Huawei FlexPON

- Building a 10G PON Ready Network at GPON Cost

Dr. Yang Yu (Justin)

Solution Director
Huawei Enterprise Finland

Security Level:
 The Trend

1. The Trend 2. Build 10G Ready Network 3. Products & Scenarios 4. Huawei Optical Access Achievements
The 5th Generation Fixed Network is ON
F1G F2G F3G F4G F5G
Service
Voice era Web era Video era 4K UHD era Cloud VR era

Telemedicine Online
Gaming
GRE(Guaranteed
Reliable Experience)
100 μs latency Smart
Cloud Video
Manufacturing
Desktop VR

8K

4K

Cloud Safe
2K

VR 4K City
8K
16K
Cluster
Connections per system

eFBB (Enhanced FFC(Full-fiber Enterprise

Social Connection)
Fixed Broadband) Cloudification
Networking 10 Gbps 16K

Online Smart
Education Home

Technology POTS ADSL VDSL/Docsis3.0 GPON/Docsis3.1 10G PON

Better Life Smarter Society

64Kbps 2M 20M 100M 1G
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 FTTH Connections Is Growing In All Regions
FTTH Ratios in Nordic Countries
FTTH as % of total broadband 2019 2024
EMEA Denmark 38% 45%
Significant growth in Estonia 45% 54%
As % of total 2019 2023
FTTH as DSL declines.
broadband (295m subs) (334m subs) Finland 47% 61%
FTTH subscribers grow
from 80 million in 2019 Norway 47% 67%
FTTH 27% 35% to 118 million in 2023
Iceland 50% 60%
xDSL 56% 47% with penetration
variations by country. Sweden 68% 77%
Lithuania 69% 75%
Latvia 84% 86%

SCA Asia Pacific

As % of total 2019 2023 As % of total 2019 2023 FTTH subscribers continue
FTTH grows as DSL declines. to grow, from 466 million in
broadband (80m subs) (90m subs) broadband (569m subs) (630m subs)
FTTH subscribers will reach 16 2019 to over 534 million in
million in 2023, from 10 million in 2023, representing 85% of
FTTH 13% 18% FTTH 82% 85%
2019, representing 18% of broadband households in
broadband households in 2023. xDSL 47% 40% xDSL 8% 5% 2023.

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 * Data source: speedtest.com

Downlink Throughput in Nordic Region

Norway – 130Mbps
Iceland – 230Mbps

Denmark – 147Mbps Latvia – 104 Mbps

Sweden – 137Mbps Finland – 91 Mbps

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1 Gbps is the Trend, Deployment on Demand is the Best Choice
Global: 57 countries have released gigabit services China: Gigabit for 20 million homes by 2019

1000Mbps 500Mbps
Sources: operator websites and
Ovum

Data source: China Broadband develop association

• 234+ operators have launched 1Gbps services

• Including 20+ 10Gbps packages 62 Provincial Operators 59 Provincial Operators
• EU: DSM2025, Ready for 1Gbps 500 Mbps packages 1Gbps packages

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10G PON Access and 100GE Uplink are Required for the Near Future

10G PON Access is Required from 2023 100GE Uplink is Required from 2023
PON Ports Traffic Forecast OLT Uplink Traffic
(Gbps) Forecast(Gbps)
XGS-PON(10Gbps / port) N*100GE uplink
400.0 356.1
8.0 7.4

GPON(2.5Gbps / port) 300.0 N*10GE uplink

6.0
4.4 211.9
200.0
4.0
2.5 119.2
2.0 1.1 100.0 54.5
0.5 25.4
0.0 0.0
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Video Internet Average Average BW /PON BW / OLT

Year 8k 4K FHD Concurrent Concurrent BW/Subs Subs/ port (48*PON,
10G 1000M 500M 100M On-line Ratio (Mbps) PON Port (Gbps) Gbps)
(140M) (35M) (10M ) Rate Ratio
2019 20% 80% 60% 0% 10% 15% 75% 70% 10% 26.5 20 0.5 25.4
2020 35% 65% 60% 0% 20% 25% 55% 70% 10% 37.9 30 1.1 54.5
2021 5% 50% 45% 60% 2% 43% 20% 35% 70% 10% 71.0 35 2.5 119.2
2022 10% 65% 25% 60% 5% 65% 15% 15% 70% 10% 110.4 40 4.4 211.9
2023 20% 80% 0% 60% 10% 85% 5% 0% 70% 10% 164.9 45 7.4 356.1

