During MWC 2025, a leading European consulting company, IDATE, held the Green All-optical Network Forum 2025. During the forum, IDATE presented four major awards to 16 world’s leading operators.
The awards include:
1. Best Practice of Home Broadband Development Award
This award is set to recognize operators which evolve home broadband from 100Mbps to 1Gbps and achieve remarkable commercial success. Technologies such as 10G PON have been introduced for large-scale deployment of gigabit networks and lay a solid foundation for comprehensive upgrade to 10Giga networks with 50G PON in the near future. Innovative home broadband packages were released to enrich user experience and lead the service development in local markets.
The final award is presented to Algeria Telecom, ZEOP, China Telecom, Hong Kong Telecom, and Aztelekom.
2. Excellent All-Optical Network for AI Enablement Award
This award is set to recognize operators with excellent practices in all-optical network architecture and technological innovation and application. The winner operators build the leading all-optical network to support the rapid popularization of AI applications and seize the opportunity in the AI era. Innovations on key technologies and network architecture such as 400G/800G backbone, all-optical switching, and OTN to the edge. By deploying these, end users can access data centers with millisecond-level latency, ensuring the premium experience of AI applications and on-demand access to computing resources.
The final award goes to MasOrange, China Mobile, Globe, Zain, and PT Telkom Indonesia.
3. AI-Oriented Business Innovation and Premium User Experience Award
This award is set to recognize operators with excellent practices in fixed broadband user experience operations and widely recognized network quality in the market. They actively embrace AI services and continuously improve user experience. They provide gigabit+ bandwidth to bring various AI services to homes and enterprises quickly. Home network such as FTTR is deployed for optimal network experience. In addition, winner operators add smart home services based on FTTR to capture AI traffic entry, opening up a blue ocean for home broadband services in the AI era and finding new growth points for the industry.
The final award is presented to Lounea, China Unicom, and Macau CTM.
4. Leading Sustainable Network Operator Award
This award is set to commend operators with sustainable network development through energy efficiency improvement and carbon emission reduction in network construction and service operations. For example, by replacing DSL or cable networks by FTTx, and upgrading legacy SDH/switch networks to OTN, the FTTH penetration is enhanced and the power consumption of telecom networks is greatly reduced. In addition, popularity of optical networks accelerates the service cloudification and digital transformation of enterprise users, indirectly saving energy and reducing emissions in more industries, supporting the sustainable development of the whole society.
The final award goes to BNET, Turkcell, and PLDT.
Please check the mini-site and social media posts from IDATE to learn the reasons and details about the award: https://idate.fr/green-all-optical-network-forum/
