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 [Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2026] At Huawei Product & Solution Launch during MWC Barcelona 2026, George Gao, President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, unveiled the AgenticCore solution. Designed for AI-centric networks in the agent era, AgenticCore helps operators modernize and strengthen their main services—voice, mobile Internet, and home broadband—and accelerate the evolution toward an agent network featuring terminal-network-business synergy.

As agent capabilities rapidly expand across terminals and applications, AI is driving the upgrade of operators’ essential services to better meet the differentiated, personalized experience requirements of individuals, families, and enterprises.

AgenticCore supports this transformation by introducing a more intelligent, user-centric service model. It builds user-centric memory, and interprets both B2C and B2H service intent. This helps operators enrich user experience. Looking ahead to a future with hundreds of billions of interconnected agents, AgenticCore provides skill-based routing to ensure efficient agent communication, while strengthening service awareness and agent connectivity to support an agent network with terminal-network-business synergy.

“Huawei is committed to supporting operators in their service transformation,” said George Gao. “AgenticCore provides three service-enabling solutions, two terminal-network-business synergy capabilities, and one intelligent infrastructure for efficient cross-domain and cross-ecosystem collaboration between agents.”

Three Service-Enabling Solutions to Reshape Operators’ Main Services

• AI Calling is the industry’s first AI noise cancellation solution for all generations of mobile communication in all scenarios, making every call crystal-clear. It enables interactive calls to eliminate speech communication barriers and handle multiple tasks through just one call.
• The Intelligent Personalized Experience (IPE) solution differentiates experiences by user or service. This helps operators pivot from traffic monetization to experience monetization.
• The AI home hub provides proactive, emotional services. It can deliver emotional support for the elderly, and smart learning assistance for children.

Two Terminal-Network-Business Synergy Capabilities to Enhance Service Experience

• Artificial Intelligence Service Function (AISF): provides user-centric service agents to integrate B2C and B2H services. This helps operators improve their primary service experience.
• Agent Communication Network (ACN): The agent-based routing architecture enables terminal-network-business synergy across various domains and ecosystems. This allows operators to flexibly expand AI services and develop robust network services based on this architecture.

Intelligent Infrastructure Ready in Advance, Facilitating Smooth Network Evolution

The intelligent infrastructure gets ready in advance, offering diverse computing power, terabit-level inference bandwidth, and agent-based autonomous troubleshooting. It lays a solid foundation for AgenticCore evolution.

George Gao stated that AgenticCore embodies the pivot towards future agent communication networks. Huawei will collaborate with operators and industry partners to help operators reshape their main services, and accelerate the evolution to terminal-network-business synergy with AI service enablement, agent communication, and ready intelligent infrastructure.

MWC Barcelona 2026 will be held from March 2 to March 5 in Barcelona, Spain. During the event, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1.

The era of agentic networks is now approaching fast, and the commercial adoption of 5G-A at scale is gaining speed. Huawei is actively working with carriers and partners around the world to unleash the full potential of 5G-A and pave the way for the evolution to 6G. We are also creating AI-Centric Network solutions to enable intelligent services, networks, and network elements (NEs), speeding up the large-scale deployment of level-4 autonomous networks (AN L4), and using AI to upgrade our core business. Together with other industry players, we will create leading value-driven networks and AI computing backbones for a fully intelligent future.

For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/minisite/events/mwc2026/ 

Following the recent attacks on the energy infrastructure in the Middle East, the Secretary General of the International Gas Union, Mr Menelaos (Mel) Ydreos, would like to make the following statement: 

“The International Gas Union remains deeply concerned about the targeting of energy infrastructure. This infrastructure is essential not only to public safety and security but, also, to regional and global economic activity.

Continued investments in energy infrastructure and diversity of energy supply are critically needed to mitigate market shocks.“

[Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2026] At MWC Barcelona 2026, Huawei’s President of the Computing Product Line, Seaway Zhang, unveiled the latest SuperPoD product Atlas 950 SuperPoD, TaiShan 950 SuperPoD and a series of computing solutions, marking their first global debut.

With an innovative “cluster + SuperPoD” architecture, Huawei is delivering a resilient computing foundation, powered by an open and collaborative ecosystem. This foundation will empower carriers to accelerate their transition from the mobile internet to the internet of agents, while driving intelligent transformation across every industry.

AI is rapidly evolving from generative to agentic AI, with trillion-parameter models and 10-trillion-scale data training becoming the norm—driving a ten to hundredfold increase in compute demand. Context lengths have expanded from thousands to millions of tokens, demanding greater scale and lower latency in compute infrastructure.

At the conference, Mr. Zhang highlighted Huawei’s commitment to building a resilient computing foundation through innovation and create a new option for the world. He noted that the Atlas 950 SuperPoD, powered by UnifiedBus interconnect, enables thousands of compute nodes to operate as a single computer. Huawei also remains committed to open source and open systems, supporting leading open source communities and projects to empower developers to unlock computing potential and accelerate AI innovation.

