Huawei unveils NG WAN architecture at MWC Barcelona 2026

Huawei unveiled its NG Wide Area Network (WAN) architecture at MWC Barcelona 2026, with Leon Wang, President of Huawei's Data Communication Product Line, presenting the effort; he said Huawei is upgrading IP bearer networks by focusing on security & resilience, multi-dimensional awareness, and network autonomy.

Huawei described several features intended to affect carrier operations, including tools for identifying encrypted traffic and mechanisms for maintaining computing efficiency; the company said those capabilities were designed to support faster customer acquisition and streamlined deployment of secure connections.

The company detailed technical components that support the architecture: the Xingluo Identification Engine, which Huawei said had identification accuracy exceeding 95% for encrypted traffic flows and produced a multidimensional user service characteristics database that Huawei said could create user profiles with 90% accuracy; lossless intelligent computing boards that enabled zero packet loss transmission and used the Xingluo lossless algorithm to convert training-inference data into high-dimensional vectors; and intrinsic security boards that detected unusual activity in files, memory, processes, and traffic and blocked intrusions.

Huawei also presented an intelligent resilient main control board that used a 40-dimension knowledge graph to identify routing attributes and tampering, an Xsec multi-point dynamic deployment solution for rapid PQC-encrypted connections, and the LPUI-Q intrinsic Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) board, which Huawei said could be inserted into NetEngine 8000 series routers; the company additionally described Netmaster as an intelligent O&M solution that simulated expert analysis, strategy formulation, and action execution for round-the-clock protection.

Huawei said the NG WAN architecture and its components would enable carriers to establish a self-defending network foundation that ensures experience, accelerates revenue growth, boosts network efficiency, and empowers intelligent connectivity, and that the Xsec solution and the LPUI-Q board could improve Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) deployment efficiency by 60% and reduce carriers' total investment by over 60%.