Huawei says more than 60 carriers have adopted its NG WAN solution, a rollout the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker is pitching as a way to expand AI-era computing and private-line services.
John Cai, Huawei vice president for its Data Communication Product Line, presented the solution at a Net5.5G Intelligent IP Network Summit in Vienna on Tuesday, Oct. 13, during UBBF 2026. Huawei introduced the NG WAN architecture at MWC Barcelona on March 2, 2026, as an upgrade for carrier IP networks. The company’s stated priorities include network security and resilience, along with greater network awareness and autonomy.
Huawei said its network-wide packet load balancing (NPLB) pushed link utilization to 98%, while AI training and inference performance improved by more than 7%. It also said its Starnet algorithm moved data across 1,000 kilometers without packet loss and kept remote-computing efficiency above 96%. The company said its threat-protection units thwarted 324 attacks attributed to eight countries during more than three months of use with an unnamed leading Chinese carrier.
Huawei links the engineering pitch to a revenue strategy for operators: AI workloads increase network demands, while carriers can sell computing services and private-line connections. The company cited project results as evidence of that commercial opportunity.
For an unnamed Chinese carrier’s healthcare deployment, Huawei reported that hospital computing costs fell 30% and private-line average revenue per user (ARPU) rose fivefold. In Macao, Huawei said it joined an unnamed carrier to launch what the company called the world’s first quantum-secured target network. Huawei reported that private-line revenue in that case rose 50%.
The release did not identify the operators behind the global count or its Chinese and Macao examples. A later Huawei white paper set out a roadmap toward target IP networks by 2030. The company said it plans to work with industry partners to expand NG WAN adoption.
