During MWC 2025 in Barcelona, Huawei held an all-optical summit themed "Accelerate F5G-A, Boost Industrial Intelligence". At this summit, Huawei discussed and shared the latest industry practices in ISP, all-optical campus, industry communication network, and fiber sensing with global industry experts, customers, and partners.
Marcus Brunner, Vice chairman of ETSI ISG F5G, noted in his speech that F5G Advanced (F5G-A) technologies provide a robust foundation for AI applications, enabling fast, reliable networking and highly accurate sensing. At the same time, AI enhances both the network and sensing performance, delivering a superior user experience and higher-quality services for a variety of industries and applications.
Perry Yang, President of Huawei Enterprise Optical Domain, delivered a keynote speech titled "Embracing Three Trends in Optical Business to Promote Industrial Intelligence". He stressed that in an effort to promote industrial intelligence, Huawei has accelerated "3 In 3 Out" based on F5G-A. The all-optical campus solution has helped more than 10,000 campuses around the world implement "Fiber-in Copper-out". Furthermore, in sectors like electric power and transportation, fgOTN has been commercially deployed, driving "fgOTN-in SDH-out". The optical-visual linkage solution has been commercially used in more than 90 projects, helping oil and gas, railway, and airports achieve "Optical-sensing-in Hard-work-out".
Huawei introduced four F5G-A optical connectivity and sensing solutions
To meet "3 In and 3 Out" requirements, Huawei launched four solutions based on F5G-A:
For ISPs, Huawei launched the fiber to the home (FTTH) solution that supports low-cost and fast network construction as well as multiple fiber to the room (FTTR) products to help ISPs achieve fast coverage, bandwidth increase, and user experience improvement. For areas with insufficient fiber broadband coverage, Huawei's FTTH solution helps improve the fiber network penetration rate. For areas with 100 Mbit/s broadband, 10G PON and Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 7 optical terminals are upgraded to provide premium gigabit HBB for users. FTTR can also be used to provide premium ultra-gigabit experiences.
For campus scenarios, Huawei FTTO 2.0 Solution implements four major upgrades in terms of bandwidth, scenario, operations, and planning. The campus network bandwidth is upgraded from 10 Gbit/s to 50 Gbit/s, delivering 50 Gbit/s to classrooms and 10 Gbit/s to Wi-Fi. This provides a superb ultra-broadband experience as well as campus network experience with one fiber for multiple networks. Optical terminals that meet the M45 installation standards in Europe and the Middle East have also been launched, which support a direct fiber connection to hospital beds without information boxes and can be installed on the bed head panels without affecting the decoration. Additionally, outdoor optical APs were released to extend indoor coverage to outdoor coverage, ideal for school playgrounds and outdoor swimming pools in hotels. As for operations, one NMS could manage only one campus in the past, but now it can manage multiple, achieving easy O&M in multi-tenant scenarios. Moreover, planning can be upgraded from manual to AI-based automatic configuration, shortening the network design time from two days to one hour.
For AI computing scenarios, Huawei released the All-Optical Lossless Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Solution, where DC-based OTN OSN 9800 K12 platform is used to achieve zero packet loss during RDMA across data centers. It can also achieve zero bit errors upon intermittent fiber disconnections during long-haul transmission, and upon fault-triggered switchover. This ensures efficient and stable intelligent computing and meets the requirements of scenarios such as remote intelligent computing and separated storage and computing training in cross-data center scenarios.
Huawei has introduced a cost-effective, easy-to-deploy miniaturized perimeter inspection solution for small campuses, including substations, oil and gas stations, and data centers. The solution is based on converged sensing technologies such as fiber and video sensing, as well as AI algorithms. Passive optical cables deployed outdoors cover a long distance and do not require power supply. In addition, the cables can resist electromagnetic interference and bad weather such as thunderstorms. All this meets the high security requirements of small campuses for fire and lightning protection, and provides intelligent perimeter inspection with strong anti-interference and precise reporting.
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Up to now, passive optical LAN (POL) has entered industry and group standards in many countries. "In smart hospitals, everything is interconnected, including the data center, outpatient area, nursing area, operating rooms, clinical laboratory center, and medical imaging center, resulting in an exponential increase in connections," Francisco Hortigüela, President of Ametic, Spain, mentioned in his speech. He went on to say, "The Passive Optical LAN (POL) network features long transmission distances, high bandwidth and energy efficiency, and a 30-year service life with one-time deployment, making it highly efficient for use in healthcare settings."
In December 2023, the International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) officially approved the fgOTN standard, which is defined as the next-generation technology to replace SDH. This marks a critical turning point in the optical communication field. At the summit, Marcio Szechtman, Ex-CIGRE Technical Council Chair and Honorary Member of CIGRE, IEEE/PES Life Fellow, noted that as nowadays with all changes provided by energy transition, cutting-edge communications technologies, such as fgOTN are essential for aligning transmission and distribution system operations with actual requirements for grids resilience and reliability, by offering secure, accurate and fast communication channels for the electricity industry.
Huang Yu, Senior Manager of Signal Office of Power Grid Dispatch and Control Center of China Southern Power Grid (CSG), also shared CSG's research and practices of key technologies on optical transmission networks. He said, "China Southern Power Grid has adopted the improved ASON technology and applied it extensively in existing networks, ensuring that the average downtime of production real-time control services continues to decrease. In recent years, it has even achieved zero service interruptions."
Azamat Akhmetzhanov, CEO of International Global Partners LLP, pointed out that the AI-enabled optical fiber sensing perimeter inspection solution can resist environmental interferences such as vehicle accompaniment, strong wind, heavy rain, and various soil conditions. It enables automatic alarm reasoning and accurate reporting, and reduces the cost of manual inspection, making operations more efficient and safer.
Looking ahead, Huawei will intensify collaboration with global customers and partners to accelerate "3 In 3 Out" across connectivity and sensing, unlocking the full potential of industrial intelligence and shaping a smarter, more connected future for all.
