Text: Huang Haifeng's correspondence life.
If you want to get rich, build roads first. This slogan has become a wise phrase guiding China's economic construction and infrastructure construction, and has also achieved the myth of China's rapid economic growth.
Today, the Internet has become the road to the development of the digital economy. As the closest network layer to the business of enterprises in industries such as education, real estate, and healthcare, the campus network plays the role of "building roads first if you want to get rich", and is also an indispensable infrastructure for the digital transformation of enterprises.
In the face of development opportunities in the digital era, who has the ability to build the "road" of campus network better and better? With the development of Wi-Fi 7, what is the development trend of campus networks? How to build this "road" to meet the development of new services such as AR, VR, smart healthcare, and smart office?
With these questions, I found such a "road builder" at the 2024 Mobile World Congress (MWC24 Barcelona), as well as the new weapon brought by this "road builder" - a new generation of F5G all-optical campus 20 plan (ftto 2.)0), and launched the 50G POL solution for extreme performance campus scenarios to fully meet the various campus network needs of industry customers.
Continuous innovation: the "road builder" of the park and its new weapon
In the development of the digital economy, smart parks have gradually become a new carrier for the digital transformation of enterprises. Campus networks are the way to connect the real enterprise with the digital world, and its importance is increasing.
Dry all day long, and walk with the times. Today, new applications such as VR teaching and 3D medical imaging are accelerating the upgrade of campus networks from Wi-Fi 6 to Wi-Fi 7. With the official release of the Wi-Fi 7 standard, the campus is fully moving towards a new era of Wi-Fi 7.
Category 5 network cables or Category 5 network cables commonly used in traditional campus cabling can only support 25Gbps, which will need to be re-wired when upgrading Wi-Fi 7. Optical fiber has the characteristics of large bandwidth, low cost, long life, and environmental protection, and can be used for 30 years without worry, and the evolution of optical fiber in the park is unstoppable.
In the face of new trends, what new tools does Huawei, the "road builder", have? During the conference, I saw that Huawei announced two major weapons, as well as many products.
Weapon 1: Huawei's F5G all-optical campus solution has been upgraded to 20 - a next-generation all-optical campus solution for Wi-Fi 7
Perhaps you can't wait to know the new Huawei F5G All-Optical Campus 20 What are the upgrades. As far as I know, the F5G all-optical campus 2 launched by Huawei this time0Compared with Huawei's F5G all-optical campus, four major upgrades have been achieved.
Bandwidth upgrades: Huawei's unique XGS-PON Pro technology can achieve 2*125G to the room, 10G to AP, with the industry's first enterprise-class 10 Gigabit Wi-Fi 7 optical terminal, access capacity increased by 15 times.
Networking upgradeBased on end-to-end hard isolation technology, one fiber and multiple networks can be realized, and office, production, and security can be completed, so that enterprises can integrate multiple networks without having to build networks repeatedly, and reduce TCO by 30%.
Experience upgrades: Hard isolation slicing ensures a deterministic service experience. The upgrade supports 20ms non-inductive roaming, and with the POL analyzer, the Wi-Fi experience of users is greatly improved, and the visibility is manageable.
O&M upgrades: Unified management of IP + POL can be realized, and enterprises only need one person to complete the operation and maintenance of the campus network.
How are the four major upgrades realized? I noticed that Huawei is in F5G All-Optical Campus 20It applies three world-first technologies and one industry-leading technology.
Let's start with three firsts. The first is the industry's first XGS-PON Pro and PON-trunk technologies, which can increase the symmetrical bandwidth of a single line to 125G, in dual uplink PON-trunk binding mode, 25G can be achieved to the room, and the PON port supports multiple access to 150% users; The second is the first end-to-end hard isolation technology, which can independently plan first-class resources for network slicing and realize the integration of multiple networks; The third is the first C-WAN algorithm, which enables OLT to manage Wi-Fi roaming in a unified manner, with a Wi-Fi roaming switching time of less than 20ms to achieve non-inductive roaming of services, and can also support 7*24-hour Wi-Fi experience indicator playback through the built-in POL analyzer, and support minute-level fault location, so that users can visualize their network experience.
Let's take another look at a leading technologynce-campus, the industry's leading campus network. This technology supports unified IP + POL management, enabling enterprises that have built an existing network and want to deploy an all-optical network without having to deploy two separate sets of network management systems to achieve converged deployment, unified service provisioning, unified topology, unified alarms, unified performance statistics, and unified inventory.
The product is the carrier that makes the value of the technology play. At this conference, Huawei brought F5G-based all-optical campus 20 series products: 16-port XGS-PON Pro high-density board card, each port supports 125G, each board supports up to 200G, and the 6-mode-1 capability allows enterprises to reuse existing ONUs, making it the best companion for Wi-Fi 7.
