Huawei said on October 16 that Appledore Research's 'Leading Suppliers in OSS Software' report ranked its ADN (autonomous driving network) solution first in both overall OSS market share and the single-domain management category. Huawei describes single-domain management — unified management and control across multi-vendor, multi-technology networks — as the largest OSS sub-market and the pivot toward higher autonomy levels. Its ADN line spans single-domain products (iMaster MAE, NCE, CCAE, DME) and cross-domain products (AUTIN, Smartcare, ADO). The company says it is helping define an 'A2A-T' protocol through the OpenAN open-source project so that different network systems' agents can coordinate, and it cites the report's finding that generative and agentic AI have renewed interest in AI and machine learning inside OSS. The ranking comes from a vendor announcement citing a third-party report.
Our takeMarket-share crowns from analyst houses are marketing by other means — the interesting line is buried lower down: 'agents talking to agents' as a protocol problem. If carriers start expecting multi-vendor network agents to interoperate, whoever writes that handshake standard sets the terms for the next decade of operations software. Huawei is staking a claim early.