In the Mobile World Congress (MWC) held in Barcelona, Spain, Huawei shared new concepts of multiple technologies and solutions and discussed industry development trends and hot topics with global industry luminaries, opinion leaders, and partners. Huawei also showcased the technical innovations of the all-optical access FTTR solution and explained how Huawei iMaster NCE enables large-scale FTTR deployment and delivers a premium user experience.
As the popularity and widespread usage of online activities, such as online education, online office, and live shopping, continue to increase, home broadband users demand better network quality. A Gigabit network, the most promising network in the home broadband service market and essential to users and carriers, can only be achieved through FTTR. To lay a solid foundation for home network digital transformation, Huawei provides a solution for improving the home broadband quality experience. The solution uses iMaster NCE as its intelligent core and builds one-stop 5A service capabilities throughout the FTTR process.
For full-lifecycle experience assurance, iMaster NCE provides 5A capabilities — accurate marketing, automatic planning, all-round acceptance, AI-based maintenance, and attentive optimization, and offers two apps — one for field engineers and one for end users, enabling carriers to complete high-quality and efficient service deployment and deliver Gigabit experience.
Accurate marketing: iMaster NCE provides information about applications, user experience, bottlenecks, and networking, and features 110+ user labels in the OSS. Carriers can use the information and labels to quickly identify experience issues and gain insights into different user requirements to improve service reachability and fulfill requirements. With this capability, carriers can lay a solid foundation for a premium user experience and large-scale FTTR development.
Automatic planning: In traditional carrier services, digital floor plans are difficult to obtain. To address this challenge, iMaster NCE provides the function of automatically generating floor plans. During network planning, field engineers only need to open the field service app and walk along the walls to generate a floor plan. Field engineers can drag FTTRs to desired positions on the app to simulate a heat map of the Wi-Fi coverage, obtain the coverage effect of each room, and view suggestions for optimal networking.
All-round acceptance: The field service app features an acceptance test tool for devices, connections, and experience. During network acceptance, field engineers can perform standardized acceptance tests on more than 20 indicators, such as device deployment, connection media, and optical power, and test the signal coverage and the roaming latency when they move around. This tool quantifies the networking effect in one-click mode and facilitates standard networking.
AI-based maintenance: For network maintenance, iMaster NCE provides carriers with optical+Wi-Fi network management capabilities and supports four intelligent O&M capabilities — remote visualization, remote demarcation, remote locating, and remote closed-loop. Carriers can remotely view the network-wide topology and device status, use the 7/24 data playback, cloud-based E2E segment-based speed test, one-click fault locating, and batch configuration optimization functions to optimize networks, resolve problems without interrupting services, and ensure real-time network experience.
Attentive optimization: The end user app, oriented to FTTR users, provides multiple self-management functions, such as remote management of multiple home networks, Wi-Fi optimization, youth mode, intelligently targeted troubleshooting, and periodic network health check. The app allows users to resolve 50% of typical problems and optimize their networks in one-click mode. This significantly improves user experience. In addition, the app periodically generates network health check reports that enable users to view Gigabit experience indicators and learn the network quality and experience quality.
As FTTR develops rapidly, Gigabit networks are increasingly being deployed in homes. In light of the vast home broadband market, Huawei, carriers, and industry partners will continue accelerating Gigabit construction and exploring innovative technologies to unleash the benefits of user experience improvement and scale new heights in intelligent, high-quality Gigabit experience.
