Huawei Passes OIF Test

CHICAGO -- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. today announced that its intelligent optical network has successfully passed the World Interoperability Test held by the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) from 18 Feb 2005 to 20 May 2005. 13 mainstream optical network manufacturers had their equipment tested. 7 big telecom carriers including China Telecom, NTT, Telecom Italia, France Telecom, Deutsch Telecom, Verizon and AT&T were present.

The test result demonstrates that Huawei’s intelligent optical equipments are interoperable with those of Alcatel, Ciena, Fujitsu, Marconi, Nortel and Sycamore in both service and signaling. In addition, Huawei’s intelligent optical network equipment has passed the Bandwidth on Demand (BOD) test of routers from Avici and Cisco. Therefore, Huawei’s equipment can also handle the dynamic bandwidth request raised by the IP routers of these two companies. The result will be announced in the upcoming SuperComm 2005.

As one of the three international organizations in the intelligent optical network field, OIF is committed to work on the interoperability and internetworking of the intelligent optical network. It holds the World Interoperability Test in Asia, Europe and North America with the objective to promote the interoperability and internetworking of intelligent optical networks across the globe and thus to realize the seamless end-to-end service provision.

The test items mainly focus on UNI(User-to-Network Interface) 2.0 and E-NNI(Extenal Network-to-Network Interface). Huawei passed all test items, evidencing that the UNI/ENNI functions of Huawei’s intelligent optical network have grown mature, which will facilitate the large-scale application of such networks. (UNI2.0 supports the dynamic application by Ethernets and TDM service to optical networks for the bandwidth needed, while E-NNI supports the interoperability and internetworking among network domains formed by equipment from multiple carriers and vendors.)

Since 1999 when it started the research and development of intelligent optical network, Huawei has been devoted to commercializing its leading technologies in the optical network field and improving its network interoperability in order to save customers’ investment. At the end of 2003, Huawei launched its full-range ASON solution, which is known as the only company offering such solution in the industry. Huawei’s ASON solution has been commercialized on a large-scale ever since.

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.