Huawei’s latest computing portfolio, including Atlas 950 SuperPoD, Atlas 850E, TaiShan 950 SuperPoD, and TaiShan 500, TaiShan 200 series, addresses diverse carrier compute demands, accelerating AI transformation.

For AI computing, the Atlas 950 SuperPoD, powered by UnifiedBus, integrates 64 NPUs per cabinet and can scale up to 8,192 NPUs, delivering superior performance for large-scale AI training and high-concurrency inference. It significantly boosts model training efficiency, reliability, and inference performance compared to conventional clusters.

The Atlas 850E supports flexible deployment in standard air-cooled data centers, scaling from 8 to 1,024 NPUs. This enables carriers to smoothly transition from small-scale inference to cluster-level inference, ensuring rapid service deployment and business agility.

In the field of general-purpose computing, Huawei introduces the industry’s first TaiShan 950 SuperPoD, delivering breakthroughs in performance with hundred-ns-level latency, TB-level bandwidth, and memory pooling. Through memory semantics communication, the solution enables efficient cross-node data transfer through load/store operations, addressing key challenges such as high latency, costly data migration, and low coordination efficiency.

Huawei also launched the TaiShan 200 and TaiShan 500 series, spanning high, medium, and low computing power requirements. By integrating with openEuler and BoostKit, these solutions support diverse carrier requirements, driving efficiency and scalability across computing environments.

Huawei is committed to open source and open collaboration to accelerate developer innovation and drive computing industry growth. The company contributes extensively to openEuler, a leading open source OS community. Through layered decoupling, Huawei has open-sourced the CANN—including operator libraries, acceleration libraries, graph engines, and programming languages—enabling developers to customize solutions efficiently. CANN also supports open source projects such as PyTorch, vLLM, SGLang, xLLM, verl, Triton, and TileLang, significantly improving developer productivity.

Huawei will deepen collaboration with customers, partners, and developers to build a resilient computing foundation, accelerate industry transformation, and create a new option for global computing growth.

MWC Barcelona 2026 will be held from March 2 to March 5 in Barcelona, Spain. During the event, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1.

The era of agentic networks is now approaching fast, and the commercial adoption of 5G-A at scale is gaining speed. Huawei is actively working with carriers and partners around the world to unleash the full potential of 5G-A and pave the way for the evolution to 6G. We are also creating AI-Centric Network solutions to enable intelligent services, networks, and network elements (NEs), speeding up the large-scale deployment of level-4 autonomous networks (AN L4), and using AI to upgrade our core business. Together with other industry players, we will create leading value-driven networks and AI computing backbones for a fully intelligent future.

For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/events/mwc2026

Amazon closed its fulfillment center operations in Abu Dhabi and suspended deliveries across the region, as the company responds to escalating instability that is rippling across its Middle East network.

The e-commerce giant shared the updates in an internal memo this week, which was seen by Business Insider. As a result, customers in the region are experiencing delivery and return delays, the memo said.

Amazon employees in Saudi Arabia and Jordan have been instructed to remain indoors, the memo added. Many Amazon employees across the region are transitioning to work from home this week, while business travel to Israel and Lebanon has been blocked.

No employee safety issues have been reported so far, the memo said.

“Our priority is the safety of our employees and partners across the region, and we’re working closely with our local teams to ensure they have the support they need,” an Amazon spokesperson said in an email to Business Insider.

The disruption highlights how quickly geopolitical tensions can strain global supply chains. Amazon has spent years expanding its logistics footprint in the Middle East, after acquiring Souq.com for roughly $600 million in 2017. The UAE anchors that network, which also includes Amazon marketplaces in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey.

The shutdown in Abu Dhabi is expected to reduce network capacity across Amazon’s Middle Eastern businesses, according to the memo. The company has placed additional operational support on standby as it manages disruptions and monitors the situation.

The impact extends well beyond Amazon’s own warehouses. Nearly 300,000 third-party sellers in the region are facing shipment delays and potential order cancellations as logistics channels tighten, according to the memo. Many of these sellers rely on Amazon’s fulfillment and cross-border shipping infrastructure to move goods between Gulf countries.

Amazon did not specify how long deliveries in Abu Dhabi would remain suspended.

The US-Iran conflict in the region has also caused a power outage at one of Amazon’s data centers, the company announced on Sunday. Amazon said it could take at least a day to repair the damage.

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[Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2026] Huawei launched its AN L4 Phase 2 solution today at the Autonomous Networks Summit co-hosted with TM Forum as part of this year’s MWC Barcelona 2026 activities. The event, themed “Collaborating to Accelerate AN L4 Deployment at Scale” was attended by executives from leading telecom carriers, including China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, and Orange, who discussed how the large-scale commercial adoption of autonomous networks will inject new momentum into intelligent transformation across the industry.

