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Huawei Peng Song: C.A.F Model Is Key to Building Network Competitiveness and Driving Growth
According to Peng, the C.A.F model is the key — "C" stands for coverage, "F" for fusion, and "A" for architecture.
The demands for connectivity are changing in both homes and enterprises. Once broader coverage becomes available, operators need to extend connectivity to every room, every device, and every production system in enterprises. This will grow the number of connections, increase user stickiness, and ultimately create more business opportunities.
In home scenarios, Peng suggested two ways to extend connectivity to homes. One is to use Huawei's full-service fiber grid planning and industry-leading AirPON and Digital Quick ODN solutions to accelerate fiber coverage and . The other is from FTTH (Fiber to the Home) to FTTR (Fiber to the Room), for home networking. This will bring experience beyond our imagination. While increasing user stickiness, more importantly it provides a foothold in the digital home, making it possible to develop smart services.
In this way, many problems faced by enterprises can be solved like the remote PLC control in Iron & Steel companies. This will result in enhanced production efficiency and user experience.
Digitalization is the biggest opportunity for the ICT industry. It is no longer a concept, but a reality. Undoubtedly, cloud is at the core of digitalization, but connectivity also plays a key role. According to Peng, "Fusion" is important, because connectivity needs to be cloud-centric and help enterprises migrate to cloud. Connectivity and cloud need to be converged. Operators can play a big role in this process.
Three key words are involved in this phase: "quick" refers to deploying the intelligent cloud terminal on the enterprise side to achieve fast cloud access; "multi-cloud interconnection" involves enabling SRv6 in the backbone networks to implement multi-cloud access through a single connection; "deterministic" means providing network slicing capabilities to stay deterministic.
This is the most challenging part, but also the most valuable part. It requires atomization and openness of the network capabilities to implement network selecting cloud, and cloud scheduling network
Peng emphasized that to facilitate network evolution, the spine-leaf mode is required to make the network architecture more flexible. And technologies such as PON and OXC are required to make network services greener. Autonomous Driving Network need to be introduced to optimize the OPEX in terms of O&M. Huawei's continuous efforts in exploring new technologies — such as OXC, SRv6, and ADN — have strengthened the foundation of the architecture.
Peng ended his keynote speech by quoting this Arabic proverb: "Actions are fruits, while words are but leaves. Despite the harsh environment we are facing, Huawei is continuing to focus on innovation in connectivity technologies. We will continue to play our part and support our customers to achieve business success both now and in the future."
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