NEWS
Nokia enhances fibre access portfolio to accelerate 5G
okia has announced it is
expanding its fibre access
portfolio to include new solutions
and innovations that will enable service
providers to deliver a gigabit experience to
everyone, sooner. The enhanced portfolio
includes a new Lightspan MF access node
designed for the 5G era, a new Beacon 6
in-home gateway that supports 5G mobile
data offloading and several Nokia Bell Labs
innovations that reduce latency to create a
seamless 5G experience. By combining the
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strengths of FTTH and 5G, Nokia is helping
operators accelerate 5G deployments and
deploy gigabit services in the most cost-
effective way.
To effectively deliver on 5G, operators
will need a transport network that can
provide the high-capacity, low-latency
performance and small form factor needed
to support densification. By using existing
FTTH infrastructure, operators can quickly
gain the footprint and performance needed
to support 5G. They can also save up to
50% in transport costs by eliminating
the need to build a dedicated transport
network and quickly move to future fibre
evolutions like 25G PON and beyond to
ensure 5G needs continue to be met. With
Nokia’s new Lightspan MF-2 fibre access
node, operators can easily and seamlessly
add mobile 5G transport capabilities to
their existing FTTH infrastructure. Based
on the Nokia’s Quillion chipset family,
the system is optimised for low-latency
applications and features an ultra-high
capacity architecture.
The evolution towards Wi-Fi 6 in the home
means that service providers can now
effectively offload 5G traffic onto a home
Wi-Fi network without disruptions. This
will free up valuable 5G capacity for mobile
devices and applications like self-driving
vehicles. Nokia’s new Beacon 6 mesh Wi-Fi
solution supports Wi-Fi 6, which includes
several core 5G technologies, along with
two Nokia Bell Labs innovations designed
to further optimise latency.
Huawei strengthens enterprise offerings with focus
on emerging technologies
uawei has unveiled several
new products and initiatives
suited to help enterprises step
into the fully digital era, covering areas
like storage systems, Wi-Fi 6, AI and
data centre performance.
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This includes the launch of four
products for the enterprise market: the
OptiXtrans DC908, SmartLi UPS, the
next generation of OceanStor Dorado,
and the AirEngine Wi-Fi 6.
• Huawei OptiXtrans DC908 helps
enterprise customers easily cope
with the challenges of massive
data flows in the cloud era,
continuously reduce the cost per
bit, maximise the value of optical
fibres and improve customer’s
return on investment.
• Huawei SmartLi uses the industry’s
secure battery cells. The UPS, the
battery array and the battery pack
form a three-layer management
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system to eliminate perceived blind
spots. SmartLi has a unique built-in
current balancing control module to
achieve battery module-level fault
tolerance design and eliminate single
points of failure.
• The OceanStor Dorado intelligent
all-flash storage, as an end-to-
end ultra-high-speed platform,
achieves industry-leading 20 million
IOPS and 0.1ms latency. The fully
interconnected
and high-reliability
SmartMatrix
architecture allows
a single system to
tolerate the failure of
up to seven controllers
(out of eight), ensuring
the continuity of core
enterprise services.
• Powered by Huawei
5G, AirEngine Wi-Fi
6 is the industry’s
first Wi-Fi with a
peak rate exceeding 100Gbps.
The revolutionary product can
significantly improve network
experience in various scenarios.
In the field of data centre management,
the Huawei OptiXtrans DC908 solution
has also just been recognised by
GlobalData as a leader in architecture,
performance, modularity, line
interfaces and network management.
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