At the 21st Leading Lights Awards, China Mobile Network Business Unit, China Mobile Henan Network Management Center, and Huawei were honored with the Outstanding Use Case: Telco Cloud award for their groundbreaking project “TICC Cloud-Native Platform Empowering China Mobile's Next-Gen Telco Operations.” This pioneering initiative, built on the industry's first converged dual-engine architecture and enhanced with AI, allows seamless migration of traditional services to the cloud-native platform. By advancing green and sustainable telecom practices, the project sets a new global benchmark for Telco Cloud transformation.
The Leading Lights Awards, hosted by Light Reading—one of the world's foremost telecom media titles—are widely regarded as among the most credible and authoritative honors in the industry. Established in 2004, the awards recognize companies and projects that have delivered outstanding achievements in communications technologies, applications, services, strategies, and innovation on a global scale.
Telco Cloud has become the cornerstone of 5G and the digital world. With the rapid advancement of 5G-A and AI technologies, Telco Cloud is steadily evolving toward containerization and intelligence. As early pioneers and key contributors to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), China Mobile and Huawei spearheaded the introduction of the industry's first OpenStack-Kubernetes dual-engine converged architecture. By integrating foundation models and intelligent agents, they jointly developed the industry-leading Telco Intelligent Converged Cloud (TICC) platform. This platform delivers carrier-grade stability, automated O&M, energy efficiency, and AI-driven capabilities. As a result, service rollout time has been reduced by 50%, while network upgrade efficiency has improved more than sixfold.
China Mobile Henan Branch and Huawei have collaborated to jointly develop the “Green Core” system-level intelligent Telco Cloud energy-saving solution, built on the TICC platform. Powered by AI, this solution allows collaborative optimization across hardware, the Telco Cloud platform, and O&M sectors. It greatly reduces network device energy consumption, drives the green transformation of telecom infrastructure, and provides the industry with a demonstrable and repeatable path toward sustainable infrastructure evolution.
Winners of the Leading Lights Awards were selected by a panel of analysts and media experts from hundreds of entries across 20 categories. Regarding the “Outstanding Use Case: Telco Cloud” Award, the jury emphasized that the project presents a systematic approach to Telco Cloud evolution—allowing operators to migrate traditional services while embracing cloud-native agility. This comprehensive methodology allowed the project to stand out in a highly competitive category. The jury further noted that the achievement was particularly remarkable given the scale and scope of the customer base involved.
Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to collaborate with operators and industry partners to advance Telco Cloud toward greater efficiency, intelligence, and sustainability, consistently delivering new value to individuals and industries.
Source: https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2025/9/telcocloud-outstanding