The industry's first XGS-PON Pro ONU P893E enables 10G access to Wi-Fi 7 APs. At the same time, Huawei also launched the industry's highest density 25GE ONU P885E, which can meet 25GE AP access, the best companion for Wi-Fi 6.
The W827E, an enterprise-class Wi-Fi 7 optical terminal, doubles the bandwidth of the Wi-Fi 6 optical terminal.
Tool 2: 50G POL all-optical campus solution - an ultra-10 Gigabit campus solution for extreme performance scenarios
In the campus, we often encounter extreme performance scenarios such as Wi-Fi 7 AP backhaul requiring a large number of 10GE ports, high-density and high-bandwidth coverage in the office, and new business applications such as VR AR requiring higher-bandwidth network support.
How to make the campus network meet these scenarios? At present, the optical industry has made it clear that the next hop of XGS-PON is 50G PON. At this conference,Huawei brought the industry's first commercial 50G POL solution.
The solution includes uplink and downlink symmetric 50G PON OLTs and optical terminals, which can upgrade the campus network from 10G PON to 50G PON and bring two major benefits to users.
First, Huawei's 50G POL solution is based on Huawei's exclusive support for uplink and downlink symmetric 50G technologies and 50G PON Combo optical modules, which can support three modes: GPON, 10G PON, and 50G PON, and can support up to 62 per fiber5G, the bandwidth is increased by 5 times, bringing the ultimate 10 Gigabit experience.
Huawei's 50G POL solution supports wavelength-level hard isolation, and 50G PON, 10G PON, and GPON technologies can be transmitted simultaneously in different wavelengths, and are used to carry network services of different bandwidth types, such as intranet, extranet, and device networks in hospital scenarios.
Getting to the bottom of the matter: How Huawei can become a powerful "road builder" for campus networks
Although there are not many companies engaged in campus network solutions and products, I felt from this MWC exchange that Huawei has made remarkable achievements in campus network construction and is in a leading position. We may feel that Huawei is far ahead in the following aspects.
First of all, deep accumulation. Huawei has 30 years of technology and experience in the optical field, and strives to provide customers with the best optical access network solutions. For example, in the construction of all-optical campus networks, Huawei launched the all-optical campus solution in 2016.
Secondly, the products are abundant. Huawei has released a number of products based on the F5G all-optical campus solution. It can be as small as a single optical module or as large as a 24-port box. These products also support various installation methods such as Wi-Fi, PoE, ceiling, wall-mounted, and 86-box to adapt to different scenarios.
Again, the value is extraordinary. According to Gu Yunbo, President of Huawei's Government and Enterprise Optical Domain, Huawei's F5G all-optical campus solution has been deployed in more than 8,000 customer networks in 50 countries and is widely used in industries such as education, healthcare, commercial real estate, and hotels.
Huawei's F5G all-optical campus solution brings tangible value to users. For example, in the education sector, Huawei and Central South University have jointly deployed an F5G+Wi-Fi 6 all-optical network to build an all-optical campus with high-speed bandwidth, Wi-Fi 6 can be reached anywhere, improving engineering efficiency by 60%, and reducing network-wide energy consumption by 30%.
In the medical field, Huawei has partnered with Union Shenzhen Hospital to deploy the F5G all-optical campus solution to implement all-scenario optical fiber connectivity in hospitals. The all-optical network improves the reading efficiency by 30 times, reduces the network failure rate by 99%, and increases the expansion efficiency by 10 times.
Finally, widely recognized. Huawei's F5G all-optical campus solution has ranked first in China's POL market for four consecutive years, and has won the POL Application Award at the 2023 World Broadband Forum.
At the MWC, Jaime Soroa Rubio, CTO of Huawei's partner Moveam Spain, said that Huawei's F5G all-optical campus solution provides green and high-quality connectivity for MoveAM, enabling refined green operation and management of modern residences and building an all-optical cornerstone for smart real estate.
The author's observation: only by building a "good" road can we win in the era of digital intelligence
If you want to win the first opportunity in the digital economy era, it is important to first repair the "road" of the campus network. With the arrival of the F5G-A standard, fixed networks will usher in a new leap, and campus networks will need to be continuously upgraded.
As a leader in the global optical network market, Huawei has always maintained its leading position in the POL market, and has brought two new tools and many products to the conference.
F5G All-Optical Campus 20 solution, based on the two key technologies of XGS-PON Pro and Wi-Fi 7, compared to 1The 0 solution is fully upgraded in terms of performance and experience, and has the characteristics of ultra-broadband, simplified, green, and high quality, meeting the requirements of industry customers for building a next-generation campus network.
We believe that Huawei, with its powerful tools, will help enterprises in the digital transformation build a "good" path and seize opportunities in the digital intelligence era.