Huawei Drives F5.5G All-Optical Network Industry Toward New Growth in the AI Era, DKnews.kz reports.
At MWC Shanghai 2025, Huawei hosted the F5.5G All-Optical Industry Summit, gathering leading telecom operators and industry stakeholders to chart a course for growth in the era of artificial intelligence. Under the theme “10 Gbps Broadband and All-Optical Premium Transmission for a Win-Win AI Era,” the summit spotlighted the accelerated development of F5.5G technologies and their transformative potential.
Key participants included representatives from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) of China, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), as well as China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Maxis (Malaysia) and CTM (Macau). The event showcased successful commercial deployments of 10 Gbps all-optical broadband and premium optical transmission solutions — alongside Huawei's latest innovations in the F5.5G domain.
Global Momentum: F5.5G Goes Commercial
In recent years, the industry has reached consensus: F5.5G is the foundational technology for the AI era. Over 70 operators around the world have already launched 10 Gbps broadband packages, laying the groundwork for AItoH (AI to Home) services.
Meanwhile, over 240 optical transmission networks operating at 400G have been rolled out globally. In major cities, carriers are actively planning ultra-low latency metro networks with less than 1 millisecond delay, ensuring fast and reliable access to cloud computing and AI-powered services.
Han Xia, Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the ICT Committee under MIIT, remarked in her opening speech:
“Accelerating the upgrade of 10 Gbps broadband and all-optical premium transmission has strategic significance — it enables the integration of the digital and real economies, promotes information consumption and effective investment, and improves people’s quality of life.”
From Connectivity to Computing and Applications: A New Era of Possibilities
As artificial intelligence becomes the engine of the global digital economy, reshaping industries and lifestyles, telecom operators are evolving. Many are shifting from pure connectivity providers to end-to-end providers of connectivity, computing, and application services.
However, this shift brings new challenges:
- Underdeveloped AI application ecosystems
- Lack of unified terminal standards
- Inadequate tools for differentiated quality assurance
Homes and Enterprises: Strategic Growth Engines
Li Peng, Huawei’s Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales & Service, emphasized in his speech:
“Homes and enterprises will become the most valuable growth scenarios for operators in the AI era. Huawei is committed to working with the industry to promote F5.5G all-optical networks, strengthen collaboration across cloud, intelligence, network, and devices, and bring AI into everyday life and enterprise operations.”
Four Dimensions of Innovation: Reimagining the Home Broadband Experience
Bob Chen, President of Huawei’s Optical Business Product Line, introduced the company’s comprehensive F5.5G strategy for reshaping home broadband. The strategy focuses on four key pillars:
- Bandwidth Upgrade — Huawei’s 50G PON technology enables a leap from gigabit to 10-gigabit speeds.
- Experience Differentiation — End-to-end network optimization ensures guaranteed quality of service (QoS) for premium users.
- New Smart Terminals — The AI Home Hub acts as a central controller for smart home devices and services.
- Rich Service Ecosystem — AI-powered home services made accessible and scalable.
“To increase the value and user perception of home broadband, we must make speed upgrades visible, QoS guarantees tangible, smart devices accessible, and AI services popular. That’s exactly what we’re building,” said Chen.
1 Millisecond Latency: Connecting Cloud, AI, and End Users
Huawei is working with carriers to deploy metro-level optical networks with sub-1 ms latency, enabling near-instant access to AI computation and cloud resources. These networks serve as the foundation for AItoB (AI to Business) scenarios across logistics, manufacturing, education, and healthcare.
MWC Shanghai 2025: Showcasing the Future, Today
MWC Shanghai 2025 is being held from June 18 to 20 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC). In Hall N1, Huawei is showcasing cutting-edge F5.5G innovations and its vision for a fully intelligent, connected world.
The Era of F5.5G + AI: Growth Fueled by Speed, Intelligence, and Experience
With the commercial rollout of 5G-Advanced accelerating worldwide, Huawei continues to work with global operators, experts, and ecosystem leaders to leverage AI and optical innovation for reimagining telecom services, upgrading infrastructure, and opening new revenue streams.
F5.5G and AI are no longer future concepts — they are the foundations of a smarter, faster, and more human-centered digital society. Huawei is building this future in partnership with the industry.
