Today, at the 2019 Broadband World Forum Gigaband Industry Summit, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), Wi-Fi Alliance, well-known analyst firm Ovum, and multiple mainstream operators around the world held intense discussions on how to leverage the fifth-generation fixed network to promote the global gigabit ecosystem.

In the keynote discourse at the summit, David Boswarthick, Director New Technologies of ETSI, stated, "Looking back on the development history of fixed networks, we have encountered the 64 kbps narrowband era represented by PSTN/ISDN, 2 Mbps era represented by ADSL, 20 Mbps era represented by VDSL, and 100 Mbps era represented by GPON/EPON. As of now, we are entering the fifth-generation Gigabit era (15 Gbps) represented by 10G PON. With compelling coordinated effort with wireless technologies such as 5G, Gigabit fiber networks are giving an adaptable and high-performance connectivity network for the Telecom Industry as well as opening up exciting new opportunities in various vertical industries.

Compared with previous generations, the Fifth-Generation Fixed Network features full-fiber connection, ultra-high bandwidth, and ultimate experience. Fibers will connect not only homes, yet in addition increasingly vertical industries such as enterprises, transportation, security, and campuses. Symmetric Gigabit and Wi-Fi 6 will further upgrade network abilities. End-to-end network latency will progress toward lower and more stable, and operators will move from traffic-centric operation to experience-centric operation.

Meimei Dang, Vice Chief Engineer in the ITSR(Institute of Technology and Standards Research), CAICT, said in her discourse, "As cloud VR, smart home, gaming, social networking, cloud desktop, safe city, enterprise cloud private line, online education, telemedicine, and smart manufacturing become more popular, the full-fiber gigabit network will directly produce trillions of incomes for related industries, and Gigabit broadband has turned into the focus of global broadband development."

At the summit, Kevin Robinson, Vice President of Marketing at Wi-Fi Alliance, stated, Wi-Fi 6 brings a new era of Wi-Fi connectivity, conveying better capacity, coverage, and performance even in the most requesting environments. As bandwidth demands increase, Wi-Fi 6 delivers new capabilities that bring more power and performance in environments including home, enterprise, and industrial IoT. New highlights empower an assortment of advanced applications including those that require support for an enormous number of customers at once in large venues and campuses and those applications that encourage immense measures of traffic including AR/VR and Ultra HD streaming.

Julie Kunstler, Principal Analyst of OVUM, stated, More than two hundred operators in the world have discharged gigabit services, and twenty operators have released 10G services. 10G PON has turned into a fundamental technology for gigabit networks. In the following five years, it is assessed that the compound growth rate of 10G PON OLT ports in the central office will arrive at 41%, and that of 10G PON ONTs will arrive at 124%.

In addition, mainstream European and Latin-American operators from Switzerland, France, Paraguay and Turkey, shared their successful experience in building gigabit FTTH networks.

Jeffery Zhou, President of Huawei Access Network, stated, "We can't concur more with industry organizations, analysts, and operators on their thoughts about the fifth-generation fixed network and Gigabit era. They have drawn a blueprint for the global fixed broadband development. Huawei is devoted to working with industry accomplices to promote the Fifth-Generation Fixed Network; to stretch out full-fiber coverage to each room, desktop, and machine; and to share the trillion-dollar blue ocean across the industry chain.

As the pioneer of fixed network industry, Huawei gives the SingleFAN Pro solution for proficiently provide multiple services under different situations, bringing the three estimations of "new blue ocean, new capabilities, and new experience" to operators. To date, Huawei has delivered 1.5 million 10G PON ports, and helped more than 80 operators around the world to accomplish enormous scale FTTH deployment.