On May 6th, China Unicom Beijing Branch (hereinafter referred to as "Beijing Unicom") held a press conference on Beijing Unicom’s all-optical life with the theme of "Thirty years of sincerity is only better". It is reported that this conference is a renewal and upgrade of Beijing Unicom in many aspects, such as network, products and services. It focuses on building a network power and digital China, expanding the main business of networking communication and computing network intelligence, vigorously implementing the "Thirty-way New Unicom Jingcai" Gigabit all-optical popularization action plan, and launching explorations in many aspects, such as ingenious network, quality upgrade and intimate service. Beijing Unicom leads home communication with high-quality network, high-quality products and high-quality services, and leads the business development of national operators.
Chen Haibo, Party Secretary and General Manager of Beijing Unicom, said in his speech that Beijing Unicom, as the leading communication operator in the capital region, has been rooted in the network information business in the capital for many years under the correct leadership of the municipal party committee and municipal government and the municipal communications administration, and fully implemented the mission of becoming a network power and a digital China. It is not only a personal witness to the vigorous development of the network information business in the capital, but also an important participant and a leading promoter. Beijing Unicom bravely shoulders the responsibility and mission of becoming a network power. From large-scale broadband fiber-optic transformation, to the construction of 5G high-speed mobile network, and then to ten times of network speed-up, Beijing Unicom led the network upgrade in the capital area again and again, taking the lead in realizing the unconditional acceptance of gigabit broadband in the city, and taking the lead in completing the demonstration of 5G-A scale networking in the country, which fully helped the network speed in the capital area to enter the national leading level. Beijing Unicom accelerates the construction of digital China. From the continuous innovation of new technologies and applications such as cloud computing, big data and Internet of Things, to the comprehensive service support of government cloud, 12345 citizen hotline and Jingtong health service platform, and then to the Jingxi artificial intelligence computing center to open a new chapter in the development of intelligent computing in the capital, Beijing Unicom has fully integrated into the main battlefield of digital economy and continuously injected strong momentum into the high-quality development of the capital economy. Beijing Unicom adheres to the fine tradition of "People’s Posts and Telecommunications for the People". From the Broadband Olympics in 2008 to the Smart Winter Olympics in 2022, from the sureness of more than 700 re-insurance tasks every year to the fulfillment of the promise of each home delivery, as Beijing Unicom, which has won the honor of "model of central enterprises", it inherits the red blood of a hundred years and carries forward the ingenuity of Shuangao.For a long time, it has provided important communication guarantee for major events of the CPC Central Committee and Beijing, and has become the "preferred broadband service provider" for 5 million Beijing household users, providing high-quality and convenient information and communication services for more than 20 million users in the city.
Speech by Chen Haibo, General Manager of Beijing Unicom
Facing the intelligent era, the connotation of F5G-A has been further updated, including all-optical 10 Gigabit and high-quality transportation capacity. During the press conference, Beijing Unicom also further demonstrated its leading position in network innovation through the practical achievements and landing products of F5G-A. Facing users, based on a solid all-optical transport base and sound end-network service capabilities, Beijing Unicom released all-optical Wi-Fi 3.0 products based on Huawei’s iFTTR Starlight F50 products, providing all-optical scene new quality of life services for broadband users in Beijing, and helping Beijing Wi-Fi7 to upgrade.
At the press conference, Wang Jinhui, vice president of Huawei’s optical product line, elaborated in detail the intelligent era facing the next 10 years in the keynote speech of "F5G-A all-optical network, opening the ultra-wide intelligent era". A F5G-A all-optical quality transportation network will bring great-leap-forward changes in business scenarios such as 10 Gigabit home, 10 Gigabit intelligent access and quality all-optical dedicated line for the people and enterprises in the capital. Wang Jinhui said at the scene: "Towards the intelligent era in the next 10 years, it is necessary to build a F5G-A all-optical quality transportation network, which will make the computing power always online with the ultra-high reliability of six 9s, and make the computing power instantly available with the ultra-low delay of 1 millisecond, connecting the ubiquitous intelligence." Among them, the 10 Gigabit intelligent access network, which is characterized by 10 Gigabit access and intelligent service diversion, is helping Beijing Unicom to open up a new space for smart home services and industry digitalization.
Wang Jinhui, Vice President of Huawei Optical Product Line, delivered a keynote speech.
F5G-A all-optical quality transport network, as the best choice in the era of 10 Gigabit intelligence, mainly includes the following four parts:
1) All-optical smart home: Huawei iFTTR Starlight F50 looks exquisite and atmospheric, and through the integration of computing power and storage, it builds a smart home optical hub, supporting Beijing Unicom to release a new end-cloud integrated storage scheme integrating mobile phone, all-optical home storage and Unicom cloud disk; Users enjoy the simple operation of mobile phone-like photo albums, and realize high-speed transmission, instant shooting and instant sharing with exclusive AI Core; Double backup of local+cloud disk to strengthen privacy protection; The industry’s first new Wi-Fi 7 FTTR product has excellent performance, and the whole house optical Wi-Fi exceeds 2,000 m, realizing the popularization of optical WiFi, and adopting the latest Wi-Fi technology architecture to realize 10-millisecond fast switching and inductive roaming, ensuring that the video switching between different rooms is not dropped, and ensuring the stable concurrency of 256 smart home devices.
2) 10 Gigabit intelligent access: As the key to build all-optical quality ubiquitous access to the last mile, 50 Gigabit PON to the home and 10 Gigabit FTTR to the room not only create a 10 Gigabit ultra-wide pipeline, but also connect with the uplink OTN hard pipeline through intelligent identification of access services and intelligent hard slice diversion, providing a local experience for services with high computational requirements such as cloud computers and cloud rendering; At the press conference, Beijing Unicom announced that Huawei and China have jointly completed the "F5G-A 50G PON 10Gigabit Experience Evaluation Report".
3) Jump into the metro area: sink to the edge through OTN to realize all-optical switching and one-hop direct service, and use pooled wavelength division to boost 100G to the edge of the network and the park, fully meeting the requirements of all-optical one-stop access for thousands of businesses and services and 1 millisecond into the cloud; OTN quality dedicated line covers ubiquitous access according to the depth of service hotspots, providing 2M to 100G broadband multi-particle flexible access capability.
4) Three-dimensional joint calculation backbone: All-optical transport capacity base is built through 3D Mesh three-dimensional architecture, 99.9999% ultra-high reliability, and 400G/800G+OXC of metro core, so as to realize non-blocking connection and lossless collaboration between intelligent calculation data centers, cover all districts and counties in Beijing, and provide high-quality joint calculation services.
2024 is the 30th anniversary of Beijing Unicom’s broadband service and the first year of commercial use of F5G-A. Beijing Unicom will continue to innovate and cooperate with Huawei, and make breakthroughs in commercial solutions such as 400G/800G, 50G PON, iFTTR Starlight F50, so as to build the cornerstone of an intelligent society and help thousands of businesses to be intelligent. At the same time, relying on high-quality communication network, leading technical strength and first-class service team, we will continue to help the development of smart Beijing to a new level, and continue to contribute to China Unicom’s efforts to build a "Beijing model" for digital economic development and enhance the core functions of the capital.
(Editor: Shen Ye)