China's 5G is about to take off, and 5G pre-commercial is approaching. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the third phase of my country's 5G test will start at the end of 2017.
The 5G dream shines into reality. In the past five years, after experiencing the prosperity and development of 3G and 4G, my country's mobile communications industry has begun to play a leading role in the field of 5G research. As 5G commercialization enters the fast lane, the era of the Internet of Things is truly opened, and the expansion of the connotation and extension of the communications industry will also become an important engine for my country's economic growth.
The 5G C-RAN architecture will lead to a large-scale increase in the demand for optical fiber and cable. Taking into account the situation of optical fiber multiplexing, the demand for optical fiber and cable for 5G in the next three years will reach at least 600 million core kilometers, nearly 100 billion market space, which is 3~ of 4G. 4 times. The 5G fronthaul network architecture will make full use of technologies such as network virtualization, wireless cloudification, and mobile edge computing. Centralized deployment will save site resources and improve the efficiency of air interface resource utilization. This will highlight the value of the fronthaul network and require a large number of optical fibers and cables. increase.