Huawei Launches AgilePOL Solution, Promoting Fiber-to-the-desk in Enterprise

[Hanover, Germany, March 16, 2016] Huawei launched its AgilePOL solution at CeBIT 2016. The solution uses PON (passive optical network) technologies to build enterprise POL (passive optical LAN) network. Passive fibers are used to replace conventional Ethernet cables and switches, flattening the network architecture and making the network easy to deploy and manage. The POL network will provide high bandwidths and multiple services, bringing cloud services within easy reach.

Jack Zhu，Leader of Huawei Access network Product Line；Jeff Wang，president of Huawei Access network Product Line；Li Xiangjun，president of Huawei Fixed Network Product Line; Peer Kohlstetter, CEO of Blue Networks.

With the rapid growth in cloud computing and Internet, more and more enterprises are deploying cloud applications. As a result, the majority of traffic is shifting from neighboring exchanges to data forwarding to or from cloud. Services such as 4K video, high definition surveillance, online education, and Telepresence conferencing are also developing at an exponential rate, requiring higher bandwidths and lower latency. With the rollout of many national broadband networks and fiber city projects, fiber to the home (FTTH) and fiber to the desk are becoming irreversible trends.

A traditional enterprise LAN involves multi-layer Ethernet switch aggregation, which complicates the network architecture. As a result, network operation and maintenance (O&M) costs are high, and bandwidth and service expansion is hard. PON technologies, however, have been successfully applied to residential networks. The fast worldwide FTTH rollout has stimulated the maturation of PON technologies and reduced the cost. A PON network has a flattened architecture. Such a network is easy to manage and maintain, and has low latency and high bandwidth. These features are consistent with the new requirements on enterprise networks, and POL caters to the promotion and application of PON technologies in enterprise.

Huawei AgilePOL solution covers E2E devices, such as OLT (optical line terminal), ODN (optical distribution network), and ONU (optical network unit). It has the following advantages: mature PON technologies; high reliability with dual backhaul protection and hitless software upgrade; coexist and smooth evolution for 10G PON and 40G PON; independent management for each department through virtualization; smart terminal and open platform that support quick integration of new value-added services.

Jeff Wang, President of Huawei Access Network Product Line, said, "Huawei AgilePOL solution will simplify enterprise network and improve the efficiency and experience of enterprise cloud services. As the largest PON equipment provider with extensive experience in PON project delivery, Huawei will give full play to its advantages in products and solutions and work with other members to contribute to the POL industry.”

With the Huawei AgilePOL solution, enterprises can build simple, fast and open networks, extending fiber applications from home to enterprise and making cloud services easy to deploy and acquire.

CeBIT 2016 is held at the Hannover Exhibition Center in Hannover, Germany, from March 14 to 18, 2016. The Huawei booth is located at B54 of Hall 2. For more details, please visit:http://enterprise.huawei.com/topic/2016Cebit/index.html.