According to the statement, the opportunity to showcase the new technology to the government presented itself when the Vice-President visited the Huawei stand at the exhibition pavilion during the event.

The statement said during the visit, the Southern Africa Regional Director for the Financial Services Industry, at Huawei, Mr Chen ZhenTao, explained to the Vice-President that, “In the digital era, innovation drives the development of enterprises, with smooth communication and collaboration being a key factor behind business success”.

New technology

He explained that the CloudLink was an integrated, open and intelligent new-generation enterprise communications solution developed by Huawei which feature Interactive Collaboration, Intelligent Conferencing and Ultra HD Audio and Video.

“It can move conference from the sphere of traditional video to interactive telepresence, thus making communications more efficient based on cloud services and team collaboration,” he said.
Mr ZhenTao added that CloudLink was derived from Huawei's own digital transformation practices.

“As a global company with operations in more than 170 countries, Huawei has 190,000 employees and 1023 office locations.

After years of internal practice, CloudLink can support anytime, anywhere, any device and collaborations while satisfying the needs of various industries in most business scenario,” he said.

According to the statement, the Huawei CloudLink Meeting Solution helps corporations achieve seamless businesses activities in this era of globalisation where most companies are expanding overseas.

Enterprises are able to gather team and collaborate with anyone anytime, anywhere by securely sending messages, making calls or holding conferences, thereby improving agility and team collaboration.

“It would reduce travel costs and time thus saving organisations money, while ensuring a more efficient and effective use of time,” Mr ZhenTao said in the statement.

The statement said Huawei’s participation in the Mobile Technology for Development Conference came against the backdrop of the company’s avid innovations and technological advancement in the areas of Enterprise Solutions, Core Banking and Mobile Money services platform to help deliver basic business and digital banking with focus on developing economies.