Huawei Unveils Four F5G-A Optical Connectivity and Sensing Solutions to Accelerate Industrial Intelligence

[Barcelona, Spain, March 3, 2025] At MWC Barcelona 2025, Huawei released four F5G-A optical connectivity and sensing solutions. Additionally, Huawei introduced the latest "3 In 3 Out" developments in the optical industry. Huawei looks forward to collaborating with global customers and partners to continuously innovate optical technologies, with an aim to accelerate industrial intelligence.

Perry Yang, President of Huawei Enterprise Optical Domain

Perry Yang, President of Huawei Enterprise Optical Domain, noted in his keynote speech entitled "Embracing Three Trends in Optical Business to Promote Industrial Intelligence", "The optical industry focuses on intelligent connectivity and sensing, based on F5G-A technologies, to accelerate industrial intelligence." He went on to explain that for intelligent connectivity, optical fibers will replace copper cables on home and campus networks. This trend is called "Fiber-in Copper-out". On industry production networks in industries such as electric power and transportation, synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) is evolving to fine-grain Optical Transport Network (fgOTN) quickly. This trend is termed "fgOTN-in SDH-out". For intelligent sensing, in scenarios such as oil and gas pipeline inspection and perimeter inspection, manual onsite operations will be replaced by remote operations, and the converged sensing technologies such as vision and fiber sensing are required. This trend is called "Optical-sensing-in Hard-work-out".

In the speech, Perry Yang described the progress of "3 In 3 Out" so far. Since Huawei launched the industry's first all-optical campus solution, the solution has been put into commercial use within upwards of 10,000 campuses, and passive optical LAN (POL) has entered industry and group standards in many countries. fgOTN has seen global commercial use. Optical sensing has been put into large-scale commercial use in oil and gas, airports, and railways, delivering more than 90 such projects across the globe.

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.

In the future, Huawei will continue to focus on optical technology innovation, and work with global customers and partners to accelerate "3 In 3 Out" in connectivity and sensing, driving industrial intelligence.