F5G-A Accelerates ISP Industrial Intelligence with Fast and Stable Networks

As AI services such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek become increasingly popular, more and more industries are embracing digital intelligence. Users' demand for high speed, services' strict requirements on stability, and networks' desire for intelligence all constantly present challenges to traditional network services.

In November 2023, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) released the F5G Advanced (F5G-A) international standard, which features FTTR, Wi-Fi 7, 50G PON, 400G/800G OTN, and Alps-WDM. This marks that the optical industry starts to deploy the fifth generation of fixed networks. Compared with F5G, F5G-A offers ten times the bandwidth, ten times the fiber connection density, and ten times the energy efficiency. It also delivers 99.9999% reliability (up from 99.999%), meter-level precise sensing, sub-millisecond latency, and L4 autonomous networks. This cutting-edge technology, which integrates ultra-broadband connectivity, deterministic experience, and intelligence, is redefining the values of the ISP industry.

Amid the current wave of digital intelligence and AI, the ISP industry can seize the opportunities brought by F5G-A to achieve industrial intelligence from the following three aspects:

Improve end user experience, making networks faster and more stable in the intelligent era.

In the intelligent era, many services and applications are based on cloud-device synergy, and network performance has a great impact on the quality of user experience delivered by intelligent services.

On the transmission network, we adopt multi-plane and multi-service integrated bearing, and combine IP with optical to achieve the single-wavelength 400/800G aggregation and transmission. In addition, the wide deployment of all-optical cross-connections further reduces the network transmission latency, allowing services to reach the destination with one hop and improving service experience.

On the access network, F5G-A provides 10 times the bandwidth of F5G, with symmetric uplink and downlink rates of 10 Gbps that meet high-performance service requirements. On the home network, technologies such as fiber to the room (FTTR) and Wi-Fi 7 ONT are used to provide Wi-Fi experience of over 2 Gbps, improving the stability and speed of home networks and providing localized experience for intelligent services such as ultra-fast cloud NAS, cloud eSports, cloud rendering, AI assistant, and AI-generated content (AIGC).

Enhance system resilience to ensure the reliability of intelligent services.

F5G-A improves reliability to 99.9999% to ensure the network runs stably. In addition, it provides sub-millisecond latency to meet real-time requirements of intelligent services. For example, smart ONT is used to analyze service flow characteristics to identify computing, video, and Internet access services, and end-to-end hard slicing pipes from home Wi-Fi to the CO OLT are automatically created to steer computing services to premium transmission networks. All this helps achieve deterministic 10 Gbps bandwidth, 1 ms latency, and μs-level jitter, thereby ensuring SLA-committed computing access services.

Build a highly autonomous network for intelligent network operations.

By embracing AI, F5G-A can achieve highly autonomous networks and efficient O&M, significantly lowering the operational cost of ISPs and improving their operational efficiency. AI can implement automatic network O&M, reduce manual intervention, and improve network operation efficiency. For example, AI algorithms can automatically detect and diagnose network faults, quickly locate faults, and take appropriate measures. AI technologies can analyze large-scale network data in real time to provide valuable insights. For example, AI analyzes network traffic to predict future network requirements and optimize network resource allocation. AI can also enhance the network security protection capability, as well as identify and prevent potential network attacks through machine learning algorithms. For example, AI can detect network traffic in real time, detect abnormal behavior in a timely manner, and take corresponding countermeasures.

As we move towards the intelligent era, F5G-A drastically improves network performance, and also reshapes service models and industry values. When optical connectivity meets AI and deterministic networks encounter digital twins, the ISP industry will undergo a profound transformation from pipe providers to intelligent service providers. The intelligent transformation driven by F5G-A will redefine the boundaries of network services and unlock unlimited possibilities for industry upgrades. In the new era with intelligent connectivity of everything, mastering F5G-A is the key to the successful future of the industry.

Source: HuaweiTech

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