Huawei Successfully Holds Global Optical Summit (GOS) 2025 — North Africa

——No Fiber No AI: All-Optical Networks Power Various Industries with Inclusive AI

[Marrakesh, Morocco, April 16, 2025] Huawei Global Optical Summit (GOS) 2025 — North Africa was successfully held during the third GITEX Africa Summit, marking the commencement of GOS activities. Themed "Accelerate F5G-A, Boost Intelligence", this summit attracted 200 customers and partners from countries such as Morocco, the Congo, Senegal, and Côte d'Ivoire. At the summit, Huawei delved into the current progress of industries such as government, electric power, transportation, education, and healthcare in the AI era. Guided by "No Fiber No AI: All-Optical Networks Power Various Industries with Inclusive AI", Huawei demonstrated its latest optical technologies and solutions, and released related products to accelerate industrial intelligence.

"In North Africa, we have worked with more than 3000 partners to apply optical technologies to metro backbone, DCI, home broadband, and campus access scenarios in a wide range of industries," said Colin Hu, President, Enterprise & Cloud of Huawei Northern Africa, in his opening speech. He went on to say, " As the global leader in optical communications for 17 consecutive years, Huawei believes: Optical technology is not just a pipeline — it's a core production factor in the AI era. We'll advance ‘Optical + AI’ innovation through ‘Enhance Computing with Optical, Drive Computing with Optical, Boost Computing with Optical, and Empower Computing with Optical’, tailored to regional needs. The AI era is already upon us. Our mantra is No Fiber No AI. In the future, Huawei expects to cooperate with more customers and partners to seize new opportunities presented by the AI era, with an aim to achieve win-win results."

Colin Hu, President, Enterprise & Cloud of Huawei Northern Africa, delivering a speech

Wang Shiguang, Product Executive of Middle East and Africa Optical Product Marketing, Huawei, said that optical connectivity and optical sensing are the underlying technologies of the next-generation information infrastructure, making them strategic infrastructures that drive the intelligent upgrade of industries. He also pointed out that with the wide application and high penetration of AI technologies, optical technologies will quickly extend from data centers to every industry communication network, every campus, and every sensing terminal, to "Enhance Computing with Optical, Drive Computing with Optical, Boost Computing with Optical, and Empower Computing with Optical". All of this will allow AI to benefit various industries.

Enhance Computing with Optical: All-Optical Lossless DCI Improves Intelligent Computing Collaboration Efficiency

Amid the rapid iteration of AI foundation models, centralized intelligent computing centers face resource limits in power supply and equipment room space, calling for distributed computing power. However, cross-region AI collaborative training has high requirements on network performance, with a packet loss of just 0.1% causing a 50% loss of computing power. Huawei launched the all-optical lossless DCI solution. This solution uses the new OSN 9800 K12 to provide ultra-large capacity of 4T per slot and 48T per subrack. In addition, technologies like dual-fed and dual-receiving are supported to achieve zero packet loss, improving the efficiency and reliability of intelligent computing collaboration.

Drive Computing with Optical: Deterministic Computing for fgOTN-based Industry Communication Networks

Industries such as electric power and transportation are also wholeheartedly embracing AI, launching AI foundation models to implement intelligent power grid health checks, precise load prediction, and road traffic optimization. All of this is helping to drive improvements in quality and efficiency. For example, in the electric power industry, a single substation can support thousands of terminals. This brings 10- or even 100-fold increases in the data volume and number of connections, which SDH or MPLS-TP live networks cannot cope with. Instead, networks require fgOTN, a next-generation optical transmission technology released by ITU-T. Huawei works with customers to build fgOTN-based industry communication target networks and launch E2E fgOTN series products. The networks can provide 10 Mbit/s to 100 Gbit/s elastic bandwidth, and support access of thousands of terminals, as well as up to 99.9999% reliability. In this way, AI applications in industries such as electric power and transportation can achieve deterministic computing.

Boost Computing with Optical: All-Optical Campuses as the New Standard for Campuses in the AI Era

Rapid deployment of AI applications in industries such as healthcare and education leads to an explosion in the number of terminals, placing new requirements on networks, such as ultra-10G bandwidth and high-density connections. Huawei FTTO Solution has made four key upgrades in bandwidth, scenario, operations, and planning. With the industry's highest-density 50G PON OLT and the industry's first outdoor Wi-Fi 7 optical AP, the solution achieves 50 Gbit/s to rooms and 10 Gbit/s to APs, and doubles the number of connections using the single-fiber 1:128 split ratio technology. The higher bandwidth, wider connections, more efficient O&M, and better experience allow each campus and each person to use AI anytime and anywhere, accelerating "Fiber-in Copper-out".

Empower Computing with Optical: Continuously Innovate Optical Root Technologies to Provide Huge Volumes of Quality Data for AI Using Optical Sensing

In addition to powerful connections, AI training and inference also require huge volumes of data. Huawei fully leverages the advantages of optical technologies and continuously innovates in fiber sensing and visual sensing, providing huge volumes of terminal data for AI training and inference.

At the summit, representatives from CountryTech and WIFI Boss in Morocco delivered speeches in which they shared their best practices and insights in all-optical network implementation with Huawei in North Africa.

In the AI era, Huawei will continue to innovate in optical transmission, optical campus, and optical sensing, continuously launch innovative products, and work with partners and customers to build technical communities in the industry. By doing so, it hopes to propel industrial digital and intelligent transformation, and accelerate the application of all-optical networks, ultimately empowering all industries with AI.