Huawei Drives New Growth in the AI Era with new Next Generation Optical Network Products and Solutions

Details: STAFF WRITER; Category: Vendors; 12 March 2026; 8312 views

Huawei Optical Business Product Line, unveiled a range of new next generation optical networking products and solutions during MWC26 Barcelona.

As AI increasingly extends into home scenarios such as entertainment, education, and healthcare, this presents new opportunities for operators. However, it also places higher demands on network bandwidth, latency, and reliability, meaning upgrading of optical networks is fast becoming a strategic requirement for global operators to take advantage of the synergy between AI and networks with AI-centric All-Optical Networks.

The ITU-T has already released the ION-2030 vision, defining key capabilities, application scenarios, and standardization roadmap for next-generation optical networks.

AI for Networks and Networks for AI

During the product and solution unveiling, Bob Chen, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line outlined how Huawei Next Generation Optical Network solutions are designed to work in two directions: AI for Networks and Networks for AI.

In the former, AI technologies enable intelligent fiber sensing, enhance network performance and user experience, improve O&M efficiency, and reduce energy consumption. In the latter, enhanced network capabilities help operators build AI-centric all-optical target networks, accelerating AI adoption across homes and enterprises.

PPT from Bob Chen

AI for Networks: Improving Network Quality and Efficiency

Intelligent fiber sensing: Based on the fiber risk sensing model and fault identification model, risks can be identified in advance, and the fault location can be pinpointed within ten meters.
Network performance enhancement: An optical performance simulation model, built on thousands of optical parameters, significantly enhances the precision of network performance evaluation and extends the transmission distance by 20%.
Network experience enhancement: Wi-Fi interference can be detected in real time, and AI algorithms intelligently adjust Wi-Fi power, boosting rates by 20% under interference conditions.
Energy saving: Service traffic is analyzed in real time, and ports and boards are intelligently adjusted. When there is no traffic, all ports and boards are put into hibernation, reducing average energy consumption by 40%.
Intelligent O&M: AI technologies are used to enhance the intelligence of network planning, construction, maintenance, and optimization processes. For example, the home broadband O&M agent can automatically identify and locate over sixty types of faults and assist NOC O&M engineers in resolving them quickly through natural language interaction, significantly reducing home visits.

Networks for AI: Accelerating AI Popularization

Optical access: A target network with gigabit-level downlink and 100M-level uplink is built to meet the bandwidth requirements of new home AI services and enhance the overall home network experience.
Optical transmission: The latency circles of 5 ms. for national networks, 3 ms. for regional networks, and 1 ms. for metro networks are built to enable millisecond-level computing access and ensure optimal AI application performance.

The products and solutions unveiled at MWC 26 Barcelona mean that Huawei now offers a full series of products and solutions for next generation optical networks. In the optical access domain, these include Next Generation FAN products such as FTTR, OLT, ONT, and ODN. Meanwhile, in the optical transmission domain these include Next Generation OTN products for OTN backbone, OTN optical layer, and OTN metro networks, helping operators build Agentic UBB networks.

According to Chen: “Huawei hopes to work with all industry partners to advance the development of next-generation optical networks and embrace new growth in the AI era.”