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Premium private lines are the answer carriers need to provide commercial buildings and SMEs with premium services.
By Zhang Han, Solution Architect, All-optical Network Architecture Innovation Lab, Optical Architecture & Technology Planning Dept, Huawei
New infrastructure underpinned by technologies like 5G, F5G, IoT, industrial Internet, big data, cloud computing, and AI is becoming deeply integrated with the real economy in industries such as urban governance, transportation, campuses, enterprise operations, and manufacturing. In turn, this is boosting the economy and promoting the digital transformation of industries.
According to 2021 data from the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), 95% of China’s 42 million enterprises are SMEs. They play a key role in socioeconomic development and serve as the foundation of modern economies. To help SMEs reduce OPEX and become digital, carriers need to provide them with high-quality private-line services.
The White Paper on High-quality Broadband Network Service Experience for SMEs released by the Broadband Development Alliance in 2020 reports that SMEs have specific requirements for private-line quality. These include guaranteed bandwidth, availability protection, hard service isolation, provisioning and recovery time, and SLA visibility (see Table 1). SMEs are also price-sensitive due to OPEX pressures, so they need inclusive OTN private-line services.
Table 1: Private line network and service indicators from the White Paper on High-quality Broadband Network Service Experience for SMEs