Huawei: Practicing all-optical autonomous driving networks and leading the quality evolution of one network and three industries

[Shenzhen, China, April 21, 2023] Recently, the 20th Huawei Global Analyst Conference with the theme of "Leaping Digital Productivity, Accelerating Towards an Intelligent World" was held in Shenzhen. Huawei discussed the outlook for the intelligent world with global analysts, operators, and business leaders, and the development vision of the deep integration of digital technology and application scenarios. During the meeting, Huawei NCE optical network field and industry analysts conducted in-depth exchanges on the multi-scenario technology empowerment of all-optical autonomous driving network solutions.

Yue Wei, President of Huawei's NCE Optical Networking Domain, said that under the trend of global digital development, new industrial forms, business models, and service categories are constantly emerging. The demands for networks such as home broadband, enterprise cloud computing, and campus networks are no longer limited to connection speeds. End-to-end high quality, including user experience, service SLA, and efficient operation and maintenance, have become the core of demand iteration. All-optical networks have entered a stage where quality is the primary driving force for production. Anchoring the trend of key demand changes and promoting the evolution of all-optical service quality with intelligent technology have become the new empowerment goals of the all-optical autonomous driving network solution (all-optical ADN) for the future.

Wang Jinping, Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei's NCE Optical Network, said that in order to match the evolution of demand with the evolution of quality, all-optical ADN has given a new connotation to the one network and three industries: quality basic network, quality private line, quality broadband, and quality campus. With the iMaster NCE intelligent management and analysis system as its technical core, it can fully adapt to the development needs of all-optical network scenarios such as home broadband, enterprise, and campus, and lead the iteration of service quality.

Digitalization strengthens the quality of basic network

As services become more diversified, higher quality demands have brought huge challenges to resource utilization, network operation and maintenance, network stability, fault closure, and other links. A high-quality all-optical basic network is an effective support for all-optical network services. To this end, Huawei provides a number of digital capabilities to strengthen the quality of the all-optical basic network. First, for the ODN network, the focus of the basic network, Huawei's digital ODN solution can help operators achieve a successful home broadband service opening through efficient resource proofreading and high-precision positioning capabilities, breaking the dilemma of slow fiber status updates, large manual operation investment, and high service issuance costs, greatly reducing ineffective investment, and improving resource utilization. Secondly, for the transmission network of the basic network, Huawei can reduce business risks and improve network stability through the collaboration of iMaster NCE soft capabilities and intelligent sensor hardware capabilities. In addition, it can also help operators effectively reduce the operation and maintenance costs that rise with massive alarms through fault event identification and automatic diagnosis, enabling "one fault, one work order".

Focus on experience and strengthen broadband quality

For home broadband scenarios, Huawei's solution focuses on the entire business process to consolidate the broadband experience. In order to improve the matching degree of user experience demands and user loyalty, Huawei provides a potential customer identification solution with multiple experience tags before sales, helping operators to optimize the potential customer identification model from single dimension to multi-dimensional to fully understand the user experience and gain insight into user needs, thereby greatly improving the marketing success rate. In response to the common problem of non-standard networking, Huawei ensures that standardized networking is successful once through the acceptance of multiple types of broadband key performance indicators, effectively avoiding the experience degradation caused by standard issues. At the same time, through the active home broadband quality evaluation system, operators will make user experience visible, manageable, and guaranteed, thereby increasing customer stickiness and satisfaction. In addition, Huawei's solution also provides a full network active evaluation and assurance solution to improve NPS, and through the four-layer fault handling logic, the faults are reduced layer by layer, improving the fault handling efficiency and consolidating the bottom line for user experience.

Quality commitment creates dedicated line quality

For the optical private line scenarios where operators have the highest returns, Huawei's solution provides private line service SLA guarantees covering the entire life cycle of pre-sales, sales, and after-sales, helping operators build differentiated competitiveness throughout the entire service process and accelerate commercial realization. In the pre-sales stage, operators can quickly evaluate the matching of various SLAs through the latency map function, and improve differentiated sales capabilities to meet customers' differentiated business demands. In the sales stage, Huawei provides multi-factor, multi-strategy intelligent routing, which can automatically complete service configuration end-to-end and achieve extremely fast service delivery. In the after-sales stage, Huawei provides private line SLA over-limit warnings and availability optimization suggestions to help operators make optical private line SLAs visible, adjustable, and committable.

Simplifying the complex to create park quality

As the trend of replacing copper with optical fiber becomes an inevitable development trend, intelligence and simplification have become the general demands of campus networks. At present, the campus network is facing the problem of lack of POL installation and maintenance personnel in the process of rapid evolution to POL, and inefficient start-up has become the crux of the problem. To this end, Huawei's solution implements modular and de-professionalized POL service configuration and global distribution, reduces the installation and maintenance skill requirements, solves the difficulties of distribution, operation and maintenance teams in transforming to POL, and accelerates the replacement of copper with optical fiber in campus networks. With the three advantages of fast management, fast configuration, and wide configuration, the solution greatly improves the efficiency of empowering engineers, while significantly reducing the start-up time, improving installation and maintenance efficiency, and shaping the quality of the campus with extreme speed and simplification.

Huawei's NCE optical network team said that the application of intelligent technology has laid the foundation for the diversification of use case scenarios, and the rich collection of use case scenarios has condensed the high quality of one network and three industries. Huawei will take quality as the driving force, face the ever-increasing business and iterative demands, continue to practice autonomous driving in the field of optical networks, and work with all sectors of the industry to bring quality experience to every home and every industry.