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F5.5G All-Optical Access and Premium
Transmission Make Intelligence Ubiquitous
I nnovation and development in the optical industry presented by the thriving intelligent services.
have always been driven by service changes. In 2009, with ● Ubiquitous 10 Gbps All-Optical Access Network,
the explosion in video services, 100 Mbps fiber to the home Providing Differentiated Computing Power Access
(FTTH) became a must-have for home broadband, driving In households, services such as AI assistant, 4K cloud
the development of OTN transmission networks to 100G. eSports, cloud NAS, and smart healthcare are promoting
Then in 2018, the widespread adoption of 4K HD video the evolution of home networks to applications that
and short video services further drove the upgrade of home combine connectivity, computing, and intelligence. To
broadband to Gbps. Today, there are more than 200 million support these services, the access network needs to evolve
global gigabit users. to a 10 Gbps intelligent access network, which has the
following features:
In the next decade, intelligence will drive a paradigm shift,
and we are already seeing changes take place. On the one Ubiquitous 10 Gbps access. 50G PON delivers 10 Gbps to
hand, data centers of global operators and OTT providers the home and FTTR is upgraded to Wi-Fi 7, increasing the
are transforming to a multi-layer, distributed architecture. access rate by 10 times, from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps. To date,
Building highly-reliable Data Center Interconnect (DCI) more than 50 operators around the world have cooperated
networks with high-speed interconnections is crucial to with Huawei to complete a series of commercial
operators' backbone networks. On the other hand, AI deployments and verification of 10 Gbps optical networks.
foundation models start to shift from training to inference.
In 2024, most smart terminal vendors are developing Deterministic experience. To carry computing services,
and launching mobile phones and computers with AI the access network needs to intelligently steer service
capabilities, leading to greater demand on inference from traffic based on service flow characteristics, identify
the user side. However, as smart terminals have limited computing, video, and Internet access services, and
computing power, model inference with more than 3 billion distribute computing services to premium OTN networks.
parameters needs to draw on the cloud for computing This upgrades best-effort experience to deterministic
power. This requires a device-cloud synergy Data experience with guaranteed quality, including 10 Gbps
Center Access (DCA) network with high bandwidth and bandwidth, deterministic latency, and µs-level jitter.
deterministic low latency. According to Omdia's prediction,
in 2030, about 2/3 of network traffic will involve AI, with Intelligent applications with computing-network
an annual traffic growth rate of 25%. convergence. Sharing and opening up computing power on
FTTR and the CO OLT of the access network enable more
Striding towards the intelligent era, a premium computing innovative applications to accelerate operators' experience
bearer network is necessary for high-speed interconnection monetization. For example, on the FTTR side, computing
and efficient scheduling of distributed computing resources, power and storage are converged to provide users with
diversified intelligent applications of various industries, instant photo taking and uploading, smart albums, and
and device-cloud synergy of smart terminals. In the backup between local storage and cloud disks.
intelligent era, a consensus has emerged in which networks
reinforce computing and computing promotes networks. ● Premium Transmission Network Makes Intelli-
Existing network capabilities cannot keep up with growing gence Ubiquitous
requirements. As such, networks will evolve to F5.5G all- To deliver the required experience for intelligent
optical access and premium transmission network. With applications, network connections need to be fully
ubiquitous 10 Gbps access, 1 ms deterministic latency, and upgraded. Through ultra-high bandwidth, ms-level
99.9999% availability, premium DCI and DCA networks deterministic latency, and 99.9999% availability, an all-
are built to lay a solid foundation for service development optical premium transmission network is built to underpin
in the next decade and help operators seize opportunities
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