en.Wedoany.com Reported - At the TM Forum DTW 2026 conference held in Copenhagen last week, Huawei proposed an architectural framework to accelerate the deployment of highly autonomous networks (AN). Yang Chaobin, Executive Vice President and CEO of Huawei's ICT Business Group, stated at the conference that communication service providers (CSPs) have reached a strategic consensus on deploying autonomous networks, but currently face challenges posed by multi-vendor environments, legacy infrastructure, and increasingly complex AI-driven operations.
Yang Chaobin introduced an approach based on "layered intelligence and open collaboration." This approach places time-sensitive functions such as fault self-healing and service experience optimization within individual network domains for autonomous execution, achieving closed-loop control at the second or minute level. Higher network layers are responsible for long-term policy management, global resource orchestration, and cross-domain coordination. Huawei believes that by abstracting differences across multi-generational networks and vendor implementations, this architecture reduces integration complexity and enables more scalable AI-driven automation.
At the core of this proposal is the adoption of the A2A-T (Agent-to-Agent Telecom) standard, a universal communication framework for AI agents operating across network layers and operational systems. Huawei noted that standardizing AI agent communication simplifies interoperability between operations support systems (OSS), network domains, and automation platforms. Yang Chaobin called on operators, vendors, standards bodies, and the ecosystem to collaborate in advancing the A2A-T protocol and related open-source implementations to accelerate the production deployment of highly autonomous networks.
According to Huawei, approximately 100 industry organizations have signed the Autonomous Network Declaration, and around 30 CSPs have published autonomous network blueprints and initiated implementation plans. Huawei identified heterogeneous multi-vendor environments, multi-generational network infrastructure, and AI agent communication between systems as key deployment challenges. The proposed layered architecture distributes real-time intelligence within domain controllers while reserving cross-domain orchestration for higher management layers.
Yang Chaobin emphasized that deploying highly autonomous networks has become a strategic consensus among mainstream CSPs globally. The industry should adhere to the approach of layered intelligence and open collaboration, and adopt a unified A2A-T standard to simplify cross-layer collaboration.
