At the LEAP 2026 Global Tech Summit, Huawei Cloud Core Network CMO Orpheus Liu delivered a keynote speech, sharing its innovative practices and achievements in empowering digital transformation across all sectors. By taking gaming as a benchmark scenario, Huawei has refined its ultimate network experience capabilities into a universal technology foundation applicable to diverse sectors. For example, there are over 23.5 million gamers in Saudi Arabia, accounting for 67% of the local population, and 61% of the users are looking forward to a gaming network environment that offers smoother and more stable experiences. High-quality internet services have become a common and essential need for local gamers. Huawei has collaborated with the operators to redefine the role of networks in vertical industries based on their core needs, aiming to make networks native capabilities for various digital services. This has comprehensively improved user experience and unlocked innovation momentum in the industries. Also, the collaboration sends a clear signal to game publishers, industry developers, and game players that high-quality, stable, and ultimate network services can be easily obtained through local operator networks, fueling the innovative development of various digital services.
Networks Have Become the Native Core Capabilities of Digital Services
As digital technologies rapidly iterate, the gaming industry has undergone a full-scale business upgrade, which also drives a fundamental transformation in the nature of networks. The industry has experienced three key iterations, evolving from the early-stage local standalone mode, to the mid-stage LAN-based online mode, and finally to a cloud-native, continuous live-ops model—effectively becoming a persistent virtual world deeply synthesized with networks.
Under this business transformation, the gaming industry exhibits its core characteristics of mobility, sociality, indirect participation, cross-device synchronization, and competitivity. In this context, seamless multi-device access to a universal digital network and all-domain data exchanging are essential user expectations. As such, networks have evolved from traditional auxiliary transmission tools to indispensable native underlying capabilities for gaming services. Without a high-quality network that provides smooth, stable, low-latency, and high-concurrency services, it is impossible to underpin complete gaming experience and continuous industry operations. Furthermore, the gaming industry's stringent demands for extremely low latency, zero jitter, and high stability serve as the ultimate proving ground for high-tier networks, providing a mature showcase for popularizing and empowering network technologies across all industries.
While Saudi Arabia boasts a massive gaming user base and a highly active digital economy, Huawei has gained deep insights into the underlying logic and core requirements of the gaming industry, and has accurately addressed these local market pain points. This has laid a solid foundation for co-creating customized, highly adaptable intelligent network solutions with operators and unlocking dual upgrades for both user experience and the industry.
AI-Powered Network Experiences Set a Benchmark
Centering on user experience and industry value, Huawei has partnered with operators in Saudi Arabia to deploy the AI Intelligent Core Network solution. Based on the high demands of gaming scenarios, this solution refines high-level network experience capabilities and builds a one-size-fits-all network service system that is perceptible, optimizable, and iterable, effectively addressing the pain points of local digital experiences.
The Intelligent Personalized Experience (IPE) solution leverages AI-powered intelligent awareness technologies to identify service experiences in real time in scenarios such as e-sports competitions, HD live streaming, and cross-device service collaboration. It also adopts dynamic scheduling technologies to intelligently allocate resources across the network to accurately achieve improvements such as smooth service delivery, latency optimization, and stable connectivity. Furthermore, it harnesses the advantages of the 5G SA network to provide users with stable, smooth, and immersive digital experiences. To address common industry challenges of cross-device and cross-network collaboration, Huawei has innovatively implemented the Mobile Home solution. By directly connecting the home UPF to the operator's public network, this solution simplifies transmission paths, effectively reduces network latency, and completely breaks down barriers to multi-device collaboration. It fully adapts to the needs of digital services in the new era, which demand cross-scenario, multi-device, and high-collaboration capabilities.
Through this collaboration, operators have elevatedtheir service value and brand positioning. They have transformed their network services from traditional best-effort basic connections into high-quality, highly adaptable premium digital services, successfully evolving from basic network providers into core enablers of digital life in their region and the digital industry. At the same time, this high-quality network foundation provides end-to-end support for local game publishers and industry practitioners, fully adapting to business requirements such as game R&D and testing, online competition operations, content distribution, and user ecosystem operations, thereby injecting new vitality into the innovation of the local digital industry.
Beyond Benchmarks, Empowering Digital Transformation Across Industries
The Intelligent Core Network capabilities, refined from the benchmark gaming scenarios, have strong universality, replicability, and scalability. These capabilities can adapt tonot only entertainment scenarios, but alsoto various vertical sectors, including digital office, remote collaboration, intelligent interaction, and pan-entertainment services. This provides a precise and high-quality network foundation to support digital transformation across industries.
Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to deepen strategic partnerships with Saudi Arabian telecom operatorsand other operatorsacross the world,continuously upgrading the intent-driven intelligent agent collaboration architecture and MCP open capabilities. This will enable simplified invocation, intelligent orchestration, and automatic adaptation of complex network capabilities. Both parties will continue to accumulate general capabilities based on benchmark scenarios and enable more scenarios across the industry. By leveraging ultimate native network capabilities, they will continuously enhance digital experiences and empower innovation across industries, jointly creating a new paradigm for the high-quality development of the digital industry.