Huawei OptiX OSN 9800 M24

Huawei OptiX OSN 9800 M24 is a software item for the Huawei OSN 9800. Nothing physical ships; this is an entitlement applied to equipment you have or are buying.

Software items of this kind are tied to a platform and usually to a release range, so the running version is the thing to establish before ordering rather than the version that was commissioned.

The upgrade question worth asking before you buy anything. On transmission equipment the running software release gates more than people expect: which boards are supported, which features can be licensed, and which optics are recognised. A node held back on an old release because nobody wanted to risk the upgrade will refuse new hardware that is otherwise perfectly compatible, and the symptom looks like a hardware incompatibility rather than a software one. If you are planning an expansion, settle the release first and buy the boards against it.

Where the OSN 9800 stands today is better than the part number suggests. This is a current Huawei platform, not a legacy one. The OSN 9800 line was refreshed as recently as 2024 and Huawei still describes its newest member as a flagship WDM product, and the OSN 1800 is the metro counterpart in the same generation. A card for one of these is a card for a line that is still being developed rather than one being wound down.

The honest caveat is practical rather than commercial. Huawei does not publish end-of-support dates outside a logged-in support account, so nobody selling you this part, ourselves included, can quote you a hard support-end date. What can be said is that the platform is current and the part is not an orphan.

One UK rule worth knowing about, and who it actually binds. Under the UK’s Designated Vendor Direction, designated public telecoms providers, meaning the large operators running public networks, were required to stop using Huawei high data rate transmission equipment in their core networks from 31 December 2025, a date that has now passed, and must remove Huawei from their 5G networks entirely by 31 December 2027.

If you are one of those operators, that is the governing fact about this product and nothing here changes it. If you are not, and most buyers of transmission hardware are not, the Direction does not apply to you and there is no UK legal barrier to buying or running this equipment. It is narrowly scoped to designated providers and public networks. Worth stating plainly, because it gets quoted as though it were a blanket ban, and it is not.

Tell us the platform, the subrack count, the release you are running and where you are trying to get to, and we will work out which entitlements and licences that actually needs. For a multi-shelf node, tell us the shelves, because the per-subrack items are the ones that get undercounted.

Green Code Technologies supplies Huawei transmission equipment and the licences and software entitlements that go with it. We are a supplier of Huawei alongside HPE, Dell, Cisco, Samsung and Netgear, and we would rather confirm a part against Huawei’s own documentation than sell you the wrong one, which on OSN 9800 equipment is worth doing. Send us the platform, the equipment identifier and the software release you are running and we will come back with a straight answer.