On April 25, 2024, the "Digital Intelligence Hua Agricultural Product Intelligence First" Wi-Fi 7 Product Intelligence Connection Conference of Huazhong Agricultural University was successfully held in Wuhan, Hubei Province. As a national "double first-class" university, Huazhong Agricultural University has always been at the forefront of building a smart campus and promoting digital and intelligent upgrading. Recently, the university has joined hands with Huawei to introduce Wi-Fi 7 products and technologies to build a high-quality, intelligent, and reliable connection base for intelligent products, effectively ensuring high-speed access to campus resources and applications, improving the Internet experience of campus network users, and safeguarding the network security of smart campuses.
At the meeting, informatization managers, builders, and well-known experts from universities in Hubei Province shared their successful practices and experience in digital and intelligent transformation in the education industry around leading technologies such as Wi-Fi 7 intergenerational upgrade and wired access to 2.5G. Witness the rapid development of smart education, feel the surging power of digital technology, build a smart connection foundation for smart campuses, and open a new chapter in the high-quality development of smart education in Hubei Province.
Rooted in the land of Jingchu, jointly build digital intelligence education:
Build an innovation foundation for an educational powerhouse
Fu Jun, director of the Information Technology Center of Huazhong Agricultural University, pointed out in his speech that the Ministry of Education has implemented the strategic action of education digitalization in recent years, and the informatization construction of colleges and universities has entered a period of accelerated transformation. Huazhong Agricultural University actively promotes the construction of smart Shishan, accelerates the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of education, and provides strong support for the construction of a high-quality education system. In 2023, Huazhong Agricultural University signed a comprehensive technology cooperation agreement with Huawei, covering areas such as digital talent training, smart lion mountain construction, AI smart breeding, and scientific research supercomputing platforms. Huawei's Wi-Fi 7 intelligent connection will bring new inspiration to universities that are accelerating the construction of new informatization infrastructure, open up a new situation for informatization construction and intelligent application innovation, and jointly write a new chapter in the construction of smart campuses in Hubei universities.
Yang Li, General Manager of Huawei Hubei Government and Enterprise Solutions, pointed out in her speech that Huawei has long been rooted in digital and intelligent education in Hubei, with the vision of building an innovation foundation for an educational powerhouse, adhering to independent innovation, building product-intelligence connectivity, and building a fully connected, fully sensing, and fully intelligent smart campus network foundation. From the perspective of planning, construction, maintenance, and optimization, Huawei has innovatively built a high-quality Wi-Fi 70,000 Gigabit campus network, which has served more than 70% of the province's educational administrative institutions, universities, and 40% of key demonstration primary schools. In the future, Huawei will continue to take root in the land of Jingchu, build digital innovation applications in the education industry with all elements, processes, services, and fields, cultivate high-quality technical and skilled talents, serve national strategies and regional economic development, and inject digital and intelligent momentum into building a strong country through education and rejuvenating the country through science and technology.
Wireless enters the Wi-Fi 7 era,
It's time for wired access to 2.5G:
Work together to create a smart campus quality and intelligence connection base
Chen Yongxing, Vice President of Huawei's Data Communication Campus Network Domain, pointed out in his speech titled "Wi-Fi 7 Leads the Intergenerational Upgrade, Creating a New Foundation for Smart Campus Connectivity", saying that Wi-Fi has ushered in a generational upgrade and officially entered the Wi-Fi 7 era. With the increasing popularity of video conferencing and intelligent applications, the demand for user bandwidth is booming. Larger bandwidth, stronger concurrency, better experience, and stronger security are all putting forward more requirements for network upgrades.
To this end, Huawei launched Wi-Fi 7, which improves bandwidth performance by three times, achieves a single terminal rate of 4.3 Gbps, efficiently supports VR and 3D classroom development, and can meet the requirements of 30 terminals at the same time for 4K HD VR teaching with zero lag and no vertigo, and 1G HD video can be downloaded in seconds, and the concurrent performance is improved by four times, supporting 120 terminals to enjoy 1080P HD video concurrency at the same time, and implementing VIP user protection through exclusive "Super Frame" Huawei's unique Wi-Fi secret shield enables users to improve their business data from "inaudible" to "inaudible", achieving zero data in eavesdropping and zero breakthroughs in brute-force cracking. In addition, while promoting the smooth evolution of Wi-Fi 7, it is time for wired access to usher in the intergenerational upgrade of 2.5G. It can upgrade the mobile line for the first time and upgrade the mobile network again, creating a new base for smart campus product and intelligent connection.
