At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019, Huawei officially released the Optical 
Networking 2.0 (ON2.0) solution. This solution enables new speed as per Moore's 
law of bandwidth to maximize fiber value, new site (simplified sites) to reduce 
costs, and new smart O&M to evolve towards autonomous driving networks. This 
solution will continuously reduce O&M costs and enable service innovation.

In the 5G era, we are seeing new 2C, 2B, and 2H services emerge constantly, 
driving the CT industry to a new stage of development as well as posing greater 
challenges to transport networks: In the 2C field, the revenue of operators is 
not increasing at the same rate as data usage; in the 2B field, operators' 
market share is being eroded by cloud service providers (CSPs); in the 2H 
field, user experience is not sufficient for supporting the development of 
emerging services and complex networks increase network O&M costs. Bandwidth 
needs must be satisfied. However, the bandwidth-driven development model can no 
longer support the revenue growth of operators and needs to be transformed to 
experience-driven. 

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(Kevin Huang, CMO of Huawei Transmission & Access Network Product Line, 
unveiled the ON2.0 solution at MWC 2019)

Kevin Huang, CMO of Huawei Transmission & Access Network Product Line, said, 
"We need to streamline optical access and optical transport networks to build a 
5G-oriented end-to-end (E2E) optical infrastructure network. This will help 
operators build integrated optical networks with optimal per-bit cost and 
assured E2E service quality to cope with the challenges in the 5G era." Against 
this backdrop, Huawei releases the ON2.0 solution, which has the following 
three core values.

New Speed: Moore's Law of bandwidth will drive the E2E technological innovation 
in access, metro, and backbone networks to continuously improve bandwidth and 
maximize the value of fibers. In addition, Wi-Fi 6 is used to accelerate home 
access, Flex-PON2.0 to seamlessly upgrade GPON to 10G PON, Super 200G to 
improve single-carrier rate, and Super C Band technology to maximize the 
potential of optical fiber spectrum, achieving Moore's Law in the optical 
domain.

New Site: Optical networks, including access, metro, and backbone networks, 
will be simplified in an E2E manner to significantly reduce required equipment 
room resources. On the access side, unified access over multiple types of media 
will be implemented to simplify access sites. On the metro side, MS-OTN will be 
used to carry multiple types of services, simplifying CO sites, streamlining 
access and transport networks, and achieving one-hop connections. On the 
backbone side, all-optical cross-connection will be used to build 3D-Mesh 
backbone networks and simplify fiber connections, achieving all-optical 
grooming.

New Smart O&M: A digital twin will be built on top of the physical optical 
networks by using AI, big data, and cloud technologies. This transforms O&M 
from passive to proactive and site configuration from manual to automatic and 
intelligent, facilitating the evolution towards autonomous driving networks. As 
for scenarios, such as premium broadband, premium private line, and network 
health prediction, intelligent technologies will be used to reduce O&M costs 
and ensure optimal service experience.

With the ON2.0 solution, Huawei can help operators achieve "optical network as 
a service" and transform transport networks from connection-centered to 
experience-centered, enabling the business success of operators.

Currently, Huawei has innovated collaboratively in ON2.0 with operators around 
the world to support their business growth. Huawei has worked with China Mobile 
to develop an OTN 4K premium video live broadcast solution to provide superb 
video experience by building non-blocking and zero-packet-loss pipes. Huawei 
has collaborated with Fastweb in Italy to incubate a premium private line 
solution, reducing service provisioning time from months to weeks and providing 
99.999% high availability. Huawei has also cooperated with another Europe 
operator to accelerate the innovation in premium broadband solution, which 
supports E2E access network topology inference and accurate fault demarcation, 
reducing onsite visits by 30%.

Kevin Huang said, "The global optical network industry is experiencing a major 
generational inflection point. Huawei will cooperate with upstream and 
downstream partners to build a next-generation 5G-oriented optical network and 
embrace a fully connected, intelligent world."

SOURCE: Huawei