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At the summit , Huawei proposed accelerating the construction of F5G-A All-Optical 10Gbps + Premium Transmission target network to support intelligent transformation and drive digital economy growth in the intelligent era .

Kim Jin , Vice President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line , emphasized in his speech that there are still room to improve the fibre network coverage and gigabit broadband development in the region .

For example , Saudi Arabia has released an FTTH policy to open up resources for optical fibre deployment , rapidly increasing FTTH coverage to 60 % by 2022 . Gigabit access is an important factor to improve the digital economy . Bahrain has released the Post-Gigabit-Society plan to bring gigabit access to every home and 10G coverage to every enterprise by 2026 .

“ The next 10 years are a decade of intelligence , Building F5G-A All-Optical 10Gbps + Premium Transmission target network will accelerate 10Giga digital infrastructure in the Middle East and Central Asia , driving region ’ s digital economy development and embracing new opportunities together in intelligent era ,” noted Jin .

Jin further elaborated that AI foundation models , terminals , and applications have become mature in 2024 . The wide use of intelligent applications is driving traffic growth explosively and demanding deterministic low latency on networks .

Meanwhile , the training of AI foundation and industry-specific models requires ultralarge-scale DCs , driving the evolution from centralised to multi-layer and distributed deployment , he added .

It is forecasted that data centre interconnect bandwidth in the Middle East will exceed 255 Tbps in three years . These service changes pose higher requirements on carriers ’ backbone , metro , and access networks .

10G Passive Optical Network to Home enables smooth upgrade from 100 Mbps to 1000 Mbps for better experience . 50G Passive Optical Network Ready achieves 10 Gbps to all scenarios . Fibre-to-the-room provides ultra-gigabit Wi-Fi experience in every corner of a room and supports more innovative applications .

A full-mesh network at the metro core layer is built to implement one-hop connection between DCs and achieve inter-DC high-speed interconnection within 1 ms . Furthermore , by deploying

Kim Jin , Vice President , Huawei Optical Business Product Line

OTN to the network edge and using OXC to implement optical switching , an E2E alloptical switching network is built to achieve deterministic , low-latency , and premium transmission of intelligent services .

A 3D-mesh architecture is used to build an ultra-high-speed optical plane between hotspot DCs on the backbone network , ensuring non-blocking interconnections . In terms of bandwidth , as the industry chain matures , OTN has entered the new generation of 400G , 800G . The 400G , 800G rate replaces traditional 100G , 200G , reducing the per-bit cost by more than 30 % and bringing considerable benefits .

In terms of reliability , Hybrid ASON protection ensures that a network can withstand multiple fibre cuts and each switching time is shorter than 50 ms , ensuring 99.9999 % network reliability and automatic path availability between DCs . •

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