Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications

Enterprise users:
 The 5GtoB ecosystem has been 
rapidly expanding. More than 20 vendors have 
launched over 70 industrial 5G modules, and more 
than 140 industry device models are now available 
for commercial use. The increasingly mature device 
ecosystem has driven the wide adoption of 5G in 
industries. To date, Huawei has participated in more 
than 3,000 innovation projects worldwide. Working 
with carriers and our partners, we have signed over 
1,000 5GtoB project contracts, spanning more than 20 
industries.
Huawei has been working with carriers worldwide 
to actively explore industrial applications of 5G, 
such as in coal mining, steel production, ports, and 
manufacturing, to create value for industry users and 
help carriers tap into the huge enterprise market. In 
certain scenarios, 5G can help enterprises ensure safer 
production and improve work environments for their 
employees while also improving productivity. Some of 
our success stories include the following:
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Xinyuan Coal Mine, Shanxi Huayang Group: 
5G-powered robots replaced human workers and 
patrolled 534 meters underground to ensure safer 
underground operations.
■ 
Valin Xiangtan Iron & Steel, Hunan Province: 
Remotely controlled cranes powered by 5G and 
unmanned cranes freed workers from high-noise 
and high-temperature environments and boosted 
productivity by 25%.
■ 
Siriraj Hospital, the largest public hospital in 
Thailand: 5G enabled smart healthcare services. The 
hospital utilized 5G to explore and incubate leading 
applications such as medicine delivery through 
unmanned vehicles, 5G-powered ambulances, and 
5G-powered emergency rooms, improving the 
overall quality of healthcare services.
In precision manufacturing industries, such as home 
appliances and vehicles, 5G has been applied to 
scenarios such as machine vision, AR-assisted repairs, 
and the proactive O&M of production equipment to 
enhance factory automation and intelligence and 
enable flexible and efficient manufacturing.
Premium Private Line Services
Huawei’s ultra-fast Premium OTN Private Line 
solution adopts innovative technologies like optical 
cross-connect (OXC) and Liquid OTN to create a 
secure, reliable, and green optical foundation with 
low latency. This solution helps carriers monetize 
network performance, including bandwidth, latency, 
and reliability, and serves as a useful tool that helps 
carriers expand the government and enterprise market. 
Some of our success stories include the following:
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Following the COVID-19 outbreak, China Unicom 
Beijing used Huawei’s Premium OTN Private Line 
solution to establish private line connections 
between China’s Ministry of Industry and 
Information Technology (MIIT), the National Health 
Commission, and their corresponding provincial 
and municipal branches within just 24 hours. This 
created a network for managing public health 

