Huawei has been outlining a strategy to enable operators to deploy gigabit FTTx networks based on mobile sites, in order to reduce the cost of roll-out and support fixed/mobile convergence and the optimal use of infrastructure assets. The AirPON optical access solution was supposed to have made its debut at this year’s cancelled Mobile World Congress, but instead featured in its own virtual Huawei event last week. The solution was designed to help FTTx equipment and wireless cells to share resources such as sites, backhaul fiber and power. This could improve the economics of fixed/mobile convergence (FMC), helping MNOs to deploy fixed and converged networks, and to support immersive services, such as next generation live broadcasting, that require very high…