Huawei’s ushers in the AI era with raft of new solutions at MWC 2025

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At MWC in Barcelona this year, the topic of AI pervaded every aspect of the show. From AI-powered robots to agentic AI assistants, there is no doubt that we are rapidly entering the AI era  

But to make the most of this transformational technology, telco infrastructure will require modernisation. Networks themselves will need to leverage AI to become more automated and efficient, while also powerful enough to handle the unique pressures of merging AI use cases.   

To meet these challenges, Huawei unveiled a vast array of new AI infrastructure products and solutions at its Product & Solution Launch during MWC 2025, with executive team highlighting nine of their most exciting offerings on stage.  

1. AI-Centric Network solution

Yang Chaobin, Huawei’s Director of the Board and CEO of the ICT Business Group began the Product & Solution Launch by introducing the AI-Centric Network solution. This is designed to capitalise on AI-driven opportunities. It will use AI to make networks smarter and more efficient. It helps carriers improve connectivity, automate maintenance, and offer better services to users. The solution focuses on four key challenges: 

• All-domain connectivity.With more in-depth collaboration between AI and networks, carriers will be able to optimize resource orchestration for routing, bandwidth, and so on. This will provide intelligent applications with universal network access, ultra-high uplink and downlink, and SLA assurance. 

• Application-oriented O&M.Advances in AI applications will give rise to more complex service scenarios and massively diverse experience requirements. This will necessitate a shift from traditional, resource-oriented network O&M to a more application-oriented approach. Huawei’s Telecom Foundation Model supports predictive and proactive O&M, experience optimization based on application-level awareness, and tailored, more fine-grained operations. Carriers will be able to significantly enhance the efficiency of network O&M while taking user experience to entirely new levels. 

• Enhanced AI-to-X services.At the individual user level, AI-Centric networks can deliver the right experience for different AI scenarios by assigning the exact levels of bandwidth, latency, and reliability needed. At the organizational level, they can break through bottlenecks in capacity and response times configured for person-to-person interactions, evolving networks to support person-to-agent and even agent-to-agent interactivity. And at the societal level, AI-Centric networks will enable ubiquitous connectivity to speed up AI adoption in public services like education and healthcare, providing more inclusive value for communities around the world. 

• Innovative business models. Different experience requirements will give carriers the opportunity to explore new business models that monetise a broader range of metrics. Essentially, AI-Centric networks will allow carriers to go beyond traditional traffic-based monetisation and start monetising experience itself. This will unleash the full potential of connectivity and open up new revenue streams. 

Yang Chaobin, Huawei’s Director of the Board and CEO of the ICT Business Group

2. AI-Centric 5.5G solutions for the mobile AI era

Secondly, Cao Ming, Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Wireless Solution, took to the stage to discuss the interplay between AI and 5.5G. In the mobile AI era, mobile networks must support the fast expansion of AI applications, addressing three major transformations in the industry. 

• Evolving user experience from conventional downlink-based interactions to AI powered engagements that requires more diverse capabilities. 

• Advancing network O&M with higher levels of automation, from autonomous network (AN) L3 to AN L4 and beyond, to manage the substantial increase of AI traffic. 

• Redefining business models, shifting from traditional traffic-based revenue to experience monetisation. 

The company’s AI-Centric 5.5G portfolio includes three core solutions to help support operators on their mobile AI journey: GigaGear, which enhances network resource scheduling; GreenPulse, which delivers AI-driven energy efficiency across the network; and GainLeap, for improved network service orchestration. 

Cao Ming, Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Wireless Solution

3. The industry’s first AI core network

George Gao, President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, announced the launch of the industry’s first AI Core Network. This network marks a shift from AI-powered to AI-native infrastructure, capable of self-optimisation and self-management.  

The rollout of this new technology will occur in two phases. Firstly, we have the 5G-A Intelligent Core, which integrates AI agents for enhanced network intelligence. This will ultimately make way for the Agentic Core, a fully autonomous system that adapts to real-time service needs. 

George Gao emphasised that operators should consolidate 5G-A Intelligent Core with three types of AI agents and Telco Intelligent Converged Cloud to claim service, experience operation, and O&M entries and monetise intelligence now, and evolve to the Agentic Core gradually. 

George Gao, President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line

4. Building an AI Optical Network (AI ON)

Next, Bob Chen, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line, took to the stage to highlight the three defining traits of the AI era: ubiquitous AI applications, computing power, and AI-native technologies. All three of these elements put considerable strain on fixed networks, requiring that they handle data more efficiently and more autonomously. 

In this regard, Chen explains that Huawei’s AI ON solution includes five key features: 

1. Awareness: Networks must identify service types and adapt to bandwidth, latency, and reliability needs.
2. Always On Demand: Real-time, differentiated connectivity that will replace undifferentiated network access.
3. Assurance: Networks will ensure high-quality connectivity, with deterministic latency and zero packet loss, even during network fluctuations.
4. Autonomous O&M: Proactive network management will prevent faults and optimise performance autonomously.
5. AI Native: Full-stack AI integration across all network layers will enhance intelligence and service quality. 

