ICT and telecommunications firm Huawei has unveiled its range of H.265-enabled video products for the first time in South Africa.

According to Huawei H.265 or HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) is a video compression standard, a successor to H.264 or AVC (Advanced Video Coding), that was developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) organisation.

HEVC produces video streams of the same quality as H.264 yet provides a higher compression efficiency ratio which is capable of reducing bandwidth by up to 50% and therefore, requires less storage on the back-end, the company explains.

"In turn, it can help businesses by preventing the overburdening of their network equipment, reduce maintenance costs, and bring about a higher efficiency in handling archives for video analysis or trending.," the company has claimed in a media release.

"Additionally, this significant reduction in bandwidth will allow Ultra High Definition Video (UHD) to become more affordable, paving the way to give more companies the capability to host Ultra HD video conferences," the statement continues.

To capitalise on this trend, Huawei has introduced its H.265 Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras and equipment as part of its intelligent video surveillance range (IVS) within the unified communication and collaboration (UC&C) portfolio.

According to Huawei, the equipment can perform several intelligent functions including loitering detection, intrusion detection, tripwires and abandoned object detection, as well as object removal detection.

"The cameras also support 20% Packet loss in Super Error Correction (SEC) handling," the company has stated.

"H.265 is predicted to replace H.264 as the global major compression standard," says Rodger van den Berg, UC&C Senior Solutions Manager for Huawei Enterprise Business Group of Eastern and Southern Africa. "With its ability to support 4K and UHD contents to deliver crisper network video contents at much lower bandwidth requirements, we foresee that it will revolutionise the security and surveillance industry."