Huawei has released X-Ethernet technology for 5G bearer networks at the ITU-T 2020 FG Workshop and Demo Day Wireline Technology Enablers for 5G conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
At the same time, Huawei proposed X-Ethernet for integrated fronthaul/backhaul networks, with deterministic low-latency and realizes end-to-end network slicing capability.
The Network 5.0 Team at Huawei’s Network Technology Laboratory, part of the company’s “Laboratory 2012” proposed the X-Ethernet technology to fundamentally solve the problem brought by the high bandwidth, determinacy, low-latency, hard isolation and low-cost requirements of 5G.
Huawei said X-Ethernet holds many innovative features such as a Layer 1.5 Switch, Hybrid Multiplex and Ethernet E2E Flexible Hard Pipe. The Layer 1.5 Switch is based on the native Ethernet kernel. Thus, it is compatible with traditional Ethernet. Since it can avoid L2/L3 packets storage-and-forwarding, deterministic low-latency can be guaranteed. In particular, this technology satisfies 5G’s low-latency requirement, and at the same time can support integrated fronthaul/backhaul, added Huawei.
