Huawei Unveils the Next-Gen Xingmai PEN Solution, Accelerating the Digital and Intelligent Upgrade of Industries

[Shenzhen, China, March 20, 2025] At the Huawei China Partner Conference 2025, Huawei launched its next-generation Xingmai Passive Ethernet Network (PEN) Solution with four stand-out features: exclusive 10GE, unified architecture, robust security, and intelligent operations and maintenance (O&M). This future-proof solution is ideal for industries that are looking for a solid and reliable network foundation to accelerate digital and intelligent transformation.

Chen Zhiwei, Vice President of the Campus Network Domain, Huawei's Data Communication Product Line, delivering a keynote speech

As AI terminals and AI applications become more widespread, enterprises of all sizes are accelerating their digital and intelligent journey. In this process, enterprises are seeking new network solutions for higher bandwidth and easier O&M, and also pursuing a future-proof campus network that can be quickly upgraded for service scalability. Conventional passive optical network solutions cannot meet such needs. That's where Huawei's Xingmai PEN Solution comes in. By eliminating the need for optical splitting, Huawei's Xingmai PEN Solution achieves all-optical 10GE to the room, symmetric uplink and downlink bandwidth, and smooth evolution to 800GE in the future. Plus, Huawei's Xingmai PEN Solution uses the Ethernet protocol across the entire network to avoid protocol conversion, simplifying management on a unified O&M platform and slashing network-wide O&M costs. These traits make Huawei's solution ideal for scenarios with dense rooms in industries such as education and healthcare.

Huawei's Xingmai PEN Solution is a great fit for all industries to speed up their digital and intelligent journey by offering four compelling features as follows:

• Exclusive 10GE for bandwidth assurance: In Huawei's solution, the PEN central switch provides 160GE core bandwidth, which is twice the industry average. A single device can scale to provide 96 10GE ports, enabling all-optical 10GE to the room. This high performance helps create a high-speed and smooth office, teaching, and research network environment.

• Unified architecture for simplified passive networking: A unified network architecture is built based on mature Ethernet protocols, lowering the technical skill requirements and eliminating the need for re-learning by O&M personnel. Plus, the passive networking design is free from extra-low voltage (ELV) rooms, radically eliminating fire risks.

• Robust security and energy saving: Multiple authentication algorithms and reliability protection mechanisms are used to prevent spoofing and unauthorized access and quickly detect and locate optical module faults in seconds. All of these safeguard campus network security. Furthermore, a remote unit (RU) consumes less than 1 W power per port. This energy-efficient capability, combined with dynamic energy-saving algorithms, saves over 30% of network energy, achieving green and low-carbon outcomes.

• Intelligent O&M for simplified operations: RUs are plug-and-play and centrally managed, slashing the number of managed nodes by 80%. The network digital map enables one-click automatic campus network configuration and facilitates precise optimization in specific scenarios, greatly improving the delivery and O&M efficiency of partners and customers. Beyond this, AI-powered O&M enables one person to manage a campus with over 10,000 users.

"The digital and intelligent wave is sweeping industries around the globe. A high-quality network foundation has become a key engine for enterprise transformation and upgrade. Against this backdrop, it's imperative to upgrade enterprise campus networks to empower their digital and intelligent upgrades and inspire further innovation for the future," said Chen Zhiwei, Vice President of the Campus Network Domain, Huawei's Data Communication Product Line. "Huawei's Xingmai PEN Solution meets this need by combining the advantages of field-proven Ethernet technologies and passive optical architecture. With stand-out features like unified architecture, exclusive 10GE, and energy saving, Huawei's innovative solution helps customers in education, healthcare, and other industries to usher in a new generation of high-quality Ethernet campus network. "

As data communication technologies advance day by day, digital and intelligent upgrade has become inevitable across industries. Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to dive deep into and empower digital and intelligent upgrade of all industries through innovative network solutions. Huawei will also further collaborate with customers and partners worldwide to build high-quality 10 Gbps campus networks at scale.