Optical fiber and cable construction is a fixed asset construction for operators. Its investment is in place once, and it is difficult to change. The service life of optical fibers is about 20 years. This requires operators to lay optical fibers that can meet the data bearing requirements in 2030. The current increase in data demand has shown explosive growth. HossinMoiin, the head of global technology and innovation at NSN (Noci), said that by 2020, mobile broadband network traffic will increase by a factor of 1,000. By then, the mobile network must meet 1GB of traffic per person per day. With the current broadband technology, it is really difficult to meet the data demand after 10 years or even 20 years.
However, operators will never give up their long-term plans because of the difficulty of strong men. Because as long as the material supplier delivers the optical fiber to the operator, the investment risk is passed on, and the long-term risk in the future is borne by the operator. Based on this, operators are bound to have a strong foresight when conducting network construction-low-loss, ultra-low-loss optical fibers will be sought after. At present, the manufacturers that can produce ultra-low-loss optical fibers in the world, except for Corning, basically cannot.
This will lead to a polarization situation-on the one hand, the excess capacity of ordinary optical fiber, oversupply, and the price will fall sharply; on the other hand, low-loss, ultra-low-loss fiber forms a technological monopoly, supply is limited, and prices and demand will rise .
