Frost & Sullivan Applauds Huawei Technologies for its Market-Leading Smart City Solution

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the smart city market, Frost & Sullivan recognises Huawei Technologies with the 2015 Kenyan Frost & Sullivan Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award. Huawei's smart city solution provides comprehensive on-site information with visual command and intelligent analysis functions for 360-degree security. By utilising a web of interconnected devices, software, and cloud storage systems, the company enables the public and private service sectors to work together more effectively.

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Huawei's deployment of a new communications network, which links over 1,800 surveillance cameras with 195 bureaus and 7,600 police officers in Nairobi, is of great strategic importance in terms of national and economic security. The National Police Service Commission of Kenya, for example, has a high-speed private broadband network that partly relies on the company's propriety wireless enhanced long-term evolution (eLTE) solution.

"The wireless infrastructure links the National Police Service Commission's command centres with over 1,500 high-definition cameras in downtown Nairobi. Furthermore, it supports more than 200 cameras that are installed at city checkpoints and several wireless devices distributed to officers in the field," said Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst Joanita Roos. "Thus, authorities can conduct panoramic video surveillance of Nairobi's urban centre, as well as maintain a highly-agile command and dispatch setup that runs on satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) and software-based geographic information system (GIS)."

Additionally, with the video cloud storage platform that Huawei offers, cross-agency video sharing is possible. Through comprehensive security-video linkage, the platform meets multiple service needs, including real-time surveillance, video browsing and evidence collection.

Over and above the video cloud storage platform, Huawei provides sophisticated analytics tools to improve authorities' ability to identify, classify and match stored video data. The company has also secured its safe city solution against cyber-attacks and ensured it is cost-effective.

"The recent restructuring and alignment of the executive team's objectives, with the changing external market, has enabled Huawei to deliver focused, innovative, differentiated and market-leading solutions tailored to its customer groups – carrier, enterprise and consumers," pointed out Roos. "For example; the change in operational model from 'issuing order' to 'delegating authority' has enabled the company to respond to customer needs more flexibly and promptly, as authority is given to field units that have direct contact with end users."

Since Huawei is a global company, it is able to leverage its global value chain and combine it with local innovation capabilities. Along with this, the company's commitment to being a collaborative industry contributor and constant communication with external stakeholders has been central to its success.

Moreover, Huawei's efforts to proactively look for opportunities to contribute to the socioeconomic development in countries in which it operates, has enabled it to survive in the competitive smart city market.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company whose competitive strategy has yielded significant gains in market share during the research period. Often, the recognised company has taken advantage of recent market changes that facilitate the introduction of novel methods of capturing and solidifying market presence. Alternatively, it may have executed an inventive strategy within the existing competitive landscape, empowering itself to overtake the competition. The company captures the attention of the competition, which quickly adjusts in order to protect its own market position. These innovations are expected to produce lasting, precedent-setting trends in the industry.

"Huawei is very pleased to receive such a prestigious accolade. Going forward, Huawei will continue to be integrated in the field of public safety, cooperating with leading industry partners to provide innovative, one-stop safe city solutions in our commitment to connect people, businesses and cities across Africa," says Rose Moyo, Wireless Solutions Director of the Huawei Enterprise Business Group for the Eastern and Southern Africa region.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognise companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

About Huawei Technologies

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider with the vision to enrich life through communication. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives our customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 150,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services have been deployed in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than one third of the world's population.

By leveraging our strong R&D capabilities and comprehensive technical expertise, Huawei's strategy in the enterprise domain focuses on close cooperation and integration with partners to deliver a wide range of highly efficient customer-centric ICT solutions and services that are based on a deep understanding of customer needs. In line with our strategy, we offer a broad portfolio of innovative ICT solutions that cater to global vertical industry and enterprise customers across government and public sector, finance, transportation, energy, large enterprises and small and midsize enterprises (SMEs). Our portfolio covers enterprise networking, unified communications & collaboration (UC&C), cloud computing & data center, enterprise wireless, network energy and infrastructure services.

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