ZTE's Fang Hui：Leading the Full Lifecycle of FTTx into the "Zero" Era

The rapid development of communication technology is like a torrent, completely reshaping people's lifestyles and work patterns. From convenient online shopping and video conferences across time and space in daily life, to precise collaboration of robotic arms in smart factories and orderly scheduling of transportation and security in smart cities, the presence of communication technology can be seen everywhere. The optical access technology is undoubtedly a key "cornerstone" in this vast communication network, creating a stable and reliable channel for the high-speed transmission of massive data, and building a bridge for digital interaction in modern society.

Fang Hui, Vice President of ZTE and General Manager of Fixed Network and Multimedia Products, stated that ZTE has been leading the wave of communication revolution, driving optical access technology to new heights and leading the full lifecycle of FTTx networks into the "Zero" era.

"Zero"-Contact Planning: One-Click Site Survey, Automatic Planning and Design, Design as Output

Innovations in paperless and closed-loop management: Abolishing traditional paper-based drawings and cumbersome manual records, ZTE has introduced paperless planning and design in the network planning phase. Leveraging a digital platform, the entry, modification, and sharing of planning information are seamlessly integrated, not only eliminating paper waste, but more importantly, avoiding the risks of planning delays caused by poor circulation of paper documents and information discrepancies. The closed-loop management throughout the entire workflow, from demand analysis to design formulation and final review, further solidifies the foundation, and significantly improves the accuracy and completeness of planning.

One-click zero-contact site survey: In traditional site surveys, the staff must visit the site in person. Complex terrain and changing weather conditions consume substantial manpower, resources, and time. ZTE's one-click zero-contact site survey technology breaks the deadlock. By utilizing AI on an app, it can accurately acquire the information about terrain, building layouts, and cable & route directions, and transmit this information in real time to a unified platform. This reduces the survey time by 83% and significantly improves both efficiency and accuracy.

Seamless interconnection with a unified platform: It aggregates and integrates vast amounts of data, and closely associates it with subsequent network construction, operation, and management processes. The site workers can directly access design plans and survey data, eliminating the need for secondary verification and conversion, reducing communication costs, and ensuring the continuity of the entire network lifecycle. In this process, the HLD design time is reduced by 80%, and the drawing output time is reduced by 65%.

"Zero"-Threshold Network Construction: Covering Homes and Enterprises, Easy Deployment

All-optical home, ultra-fast access,ultimate experience: ZTE's FTTx network solution is designed for home scenarios, featuring lightweight design, rapid deployment, and efficient construction, perfectly meeting home users' urgent demand for plug-and-play connectivity. The solution also proactively supports smooth upgrade. As bandwidth-hungry applications such as HD video, online education, and cloud gaming continue to emerge, users can enjoy high-speed network services by simply upgrading their optical devices, without the need for extensive rewiring or equipment replacement. This effectively protects user investments. For example, the pre-connectorized solution increases the connectorization efficiency by 80% and reduces TTM (Time to Market) by 50%.

All-optical enterprise, simplified and efficient, comprehensive interconnection: Extending to the enterprise domain, ZTE's FTTx network solution achieves "full access via a single fiber and full coverage with one network". A single fiber carries multiple services such as data, voice, and video, reducing the cabling costs by more than 80% compared with traditional Ethernet switches and lowering power consumption by over 30%. This solution provides enterprises with tailor-made efficient and flexible network architecture, solidifying the foundation for digital transformation.

"Zero"-Blind Spot O&M: Real-Time Link Fault Diagnosis, Early Warning to Prevent Potential Risks

Real-time fault detection and early warning: With the aid of big data analysis and AI, ZTE achieves 7×24 real-time network fault detection. Compared with traditional lagging detection methods, it's like having the ability to foresee the future. It can not only accurately identify existing faults, but also predict potential risks based on data trends and give early warnings. As a result, the fault occurrence probability is significantly reduced, and the network reliability reaches a new height.

Accurate fault locating and repair: When the network "falls ill", ZTE's FTTx network solution can quickly "diagnose the cause", with the link fault diagnosis accuracy reaching up to 1m, and the fault locating time reduced by 90% compared with previous methods. The combination of optimized fault diagnosis algorithms and high-speed communication mechanisms enables the maintenance personnel to pinpoint the fault in the shortest possible time and carry out efficient repairs.

"Zero"-Resource Sinking: Fully Visual Network, Revitalizing Sunk Resources

100% ODN resource accuracy: Through technologies such as optical path identification and optical wavelength detection, ZTE's FTTx network solution dynamically senses link changes and presents the topology and status of optical links in real time. This transforms the traditional passive "dumb" ODN network into a visualized "smart" network, allowing the maintenance personnel to understand the network structure and resource utilization straightforwardly, thus facilitating effective network management and maintenance. Additionally, it precisely sorts out and activates sunk resources in the optical network, improving the resource utilization rate by an average of 9.3%, ensuring zero resource sinking and zero waste.

Optimized service provisioning: One-time service activation has been achieved based on precise resource management. The one-time service activation has reduced the order cancellation rate due to resource occupancy by 90%, enhancing the efficiency and quality of service activation, and improving the user experience.

Industry-Leading FTTx Product Solutions

As a leader in optical access technology, ZTE deeply understands customer needs and provides a series of product solutions to meet networking demands in different scenarios.

Industry-leading in 10G PON, serving worldwide customers: ZTE has been actively collaborating with global operators to promote the popularization and application of 10G PON technology. By continuously optimizing products and services, ZTE has steadily enhanced its competitiveness in the 10G PON market, and made significant contributions to the upgrade and development of global communication networks. According to consulting firm reports, ZTE has a cumulative global market share of 34% in 10G PON, ranking Top 2 stably.

Continuous innovations in 50G PON, deep cooperation with the industry: As the next-generation PON technology following 10G PON, 50G PON represents higher bandwidth, lower latency, and stronger performance. ZTE's industry-first highest-density symmetrical 50G PON Combo supports coexistence of GPON/EPON, 10G PON, and 50G PON and smooth evolution. ZTE has made cooperation with more than 50 operators in the industry in technical verification, scenario exploration, and pilot trials, with an aim to promote the commercialization process of the 50G PON technology together with the industry.

Most comprehensive ODN solutions, precise adaptation to various scenarios: ZTE provides a series of innovative ODN solutions, including traditional ODN, pre-connectorized and optical fingerprint solutions to address different application scenarios and technical demands. Whether in urban skyscrapers or remote villages, there is always a suitable ZTE ODN product.

ZTE's full lifecycle FTTx solution covers the entire process from network planning and design to management and optimization. Empowered by AI technologies, it comprehensively enhances network performance, resource utilization, and O&M efficiency, and delivers high-quality and highly reliable optical communication network experience for users.