Later, Wei Naiwen, Chief Architect of Huawei's Data Communication Education Industry, pointed out in his keynote speech "Deepening High-quality 10 Gigabit Campus Networks and Building an Innovation Foundation for an Education Power" that under the background of policy-driven, technology-driven, and service-driven, Wi-Fi 7 standards are mature, access bandwidth is moving towards mGE, and education digitalization has become an inevitable requirement for the high-quality development of education. Huawei has built a high-quality 10 Gigabit campus network, forming an experience-centric network construction model, and penetrating into school teaching, scientific research, management, service, environment, and security scenarios to achieve simplified O&M, ultimate experience, simplified architecture, and ultra-fast access.
In teaching scenarios, Huawei uses high-quality Ethernet all-optical solutions to implement optical fiber penetration and plug-and-play, enabling flexible expansion of information points, no regulations and configurations, rapid network provisioning, and visualized experience. In scientific research scenarios, the unique AI accelerator NSLB algorithm is used to increase throughput to 98% and AI training efficiency by 20%. At the same time, through the in-depth collaboration between the network and computing, end-to-end automatic deployment is realized, and the deployment efficiency is increased by 10%, effectively ensuring the development of scientific research and training.
In the O&M management scenario of colleges and universities, Huawei has built a digital map for smart O&M, using the industry's first three-layer experience map to visualize multi-dimensional information in one map, demarcate it in one second, and optimize it with one click, so that the customer network, users, and application experience can be perceived, guaranteed, and closed-looped, building a three-dimensional digital space and ensuring the ultimate campus network experience. VIP targeted optimization and VIP active care ensure the network experience of key users.
In the smart auditorium scenario, differentiated roaming guidance is implemented for terminals, increasing the roaming rate of users by 30%. In the smart dormitory scenario, Huawei has launched a high-quality Ethernet all-optical solution, which uses an innovative hybrid cable to achieve 2,000 meters of ultra-long-distance PoE power supply, enabling fiber-to-the-dormitory, online classes without lag, and fault location within minutes. Finally, in the field of campus security, Huawei adheres to independent innovation in core technologies, supports the national innovation strategy, and helps universities in Hubei Province jointly build an innovation foundation for an education powerhouse.
Digital intelligence Hua Nong, quality wisdom first:
Jointly build Huazhong Agricultural University & Huawei Wi-Fi 7
Product Intelligence Connectivity Innovation Center
In recent years, the implementation of the national education digitalization strategy, the launch of a series of policies such as the "Education Informatization 2.0 Action Plan" and the "Overall Framework of Smart Campus" have also promoted the "acceleration" of the construction of smart campuses in colleges and universities in Hubei Province. Driven by policy guidance and the intelligent upgrade of the education industry, many universities in Hubei Province, including Huazhong Agricultural University, are actively promoting the construction of smart campuses and working with Huawei to build a network foundation for intelligent connectivity.
At the roundtable dialogue on the "Smart Campus, Quality First" Hubei Smart Campus Construction Technology Seminar, information directors and technical experts from Huazhong Agricultural University, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan University of Technology and Wuhan University of Light Industry gathered together to conduct in-depth exchanges with all the university teachers present on the pain points and challenges of digital transformation in the education industry, their own successful practices and experience sharing in digital transformation, the technical advantages of Wi-Fi 7, and the future evolution trend of the industry.
Prof. Ye from Huazhong Agricultural University took the lead in sharing and introducing the pilot experience of Wi-Fi 7 in Huazhong Agricultural University. Subsequently, Director Huang of Central China Normal University shared the school's practical experience on how the information center can improve the efficiency of the whole school's teachers and students to respond to the demand for the Internet. Director Huang pointed out that in the process of network operation and maintenance practice, Central China Normal University places special emphasis on the cultivation and improvement of the digital capabilities of teachers and students in the university, enriches the feedback channels of the university's network operation and maintenance, and builds a special network operation and maintenance team in each campus to respond to the network use needs of teachers and students in a timely manner. At the same time, Director Wu of Wuhan University of Light Industry shared successful practices on wireless network operation and maintenance. Director Wu pointed out that for the information center, entering the era of wireless network, the number of terminal devices that need to be managed has increased exponentially. It is hoped that network management software will improve the compatibility and management of third-party software. In addition, Director Guo of Wuhan University of Technology further shared the application and O&M experience of Ethernet all-optical solutions in dormitory scenarios.
Subsequently, all the participants visited Huazhong Agricultural University & Huawei Wi-Fi 7 Intelligent Connectivity Innovation Center. The site visited the Wi-Fi 7 construction achievements of Taoyuan Restaurant of Huazhong Agricultural University, and received many praises from the information director and technical experts of the university.
In the world of digital intelligence, the first choice is to connect products and intelligence. Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to focus on new development, driven by technological innovation, based on information networks, and centered on partners, and continue to deepen the field of data communication, so that leading technologies such as Wi-Fi 7 and digital intelligence capabilities can support the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the education industry, and help Hubei embark on a new journey of high-quality development.