Explore F5G industry scenario application practices and promote the digital transformation of enterprises into a new journey

More and more industry cases tell us that F5G (fifth-generation fixed network) is moving from office buildings to desks, from factories to every machine, bringing more innovative application scenarios to thousands of industries. The close combination of dual 5G will jointly build the foundation for China's digital economy and industry digital transformation.

Explore the application of F5G in more industry scenarios, help enterprises build more efficient, smarter, safer and more reliable F5G networks, create ubiquitous optical connections, accelerate the digitalization process of thousands of industries, and play a key role and value in the development of the country's digital economy.

On June 15, at the Huawei Partner and Developer 2022 Conference, Huawei, together with industry partners and customers such as State Grid Shanxi Xintong Company, Suzhou Zhongke Defense Technology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Yujia Information System Integration Co., Ltd., Henan Chuitian Technology Co., Ltd., and the Research Institute of the Traffic Police Detachment of the Jinan Public Security Bureau, held a theme forum on "F5G Intelligent and Simple All-Optical Network, Empowering with Innovation, and Coexisting with the Industry" to focus on how to deeply integrate F5G with industry scenarios, and shared practical experience in the application of F5G in thousands of industries.

Explore the value of F5G and illuminate every corner of the enterprise

In today's digital age, data has become the core asset of enterprises. As emerging technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and big data continue to mature and land, the digital transformation of enterprises is entering a new era. The amount of data obtained is increasing, and the requirements for networks are getting higher and higher. Enterprises urgently need high-bandwidth, low-latency, high-reliability, and high-security networks to meet the needs of business innovation and development and accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises.

In March 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Dual Gigabit" Network Collaborative Development Action Plan (2021-2023), proposing that by the end of 2023, gigabit fiber networks will be able to cover 400 million households, and the number of gigabit broadband users will exceed 30 million. In November 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Information and Communications Industry", emphasizing the comprehensive deployment of gigabit fiber networks. Accelerate the construction of "gigabit cities", continue to expand the coverage of gigabit fiber networks, strengthen the coordinated construction of all aspects of the network, improve end-to-end service experience, and actively guide broadband users to migrate to gigabit fiber broadband services.

Benefiting from policy support and demand promotion, the development of gigabit optical networks is unstoppable, and the golden age of F5G may be coming.

The "White Paper on the Social Value of Optical Communications" released by Ernst & Young points out that in the future, F5G gigabit optical networks will flourish under the dual promotion of policies and markets. According to Ernst & Young's estimates, the global optical communications industry will reach 1.4 trillion yuan in 2020 and 3.2 trillion yuan by 2025. It can be foreseen that F5G gigabit optical networks will continue to empower thousands of industries and drive a trillion-yuan market space. At the same time, the carbon emissions that F5G helps reduce in the next 10 years are equivalent to planting 1 billion trees.

Liu Xiheng, Vice President of Huawei's Optical Product Line, said in his keynote speech, "The process of industry digital transformation and the development of optical technology complement each other. Based on the ultra-large bandwidth, deterministic ultra-low latency, and high reliability of F5G (fifth-generation fixed network), Huawei focuses on industry scenarios and creates F5G intelligent all-optical network solutions with the characteristics of reliability, flexibility, and agility, and works with partners to jointly build industry digitalization."

Liu Xiheng, Vice President of Huawei's Optical Product Line, delivered a keynote speech

In fact, since the beginning of 2020, Huawei has proposed an industry vision of moving from "fiber to the home" to "Fibre to Everywhere", and has worked with partners to explore more F5G application scenarios and light up every corner of the enterprise.

Build multi-scenario solutions to enable digital transformation of the industry

To help more companies seize opportunities in the surging wave of new infrastructure and digital transformation, Huawei has launched a number of F5G star products and solutions, while actively working with ecosystem partners to explore the application of F5G in different industries and scenarios.

During the Huawei Connect 2021 Conference, Huawei has launched an oil and gas pipeline fiber optic sensing solution based on optical sensing technology, and released a new product series, Huawei OptiXsense, which accelerates the digital transformation of the oil and gas industry, improves inspection efficiency, and ultimately realizes intelligent unmanned inspection. At the Huawei Partner and Developer Conference 2022, Huawei, with its leading experience in optical technology innovation and extensive accumulation in the field of visual algorithms, innovatively launched a combination of optical and visual linkage products suitable for perimeter protection scenarios.

With the support of Huawei's "cross-border" star product, the optical sensing device OptiXsense EF3000, the optical-visual linkage product combination solution integrates the intelligent vision of the GoodView smart perimeter camera, giving perimeter protection the combined advantages of multi-dimensional perception, multi-dimensional verification, and precise positioning. It builds "zero missed reports, low false alarms, all-weather, and full coverage" protection and detection capabilities for target areas with various complex conditions, providing strong technical support for combating illegal intrusions at the perimeter, and is suitable for perimeter security in important areas such as airports and railways.

