Huawei Launches F5.5G All-Optical Network Solution for Asia Pacific, Driving Growth of Digital Intelligent Economy in Asia Pacific

[Bangkok, Thailand, August 14, 2024] Asia-Pacific F5.5G All-Optical Summit themed "F5.5G All-Optical Access, Premium Transmission for Intelligence" was successfully held in Bangkok, attracting more than 200 customers and partners from across the Asia-Pacific region to discuss all-optical network technology innovation and industry progress. At the summit, Huawei launched F5.5G "All-Optical Access + Premium Transmission" network solution for the region, promoting intelligence transformation and driving growth of the digital intelligent economy in the region.

In recent years, the optical industry has witnessed rapid development all over the world. The number of gigabit users has exceeded 200 million, with more than 50 carriers having released 10G packages. In addition, 400G has been deployed in 76 countries. Fiber networks play a critical role in the growth of digital economy. Taking fiber broadband as an example, a 10% increase in fiber broadband penetration can bring 1.21% to 1.38% growth in GDP.

Bob Chen, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line, mentioned in his speech that the development of fiber networks in Asia Pacific is not balanced. For example, Vietnam has opened up resources for optical fiber deployment to achieve 81% FTTH coverage and 16% revenue growth over the past three years. Malaysia released its national digital network plan in 2020, specifying that all households will support gigabit access by 2025. This plan has brought a 7% increase in size to the country's digital economy over the past three years. The efficient and balanced development of optical networks, which function as the cornerstone of the digital economy, enables more people to have equal access to digital technologies, thereby driving social development and economic growth in Asia Pacific.

For the development of optical networks, Bob Chen noted that AI terminals, applications, and large models have become mature in 2024. The market share of AI mobile phones has witnessed a significant increase. AI applications — such as intelligent chat, smart office, content creation, industrial interaction, and intelligent robots — have seen explosive growth. The wide use of these intelligent applications demands heavy traffic and deterministic low latency on networks. In addition, the training of AI large models requires ultra-large-scale computing power, driving the transformation of data centers from centralized to multi-layer and distributed. The interconnection bandwidth between data centers in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to exceed 300 Tbit/s. These service changes pose higher requirements on carriers' backbone networks, metro networks, and access networks.

Bob Chen said, "The intelligent era requires higher-quality networks. In response, the industry should upgrade to F5.5G 'All-Optical Access + Premium Transmission' networks to seize opportunities brought by intelligent service growth in Asia Pacific."

The F5.5G "All-Optical Access + Premium Transmission" network consists of the following four parts:

In the AI era, Huawei wishes to work with the industry to explore opportunities in the F5.5G industry, accelerate network infrastructure upgrade, and support intelligent transformation of various industries in Asia Pacific with "All-Optical Access + Premium Transmission" to unearth new opportunities in the AI era.