AirEngine Wi-Fi 6

Accelerating Enterprise Digital Transformation with

Technological Innovation

Yang Jie
WLAN Director of Huawei's Campus Network Domain
Fully Wireless: A Cornerstone for Enterprise Digital
Transformation
Primary, secondary, Retail, shopping mall, Production and Numerous
Large enterprise Public services
and tertiary education and supermarket manufacturing branches

AR/VR teaching Fully wireless office ESL (wireless) AGV (wireless) Massive wireless Public Wi-Fi
Wireless multimedia Wireless campus Self-checkout Wireless AOI branches Wireless backhaul
teaching machine Remote O&M

Xi'an Jiaotong Ping An LIDL, MISE, Italy

University Technology Germany

By 2024, 75% of conferences will be held remotely. Millions of robots are deployed in commercial
(Currently, only 40% of conferences are held remotely.) scenarios, including hundreds of thousands of
robots that start to provide professional services.
Gartner
Deloitte
By 2024, the compound annual growth rate
(CAGR) of the urban hotspot market space in
public areas will exceed 12%.
Global Market Insights

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Enterprise WLANs Are Widely Adopted, with a Low
Rate of Satisfaction

70% of enterprises have

deployed WLANs by 2019
Wi-Fi connected? Signal strength?
Source: Unleashing the Power of Wi-Fi,
Enterprise-Grade Wi-Fi 6 Forecast 2019–2023

of enterprises are dissatisfied

33% with their WLANs
Source: White Paper of UHD Video over Wi-Fi
Network Solution

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Why Are So Many Enterprises Dissatisfied with WLANs?

Poor signal Low per-user

coverage bandwidth

36%
28%
Reasons for
Dissatisfaction

15%
Slow
troubleshooting
21% Discontinuous
roaming

Another enterprise concern:

How can IoT devices be interconnected through WLAN?

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 Huawei is the only network product vendor awarded "Recommended Network
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Five Differentiators of Huawei AirEngine Wi-Fi 6: A One-for-
All Approach to WLAN Bottlenecks
MU-MIMO + OFDMA + SDR
Boost per-user bandwidth for high-density access

—— Industry Wi-Fi 6
40% higher —— Huawei Wi-Fi 6
bandwidth

20% longer
Smart antenna coverage distance Lossless roaming
Substantially extends the Eliminates packet loss during
coverage distance roaming
Zero
packet loss

Fault rectification
in minutes 2 x built-in IoT card
IoT module
Intelligent O&M Wi-Fi & IoT convergence
Speeds up troubleshooting
Connects people, things, and both
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World-Leading Dual-Band Smart Antennas, 20%
Coverage Radius

Unique hardware design Beam training

Customer pain points try

• Multi-partition office area: signals need to traverse
obstacles
• Mobile office anywhere, anytime: signals need to be
stable at every moment
• Patented bow-tie dual-band co-planar
design, decreasing the AP size
• 248 beam combinations, achieving
more accurate beams
try
Try-Best
try
• Powered by Huawei's 5G massive
MIMO smart antenna algorithm,
delivering optimal radio signals
• Flexible adaptation to environments,
enabling signals to move with users

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Unique MU-MIMO + OFDMA Joint Scheduling: Boosting
User Concurrency and Bandwidth
Huawei AirEngine: innovative 16T16R
spatial streams
Customer pain points 6
10
2
• AR/VR: 30–50 Mbps
bandwidth for each
terminal

10.75 Gbps
Industry's fastest air interface rate
Wi-Fi 6
Huawei AirEngine: MU-MIMO + OFDMA
joint scheduling
Frequency domain
Customer pain points
• Super-high-density
User 4
access: 200 concurrent
users on each AP
2x2 40%
User 3 User 5
2x2 1x1
higher average rate
User 2
User 1
Spatial stream

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Innovative SDR, 50% Network-Wide Capacity
• SDR, ideal for all scenarios
• Flexible switchover between multiple radio
modes: dual-radio, triple-radio, dual-radio
+ scanning radio (unique in the industry)

Many interference sources,

requiring real-time network
status detection Triple-radio, dual-5 GHz
50% concurrent
Severe interference:
Few users + large dual-radio + scanning users
bandwidth: radio
dual-radio

High access
30 users density: triple-radio
50–70 Mbps

200 users,
6–10 Mbps bandwidth Unique dual-band scanning
per user Real-time network quality
detection
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Unique Lossless Roaming, Achieving Zero Packet Loss
During Roaming

Customer pain points Proactive roaming steering Data pre-buffering

< 10 ms 0%
• 50 AGVs, moving at speeds of 1.5–2 m/s in an area of 1000
m2, need to transmit control signals in real time
• Packet loss during roaming may cause AGVs to slow down
switchover duration* packet loss rate*
or even stop, lowering production efficiency
* AGV

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Industry's Most Comprehensive IoT Capabilities,
Slashing Network Construction and Operational Costs
ESL Student health management

One-click cover
opening
Easy O&M
Promoted
New product

IoT & Wi-Fi 6

product

convergence Built-in IoT module

solution 50% TCO

+ + +

Bluetooth RFID ZigBee

AI inference
Office asset management Healthcare IoT
• More flexible networking:
independent CPE module +
Customer pain points CPE
Standalone industrial-grade device
• Independent deployment of Wi-Fi and IoT networks, Wi-Fi 6 CPE • More stable data
leading to high costs transmission: dual feeding
• Inflexible service expansion and selective receiving
AGV Industrial
camera
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AI-Boosted Intelligent O&M System, Enabling Faster and
More Accurate Fault Rectification
As-Is To-Be

Passive O&M Preventive, predictive O&M

Real-time SLA awareness, faults
90% of fault troubleshooting located in minutes
occurs following user complaints
AI + big data learning
AI-powered auto-
Manual optimization
optimization Real-time

Telemetry Loop closure

Faults located and demarcated Precise location
in hours or even days in seconds Intent-driven &
automated

Network self-healing Access/Edge device

Faults rectified in days
in minutes

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 Huawei AirEngine Wi-Fi 6: Building a Smart Education
Town for Xi'an Jiaotong University

 Enables a superb VR experience with 10GE

throughput and 10 ms latency
 Proactively identifies 85% of network faults
(40% fault rectification rate)

2 days 100% < 10 min

network Wi-Fi coverage troubleshooting
provisioning

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Huawei AirEngine Wi-Fi 6: Building Digital Warehousing
for SONGMIC, a Top Amazon Seller

100%
Wi-Fi coverage for mobile
barcode scanners

10%
annual new device investment

38%
supply flow efficiency

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Huawei AirEngine Wi-Fi 6: Enabling a Superior Wireless
Experience for the Largest Football Stadium in Switzerland
St. Jakob-Park in Basel

60,000
high-density access terminals

0
frame freezing during video
sharing

< 10 min
troubleshooting

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Thank you. 把数字世界带入每个人、每个家庭、
每个组织，构建万物互联的智能世界。
Bring digital to every person, home and
organization for a fully connected,
intelligent world.

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