During the Mobile World Congress 2023 in early this year, Huawei released the next-generation FTTR that features XGS-PON and Wi-Fi 7 technologies to meet the needs of home entertainment and digital applications, and to help drive success of the smart home industry in the F5.5G 10G era.
With the advent of the F5.5G Internet of Everything (IoE) era, digital applications are becoming popular in various industries. Home network requirements are evolving towards premium immersive experience in applications such as cloud gaming, 8K videos, and interactive AR/VR. To fully support these applications scenarios, communications technologies — as well as Wi-Fi standards — need to evolve. Currently, the IEEE working group has released the Wi-Fi 7 R1 standard, and 55 countries have authorized the Sub-7 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi use.
Huawei actively participated in Wi-Fi 7 standard discussion and technology research, and showcased the industry's first tri-band Wi-Fi 7 FTTR that supports XGS-PON at MWC Shanghai recently. Similar to other Huawei FTTR OptiXstar F30 products, this product also features appealing aesthetics and built-in antennas, and can blend in seamlessly with various home decoration styles.
Compared with Wi-Fi 6 products, the W-Fi 7 FTTR realizes significant improvements in terms of the rate, concurrency, latency, and coverage.
- Rate: Huawei Wi-Fi 7 FTTR provides a physical transmission rate of 9 Gbit/s over the air interface, about twice that of Wi-Fi 6. In addition, innovative algorithms are used to improve anti-interference capabilities and achieve a downstream Wi-Fi rate of up to 3 Gbit/s.
- Concurrency: Huawei Wi-Fi 7 FTTR uses new digital and analog hybrid encoding, doubling the number of data channels and increasing the number of concurrent connections to 200. The product can meet the stable connection and bandwidth assurance requirements of smart IoT devices everywhere in a home.
- Deterministic low-latency: Huawei Wi-Fi 7 FTTR supports the multi-link mechanism, including the MAC architecture of enhanced multi-link aggregation, multi-link channel access, and multi-link transmission technologies. Multiple channels of different frequencies can be combined, and a series of management methods, such as automatic handover, provide users with higher performance and network efficiency.
- Coverage: Huawei Wi-Fi 7 FTTR features multi-beam smart antenna technology that improves the antenna space utilization by several times, achieves the optimal antenna matching at the beam level, and improves the coverage capability by about 30%.
Since Huawei launched the FTTR solution in 2020, FTTR has been developing rapidly. To date, Huawei FTTR has been commercially deployed by more than 20 operators in the global. In the future, Huawei will continue to innovate and work with global customers and industry partners to facilitate the high-quality development of the FTTR home industry, open up new opportunities in home digitalization for operators, and light up a new digital life experience for every home.
