Huawei and its partners at last month’s Gitex show in Dubai jointly released a white paper to promote electric power communication network standards.

The fgOTN White Paper for Electric Power aims to promote the digital and intelligent transformation of the electric power industry.

Nick Liu, vice president at Huawei, emphasised in his speech at the show that the global electric power industry was undergoing digital and intelligent transformation. As the digital and intelligent infrastructure of electric power, communication networks are the basis and can help ensure secure, stable and economical operations of power grids. Electric power communication networks must be reliable, evolvable and efficient to carry existing power production services and future intelligent services.

Huawei cooperates with global electric power companies to gain insights into the development trends of electric power services and leverage Huawei’s expertise in the optical communications field. Based on industry communication network standards, Huawei and partners jointly released the white paper to help the electric power industry overcome difficulties and accelerate digital and intelligent transformation.

According to the white paper, fgOTN technology can be used to implement unified all-optical bearing of power backbone, power transmission and transformation, power distribution, and power transformation campus networks, achieving reliable network services at each layer. As for the architecture, fgOTN provides end-to-end one-hop connection from the power distribution and transformation campus to the backbone network to ensure service reliability, protect investment and reduce opex.

FgOTN, released by the ITU-T at the end of 2023, is the latest hard pipe technology. It is the only international standard that carries power production control services in addition to SDH, ensuring high security and reliability of electric power services. It has been used by five provincial electric power companies in China to carry key services such as teleprotection. For existing SDH devices, fgOTN supports on-demand smooth reconstruction and evolution on a per-site, per-chain, or per-ring basis.

Huawei (www.huawei.com) has been working in the optical network field for nearly 30 years. It has been working closely with electric power companies to drive productivity with communications technologies. The company works with partners to provide secure, stable and reliable power communication networks for many electric power companies over 70 countries or regions.

For details about the white paper, visit e.huawei.com/en/material/optical/8e117dd97abf4236b4f0e7b0063282ec.