Huawei Technologies Company Nigeria Limited has invested 10 per
cent of its sales revenue in research and development in the past
10 years, its Internet Provider Chief Technology Officer (Southern
Africa), Matamela Mashau, has said.
According to him, research and development had remained core
strength to continuous innovation and competitive advantage of the
company.
Mashau stated these in Abuja during the company’s annual IP Club
Technology seminar with the theme: ‘Rethink IP 2019,’ where it also
launched the latest Wi-Fi 6 innovation in Nigeria and hosted over
150 customers and partners.
The global annual IP club event brought together ICT industry
experts across public and private sectors to discuss network
solutions for business development.
While speaking on Huawei’s enterprise network solutions, Mashau
touched on the company’s investment profile.
He said, “Huawei Technologies has invested over 10 per cent of
sales revenue in research and development over the last 10 years.
And the Huawei’s global resources are channelled to local
operations to better serve its customers.”
The Enterprise IP Manager, Huawei Nigeria, Alan Jin, discussed
Huawei’s cloud campus solutions describing them as
“intent-driven.”
“The full lifecycle of Huawei’s cloud management reduces
operating expense by 80 per cent,” he said.
The Group Head, Business Development, Galaxy Backbone Limited,
one of Huawei’s partners, Abdul-Malik Suleiman, commended Huawei
for its continuous support over the past 10 years and highlighted
the company’s responsiveness, innovation and client service
structure.
Suleiman said, “Huawei enabled Galaxy Backbone build the first
and only Tier 3 data centre in Nigeria and expand its metro fibre
from Federal Capital Territory, Abuja to other states in the
country.”
The Head of ICT in Nigerian Prisons Service, Felix Agada, shared
the history of digitisation for the NPS and commended Huawei
Technologies for its partnership.
He said “Huawei has enabled the NPS enjoy full connection and
database management. Today, we can confidently and remotely
identify all inmates across the country while granting them
effective access to justice. Before, it took three months to
collate the full database of the institution.”
The Wi-Fi 6 which is said to be the latest and fastest in terms
of speed and digital transformation, was launched in Nigeria at the
event by the Solutions Sales Director, Huawei Nigeria Enterprise,
Mr. Eason Dong.