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be closely integrated with the service This not only meets the requirements industry organizations, as well as media
provisioning and management workflows for rapid home broadband (HBB) in and analyst firms, from all over the world.
of operators. Starting from the full lifecycle developed countries but also accelerates Demonstrations on site showcase the
of services, this solution facilitates rapid the penetration of affordable HBB services latest 5G technology solutions, commercial
development and efficient management in developing countries.” The 2019 Global cases and the rich applications including
of wireless broadband services in the 5G Mobile Broadband Forum is attended by 5G cloud AR/VR, live 8K broadcast over
era and comprehensively promotes the more than 1,600 people from operators, 5G, and machine vision and remote control
development of the broadband industry. industries, vertical markets, standard and powered by 5G, etc.

Fifth-Generation Fixed Network Boosting the Gigabit Industry

At the 2019 Broadband World Forum
Gigaband Industry Summit, European
Telecommunications Standards Institute
(ETSI), China Academy of Information and
Communications Technology (CAICT),
Wi-Fi Alliance®, well-known analyst
firm Ovum, and multiple mainstream
operators around the world held intense
discussions on how to leverage the fifth-
generation fixed network to promote the
global gigabit ecosystem. In the keynote
speech at the summit, David Boswarthick,
Director New Technologies of ETSI, said,
“Looking back on the development history
of fixed networks, we have experienced
the 64 kbps narrowband era represented
by PSTN/ISDN, 2 Mbps era represented private line, online education, telemedicine, will reach 41%, and that of 10G PON ONTs
by ADSL, 20 Mbps era represented by and smart manufacturing become more will reach 124%.” Besides, mainstream
VDSL, and 100 Mbps era represented by popular, the full-fiber gigabit network will European and Latin-American operators
GPON/EPON. Currently, we are entering directly generate trillions of revenues for from Switzerland, France, Paraguay and
the fifth-generation Gigabit era (1–5 related industries, and Gigabit broadband Turkey, shared their successful experience
Gbps) represented by 10G PON. With has become the focus of global broadband in building gigabit FTTH networks. Jeffery
effective collaboration with wireless development.” At the summit, Kevin Zhou, President of Huawei Access Network,
technologies such as 5G, Gigabit fiber Robinson, Vice President of Marketing at said, “We cannot agree more with industry
networks are providing a flexible and Wi-Fi Alliance, said, “Wi-Fi 6 brings a new organizations, analysts, and operators on
high-performance connectivity network era of Wi-Fi connectivity, delivering better their ideas about the fifth-generation fixed
for the Telecom Industry as well as capacity, coverage, and performance even network and Gigabit era. They have drawn
opening up exciting new opportunities in in the most demanding environments. a blueprint for the global fixed broadband
numerous vertical industries.” Compared As bandwidth demands increase, Wi-Fi 6 development. Huawei is dedicated to
with previous generations, the Fifth- delivers new capabilities that bring more working with industry partners to promote
Generation Fixed Network features full- power and performance in environments the Fifth-Generation Fixed Network; to
fiber connection, ultra-high bandwidth, including home, enterprise, and industrial extend full-fiber coverage to each room,
and ultimate experience. Fibers will IoT. New features enable a variety of desktop, and machine; and to share
connect not only homes, but also more advanced applications including those that the trillion-dollar blue ocean across the
vertical industries such as enterprises, require support for a large number of clients industry chain.” As the leader of fixed
transportation, security, and campuses. at once in large venues and campuses network industry, Huawei provides the
Symmetric Gigabit and Wi-Fi 6 will further and those applications that facilitate SingleFAN Pro solution to efficiently
upgrade network capabilities. End-to-end vast amounts of traffic including AR/VR provide multiple services under various
network latency will become lower and and Ultra HD streaming.” Julie Kunstler, scenarios, bringing the three values of
more stable, and operators will shift from Principal Analyst of OVUM, said, “More “new blue ocean, new capabilities, and new
traffic-centric operation to experience- than two hundred operators in the world experience” to operators. To date, Huawei
centric operation. Meimei Dang, Vice have released gigabit services, and twenty has delivered 1.5 million 10G PON ports,
Chief Engineer in the ITSR(Institute of operators have released 10G services. 10G and helped more than 80 operators around
Technology and Standards Research), PON has become a basic technology for the world to achieve large-scale FTTH
CAICT, said in her speech, “As cloud VR, gigabit networks. In the next five years, it is deployment.
smart home, gaming, social networking, estimated that the compound growth rate
cloud desktop, safe city, enterprise cloud of 10G PON OLT ports in the central office
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