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Looking to the next decade, the most 10 Gbps Intelligent Access Network: Ubiquitous 10 Gbps, Differentiated Computing
important change in the ICT industry will Power Access, and Intelligent Applications with Computing-Network Convergence
be intelligence. According to predictions In households, services such as AI assistant, 4K cloud
from related organizations, the
compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of eSports, cloud NAS, and smart healthcare are promoting the
global intelligence-related investment evolution of home networks to "connectivity + computing
will reach 26.9%, and intelligence
will be put to use by enterprises, + intelligence" applications, posing higher requirements on
households, and individuals. Leading networks.
Internet enterprises will compete for
AI foundation models. Government In households, services such as AI experience to deterministic experience with
agencies and financial institutions will assistant, 4K cloud eSports, cloud NAS, guaranteed quality. The ONT transmission
deploy intelligence in their activities, and smart healthcare are promoting network identifies computing, video, and
including in disaster prediction, public the evolution of home networks to Internet access services based on service
security, financial risk control, and "connectivity+computing+intelligence" flow characteristics, and uses the intelligent
marketing. Vertical industries such as applications, posing higher requirements E2E hard slicing technology from home Wi-
manufacturing and electric power will on networks. Take 4K cloud eSports as Fi to the CO OLT of the access network to
also begin to explore AI applications. At an example: if users want to play large- distribute computing services to premium
an individual level, intelligent services scale 3A games on the cloud without using bearer networks. Doing so achieves
such as robots, AI assistants, cloud local high-configuration hosts, the access deterministic 10 Gbps bandwidth, 1 ms
eSports, cloud computers, and smart network must provide guaranteed 300 latency, and µs-level jitter.
homes will provide novel interaction Mbps bandwidth with a latency lower than
experiences in entertainment and life. 5 ms. If ultra-fast cloud NAS needs to back Through the sharing and
Traditional living spaces are rapidly up photos, videos, and files to the cloud in openness of computing
going smart. seconds to achieve the same experience
as storage on local hard disks, symmetric power on FTTR and the CO
To date, more than 30 upstream and downstream bandwidth of 10 OLT of the access network,
operators around the Gbps is required. To meet the requirements more innovative applica-
world have cooperated of new services, we believe that the access tions can be enabled to
network needs to evolve to a 10 Gbps
with Huawei to complete intelligent access network, which has the accelerate operators' expe-

a series of commercial following features. rience monetization.
deployments and veri- First, ubiquitous 10 Gbps access: 50G PON
fication of 10 Gbps implements 10 Gbps to the home, and Wi-Fi Third, intelligent applications with
computing-network convergence: Through
7 implements FTTR to increase the access
optical networks based rate by 10 times, from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps. the sharing and openness of computing
on 50G PON. In this way, the access network provides lo- power on FTTR and the CO OLT of the access
cal-like experience for intelligent services network, more innovative applications
In the intelligent era, the optical such as AI assistant, ultra-fast cloud NAS, can be enabled to accelerate operators'
industry is faced with a new challenge cloud eSports, and cloud rendering. To date, experience monetization. For example,
to enable people to utilize intelligence more than 30 operators around the world on the FTTR side, computing power and
as easily and freely as electricity. have cooperated with Huawei to complete a storage are converged to provide instant
We believe that an F5.5G all-optical series of commercial deployments and ver- shooting and uploading, smart albums,
10 Gbps and premium transmission ification of 10 Gbps optical networks based and "local storage+cloud disk" backup for
capability target network must be built on 50G PON. These include China Telecom users. In addition, FTTR is integrated with
to do so. The 10 Gbps intelligent access Shanghai's 10 Gbps cloud broadband com- sensing to detect activities based on Wi-Fi
network provides ubiquitous and ultra- munity, China Unicom Beijing's 10 Gbps live signal fluctuation, protecting home privacy
broadband 10 Gbps bandwidth, enabling broadcast base, and China Mobile Yunnan's and security. On the CO OLT of the access
users to experience intelligent services 10 Gbps campus. All these indicate that network, a high-performance computing
anytime, anywhere. The premium F5.5G all-optical 10 Gbps networks have engine is used to analyze users' application-
transmission network provides high- entered commercial construction. level data. This helps operators provide
quality connections to computing and services such as experience evaluation,
satisfies the high-quality connection Second, deterministic experience: The potential customer identification, poor-QoE
requirements of distributed data center access network needs to use intelligent analysis, and experience optimization for
architectures. service steering to upgrade best-effort users, achieving experience monetization.

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