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less than 50% of the world's population and even less than terminal ecological co-construction plan jointly launched by
40% of developing countries enjoy broadband services. Fiber operators such as China Mobile, China Radio International
optic communication network foundation is weak in Southeast
Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa,
and broadband penetration rate is low. In order to strengthen
the basic network construction, the mainstream operators in
these areas have accelerated the construction of fixed network
broadband scale. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced
that every village in India will be connected to fiber-optic
networks within the next three years; Reliance Jio, the Indian
telecoms operator, is pushing ahead with FTTH, which is based (CRI) and industrial partners is also being vigorously promoted.
on fibre optics, with plans to offer FTTH in more than 1,100 Furthermore, the Ministry of Industry and Information
cities. Moreover, FTTH coverage in Europe recently reached Technology (MIIT) issued the Double Gigabit Network
50%, according to FTTH Europe. Fiber coverage will reach Coordinated Development Action Plan (2021-2023). According
91.24 percent of Spain's population, including three-quarters to the plan, by the end of 2021, 200 million households will
of the rural population, by the end of 2021, according to the be covered by gigabit fiber networks, the number of gigabit
Spanish government's "New Generation broadband Expansion broadband users will exceed 10 million, and more than 20
Plan." The UK government plans to spend £5bn to support gigabit cities will be built; By the end of 2023, 400 million
the deployment of gigabit broadband and connect the first one households will be covered by gigabit fiber networks, the
million homes and businesses with gigabit speed broadband and number of gigabit broadband users will exceed 30 million, and
extend coverage to the most difficult 20% of UK areas by 2025. 100 gigabit cities will be built. This means that gigabit networks
In the future, with the popularization of broadband in overseas will continue to be deployed and built at an accelerated scale
markets and the optical fiber market brought by FTTH, the local as a priority. It can be predicted that under the premise of
optical fiber access network construction will come to a climax, coordinated promotion of 5G network and double gigabit
and the optical fiber and cable market will also usher in new network construction, the speed of network is expected to
development opportunities. accelerate, and China's optical communication market will usher
in a new opportunity.
3. Outside of China, the US and South Korea, 4G is still
growing at the same time 2. Data Center
4G development is already peaking in leading 5G markets such A data center is a global network of specialized devices
as China, South Korea and the US. But in many other countries, used to transmit, speed up, display, compute, and store data
especially in the developing world, 4G is still growing. The information over the Internet. Data center is the communication
number of 4G connections worldwide is expected to peak at support technology of Internet, cloud computing and
5.1 billion by 2024. In addition, operators are still investing artificial intelligence. Driven by national policies such as new
in improving LTE networks, with 796 operators worldwide infrastructure, cyber power and digital economy, as well as the
launching LTE networks in 2021 and more than 175 operators development of next-generation information technology, China's
launching NB-IoT or LTE-M networks, Including 4x4 MIMO, Internet Data Center (IDC) business revenue has maintained
QAM in the DL, LAA, LTE-U, LWA, VoLTE, NB-IoT, and rapid growth. China's data centers will show the following three
LTE-M. trends in the future.
1) Application scenarios continue to expand
Ⅱ . China optical communication market In the commercial era of 5G, a large number of 5G-based
1.5 G and gigabit networks will give a strong boost to the applications have been demonstrated and promoted in traditional
development of the optical fiber and cable industry industries such as finance, manufacturing, medical care and
retail. VR/AR and other application demands will also open up
In 2021, the steady development of 5G in China remains the growth space for data center market development and service
core driving force of China's digital economy. The Chinese model innovation. At the same time, the application scenarios of
government is also rolling out policies to strengthen Internet blockchain technology will extend from the current economic
construction. According to the report on the Work of the field to social policies and public services such as people's
Government in 2021, 5G network construction will continue livelihood needs, urban governance and government services,
to be intensified and application scenarios will be enriched. which will inevitably bring about a large number of database
The development of 5G network in 2021 will focus on management needs.
scenario-based applications. Not only 5G network technology, 2) Green data centers are the future
artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, big data, As a high energy consuming industry, how to significantly
edge computing, IoT sensing and other technologies are also reduce the energy consumption level and carbon emission
developing simultaneously to provide application filling for pressure of data centers by using clean energy and how to build
5G network and support operation. In addition, the 700MHz green data centers have become urgent problems for the industry
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