At Huawei Connect in Florence, Techzine TV, spoke with Dennis Tossijn, ICT Network CTO at Huawei Benelux and Ireland, for a wide-ranging conversation about where enterprise networking is headed. From AI-powered campus management to unified Wi-Fi and IoT infrastructure, Dennis explains how Huawei is helping organizations across retail, healthcare, hospitality, and government rethink what a network can do.
The discussion dives deep into Huawei’s cloud platform. The platform is available as SaaS, on-premise, or MSP-hosted version and delivers real-time network analytics, SDN automation, and AI-driven threat detection that can block malicious devices within seconds. Tossijn also breaks down the fiber-versus-copper debate, explains how hybrid cabling reduces switches, cuts energy use, and lowers total cost of ownership, even over distances of hundreds of meters in large distribution centers.
Perhaps most striking is Huawei’s work on Wi-Fi sensing: using existing Wi-Fi 7 signals to detect human presence, automate smart room environments, and even detect breathing and micro-movements. Huawei aims to add gesture control detection from Wi-Fi 7 signals coming next year. The conversation closes on quantum-ready encryption already embedded in Huawei’s router hardware, and the ecosystem integration work that remains the industry’s biggest challenge.
🔑 Key takeaways:
• AI optimizes Wi-Fi environments in real time and blocks malicious devices within seconds
• Huawei’s platform runs on Open Telekom Cloud in Germany;
• Huawei cloud platofrm is available as SaaS, on-premise, or MSP-hosted
• Hybrid fiber-copper cabling reduces switch count, cuts energy use, and lowers TCO at scale
• Wi-Fi plus IoT integration unifies multiple wireless infrastructures into one network
• Wi-Fi sensing detects human presence, automates smart spaces, and is evolving toward gesture and breathing detection
• Quantum-ready encryption is already available in Huawei’s router hardware and software
⏱ Chapters:
0:01 – Introduction: Huawei Connect Florence
0:24 – What customers ask about their networks today
1:53 – Campus AI: smarter network management
2:38 – Cloud platform, SaaS, and MSP delivery options
3:49 – AI-driven security and threat detection
5:50 – Fiber vs. copper: the green network debate
7:19 – Hybrid cable: powering devices over longer distances
10:11 – Wi-Fi plus IoT: one unified infrastructure
11:58 – Wi-Fi sensing and smart space automation
13:33 – Gesture control and micro-movement detection
15:05 – Quantum-ready encryption in network infrastructure
16:09 – Building the ecosystem: integration challenges
🔎 Keywords: Huawei, enterprise networking, Campus AI, Wi-Fi 7, IoT integration, fiber vs copper, hybrid cable, Wi-Fi sensing, smart spaces, quantum encryption, SDN, network security, MSP, SaaS, Huawei Connect