The Global Fixed Network Innovation Alliance (NIDA) and industry partners jointly launch the Self-Intelligent Network Industry 100 Pioneer Program.
[Shenzhen, China, November 8, 2025] At the 3rd Network Innovation and Development Conference, the Global Fixed Network Innovation Alliance (NIDA) joined forces with Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China Research Institute of Information and Communications, China Unicom Research Institute, China Telecom Cloud Network Operating System R&D Center, and Southeast University. , China University of Mining and Technology, and other industry-university-research partners jointly launched the "100 Pioneer Program in the Self-Intelligent Network Industry" to promote L4 advanced self-intelligence of IP networks in the entire industry by building intelligent and reliable network infrastructure.
With the in-depth convergence of 5G-Advanced, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing technologies, communications networks are moving from manual O&M to intelligent self-intelligence. As the core direction of future network development, self-intelligent networks are designed to implement self-configuration, self-healing, and self-optimization by introducing big data and AI technologies to provide more efficient, reliable, and flexible support for digital transformation of thousands of industries. Against this background, the Self-Intelligent Network Industry 100 Pioneer Program emerged as the times require. It is dedicated to gathering pioneers in the industry, jointly building self-intelligent network benchmark cases, and building a new industry ecosystem featuring collaborative innovation, openness, and win-win outcomes.
The program is jointly initiated by NIDA, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China Research Institute of Information and Communications, China Unicom Research Institute, China Telecom Research Institute, Southeast University, and China University of Mining and Technology. Select and deeply enable hundreds of leading enterprises in key industries, such as finance, education, and carrier, to jointly explore and implement industry-representative self-intelligent network application scenarios, and form benchmark solutions that can be replicated and promoted. Accelerate the large-scale commercial use of L4 highly intelligent networks.
Wang Hui, President of the NCE Data Communication Domain of Huawei Data Communication Product Line, as the representative of the main initiator, said: "The launch of Project Vanguard is just in time. It collaborates with upstream and downstream of the industry chain to drive technological innovation based on actual business scenarios. We look forward to working with our pioneer partners in various industries through the Vanguard Plan, deeply coupling network capabilities with industry requirements, and jointly opening a new chapter in the "high-level self-intelligent network". In the future, we expect more industry partners to join the "100 Pioneer Plan for the Self-Intelligent Network Industry", which will bring the valuable experience accumulated by thousands of industries in the process of intelligent transformation into a river and inject great impetus into the continuous evolution of the Self-Intelligent Network.
