F5GAdvancedIndustryWhitePaper Byliners ChinaUnicom CAICTCMCC BhartiBUPTCEEDICEPREI CSUCTTC e&FiberHomeGlobeTelecom HUSTHUAWEI ITEI OrangeONA PostLuxembourg PTTelkomQishuaiDigitalTechnologyUniversityofPatras UnionSHENZHENHospital VTALZTE XiongyanTang,GuangquanWang,ZelinWang,Hezhang,YanShao,XiangkunMan,YueSun,ShikuiShen,ShanDongLiAo,QianLiu HanLi,DechaoZhang,JunweiLi,YunboLiPraveenMaheshwari JieZhang,YongliZhao,ZhiguoZhangXuZhang YanfeiHuYingLi RaulMuñoz MohamedalMarzooqi SongtaoChen,ShaoyongPeng,HongliangLi,YuzhouSuiEmmanuelLazaroR.Estrada MengfanCheng,QiYang JingjiWang,QianGong,XiaohuaLu,ChunSun,XianlongLuoDanLiu PhilippechanclouRuiliZhangOlivierFerveurNA QichangHe,XianmingGaoIoannisTomkos SuiSongZhuEvandroBender LairongLuo,ChuanzhuLiu,HaijunZhang,MingshengLi,MengWang CONTENTS 04 F5GReviewandEvolutiontoF5GAdvanced ►F5GDevelopmentReview ►FourDrivingForcesfortheEvolutiontoF5GAdvanced 07 F5GAdvancedIndustryObjectivesandCharacteristics 09 F5GAdvancedApplicationScenarios ►ToHome:ImmersiveXRandSmartHouse,BuildingSmartNewLives ►ToEnterprise:FTTO/FTTMIntegratesITandOT,EnablingEnterprisesDigitalization ►ToComputing:High-Bandwidth,Deterministic,andSchedulableTransmissionCapacity,AchievingPremiumComputing 32 ►GreenAll-OpticalBase,ImprovingBearerNetworkEnergyEfficiency10-Fold 10KeyTechnologiesofF5GAdvanced 20 ►400Gbpsand800GbpsorHigherUltra-broadband ►E2EWavelengthSwitchingOXC ►AgileServiceProvisioningProtocol ►OpticalServiceUnit(OSU) ►50GPON ►Wi-Fi7 ►FTTRNetworkingwithCentralizedManagementandControl ►PONMulti-DimensionalSlicing ►NativeIntelligenceforAutonomousNetworks ►Harmonized/IntegratedCommunicationandSensing 31 SummaryandProspects 16 F5GAdvancedEvolutionPath AcronymsandAbbreviations Preface InFebruary2020,theEuropeanTelecommunicationsStandardsInstitute(ETSI)releasedthefifth-generationfixednetwork(F5G)standardandproposedthevisionof"FibertoEverywhere".Aftermorethantwoyearsofdevelopment,F5Ghasachievedrapiddevelopmentfromstandardsorganizationstoindustryapplications,withnearly100members,morethan1000documentspublished,and13workitems(WIs)setupfortechnicalresearch,whichgreatlypromotesthestandardizationofF5Gapplications.TheestablishmentoftheWorldBroadbandAlliance(WBBA)attheendof2021marksanewbeginningofF5Gfromstandardstoindustrialapplications.InSeptember2022,ETSIreleasedtheF5GAdvancedstandardwhitepapertopromotethecontinuousevolutionoftheF5Gindustry. F5Gnetworksarebeingrolledoutworldwideandstartingtoplayanimportantroleinhomebroadband,publicservices,andindustryconvergence.MajoreconomiesworldwidehaveformulatedorareformulatingF5Ggigabitbroadbandstrategiesandrelatedpolicies,andwearewitnessingacceleratingcommercialdeploymentandindustryconvergencerelatedtoF5G. FourforcesdrivefixednetworkstocontinuouslyevolveandentertheF5GAdvancedera: •Fibernetworksconnecttherealworldandvirtualworld,andthenetworkbandwidthevolvesfrom1Gbpsto10Gbps. •OpticalnetworksextendfromtheICTindustrytoverticalindustries,helpingtheseindustriesgodigital. •Fiberscarrycommunicationaswellassensingservicestogenerategreatervalue. •Fibernetworksevolvetogreenerarchitectures,improvingenergyefficiency10fold. Inthenext10years,gigabitaccesswillbewidelyused,10Gaccesswillbeputintolarge-scalecommercialuse,andenterprisecloudificationanddigitaltransformationwillgodeeper.TheintelligenteraofInternetofEverything(IoE)iscomingandfixednetworksarefacingunprecedentedopportunities. Basedonnewscenariosandapplications,thiswhitepaperexploresarchitectureevolutionandnewnetworkcapabilities,focusesonkeyrequirementscenariossuchashome,enterprise,computingnetwork,andgreenopticalnetwork,anddefinestheindustryobjectives,corefeatures,keynetworkindicators,evolutionpaths,andkeytechnicalcapabilitiesofF5GAdvanced.ItaimstoproviderequirementreferencesandtechnologytrendsforF5GAdvanced,explorenewdirectionsfornetworkevolution,buildindustryconsensus,andjointlymovetowardstheneweraofF5GAdvanced. F5GReviewandEvolutiontoF5GAdvanced 1.F5GDevelopmentReview InFebruary2020,theEuropeanTelecommunicationsStandardsInstitute(ETSI)officiallydefinedthefixednetworkgenerationsforthefirsttimebasedoncoretechnologiessuchas10GPON+fibertotheroom(FTTR)forbroadbandaccess,Wi-Fi6,andsingle-wavelength200Gforopticaltransmission+opticalcross-connect(OXC).Inaddition,ETSIreleasedtheFifth-GenerationFixedNetwork(F5G)standardandproposedtheindustryvisionof"FibertoEverywhere".Theessenceofthevisionistopromotefiber-basedbroadbandontheaccesssidetoachievegigabitrates,whilebuildinganall-opticalbaseonthetransportsidetoprovidepremiumtransmissionforvariousindustries.Oncereleased,thestandardandvisionquicklygarneredwideattentionandstimulateddiscussionwithinthefixednetworkindustry.Meanwhile,thenumberofETSImembersincreasedtoapproximately100withintwoyears,morethan1000articleswerereleased,andover60F5Gworkshopswereheld.TheF5Gstandardhasalsobeenacceptedbyotherstandardsorganizationsandadoptedinindustryapplications.Inaddition,theWorldBroadbandAlliance(WBBA)wasestablishedattheendof2021,markingthestartofF5Gcommercialization. Sincethen,theF5G