Huawei has built an integrated suite of enterprise systems that use the latest technology to connect and secure organisations.
Matamela Mashau, chief technology officer: Huawei Sub-Saharan Africa: ICT, network and enterprise, told delegates to Huawei’s IP Club in Johannesburg yesterday (25 March 2026) that the Xinghe AI Campus lets customers build a full-scope security campus across digital and physical worlds.
New upgrades to the AI Campus include the AirEngine 6776, an all-on-one access point (AP); CloudEngine 5575S-HT, the industry’s first twins switch; and CloudEngine S16700, the industry’s first and highest-density 400GE switch.
Huawei researcher Wu Han, points out that the company is using AI to defend against AI attacjs.
“Enterprises are moving to multi-cloud operations and hybrid working, with more than 80% of organisations now putting workloads into the cloud.
“At the same time, 80% of branches use the Internet for local connectivity, so security is not as good at the branches.”
Meanwhile, the hybrid working model means the security risk is increased, with workers accessing form anywhere.
“In the AI era, large language models (LLMs) offer benefits – but can also be used by hackers, who can generate polymorphic variants that are hard to detect by traditional models.”
This has resulted in about 10 000 alarms being triggered per day. At the same time, with 80% of traffic encrypted, there is a performance loss when detection is enabled.
Han explains that Huawei has introduced the Xinghe AU Unified SASE that encompasses AI security operations with 10x operational efficiency and an automatic alarm handling rate of 99%. The system boasts a 95% unknown threat detection rate, with 75% of risks proactively prevented. It also enables zero-trust remote work, with a three-in-one agent allowing zero-trust for intranet and extranet threats.
Bernhard Heyer, IP products executive: data communications in the Huawei Enterprise Business Group, points out that Huawei is the largest router provider in the world.
“AI is driving intelligent transformation across many industries – in operations, user experience and automation,” he points out. “As a result, WAN network providers face a lot of challenges.”
To address these challenges, routers should include four characteristics: precise awareness; secure encryption; convenient reliability; and intelligent operations management.
The Xinghe Intelligent WAN has introduced a number of upgrades this year.
An identity experience upgrade adds AI-powered application identification to improve awareness.
At the same time, encrypted stream awareness enables a differentiated experience. “Without awareness, you are unable to prioritise traffic,” Heyer says.
It has also introduced a security experience upgrade, adding quantum-resistant encryption with the Build E2E trusted IP network. This two-phase quantum encryption lets organisations build flexible end-to-end encryption.
A convergence experience upgrade addresses all-service convergence, reducing network TCO (total cost of ownership) by 40%.
An O&M experience upgrade features a network agent that allows for fault diagnosis in minutes. With one map and one brain, in the form of iMasterNCE for network digital map 2.0 and NetMaster network agent, intelligent O&M is possible.
Importantly, this manages not just Huawei systems, but also integrates third parties.
Jacko Lee, vice-president: data centre, network domain and data centre communication production line, comments that AI agents drive continuous upgrades of data centre networks.
“As AI changes, it presents more challenges to the network – and they require 10-times more reliability.”
The Xinghe AI Fabric 2.0 provides a solid architecture on which to create an always-on agentic AI data centre network with full computing power.
A leader in the Gartner magic quadrant, Xinghe AI Fabric 2.0 has this year added several new updates.
StarryWin Digital Map 2.0 offers integrated network security simulation and cross-vendor fault location, ensuring service efficiency and stability.
NetMaster allows for AI-assisted trouble ticket self-handling, with zero errors in execution.
Lossless computing power fully unleashes training and inference computing power, providing 100% throughout to the network in the AI cluster
New AI network elements include rock-solid architecture 2.0, which provides realtime fault awareness and location for 100% of services; while the AI Eagle-Eye Engine detects unknown faults within seconds.
Mpolokeng Marakalla, chief technology officer of Huawei commercial market business, outlines new vertical sector updates for the Xinghe Intelligent Commercial Market.
“We have worked with government, finance, education, manufacturing, healthcare and ISPs,” Marakalla points out. “We help partners move into the digital era.”
What is needed to make this happen is for campus networks to enter the WiFi 7 era, he adds. Network security is the foundation of the digital age; while unified network and security platforms that include AI firewall, EDR, security control and analysis simplify delivery.
And, as data centre construction surges, Huawei is able to simply and minimise the time to build them.
The company has launched a number of updates this year, including:
- Government – high-quality secure campus
- Healthcare – high-quality zero roaming distributed network
- Retail – high-quality agile branch network
- Enterprise – high-quality 10Gbps office campus network
- Education – high-quality simplified networks
- Production – high-quality 10Gbs campus production network
- Hotels – high-quality agile branch network
- Finance – high-quality simplified data centre networks