The AN industry identified high-value L4 scenarios and an implementation blueprint in 2025, and more breakthroughs in large-scale deployment are expected to be made in 2026. The commercial AN L4 Phase 2 solution is being launched to address bottlenecks in large-scale deployment, such as cross-domain integration and cross-scenario coordination. Huawei’s new solution makes breakthroughs in three areas.

Foundational network element (NE) awareness for network autonomy: At the NE layer, the solution has enhanced millisecond-level awareness and decision-making capabilities to provide stable and reliable data and execution support for complex collaboration.

AI agent collaboration for domain-specific autonomy: At the network layer, the solution creates domain-specific network agents to coordinate and plan tasks in different scenarios across the domain, such as fault management, energy efficiency optimization, and experience assurance. This enables the evolution from scenario-specific automation to network autonomy.

A2A-T protocol for cross-layer, cross-domain integration: To support complex agent collaboration across the network layer, services layer, and even different equipment suppliers, the solution has introduced A2A-T, the world’s first carrier-grade AI agent communication protocol. Huawei and China Mobile also announced an A2A-T open-source software program to accelerate the protocol’s global adoption and application.

At the summit, a number of AN industry players shared their own best practices, and China Mobile also launched new AN L4 innovations. The launch was attended by representatives from several companies that supported these innovation projects, among them Cao Ming, Huawei’s ICT BG COO and CIO.

A recommitment ceremony titled “Accelerating Large-Scale AN L4 Deployment” was also held at the summit, with industry leaders including TM Forum, China Mobile, Orange, Telefónica, Huawei, Infovista and Inspur reaffirming their commitment to accelerating the implementation of the AN L4 industry blueprint and driving a transition for AN L4 from innovation pilots to global commercial adoption.

Ken Lu, President of Huawei’s General Development Department at the ceremony for accelerating the large-scale commercial adoption of AN L4

Huawei believes that the large-scale commercial adoption of AN L4 will be key to intelligent upgrade across industry, so the company plans to continue working with industry partners to achieve this goal faster and move towards an era of agentic networks.

MWC Barcelona 2026 will be held from March 2 to March 5 in Barcelona, Spain. During the event, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1.

The era of agentic networks is now approaching fast, and the commercial adoption of 5G-A at scale is gaining speed. Huawei is actively working with carriers and partners around the world to unleash the full potential of 5G-A and pave the way for the evolution to 6G. We are also creating AI-Centric Network solutions to enable intelligent services, networks, and network elements (NEs), speeding up the large-scale deployment of level-4 autonomous networks (AN L4), and using AI to upgrade our core business. Together with other industry players, we will create leading value-driven networks and AI computing backbones for a fully intelligent future.

For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/minisite/events/mwc2026/

[Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2026] At Huawei Product & Solution Launch 2026 at MWC Barcelona 2026, Yuan Yuan, President of Huawei Data Storage Product Line, officially launched Huawei’s AI Data Platform. The platform integrates the three key technologies of knowledge generation and retrieval, memory extraction and recall, KV cache for inference acceleration, as well as Unified Cache Manager (UCM) for inference memory. It bridges the gap between models and business value.

Despite rapid AI advancement, most AI models have not been thoroughly integrated into carriers’ core services. This is largely due to more focus on training than inference, which is the key to model adoption. Improved data processing is needed to address challenges like AI hallucinations, slow response, and throughput constraints in inference.

Huawei Data Storage officially launched a “3+1” AI Data Platform to tackle these challenges through three breakthrough technologies and the software:

• Knowledge generation and retrieval with high-accuracy multimodal knowledge for more accurate retrieval

For smart search applications, this technology converts multimodal resources (like text, images, and videos) into high-accuracy knowledge through multimodal lossless parsing and token-level encoding, ensuring a retrieval accuracy of over 95%.

• Memory extraction and recall with context memory management for making models smarter with use

In business data insight scenarios, this technology can define problems and understand user intent through personalized memory when faced with tasks. It then breaks down tasks using episodic memory (or experience-based memory). This memory mechanism makes models smarter with use.

• KV cache for inference acceleration using historical memory data for faster and more efficient inference

In AI customer service scenarios, this technology applies intelligent tiering and management for KV cache to greatly expand the context window and reduce repeated computing. This results in a 90% reduction in time to first token (TTFT), significantly improving the speed of AI responses.

• UCM for managing and scheduling memory data throughout the lifecycle

The software manages memory data at three cache levels to intelligently schedule the knowledge base, memory bank, and KV cache.