* Data from Huawei MI based on operators in China

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 Build 10G Ready
Network

1. The Trend 2. Build 10G Ready Network 3. Products & Scenarios 4. Huawei Optical Access Achievements
 Ultra Broadband Drivers NGPON Evolution
GPON N*10G PON
50 Gbps / channel
2.5Gbps / channel 10Gbps / channel

GPON XG-PON Commercial from 2012,

2.5G/1.25G 10G/2.5G China, Singapore, Japan 50G PON
FTTH Large-scale Standard consent in 2016
Commercial from 2007 XGS-GPON Commercial from 2017, EU, Standard Complete 2020+
10G/10G NA, ME

40G TWDM PON Limited trial in 2017

Commercial after 2018
4*ch, 10G per ch Supplement of XG(S)-PON

Bandwidth &
Services
~25Gbps
100Mbps ~ 300Mbps 0.5Gbps ~ 10Gbps > 10Gbps

4K VR, 8K SME 4G/5G Extreme VR Enterprise 5G RRU

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 GPON and 10G PON co-existence in the same ODN

XGPON US GPON US GPON DS RF VEDIO XGPON DS

Center:1270nm Center:1310nm Center:1490nm Center:1555nm Center:1577nm

1260 1280 1290 1330 1480 1500 1550 1560 1575 1580

No wavelength overlap between GPON and 10GPON, they can coexist in the same ODN with WDM

XG(S)-PON ONT
Challenges
 Higher CAPEX:
GPON OLT Add WDM1r  2 set of OLTs (cards)

GPON ONT  External WDM1r chassis

 Higher OPEX:
 ODN Change - High Engineering Cost
 Additional rack space for WDM
XG(S)-PON OLT  Additional WDM insertion loss 1.2dB
XG(S)-PON ONT GPON & WDM rack

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What Drives 10G PON Deployment Decisions?
10G PON is Coming Soon But 10G PON Cost Still High SFP Cost Decline with Volume

Ports Cost
GPON shipment 10G PON Cost

3 ~ 4 times 10G PON SFP Cost

10G PON shipment GPON Cost

Volume
2019 2021 2024 2019 2021 2024

GPON 10GPON
Network planning driven Ready
GPON marketing Unified Marketing with
GPON 10G PON Ready
10GPON Or 10GPON Network
Ready
GPON 10GPON
Marketing driven Ready only upgrade SFP
network planning?

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Huawei Flex-PON Solution Brings Smooth Evolution to 10G service
Unique Flex-PON 2.0 Flex-PON Solution: Day1 GPON -> Day2 GPON + 10GPON Combo
Flex-PON GPON XGS-PON TWDM PON
Flex-PON 2.0 Card Flex-PON 2.0 Card XG(S)-PON ONU

… …
GPON SFP XGS-PON Combo SFP+
GPON ONT
Day1 : Flex-PON + GPON SFP Day2 : Change GPON SFP to XGS-PON Combo SFP

Flexible and Smooth Migration

 On demand configuration with  High density 16 port Flex PON card
different optics：
 On demand PON mode by change optic module, save card
 GPON: 2.5G/1G
XG(S)-PON/
Change SFP Combo SFP  XG-PON : 10G/2.5G investment.
XG(S)-PON SFP  GPON/XG-PON Combo
GPON SFP  XGS-PON : 10G/10G
 ODN “0” change for 10G PON upgrade
 GPON/XGS-PON Combo  No additional rack space for 10GPON upgrade, lower
Reuse Card Flex-PON Card  TWDM-PON: 4λ*10G/10G
power consumption

