Director of Huawei Carrier IT Marketing Solution Sales
Department, pointed out that the core of carrier cloud transformation is to
understand data, networks, and applications. Huawei’s distributed cloud
architecture meets African carriers' internal service transformation and B2B
service growth requirements. It is the best partner for carriers' cloud
transformation, Chen asserted.
By the end of 2022, Huawei had
carried out in-depth cloud transformation cooperation with more than 140
carriers around the world. Carrier cloud transformation is an evolutionary path
that integrates information technologies with communications technologies.
Huawei has a solid track record of collaboration with global carrier partners
in cloud transformation to achieve common growth.
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