Huawei Releases All-Optical Networking Application and Technical Report for Smart Hotels

During GITEX GLOBAL 2024, Huawei released the Technical and Application White Paper of All-Optical Networking for Smart Hotels at a forum called “Digital Smart Hotels, Creating the Ultimate Guest Experience.” The white paper describes the trends and challenges in smart hotel interconnection and introduces the design and application solution of all-optical fiber-to-the-office (FTTO) networks for smart hotels. The white paper aims to help hotels build high-quality networks and accelerate their digital and intelligent transformation.

In the intelligent era, building comfortable, convenient and intelligent smart hotels is key for the hotel industry, while stable and high-speed network connections can greatly improve the competitiveness of smart hotels. As application terminals become more dense and diverse, hotels need to invest more to build cost-effective and future-oriented sustainable networks that provide comprehensive Wi-Fi coverage, easy deployment and simple maintenance.

Based on extensive experience from Huawei, industry customers, and partners, the white paper analyzes the differences between the FTTO all-optical network solution for smart hotels and traditional network solutions in terms of network architecture and integrated cabling. It also describes the design of FTTO networks serving hotel rooms, offices, and public areas. According to the white paper, the FTTO all-optical network solution offers the following key benefits:

Simplified Architecture – FTTO all-optical networks use passive optical splitters to replace active aggregation switches, simplifying the network architecture from three layers to two layers. Passive optical splitters do not require power supply or ELV rooms, greatly reducing the network failure rate. Optical fibers are directly connected to the rooms, making it easy to expand data points in the future.

Superior Experience : FTTO’s all-optical networks support hierarchical Quality of Service (HQoS) and dynamic bandwidth allocation technologies, ensuring the data transmission requirements of key services and users while improving network utilization. Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) have built-in Access Controllers (ACs) and support Wi-Fi auto-optimization for Wi-Fi 6/Wi-Fi 7 Optical Network Units (ONUs), enabling seamless roaming and a premium wireless network service experience in all hotel scenarios.

High Reliability: FTTO all-optical networks for smart hotels support Type B or Type C protection and protection switching technologies for all fiber devices and links. FTTO networks leverage Passive Optical LAN (POL) technology and support AES128 data encryption. In addition, optical fibers, as a transmission medium, are resistant to electromagnetic interference and corrosion. They can be used in various hotel environments, such as the beach, city, or mountain, to ensure high reliability of data transmission.

Intelligent O&M: The OLT centrally manages the ONUs and provides configurations in a unified manner. The ONUs are plug-and-play. In addition, network-wide data is visible, manageable, and controllable on the OLT or NMS. This makes network deployment, management, and fault localization more efficient and ensures that services are always online.

Liu Yue , Vice President of Enterprise Optical Domain at Huawei, said: “The FTTO all-optical network solution for smart hotels is green and simplified. It has significant advantages in architecture, bandwidth, operation and maintenance costs, deployment scope, and service life. It meets the requirements of hotels for full Wi-Fi coverage, intelligent management, and Internet of Things (IoT), and has been widely used in hotels around the world. We look forward to working with industry partners to deeply explore the application of POL technologies and further promote the intelligent transformation of the hotel industry.”

For more information about the white paper, please visit:  https://e.huawei.com/en/material/enterprise/a38e9a6079c145848f82b92c2865543a