Huawei successfully held its Global Optical Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event, themed “F5G-A (F5G Advanced), the Foundation for Industrial Intelligence,” brought together over 300 industry customers and partners from across Sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania.
At the summit, Huawei introduced a range of new F5G-A products and solutions tailored for the Sub-Saharan market. The company also launched the OptiX Club member recruitment initiative, aimed at enhancing local industry intelligence through collaboration.
In his opening address, Li Chen, Vice President of Huawei’s Sub-Saharan Region, emphasized the company’s commitment to driving digital and intelligent transformation throughout the region. “As a leader in the optical industry, Huawei is committed to working with partners and customers to promote enterprises’ digital and intelligent transformation to every corner in Sub-Saharan Africa,” he stated.
Gavin Gu, President of Huawei’s Enterprise Optical Network Domain, highlighted three key trends in the optical industry during his keynote speech titled “F5G-A, the Foundation for Industrial Intelligence.” He expressed confidence in achieving successful collaboration with customers and partners to foster industrial intelligence.
Huawei unveiled the next-generation FTTO 2.0 Solution, utilizing XGS-PON Pro and Wi-Fi 7 technologies to enhance bandwidth, networking, and operational efficiency for medium- and large-sized campuses in sectors such as education, healthcare, hospitality, and manufacturing. This solution aims to deliver 12.5/25G to rooms and 2.5/10G to access points and desks, creating a green 10 Gbps all-optical campus.
For the energy and transportation sectors, Huawei introduced the Huawei OptiXtrans E6600, the industry’s first optical transmission product supporting the fine grain OTN (fgOTN) standard. This product is designed to help customers build reliable communication networks for the intelligent era. Huawei also released a fgOTN Technical White Paper detailing key technologies and application scenarios.
In data center interconnect (DCI) scenarios, Huawei launched the next-generation DCI platform, Huawei OptiXtrans DC908 Pro, which supports Tbps per wavelength for efficient, secure, and reliable service transmission between data centers.
Several customer representatives from Sub-Saharan Africa shared their experiences working with Huawei on all-optical network construction. Dr. Sudi Mwasinago, Operations General Manager of Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), highlighted their collaboration with Huawei in developing a smart, green, efficient, and secure port network. Athanacious Makgamatha, General Manager of Signaling and Telecoms Dept at Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), praised Huawei’s optical-visual linkage solution for enhancing railway perimeter security. Kgomotso Setlhapelo, Chief Engineer of Telecommunications at National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA), Eskom, spoke about Huawei’s MS-OTN devices providing ultra-high bandwidth to support future services while ensuring network reliability.
Gavin Chen, Vice President of Enterprise Network Marketing & Solution Sales Dept, Optical Domain at Huawei, announced the OptiX Club member recruitment event, aiming to build industry technical communities and promote regional industry data intelligence.
Huawei’s Global Optical Summit underscored the company’s commitment to advancing industrial intelligence and fostering digital transformation across Sub-Saharan Africa through innovative optical technologies and collaborative efforts with local partners.