Huawei's inaugural Global Optical Summit (GOS) Asia Pacific convened in Bangkok with the overarching theme of 'F5G-A: the Pillar of Industrial Intelligence'. The event drew over 300 attendees, comprising customers and partners hailing from Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia. At the summit, Huawei unveiled its suite of F5G Advanced (F5G-A) products and solutions tailored for the Asia Pacific market. Additionally, the company kicked off a global recruitment drive for its OptiX Club, aimed at fostering industrial intelligence across the region.
In the opening speech, Bob Chen said, “Optical connectivity and sensing have been the cornerstones of intelligent industry transformation. Industrial intelligence brings three trends to the optical industry: Fiber-in Copper-out, fgOTN-in SDH-out, and Optical-Sensing-in Hard-Work-out. Huawei has been deeply engaged in the industry and continuously explores innovative optical technologies to enable industrial intelligence”.
At the summit, Gavin Gu, President of the Enterprise Optical Business Domain, Huawei, said, “Industrial intelligence brings three new trends to the optical industry. F5G-A shows us a clear technology evolution roadmap for these trends. I believe that with the joint efforts of customers, partners, and Huawei, we will achieve win-win results in Industrial intelligence”.
Amidst the growing trend of 'Fiber-in Copper-out' adoption in residential areas and educational institutions, where traditional copper cables are being phased out in favor of optical fibers, there's a notable shift in home broadband technologies from fiber to the home (FTTH) to fiber to the room (FTTR), promising enhanced digital living experiences. In response to this evolving landscape, Huawei has introduced the ISP's comprehensive all-optical target network tailored for the FTTR era, aligning with the demands of modern connectivity requirements.
For 'Fiber-in Copper-out' on campus networks, Huawei launched the next-generation FTTO 2.0 Solution, in which Huawei uses XGS-PON Pro and Wi-Fi 7 technologies to upgrade bandwidth, networking, and O&M, achieving 12.5/25G to rooms and 10G to APs so as to build a green 10 Gbps all-optical campus. In addition, Huawei launched the industry’s first 50G POL solution for commercial use, satisfying the requirements of high-performance campus scenarios.
In the third trend, 'Optical-sensing-in Hard-work-out', intelligent remote operation is leveraged to drastically reduce the amount of manual onsite workload, enabling employees to move from outdoor sites to offices in scenarios including smart transportation and perimeter inspection. Huawei integrates sensing capabilities of vision, radar, and optical fibers with the advanced intelligent model to build an industry-leading multi-dimensional sensing solution, facilitating production and operations.
During the summit, Huawei unveiled two significant publications: the Installation Process and Construction Guidance for Passive Optical LAN, and the fgOTN Technical White Paper. These releases are geared towards bolstering support for customers and partners, fostering industry-wide standardization of all-optical networks, and expediting the adoption of applications. Additionally, Huawei announced the global launch of the OptiX Club member recruitment drive aimed at cultivating technical communities within the industry. Through these initiatives, Huawei seeks to drive the advancement of regional industry data intelligence.