Applications and ResearchHuawei has announced that it has completed two 800G coherent trials on live networks. One is with Turkcell and the other with China Mobile Zhejiang. The announcement follows Huawei’s launch of a 800G tunable optical module at the end of February 2020. The Turkcell trial took place between two data centres in Istanbul using Huawei’s […]
Applications and ResearchService provider Etisalat has worked with Huawei to complete the first trial of compact all-optical cross-connect (OXC) for the transport industry. The OXC in question – the Huawei OptiXtrans OSN 9800 P32C – is a large-capacity OXC device that can be used in the backbone or aggregation layer. Huawei reckons it meets the requirements for […]
News and BusinessA potential fibre-optic submarine cable project to directly connect South America and Asia has been allocated US$3m for a feasibility study. Chile’s Transportation and Telecommunications ministry is financing the study alongside the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF). The 24,000km trans-Pacific cable has attracted the interest of Huawei of China and NEC of Japan. Huawei […]
Applications and ResearchThe China Engineering and Consulting Association (CEDA) recently released China’s first Passive Optical LAN (POL) Engineering Technical Standard. The initiative is aimed at standardising and promoting POL deployment in smart buildings and campuses, and helping design institutes and integrators to improve design capabilities, construction quality, and delivery efficiencies. As a member of the CEDA, China’s […]
News and BusinessHuawei officially released a 600G optical network solution at this month’s Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2018) in Geneva. Based on Huawei’s latest OptiXtreme oDSP chips, the solution provides an adjustable single-wavelength rate of up to 600G and a single-fiber capacity of 40T. Huawei said the solution had been introduced to accommodate the demands cloud computing, big […]
News and BusinessTelecoms giant Huawei has welcomed Graham Stuart MP, Minister for Investment at the UK Government’s Department for International Trade, to its headquarters in Shenzhen, southern China. Speaking at the Closing Ceremony of the 2018 Huawei UK ‘Seeds for the Future’ programme, which hosts some of the UK’s brightest technology and science undergraduates in China for […]
News and BusinessHuawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has been named ‘Supplier of the Decade’ by Vodafone. The Vodafone Supplier Awards recognize companies that have “performed outstandingly” in supporting Vodafone Group’s continuous drive for operating efficiency and to deliver greater benefits to its customers. The ‘Supplier of the Decade’ award signifies Huawei’s […]
Technologies and ProductsHuawei launched its Metro Fabric solution and the CX6600, a programmable, new generation, Metro Fabric-oriented router during the recent MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2018. The solution is designed to help operators build data centre (DC)-centric metro networks characterised by network transport layer and service layer decoupling, elastic scale out, and fast service provisioning. In addition, this […]
Applications and ResearchVodafone and Huawei have conducted a successful field trial of Fixed Access Network Slicing. The virtual access network solution partitions a physical FTTH network into multiple virtual network slices, creating multi-tenancy virtualisation of the access network. This is designed to give flexibility and full control for different operations teams (be they from different departments in […]
News and BusinessIrish open access wholesale infrastructure provider SIRO and Chinese group Huawei say they have successfully showcased XGS-PON technology running on Ireland’s first 100% fibre-optic network at speeds of up to 10 Gbits/s. “What is exciting about this trial is that these blistering fast speeds have been obtained using the exact same network that carries SIRO’s […]
Applications and ResearchT-Mobile Austria, a DT company, has selected Huawei’s OTN solution for its planned metro WDM and backbone WDM network. The projects are intended to build a next-generation large-capacity WDM transport network with leading performance to support the growth of network traffic and services of T-Mobile Austria over the next five years. As an established mobile […]
Applications and ResearchFinland’s 5G test networks are shifting their focus from technology development more towards large-scale service trials. The work continues in close cooperation with key vertical industry partners that, in the future, are planning to deploy their digital services on top of mobile network platforms. The new 5G network capabilities will be able to meet the […]
Applications and ResearchAndorra Telecom has tapped Huawei to upgrade its FTTH network, evolving it from EPON to GPON, in the process upping Internet access speeds initially to 300 Mbits/s. The upgrade is based on the Chinese vendor’s distributed OLT MA5800. According to Huawei, the OLT supports not only high-speed GPON Internet access, but also provides a smooth […]
Technologies and ProductsSeven major test scenarios designed to accelerate deployment of key 5G technologies. Keysight Technologies has begun working with Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on phase II of the China 5G Technology R&D Trial. Using its UXA N9040B signal analyser and 89601B VSA signal analysis software, Keysight has conducted the first integration tests with Huawei’s 5G prototype […]
News and BusinessOptical communications giants Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create the Network Functions Virtualization Interoperability Testing Initiative (NFV-ITI), which is designed to help communication service providers to address the challenges related to NFV deployment and Cloud transformation within multi-vendor network environments. The partners stated, “deployment and integration of virtual […]
News and BusinessAt the 2016 Global MBBF (Mobile Broadband Forum), Huawei demonstrated a 5G and LTE Dual Connectivity live demo with a 4K video on-demand service. The demo was based on Cloud RAN architecture with a 21Gbps single user peak throughput achieved. Huawei said this Cloud RAN-based 5G and LTE Dual Connectivity makes possible the fast deployment […]
Applications and ResearchHuawei and Huawei Marine Networks, a global submarine cable network provider – have teamed up with Belize Telemedia (BTL) to build an undersea cable system that will connect Belize mainland and San Pedro Island. The new subsea cable system will deliver resilient infrastructure and state-of-the-art technology to enhance connectivity and end-user experience in Belize The […]
News and BusinessAt the Mobile World Congress Shanghai (MWCS) 2016, which wrapped up on 1 July, Huawei and GSMA jointly held a Big Video Summit, attracting visitors from leading global carriers, partners, and industry experts from research institutions. The summit aimed to build a platform for significant communication between carriers and their partners in the video domain. […]
Technologies and ProductsHuawei announced that it launched Mellanox InfiniBand EDR 100 Gbps switch solution based on the Huawei FusionServer E9000 converged architecture blade server at International Supercomputing Conference, held in Frankfurt, Germany, in mid-June. The E9000 is one of the world’s first blade servers to support InfiniBand EDR 100 Gbps networks. Mellanox is a leading, high-speed, network-solutions […]
News and BusinessHuawei and Vodafone Group have announced the opening of an Open IoT Lab to work on the development of products and applications relating to Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology. The lab will provide a pre-integration testing environment for application developers and device, module and chip manufacturers. The facility, which is the first of seven […]