Author: Huawei

Cape Town, 10 November 2025 – African ministers and ICT leaders have endorsed a continent-wide push to build shared artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, following a ministerial forum co-hosted by South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) and the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) on the side-lines of AfricaCom in Cape Town. The forum called for coordinated investment in sovereign computing power, local-language models and AI skills so that economic gains from AI are created in Africa and for Africa. Building on the African Union’s Continental AI Strategy, the AU’s framework to guide member states on AI policy, skills and infrastructure…

To meet the demands of the artificial intelligence (AI) era, data centres must offer flexible evolution, be always on, and be optimised for space and speedy construction. Fan Shixing, Director of Huawei’s Data Centre Facility Integration Business Dept., delivered this key message at the AfricaCom conference, held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre this month. His keynote address stressed the need for a new generation of AI data centres (AIDC) to support the continent’s increasing desire for advanced, intelligent capabilities. “Huawei has developed new data centre solutions that use full-stack synergy technology for liquid cooling,” said Fan as he…

Huawei’s Operations and Transformation Forum Africa 2024 opened to an eager audience of industry insiders and a lineup of high-level experts at part of this year’s AfricaCom conference. The forum’s agenda focused on exploring ways for telecommunications industry stakeholders to use intelligent operations to unlock new business growth. David Li, President of Huawei’s Southern Africa Delivery and Service Business gave a speech on the theme of All Intelligent Operations to Enable New Growth. David shared insights about how carriers must prepare for the intelligent era, emphasising the need to upgrade technologies, strategies, services, and operations and maintenance (O&M) modes. The…

The Africa Net5.5G IP Gala Summit, themed “Bring Net5.5G to Reality, Inspire New Growth”, concluded successfully as part of the 27th African Communications Exhibition (AfricaCom 2024). Leading carriers from Southern Africa, industry organisations, government agencies, and device vendors came together to share use cases on the evolution to Net5.5G converged IP networks and industry digitalisation. During the summit, the World Broadband Association (WBBA), the IPv6 Forum, the African Telecommunications Union (ATU), Technology Service Providers of Kenya (TESPOK), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), MTN Group, and MTN South Africa jointly launched the Africa Net5.5G Action Plan Initiative. This calls on…

As a cloud service provider (CSP), Huawei provides customers with various cloud services, such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Implementing privacy and security in the complex cloud service environment requires the joint efforts of customers and Huawei Cloud. Privacy protection poses clear requirements for enterprises. In this article, we will introduce customers’ privacy protection responsibilities and obligations in using cloud services based on the following responsibility model and how Huawei Cloud helps customers implement privacy and security. As shown in this figure, Huawei Cloud is responsible for the…

Huawei has again been ranked among South Africa’s top employers in the Top Employers Institute’s annual Top Employer rankings. This marks the seventh consecutive year that Huawei has made the list and is a validation of the ongoing work and commitment to progressing its employees. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation’s dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices. The Top Employers Institute programme certifies organisations based on the participation and results of their HR Best Practices Survey. This survey covers six HR domains consisting of 20 topics…

African data centres will have to focus more on environmental protection, data security, and privacy protection in the coming years. That’s according to Zhou Yilin, Huawei Director of IT Consulting & System Integration. Speaking at the Pan African Data Centres Exhibition & Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Yilin expanded on the forces driving those trends while also outlining some of the other challenges and opportunities facing the sector. Yilin notes that factors such as increasing requirements for data storage and processing, drive the rapid development of data centres. At the same time, he says, the sector faces new challenges, including…

At the 25th AfricaCom (AfricaCom 2022) themed “Driving Inclusive, Sustainable Growth Through Tech Investment”, Openserve and Huawei jointly unveiled the new home networking solution — fiber to the room (FTTR). In addition, Openserve outlined its plan to put FTTR products into commercial use in the near future, aiming to provide optimal fiber broadband experience for users across South Africa. As a subsidiary of Telkom SA, Openserve is the largest fixed network operator in South Africa, and is committed to providing premium broadband networks for home and enterprise users. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, home office, online learning, and…

The African Telecommunications Union (ATU), African Union (AU) and Huawei jointly released the “Africa IPv6 Development White Paper” today. This first regional Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) white paper on the African continent systematically analyses the development of IPv6 in Africa and shares the IPv6 innovation practices of several top operators in Africa. Launched during the fourth Broadband Africa Forum at AfricaCom 2022 – the continent’s largest ICT conference – the white paper aims to provide guidance and reference for IPv6 technology innovation and development in Africa, thereby accelerating the construction of network digital infrastructure and promoting the development of…

Mauritius has entered the gigabit era with Mauritius Telecom’s Internet offer of 1Gbps. This superfast internet connectivity is unrivalled in the Mauritian market. It was launched on 9 September by Prime Minister, Pravind Jugnauth and Mauritius Telecom CEO, Sherry Singh, during an event in Pailles. Mauritius Telecom CEO Sherry Singh said that it was essential for Mauritius Telecom to adapt its offerings to meet the needs of its customers. “Expectations have changed. Each family, each person is different, with different needs and it is our job to adapt. Today customers are looking for entertainment, bandwidth and connectivity as a one…