The Huawei AI Data Platform provides the appliance mode for greenfield deployment and independent mode for evolving deployment. The appliance mode uses the OceanStor A800 system that integrates three key technologies, computing power, and applications. This ensures ultimate performance and flexible scalability. The independent mode uses the architecture of AI data engine nodes + OceanStor Dorado storage. Data engine nodes can be added to upgrade existing systems, protect prior investments, and enable smooth AI transformation for businesses.

“Huawei will continue to deepen technological innovation. With the AI Data Platform serving as a bridge, we will transform model capabilities into real business value and work with all parties to embrace the future of intelligent computing,” said Yuan Yuan.

MWC Barcelona 2026 will be held from March 2 to March 5 in Barcelona, Spain. During the event, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1.

The era of agentic networks is now approaching fast, and the commercial adoption of 5G-A at scale is gaining speed. Huawei is actively working with carriers and partners around the world to unleash the full potential of 5G-A and pave the way for the evolution to 6G. We are also creating AI-Centric Network solutions to enable intelligent services, networks, and network elements (NEs), speeding up the large-scale deployment of level-4 autonomous networks (AN L4), and using AI to upgrade our core business. Together with other industry players, we will create leading value-driven networks and AI computing backbones for a fully intelligent future.

For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/minisite/events/mwc2026/

[Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2026] At the Huawei product and solution launch event during MWC Barcelona 2026, Bob Chen, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line, unveiled Next Generation Optical Network products and solutions to foster synergy between AI and networks, accelerating the evolution toward AI-centric All-Optical Network.

AI is rapidly penetrating home scenarios such as entertainment, education, and healthcare, while computing scheduling is becoming ubiquitous. These developments present new opportunities for operators but also raise higher demands on network bandwidth, latency, and reliability. Therefore, upgrading optical networks for the AI era is the right move. The ITU-T has officially released the ION-2030 vision, defining key capabilities, application scenarios, and standardization roadmap for next-generation optical networks. Leading global operators are also accelerating the deployment of next-generation optical networks.

Bob Chen stated, “Huawei advances Next Generation Optical Network solutions in two directions: AI for Networks and Networks for AI. In AI for Networks, AI technologies enable intelligent fiber sensing, enhance network performance and user experience, improve O&M efficiency, and reduce energy consumption. In Networks for AI, enhanced network capabilities help operators build AI-centric all-optical target networks, accelerating AI adoption across homes and enterprises.”

AI for Networks: Improving Network Quality and Efficiency

Intelligent fiber sensing: Based on the fiber risk sensing model and fault identification model, risks can be identified in advance, and the fault location can be pinpointed within 10 meters.

Network performance enhancement: An optical performance simulation model, built on thousands of optical parameters, significantly enhances the precision of network performance evaluation and extends the transmission distance by 20%.

Network experience enhancement: Wi-Fi interference can be detected in real time, and AI algorithms intelligently adjust Wi-Fi power, boosting rates by 20% under interference conditions.

Energy saving: Service traffic is analyzed in real time, and ports and boards are intelligently adjusted. When there is no traffic, all ports and boards are put into hibernation, reducing average energy consumption by 40%.

Intelligent O&M: AI technologies are used to enhance the intelligence of network planning, construction, maintenance, and optimization processes. For example, the home broadband O&M agent can automatically identify and locate over 60 types of faults, and assist NOC O&M engineers in resolving them quickly through natural language interaction, significantly reducing home visits.

Networks for AI: Accelerating AI Popularization

Optical access: A target network with gigabit-level downlink and 100M-level uplink is built to meet the bandwidth requirements of new home AI services and enhance the overall home network experience.

Optical transmission: The latency circles of 5 ms for national networks, 3 ms for regional networks, and 1 ms for metro networks are built to enable millisecond-level computing access and ensure optimal AI application performance.

Huawei has been continuously innovating and has launched a full series of products and solutions for Next Generation Optical Network. In the optical access domain, Huawei has introduced Next Generation FAN products such as FTTR, OLT, ONT, and ODN. In the optical transmission domain, Huawei has released Next Generation OTN products for OTN backbone, OTN optical layer, and OTN metro networks, helping operators build Agentic UBB networks. Huawei hopes to work with all industry partners to advance the development of next-generation optical networks and embrace new growth in the AI era.

MWC Barcelona 2026 will be held from March 2 to March 5 in Barcelona, Spain. During the event, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1.

The era of agentic networks is now approaching fast, and the commercial adoption of 5G-A at scale is gaining speed. Huawei is actively working with carriers and partners around the world to unleash the full potential of 5G-A and pave the way for the evolution to 6G. We are also creating AI-Centric Network solutions to enable intelligent services, networks, and network elements (NEs), speeding up the large-scale deployment of level-4 autonomous networks (AN L4), and using AI to upgrade our core business. Together with other industry players, we will create leading value-driven networks and AI computing backbones for a fully intelligent future.

For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/minisite/events/mwc2026/