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emergencies, providing secure and reliable services 
for rapidly releasing pandemic-related information 
to the public, sharing medical expertise, and 
providing remote consultations.
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In Brazil, Huawei and Oi launched the country’s 
first Premium OTN Private Line service, which 
provided private line connections with ultra-low 
latency and ultra-high reliability to the finance 
and other industries. This laid a solid network 
foundation that helped Brazilian enterprises 
fight the pandemic and accelerate their digital 
transformation.
By the end of 2020, Huawei had helped carriers 
to build over 60 premium private line networks in 
China and enable 1ms latency in multiple areas, 
such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao area 
and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area. These networks 
helped carriers provide ultra-high-quality services for 
customers in finance, government, healthcare, and 
many other industries.
Premium Giga Home Broadband
Through continuous innovation in the home 
broadband domain, Huawei has developed more 
competitive end-to-end solutions to upgrade home 
broadband to Home+, transforming the home into 
a center of education, entertainment, work, and 
production. Our home broadband solutions deliver true 
gigabit speeds and help carriers succeed in giga home 
broadband. Our solutions include the following:
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Gigabit to the home: Huawei’s innovative AirPON 
solution leverages wireless sites and optical fiber 
resources to make site acquisition much easier 
and support quick home network coverage. This 
solution has been commercially deployed by more 
than 30 carriers worldwide.
■ 
Fiber to the room (FTTR): Our new FTTR solution 
delivers real-world test speeds of up to 1.2 Gbit/s, 
providing true gigabit services for high-end users. 
It also improves the ARPU by more than 30%. This 
solution has been part of 10 carriers’ commercial 
service plans in many Chinese provinces including 
Guangdong, Jilin, and Shaanxi.
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Differentiated services: Multiple carriers in and 
outside China launched new broadband service 
plans targeting education, live streaming, gaming, 
and other unique needs from different users to 
increase the bandwidth for specific services and 
applications. These services ensure an optimal 
experience for customers and increase carrier ARPU 
by more than 30%.
While COVID-19 ravaged the world in 2020, Batelco, 
the leading carrier in Bahrain, worked with Huawei to 
promote the Wi-Fi whole-house coverage solution on 
social media, which enabled users to study and work 
from home. We also provided PremiumWi-Fi devices to 
non-profit education institution INJAZ, helping Bahraini 
students continue learning despite school closures.
Ubiquitous Connectivity
RuralStar Pro Solution
In 2020, Huawei launched the RuralStar Pro solution, 
which helps bring high-quality mobile broadband 
services to remote villages. The solution’s innovative 
integrated access and backhaul design reduces power 
consumption per site to 100 watt, greatly reducing 
end-to-end costs. RuralStar Pro has successfully 
entered commercial deployment, greatly driving rural 
digitalization and contributing to targeted poverty 
alleviation measures.
To date, our RuralStar series solutions have provided 
mobile Internet services to more than 50 million 
people living in remote areas in over 60 countries and 
regions.
Bringing Digital to Rural Areas
Huawei has teamed up with China Telecom to support 
the Qingyuan Municipal Government of Guangdong 
Province, China in establishing a showcase project 
in Lianzhang Village that aimed to bring digital to 
rural areas. Through the project, we provided an 
integrated device-network-cloud solution, laying a 
digital foundation for rural areas. This foundation 
supports rural governance, public services, and industry 
vitalization. In addition, all parties are striving to find 
an effective path to revamp China’s divided urban-
rural structure.
5G, optical fiber, and Wi-Fi networks that deliver 
gigabit speeds are already a reality in Lianzhang 
Village, making it the first village in China to roll out a 
5G network. With 5G, villagers have access to remote 
diagnoses and health training, and no longer need 
to travel outside the village in order to treat minor 
diseases. 5G has also improved prevention and control 
of infectious diseases within the village. In addition, 
5G is narrowing education gaps between urban and 
rural areas by providing efficient, convenient access 
to remote classrooms for students that allow for real-
time interaction with teachers and their peers.
To promote rural tourism and local industry 
development in the village, 360° VR live streaming and 
a traceability and direct supply system for agricultural 

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products have been introduced. Digital services have 
been widely adopted throughout the village and well 
received by the villagers.
Another key example is a digital education project 
launched in Peng’an County, Sichuan Province. In 
this project, Huawei built optical campus networks, 
providing high-speed broadband connections to more 
than 80 rural schools in the county. The networks 
delivered 10 Gbit/s at sites, over 1 Gbit/s to each 
school, and more than 100 Mbit/s to each classroom. 
This project gave more than 70,000 teachers and 
students living in urban and rural areas equal access 
to high-quality education resources.
Enterprise Market
The intelligent world is now within reach. Faced with 
new possibilities, our Enterprise BG has stepped up its 
efforts to develop innovative scenario-based solutions 
and create a digital ecosystem where all players create 
and share value together. We also strive to help 
industries explore how to tap into the power of the 
digital world to survive and thrive. Thanks to these 
efforts, we achieved robust growth throughout 2020.
We have developed more than 100 scenario-based 
solutions that cover over 10 industries including 
smart cities, finance, energy, transportation, and 
manufacturing. Our products and solutions, such as 
HUAWEI CLOUD, intelligent IP networks, Intelligent 
OptiX Network, computing, data centers, data storage, 
and 5GtoB, have become increasingly competitive 
within the market, and we have combined a number 
of our cutting-edge products in order to meet 
customers’ differentiated needs. To accelerate the 
intelligent upgrade of governments and enterprises, 
we announced a new open technological architecture, 
Intelligent Twins, which leverages cloud as its 
foundation and AI at its core, and consists of four 
layers: intelligent interaction, intelligent connectivity, 
intelligent hub, and intelligent applications.
Huawei brings together seven types of partners: 
sales partner, solution partner, service and operation