Shanghai, China, March 18, 2020: Huawei and Fudan University are working together to deploy an all-optical smart campus network for one of the university’s dormitory areas using the Huawei Campus OptiX solution. The network will provide a high-speed Internet access experience for faculty and students, and open up opportunities for implementing innovative teaching methods.
A press release by Huawei said to achieve the strategic goal of “building a world-class university”, Fudan University had set up a three-year action plan for an “Internet+” smart campus and subsequently launched applications such as eHall, eLearning, unified payment, smart meal ordering, self-service smart library, and simulated medical operations using technologies including facial recognition, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR).
These services, said Huawei, made teaching more immersive and engaging for both students and teachers.
In recent years as Fudan University had started to reconstruct networks for student dormitories it was clear that the traditional Ethernet network was deficient because it required extensive cabling in buildings, bulky devices, high maintenance costs, multiple weak-current rooms, and also created a fire hazard.
The Huawei Campus OptiX solution, which had been successfully deployed on many campuses, features a simple architecture, flexible evolution, efficient O&M, and was energy efficient. Based on these benefits, Fudan University had decided to adopt the Huawei Campus OptiX solution to upgrade its dormitory campus network.
The Huawei Campus OptiX solution adopts the simplified and innovative passive optical LAN (POL) networking architecture. One fiber directly extends from an aggregation equipment room to each dormitory room, carrying multiple services including Internet access and telephone. One aggregation equipment room can manage networks for multiple buildings, greatly improving the O&M efficiency.
Compared with the traditional Ethernet solution, the Huawei Campus OptiX solution minimised the need for weak-current rooms, cooling devices, and cabling in corridors, reducing the energy consumption of the entire network by 30 percent while also avoiding fire risks. In addition, a fiber network with GPON technology has a long service life and can seamlessly upgrade to 10G/20G/50G. This network can satisfy the high-bandwidth backhaul requirements of future Wi-Fi 6 and 5G without re-cabling, protecting customers’ investment.
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