The Huawei Developer Conference 2021 (HDC.Cloud 2021) was held from April 24 to 
26 in the University Town of Shenzhen, China. This annual ICT developer event 
brought together the industry's best minds, including thought leaders, Huawei 
scientists, top technical experts, respected opinion leaders, and 
highly-skilled developers, who actively explored and gained hands-on experience 
with the latest ICT innovations and best practices across various industries. 
As the main venue for HDC.Cloud 2021, the University Town of Shenzhen was 
integral in ensuring the event's success, capitalizing on the advantages of 
Huawei's CloudCampus 3.0 Solution for a stable and reliable campus network. 

Founded in 2000, the University Town of Shenzhen is the only research-intensive 
university group in China that is approved by China's Ministry of Education and 
jointly managed by the local government and top universities. It fosters 
full-time graduate students and currently has approximately 20,000 students and 
faculty members.

The University Town of Shenzhen is the first academic institution in China to 
have built a smart science and education campus with Wi-Fi 6 networking at 
scale. The university based its strategy on the philosophy - "one number, one 
code, one network, and one screen" - creating the ideal ICT platform that 
efficiently shares resources and flexibly meets the unique needs of 
universities. This new platform, enabled by a high-quality campus network, 
ensures that teachers and students alike enjoy borderless services and 
consistently good user experience throughout the campus. 

The same underlying network also contributed to the success of HDC.Cloud 2021. 
Thanks to its powerful performance, every participant enjoyed convenient, 
high-speed, and stable network experience at all times, from indoor activities 
with over 1000 participants to outdoor hands-on labs.

Keynote speech & summit venues: Fully wireless access and intelligent 
networking at scale fully meet developers' network requirements for online and 
offline activities.

The keynote speeches and carnival activities were held at the stadium, while 
multiple summits took place in a lecture hall with over 1000 seats. These 
on-site events were also broadcast live online, offering participants an 
exceptional online and offline experience.

The key to making these massive activities run smoothly is a campus network 
that features fully wireless coverage, ultra-broadband speeds, and intelligent 
application experience assurance. Huawei's CloudCampus 3.0 Solution delivers 
just that. 

Specifically, the University Town of Shenzhen draws on Huawei's unique 3D 
wireless network planning tool - WLAN Planner - to quickly model wireless 
networks and simulate signal coverage, intuitively reflecting the real onsite 
environment. The end result is optimal deployment and flexible adaptation to 
complex environments.

Comprising the high-performance Wi-Fi network are Huawei's CloudEngine S12700E, 
the industry's most powerful ultra-broadband core switch, and Huawei's flagship 
triple-radio APs, including AirEngine 
8760-X1-PRO(https://e.huawei.com/cn/products/enterprise-networking/wlan/indoor-a
ccess-points/airengine-8760-x1-pro) and AirEngine 
6760-X1(https://e.huawei.com/cn/products/enterprise-networking/wlan/indoor-acces
s-points/airengine-8760-x1-pro). This new network is ideal for many scenarios, 
such as stadiums, lecture halls, and classrooms, offering the ultimate 
experience for each user, even when there are over 1000 users online all at 
once. 

Hands-on labs: Outdoor high-speed Wi-Fi delivers superior network experience to 
developers.

Dozens of tents were arranged outdoors as hands-on labs, where developers could 
learn about cutting-edge technology first-hand and experience Huawei's open ICT 
capabilities in person. Huawei's CloudCampus 3.0 Solution ensured the stable 
and reliable network necessary for such cloud service-based capabilities.

In particular, Huawei's AirEngine Wi-Fi 6 APs with unique smart antennas 
deliver over 20% more coverage distance than the industry average. This 
capability enabled continuous wireless networking outdoors, making sure that 
every developer could experience the latest tech without interruptions.  

Lounge area: The IoT-powered smart Library makes a difference.

The University Town of Shenzhen repurposed its library's open reading space, 
creating a fully wireless lounge area. During breaks, developers could browse a 
catalogue of over 700,000 books through the waterfall-stream electronic book 
borrowing system.

This was possible thanks to the Huawei AirEngine series APs, which provided 
full Wi-Fi 6 coverage for smart library applications. For example, the 
library's robots can pinpoint bookshelves and scan books using Radio Frequency 
Identification (RFID) based on the IoT network; they also use the Wi-Fi 6 
network to report information of misplaced books in real time, efficiently 
counting available books. 

O&M assurance: Intelligent O&M makes the network easier to use.

Efficient and intelligent network O&M is another key success factor for 
HDC.Cloud 2021. Huawei iMaster NCE-CampusInsight, a campus network analyzer, 
greatly helps the administrators in the Network Information Center of the 
University Town of Shenzhen. To elaborate, administrators can predict wireless 
network problems and obtain network optimization suggestions by using the big 
data analytics module and expert experience library. They can also quickly 
adjust the network, for example, performing AP load balancing, adjusting the 
transmit power, and optimizing channels. iMaster NCE-CampusInsight ensures the 
optimal application experience for developers by enabling fine-grained O&M, 
including application visibility, quality awareness, and fault demarcation. 

"Since its founding, the University Town of Shenzhen has nurtured a vast number 
of high-tech innovative talents for Shenzhen's reform and development," said 
Sun Tao, Director of the Network Information Center, Management Office, 
University Town of Shenzhen. "Our smart science and education campus has 
already entered the 2.0 era, with digital innovation, intelligent management, 
and granular services in full swing. This offers high-quality campus network 
services and scientific research environments for campus developers, thereby 
empowering them with higher skills for innovation."

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