Lu Junxiang, executive director of Suzhou Zhongke Defense Technology Co., Ltd., said that Zhongke Defense and Huawei have cooperated to innovate a perimeter security solution that integrates light and vision, realize the integrated application of "vision" and "auditory" for perimeter security, and apply the integration of light and vision in different industry fields.

During the conference, Huawei shared in detail the application of F5G in scenarios such as smart power, smart transportation, smart cities, and smart healthcare.

In the smart power scenario, Huawei innovatively applies NHP (Native Hard Pipe) technology to achieve the integration of transmission network and access network, ensuring end-to-end physical isolation and high security of services. By extending the hard pipe downward to the access network, power distribution automation, intelligent inspection, etc. can be uniformly carried through a single network, achieving both safety and efficiency improvements.

In the smart urban rail scenario, Huawei released Smart300G, the next-generation urban rail line bearer network solution for the urban rail cloud, to improve the efficiency of urban rail smart services on the cloud. The ultra-wide pipeline supports the innovative mode of gray light + color light shared networking, and realizes flexible network expansion on demand by expanding the wavelength, supporting the smooth evolution of bandwidth from 100G to 200G or even 300G. Since cloud services use 10G single-wave and one-hop to reach the control center directly, there is no transmission delay at intermediate nodes, and the end-to-end delay is <1ms, which brings efficient service experience guarantee. At the same time, each business system is physically isolated end-to-end, and different services have exclusive physical channels, which is more secure.

Zhang Tianhai, general manager of Guangzhou Yujia Information System Integration Co., Ltd., said that Huawei's Smart 300G solution creates the next-generation bearer network for smart urban rail, helping smart urban rail to develop faster and operate more stably, bringing a better travel experience; Yujia Information and Huawei will work together to build a strong foundation for the future digital transportation network, provide customers with safe, green and efficient services, and help realize the dream of a strong digital transportation country.

In the field of smart transportation, Huawei has innovatively created an all-optical industrial network solution, upgrading traditional active cables to passive optical fibers, and combining it with the latest P2MP networking to provide the industry with a highly reliable, easy-to-deliver, and easy-to-operate and maintain minimalist optical network. In traffic intersection scenarios, FTTM provides unified backhaul for traffic lights, checkpoint cameras, electric police cameras, and other signals at intersections, replacing hundreds of cables in the past with one optical cable and one electrical cable. Compared with traditional networks, construction efficiency has increased by 5 times, and the operation and maintenance TCO can be reduced by about 30%, achieving improved construction efficiency at traffic intersections and accelerating the launch of smart city digital services.

Tian Yunqiang, deputy director of the Research Institute of the Traffic Police Brigade of the Jinan Public Security Bureau, said that intersections are key nodes for urban traffic congestion control. The F5G all-optical intersection solution, with its extremely simple network architecture, realizes the unified carrying of traffic lights, electronic police and other services at key intersections in Jinan, facilitating the interconnection and joint control of traffic, and improving the efficiency of urban traffic operation.

Ma Chuanqi, general manager of Chuitian Technology Co., Ltd., said that the characteristics of F5G Intelligent All-Optical Network, "Green and Minimal, One Fiber Carrying", perfectly match the design concept of "One Pole with Multiple Functions, Multiple Pole in One" of Hyper-Converged Smart Pole. At the same time, it also has three major values: wide coverage, high reliability, and easy deployment. Chuitian Hyper-Converged Smart Pole and Huawei F5G Intelligent All-Optical Network have joined forces to empower the new infrastructure of smart cities.

Liu Xiheng pointed out that with its ultra-large bandwidth, ultra-low latency, and ultra-high reliability, F5G all-optical network has become a solid foundation for supporting the digital transformation of all industries, and is driving unprecedented vitality in thousands of industries. The combination of optical and visual linkage products is not only a further expansion of optical sensing technology, but also a further innovation in the combination of different product areas of Huawei.

In addition, Huawei is also actively cooperating with local governments to build F5G industry application demonstration cities, and plans to help build 8 F5G industry application demonstration cities across the country to enable the digital transformation and upgrading of thousands of industries. As of the end of October 2021, in Wuhan, six months after the "1168" strategy was proposed, Huawei and all parties have jointly promoted it to incubate more than 100 F5G industry application projects covering six key industries including government, manufacturing, commercial real estate, transportation, education, and medical care, and Wuhan's F5G industry applications have achieved remarkable results.

As Liu Xiheng said, a new generation of optical communication technology represented by F5G gigabit optical network is coming, and F5G will also penetrate into thousands of industries, continuously improving the operational efficiency of various industries in terms of information transmission rate, and ultimately accelerating the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the entire society faster and better.