Huawei has been named a "Leader" in the "5G RAN: Competitive Landscape Assessment" released by GlobalData, a well-known industry data analytics and consulting company. This is the seventh consecutive time Huawei has secured the top spot for its solutions and commercial practices, pulling further ahead by integrating 5G-Advanced and AI. Huawei is the only RAN equipment vendor recognized as a "Leader" this year.
The report rates RAN vendors by five criteria: AAU, RRU, mmWave, BBU, and advanced software features (including energy efficiency). Huawei has been recognized as a leader across all of these categories, highlighting its achievements delivering best-in-class user experience, simplified deployment and maintenance, energy efficiency, and smooth evolution. The report also confirms Huawei as the new benchmark in the field of 5G-Advanced and AI integration.
According to the report, Huawei is far ahead of its competitors in AAU, RRU, and mmWave product portfolios from multiple aspects, including versatility, output power, compactness, and bandwidth. These portfolios include:
- MetaAAU: a full series for all scenarios, supporting wideband and multi-band deployment and seeing scaled installments by many operators worldwide
- FDD Massive MIMO: unique triple-band module in the industry that brings Massive MIMO to sub-1 GHz
- EasyAAU: the industry's lightest and most compact module, which supports huge bandwidth and simplified deployment
- mmWave HAAU: leveraging more than 2,000 antenna elements to deliver continuous 10 Gbps coverage
The report further identifies Huawei's leadership in the BBU portfolio in terms of capacity, product diversity, layers, and interface capacity and density, noting that its BBU portfolio is a powerful asset that resonates with operators seeking network upgrades and smooth evolution.
The report highlights Huawei's sophisticated software features for accelerating 5G-Advanced commercialization with a complete list of capabilities that operators need to build energy-efficient networks with superior experience. According to the report, Huawei's "0 Bit 0 Watt" features continue to evolve to support "0 Bit 0 Watt 0 Loss," enabling the dormancy of BBUs, radio modules, and even chips during idle hours, with rapid (within microseconds) wake-up capabilities to ensure service continuity and stability.
The report also acknowledges Huawei's 5G-Advanced and AI integration as a new direction in the industry. According to Ed Gubbins, Principal Analyst at GlobalData, "Huawei has become the first vendor to integrate 5G-Advanced and AI to improve RAN performance and cost-effectiveness, building differentiated competitiveness."
Huawei will continue to innovate to help operators achieve efficient 5G development and evolution as it seeks to build a fully connected, intelligent world.
Source: https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2025/8/globaldata-huawei-5gran-leader
