Huawei has won two awards at Network X 2024, held in Paris, France, which has demonstrated Huawei's technological advantages in the global optical network field.
Firstly, in the optical transport field, Huawei won the Most Innovative Optical Transport Use Case award issued by Network X 2024 — Next Generation Optical Networkings (NGON).Huawei helps global carriers build DC-oriented optimal cost/bit backbone networks with its innovative 400G/800G solution, including the world's largest 400G backbone. It is a testament to the recognition within the industry of Huawei's innovations in the optical transport field, such as ultra-high speed, ultra-wide spectrum, all-optical switching OXC, and algorithm capabilities.
Huawei has led the optical communication market for 16 consecutive years. During Network X – also known as Next-Generation Optical Networks (NGON) 2024 – the vendor proposed an all-optical premium transmission target network architecture for the intelligent era and demonstrated a series of innovative solutions to help carriers build network capabilities such as ubiquitous premium access, 1 ms latency, and 99.9999% reliability. The solutions provide premium experiences of various intelligent applications and enable carriers to seize new opportunities for deterministic connectivity in the intelligent era.
In terms of ultra-high speed, Huawei showcased 1.6T coherent modules, which can meet the commercial requirements of large-capacity DC interconnection in metro networks. For ultra-wide spectrum, the vendor extended the integration capability to OTU boards based on the C+L-band integrated WSS commercially used last year. This further improves the integration of C+L-band systems and reduces power consumption and device footprint.
Regarding all-optical switching, Huawei released multi-degree optical switching boards oriented to metro access scenarios to achieve metro access network deployment in all scenarios. In terms of system soft capabilities, Huawei's innovative Hybrid ASON solution implements optical-electrical synergy for multiple reroutings, provides cost-effective protection against multiple fiber cuts, and ensures 99.9999% network reliability. As for optical network management and control, Huawei actively promotes the standards formulation for autonomous optical networks and launches innovative features such as optical network health assurance, intelligent co-cable detection, and intelligent alarm compression. All this enables proactive O&M and improves efficiency dramatically.
Moreover, Huawei's OTN premium private line solution has been commercially used by dozens of carriers around the world to drive up revenue. This year, Huawei launched the OTN P2MP solution based on single-OTN-device networking, helping carriers build more inclusive OTN private lines and providing ubiquitous premium access for intelligent industry upgrades.
The intelligent era brings new opportunities to carriers. Huawei will continue to help carriers build all-optical premium networks for intelligence based on both technology and business, provide more stable and efficient network assurance for intelligent applications, and promote the wide application of AI technologies, thereby seizing opportunities the intelligent era together.
Meanwhile, in the optical access field, Huawei's iFTTR OptiXstar F50, the industry's first FTTR+X all-optical smart home product, won the Leading In-Home Wi-Fi Service award at Network X 2024 — Broadband World Forum (BBWF), marking their sixth consecutive award in the category. Huawei iFTTR OptiXstar F50 has been continuously upgraded in terms of connectivity, experience, application, and service, and more than one million sets have been purchased. The product supports various FTTR+X converged applications, such as AI+storage, computing host, home guard, smart home management and control, and AI health care, further enriching users' smart home service experience.Huawei iFTTR OptiXstar F50 builds a new smart home foundation based on the "1+4+N" core capabilities and continuously upgrades connectivity, experience, applications, and services:
- 1 represents a smart home hub, which is built based on the latest Wi-Fi 7 technology, the innovative distributed AI engine, and C-WAN 1.5 optical+Wi-Fi architecture to provide users with high-quality carrier-class Wi-Fi experience.
- 4 represents four capabilities: Wi-Fi awareness, FTTR local NAS + cloud disk converged storage, dedicated AI Core shared computing power, and open-source Harmony smart home control, bringing smarter home experience to users.
- N represents multiple converged smart home service capabilities, such as computing and storage collaboration, sensor-visual-storage collaboration, and data collaboration to support various FTTR+X converged applications, including AI+storage, computing host, home guard, smart home management and control, and AI health care, further improving and enriching users' smart home service experience.
Huawei is the leading developer of Wi-Fi 7 technologies, and ranks No. 1 in the world in terms of Wi-Fi 7 standards and patents, with its 561 standards and patents accounting for 24% of the total. This technical background offers Huawei unique advantages in Wi-Fi 7 FTTR development. Huawei OptiXstar F50 enables whole-house 2000Mbps coverage, and its optical+Wi-Fi converged architecture supports up to 256 concurrent devices, enabling high-speed networking of smart devices in a home, eliminating frame freezing, and minimizing latency.
iFTTR virtualizes the entire Wi-Fi network into a super Wi-Fi hotspot and uses precise clock synchronization to shorten roaming latency to 10ms, ensuring zero packet loss during roaming. In addition, the F50 is one of the first products that have been certified by the World WLAN Application Development Alliance (WAA) for high-quality Wi-Fi capabilities, ensuring premium digital home experience for users.
F50 reuses the hardware and AI capabilities of iFTTR devices, integrating with other iFTTR devices to form a small-sized storage module with low power consumption, and enabling operators to provide users with device-cloud converged carrier-class all-optical home storage services that integrate mobile phones, home storage, and operator cloud disks. In addition, it integrates multiple smart home service capabilities, such as optical-visual converged home and IoT safe, for a new era of FTTR+X smart application convergence.
Huawei’s innovations in optical transmission and optical access will help global operators accelerate F5.5G network construction and win new opportunities in the AI era through technical breakthroughs and business innovation.
