Huawei OptiX Alps-WDM Solution Is Released to Support All Service Development

During the 8th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2022), Richard Jin, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line, launched Huawei's OptiX Alps-WDM solution. This solution aims to build TCO-effective metro networks and enable OTN to Everysite. It will comfortably meet the challenges of diversified network connections in moving towards F5.5G, and help operators quickly develop all services.

Figure 1: Richard Jin, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line

Taking into account the large-scale deployment of 5G, gigabit home broadband, and private line services, traffic of Central Office (CO) sites will increase by three times over the next five years. Operators are facing many challenges, such as insufficient equipment room space, power consumption, and fiber resources at metro sites, as well as high network construction and O&M costs. Against this backdrop, Huawei proposed the innovative OptiX Alps-WDM solution. This solution allows wavelengths to be shared among different access rings, and wavelengths can be adjusted and groomed on demand. It can increase the network capacity by 10 times, reduce equipment room footprint and power consumption by 80%, and future-proof the network for the next decade. This solution includes four major technological innovations:

"A" is for agile. The E2E NCE system and innovative optical digital label technology are used to implement automatic service planning, configuration, commissioning, and optimization, improving network O&M efficiency by 20%.

"L" is for long-term evolution. High-sensitivity 100G modules dedicated for metro networks support smooth evolution from 100G to 400G. With these 100G modules, the network capacity is expanded tenfold and the cost per bit is reduced greatly.

"P" is for pooling. The innovative pooling architecture enables wavelength resources to be shared among different access rings, achieving zero bandwidth waste. Additionally, Huawei's latest Blade OXC Pro board allows nine access rings to share wavelength resources in one subrack, reducing site footprint and power consumption by 80%.

"S" is for simplified. The innovative Blade OXC Nano board enables flexible wavelength selection for any port and unified site models with colorless ROADM.

Richard Jin said, "Huawei has been committed to strategic investment and technological innovation in the optical communications field for many years, empowering operators to build ubiquitous premium connectivity." The innovative OptiX Alps-WDM solution enables 100% automation, 100% coherence, 100% sharing, and 100% ROADM. It will help build all-optical metro networks with an optimal TCO, accelerate all service development for operators, and achieve the vision of "Premium Connectivity Lighting Up the Digital World."

This content is sponsored by Huawei.