Entering Gartner Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Architecture for four consecutive years, leading Chinese manufacturers, what does Huawei rely on?

Recently, Gartner, a well-known research and consulting organization, released the Magic Quadrant for the Wired and_Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure in 2019 [1], and Huawei has once again entered the Visionary Quadrant. At the same time, this is also the fourth consecutive year (2016-2019) that Huawei has entered the Visionary Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant [2], and has been the best Chinese company in the report for these four years.

Being selected into the Visionary Quadrant again fully reflects Gartner's recognition of Huawei's continuous development and technological innovation. So why does Huawei receive such recognition from world-renowned analysts?

Powerful solutions and rich product range

Huawei's CloudCampus solution applies cutting-edge wired and wireless technologies, supports big data, AI, and cloud technologies, and is business-centric. CampusInsight, an AI-based intelligent operation and maintenance platform), as well as AirEngine series Wi-Fi products and CloudEngine S series campus switches, build a campus network that is interconnected, worry-free, and smoothly evolving for customers, enabling digital transformation of the industry. And innovatively, through the campus switch with built-in security probe and the intelligent security engine CIS, it supports the threat detection of encrypted traffic and the active trapping of unknown threats to achieve digital space security protection.

The superiority of the solution (from the Magic Quadrant report)

Huawei's strategy, vision and roadmap based on intent-driven networking are in line with customer needs. CampusInsight safeguards network quality through a quality assessment system, automatic network problem identification, and root cause analysis.

Huawei switches can identify encrypted traffic for threat detection and report potential suspicious activities to CIS for advanced threat detection through behavioral analysis.

Agile Controller 3.0 supports high scalability (up to 200K network devices). Provides rich functions including authentication, authorization, billing, security, onboarding, visitor management, and security collaboration.

Global market recognition

Based on industry-leading product technologies, excellent product design concepts, and rich product functions, Huawei's intelligent and simplified campus network has successfully won the trust of customers. Huawei's intelligent and simple campus network has been widely used in government, retail, education, manufacturing and other industries, helping customers to achieve rapid business innovation in the campus, improve operational efficiency, and lead the ultimate experience. Not long ago, another Gartner report "Market Share: Enterprise Network Equipment by Market Segment, Worldwide, 2Q19" showed that in the first half of 2019, Huawei's campus switches ranked second in the world, and enterprise WLAN ranked third in the world, reflecting the global market share in the first half of 2019. To show the recognition of global customers for Huawei campus products.

Entering the Garnter Visionary Quadrant for four consecutive years is a recognition of Huawei's insistence on independent innovation for many years. I believe that in the near future, Huawei will have a place in the Leaders quadrant.

Notes:

[1] Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for the Wired and_Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, September 24, 2019, by Bill Menezes, Christian Canales, Tim Zimmerman, Mike Toussaint)

[2] The Gartner Magic Quadrant is divided into four distinct quadrant areas:

Leaders, industry leaders (top right area)

Large mature companies and industry leaders with high scores for Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. They have a large customer base and have a very high profile in the global market. These industry leaders have great influence in the market and have the ability to influence and lead the development of the entire industry.

Visionaries Visionaries quadrant (lower right area)

It is usually described as being forward-looking (Completeness of Vision), understanding future market developments and prospects, and having the potential to innovate. Ability to Execute is divided into early-stage entrepreneurs who have a vision but cannot achieve it in the short term, and some relatively mature large-scale manufacturers and suppliers who have a vision but the execution response ability is not adjusted in a timely manner. Therefore, for the manufacturers or suppliers in this area who have the ability to innovate and have a vision, once the market execution is improved, it is very hopeful to enter the Leaders area.

Challengers Challenger Quadrant (the upper left area, the report has no manufacturers in the Challenger Quadrant for four consecutive years)

Ability to Execute is strong, but Completeness of Vision is insufficient. Usually, it refers to a relatively large mature manufacturer. Because its specific market is relatively mature and its market execution ability is strong, it has not made too many changes in its development plan in the expansion of new fields and new markets. As a challenger, while continuing to maintain strong execution capabilities, if it can adjust and break through in the market, it is very promising to enter the Leaders area.

Niche Players Niche Players Quadrant (lower left area)

Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision are both insufficient, but they may do well in a specific market, and at the same time will not exceed those of particularly large mature manufacturers or suppliers. It is usually concentrated in some specific fields, professional fields, or some relatively new enterprises.