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Small invest Big Gain for on Demand 10G PON Deployment
TCO Comparison in GPON New Build + 10GPON Upgrade
TCO Comparison in Parts
Scenario from Year 1- Year 5
16.0 15.0 2.86
Total 2.64
3.41
14.0 13.1
12.6 Max. 23% TCO saving
0.10
11.1
Power Cost OPEX 0.12
12.0 11.0 0.12
9.6 11.6
10.0 0.45
10.5 Rack Cost OPEX 0.45
8.3 1.03
7.3 9.3
8.0
7.6
In Year 5, the TCO of Flex-PON is 0.00
max 23% lower than old solution WDM1r CAPEX 0.00
6.0 4.6 0.13
4.1
4.0 1.31
1.8 4.6 10GPON OLT CAPEX 0.88
1.8 1.13
2.0 The initial CAPEX of Flex-PON
2.1 is ~ <20% higher 1.00
GPON CAPEX 1.19
0.0 1.00
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
First GPON OLT then add 10G PON Card +WDM1r First GPON OLT then add Flex-PON + XGS-PON Combo card
First GPON OLT then add Flex-PON + XGS-PON combo SFP First Flex-PON + GPON SFP then change XGS-PON Combo SFP
First Flex-PON+GPON SFP then change XGS-PON combo SFP
First GPON OLT then add 10GPON Card +WDM1r

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 Products & Scenarios

1. The Trend 2. Build 10G Ready Network 3. Products & Scenarios 4. Huawei Optical Access Achievements
 OLT Series Product Overview
EA5800-X17 EA5800-X15 EA5800-X7

21inch Shelf；17Slots 19inch Shelf； 15Slots 6U height /19inch；7Slots

EA5800-X2 EA5801 MA5801S

2U height ， 2Slots 1U height ，compacted 300*400*100mm(12L)，sealed

Ultra Broadband Full-fiber Connection Ultimate Experience

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 PON COMBO: Effective XG(S)-PON & GPON Coexist Solution
GPON & XG(S)-PON
Combo Card XGS-PON ONT
1 optical module

XG-PON ONT 1 feed fiber

To ODF
OLT 3 types of ONT access :
GPON ONT
XGS-PON, XG-PON, GPON

• Zero space demand

• Zero ODN change

GPON & XG(S)-PON • Cost is higher than external WDM1r due

GPON SFP XG(S)-PON SFP WDM1r（optional） to high integration
Combo optical module

Optical module type XG-PON+GPON Combo(SFP+) XGS-PON + GPON Combo(SFP+)

B+(28dB) Commercial Available Commercial Available
C+(32dB) Commercial Available Commercial Available
D(35dB) Commercial Available Commercial Available

Huawei is offering World’s 1st XG(S)-PON COMBO Class D Optical Module with 35dB link budget

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ONT – Home Use

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ONU – Enterprise Use

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 Huawei Optical Access
Achievements

1. The Trend 2. Build 10G Ready Network 3. Products & Scenarios 4. Huawei Optical Access Achievements
Huawei Continuous to Innovate for Better Fiber Access Network
Continuous Investment in R&D 25 Years of Innovation

E2E FTTx Solution Development

Chipset 2018 1st 50G PON prototype

2008 2009 2012 2016 2017
2017 1st Flex-PON solution
1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
OLT chipset ONT SOC chipset XG-PON XGS-PON TWDM-PON
chipset chipset chipset SmartAX MA5800®
Product 2014
1st Distributed Cloud oriented OLT

SingleFAN
2011 1st TWDM-PON prototype

1st XG-PON Pizza 2009

1st NG- OLT
OLT
1st XGS-PON ONT 1st Class C++/D SFP 1st 10G PON Solution

6 Global R&D center, 3,000+ R&D experts SmartAX MA5600T®

2006
1st unified platform for Fiber /Copper / Coax
1287 PCT international patents
2004
Shenzhen：Fiber India: VOIP SmartAX MA5600® 1st GE IP DSLAM

Honet
Xi’an: Copper&Coax Wuhan: ONT 1999 SmartAX MA5100® 1st ATM DSLAM

Europe: New technology USA: New Technology 1995 Honet UA5000® 1st Integrated Access Device

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Huawei Contribution in Optical Access Industry
Continuous Contribution in Standards Global Market Share in Mainstream Products

No.1 Contribution @ITU

Key Positions in ITU Broadband Access PON
(2016 ~ 2018)
37% 42%
Frank Effenberger
Fiber Area

ITU-T Q2/SG15 Chair

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1st 1st
42

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Les Brown
ITU-T Q4/SG15 &
Q18/SG15 Chair
G.fast editor
Copper Area 10G PON ONT
G.hn editor
14 53% 38%
Eric Wang

ITU Q9/SG9 Chair 11

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Huawei
1st 1st
Vendor 1
Vendor 2

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Award

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