At present, it is an indisputable fact that the optical fiber and cable industry is booming. Regarding the development of the optical fiber and cable industry in the next three years, although some people are skeptical about whether the development trend of high prosperity can continue, more people are still more optimistic. It is foreseeable that as the production capacity continues to fall, it will more or less affect the development of the industry, but it is undeniable that the factors that stimulate the demand for optical fiber and cable are constantly emerging, and will eventually form a momentum to promote the industry's continued high boom. A huge driving force for development. Not only 5G, fiber-to-the-home, data center construction and smart city construction will all become active driving factors for the development of the industry.

Promotion of 5G construction

The application scenarios of 5G mainly include enhanced mobile broadband, large-scale machine communication, and high-reliability and low-latency communications. Compared with 4G, bandwidth requirements are increased by 100 times and latency requirements are reduced by 10 times. In the limited spectrum resource planning, only by adjusting the network system architecture to meet the needs of business standards. Unlike the traditional 3G and 4G chimney and star-shaped distributed access network architecture, the 5G fronthaul network architecture will fully apply network virtualization, wireless cloudification and mobile edge computing technologies, saving through centralized deployment The site resources and the utilization efficiency of air interface resources have made the value of the fronthaul network prominent, and the demand for fiber optic cables has increased significantly.

Fiber to the home

Although China's fiber-to-the-home construction has made great progress, the work of fiber-to-the-home is still advancing, and the rigid demand for mobile construction of FTTx still exists, especially in the old city's fiber optic cable laying and broadband home opening. Among the three major operators, China Mobile, because of the shortcomings in the construction of fixed networks, will continue to focus on FTTx laying and opening in the future. Driven by the above factors, the demand for fiber optic cables will undoubtedly increase.

Promotion of data center construction

Now, a new round of data center construction boom is starting. In addition, with the rapid development of the mobile Internet, the demand for access to massive mobile devices has caused a surge in network traffic, which directly promoted the high-speed demand for network transmission in data centers, which not only further stimulated the demand for optical communication equipment, but also due to the transmission The change of medium from copper wire to optical fiber also promoted the growth of demand for optical fiber and cable.

Promotion of smart city construction

At present, smart cities are highly respected all over the world. The construction of smart city should be based on the realization of fiber-to-the-home. It can be said that fiber-to-the-home is the first step and the most important step in building a smart city. In addition, upgrading from analog cameras to 1080P high-definition cameras, as well as interconnection and interworking between systems at all levels, require a lot of fiber-optic resource connections. All of the above will increase the demand for fiber optic cables.