Huawei Launches Starlink PEN, a New Generation All-Optical Network Solution, to Drive Industry Digital and Intelligent Transformation

[China, Shenzhen, March 20, 2025] During the Huawei China Partners Conference 2025, Huawei launched the StarCore PEN (Passive Ethernet All-Optical) new-generation all-optical network solution. With four core capabilities—"dedicated 10 Gigabit, unified architecture, secure and reliable, intelligent operation and maintenance"—it builds a solid and dependable network foundation for industries, driving their digital and intelligent transformation.

With the rapid popularization of AI terminals and applications, the trend of enterprise digital transformation is accelerating. Enterprise customers are always seeking new network solutions to meet their high bandwidth and easy to operate needs, and hope to establish a campus network that can be quickly upgraded to adapt to business expansion. Compared to traditional passive optical network solutions, the Star Pulse PEN campus network does not require optical splitting, truly achieving 10GE all-optical access, symmetrical upstream and downstream bandwidth, and can smoothly evolve to 800GE in the future. In addition, the Star Pulse PEN campus network uses Ethernet protocol throughout the network to avoid protocol conversion, achieve unified operation and maintenance platform management, and reduce the overall network operation and maintenance costs. This plan is the preferred solution for densely populated scenarios such as education and healthcare.

Huawei's Star Pulse PEN next-generation all-optical network solution, with four core capabilities of "exclusive 10 Gigabit, unified architecture, secure and reliable, and intelligent operation and maintenance", helps the industry's digitalization construction enter the fast lane.

Exclusive 10 Gigabit, Ultra Wide Boundless: The PEN center switch has twice the industry's 160GE core bandwidth, and a single device can expand 96 10 Gigabit ports, providing up to 10GE of all-optical access for rooms and creating a high-speed and smooth office, teaching, and research network environment.

Unified architecture, minimalist and passive: Based on mature Ethernet protocols, a unified network architecture is built to reduce technical barriers, and operation and maintenance personnel do not need to learn again; Passive and weak current free room design, completely eliminating fire hazards.

Safe and reliable, green and energy-saving: supports multiple authentication algorithms and reliability protection mechanisms, such as anti counterfeiting and anti private connection, optical module second level fault detection and positioning, etc., to safeguard the network security of the park. At the same time, the single port power consumption of the remote module is less than 1W, and with the help of dynamic energy-saving algorithms, network energy consumption can be reduced by more than 30%, practicing the concept of green and low-carbon.

Intelligent operation and maintenance, simplifying complexity: remote modules are plug and play, configuration free, centrally managed, reducing 80% of management nodes; By cooperating with the digital map of the park network, one click automation of network configuration can be achieved, and precise optimization can be achieved for different scenarios, greatly improving the efficiency of customer and partner delivery and operation. AI operation and maintenance helps one person manage a 10000 person park.