Bob Chen, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line

5. The AI WAN Solution

Just as we are seeing AI playing a crucial role in the evolution of the mobile network, so too is it becoming critical to the evolution of IP networks. Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, revealed how Huawei is incorporating AI into the company’s new AI WAN solution, designed to prepare IP networks for the Net5.5G era. The solution includes building AI directly into the router, while also leveraging AI agents to help improve carriers’ O&M costs. 

The solution features three layers:   

1. AI Routers: Provide real-time flow reporting and advanced security.
2. AI New Connections:Allow flow-level scheduling to meet diverse application needs.
3. AI New Brain: Uses AI agents for simulation, fault diagnosis, and improved O&M efficiency.

In addition to unlocking new AI capabilities, AI WAN can also greatly improve the delivery of traditional services. For example, MTN South Africa saw a 25% increase in data usage after deploying AI WAN for base station management.  

Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line

6. AI-Ready Data Storage

Peter Zhou, President of Huawei Data Storage Product Line, gave a keynote speech about how the rise of AI in various industries is creating huge demand for better data storage and service capabilities. 

Huawei is addressing these challenges with its AI-Ready data storage, which simplifies data management and access, including: 

•  OceanStor Dorado Converged All-Flash Storage and OceanStor A Series High-Performance AI Storage, offering fast and reliable performance for critical workloads like AI training and mobile financial services. 

• OceanStor Pacific All-Flash Scale-Out Storage, which stores twice the data volume with the same space and energy consumption  for large amounts of data from services like live streaming and XR games. 

• OceanProtect All-Flash Backup Storage, which offers five times faster data recovery for critical services and AI application development. 

Zhou also highlighted Huawei’s DCS AI Solution, which provides diverse data storage services and helps carriers develop AI models faster and more efficiently, and FlashEver business model, which contains an evolutionary, flexible architecture and Huawei storage platform services, to maximise customers’ investment.  

Peter Zhou, President of Huawei Data Storage Product Line

7. Huawei ICT Services & Software Enable Digital Intelligence Acceleration

Of course, in the AI era, traditional ICT functions will also need improvement. Bruce Xun, President of Huawei Global Technical Service, introduced five innovative ICT solutions at MWC, aiming to improve network performance, enhance customer experience, and support digital transformation. The solutions include:
1. CO Modernisation Solution: This solution speeds up the modernisation of traditional equipment centres, saving space, energy, and costs, while supporting new services and improved ROI.
2. Intelligent Operations Solution for MBB Cross-domain Service Keepalive: Using AI, this solution helps detect and resolve faults in mobile networks quickly, minimising service disruptions and traffic loss.
3. Mobile Network NPS Improvement:This solution improves user satisfaction by analysing network performance and making precise optimisations to reduce issues that affect users’ experiences.
4. Differentiated Service Experience Monetisation: Huawei’s AI tools analyze tariff performance and optimise network experience, improving the effectiveness of new tariff designs and customer experience.
5. Enhanced Mobile Money: Huawei’s Mobile Money solution expands into micro-finance and digital services, improving credit assessment and supporting over 250 partners to build mobile-based financial services. 

Bruce Xun, President of Huawei Global Technical Service

8. Integrating AI into the Cloud

Alongside the role of AI itself, much of the discussion among telcos at MWC was around how AI was enabling their transition from telcos to techcos. For Bruno Zhang, Huawei Cloud CTO, the key to this transition lies in the effective use of AI in the cloud. 

Speaking on stage, Zhang introduced Huawei’s CloudDC solution, giving carriers access to over 30 global data centres and accelerating the development of AI computing centres. 

In addition, Zhang also highlighted Huawei Cloud’s GaussDB for intelligent databases, DataArts for AI-powered data management, the Cloud Device solution that improves device-cloud integration, and Cloud Media Edge enhances real-time interactive experiences.  

Bruno Zhang, Huawei Cloud CTO

9. Efficient solutions for carriers’ energy infrastructure

Finally, He Bo, President of Huawei Data Center Facility & Critical Power Product Line, discussed the explosion of AI data centre investments that are currently taking place around the world, underpinning the global AI transformation. These new data centres will have far greater infrastructure demands than their predecessors, particularly with regards to energy consumption. 

As such, He introduced two supporting innovations: the Single SitePower architecture and the RAS™ AI data centre construction guideline. These solutions aim to help operators thrive as energy producers and build more efficient ICT facilities in the AI-driven era. 

Single SitePower is an intelligent architecture for telecom site power that integrates power facilities, wireless networks, and power grids. It improves energy efficiency, power availability, and reduces network carbon intensity through advanced technologies and resilient, green, and reliable design features. 

Huawei’s RAS™ guideline addresses the challenges faced by AI data centres: reliability, agility, sustainability, and high-power demand. 

He Bo, President of Huawei Data Centre Facility & Critical Power Product Line

The next steps 

As AI continues to shape the future of technology and telco, infrastructure must evolve to keep pace. Huawei’s latest innovations showcased at MWC 2025 highlight the critical role AI will play in transforming networks, storage, and operations. As the industry moves towards becoming more intelligent, the integration of AI into every layer of telecoms infrastructure will be key to driving sustainable growth and innovation.