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Vincent Chen, Vice President of Enterprise Business, Southern Africa Region, Huawei

The rapid growth of AI agents is creating new use cases and requirements, placing unprecedented technical demands on network infrastructure.

With the rapid rise of AI agents, AI is expanding beyond everyday office tasks into mission-critical production environments. Industry attention has recently shifted from token consumption to Daily Active Agents( DAA), signalling the arrival of widespread agent adoption and the need for fully upgraded nextgeneration networks.

Leon Wang, President of Huawei’ s Data Communication Product Line, said:“ Real-time AI interaction, multidimensional data flow, core business security, and other scenarios are driving networks to embrace an

AI-centric paradigm shift. This marks a transition from ubiquitous ultrabroadband into a new journey defined by lossless computing power, integrated communication and sensing, full-scope security, and network autonomy.”

Powered by a next-generation intelligent network foundation, Southern Africa’ s digital and intelligent transformation is entering a new phase.

“ Johannesburg is a vibrant city rich in opportunities, connecting talent, industries and cultures across Africa,” said Vincent Chen, Vice President of Enterprise Business, Southern Africa Region, Huawei.

“ Today, AI is becoming a key driver of global innovation, and its adoption in Africa is transitioning from pilot exploration to real-world deployment, accelerating intelligent transformation across sectors such as finance, education and public services. For the Southern African market, Huawei’ s goal is to advance intelligence across industries by collaborating with industry partners to build intelligent, secure and reliable network infrastructure for the AI era.”

“ Today’ s enterprise network infrastructure faces four major challenges on its path to digital and intelligent transformation. These include the ever-widening gap between computing supply and demand; traffic pattern shifts driven by AI agents; surging O & M complexity; and new AI-driven attacks compounding the vulnerabilities of new systems,” said Arthur Wang, Vice President of Huawei’ s Data Communication Product Line.“ To address these challenges, Huawei has upgraded its Xinghe Intelligent Network Solution under a new paradigm of‘ Secure and Intelligent Connectivity.’ The first is an intelligence upgrade, expanding AI beyond O & M into the entire network. The second is a security upgrade, advancing from singlepoint defence to end-to-end protection that deeply converges network and security. Through these two key upgrades, we aspire to build a solid connectivity foundation for every enterprise in the Agentic AI era.”

During the event, Huawei also unveiled its upgraded Xinghe Intelligent Network product portfolio and the Xinghe AI CloudCampus SaaS Service Platform for Southern Africa.

Shi Lei, Vice President of the NCE Data Communication Domain of Huawei’ s Data Communication Product Line, said:“ In the past, intelligent O & M was a luxury exclusive to large enterprises. Now, we have deeply integrated AI into the cloud management service platform, enabling SMEs to easily access these capabilities as a cloud service. This is more than tech inclusion; it is about making AI network services genuinely accessible, affordable, and actionable.” •

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