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Vodafone will deploy 1Gbps FTTH network in Ireland and Portugal

Vodafone Group has begun to implement fiber to the home (FTTH) projects in Ireland and Portugal, the project is 600 million euros is part of the Vodafone Group network expansion project.

Ireland will be Europe's first end-to-fiber optic network project conducted by the national electricity infrastructure. As part of SIRO (Vodafone Ireland ESB co-owned joint venture), Vodafone has started "before the end of 2018 to provide 1 Gbps fiber optic broadband network serving 51 cities and towns in Ireland" program.

Eligible to participate in the scheme must have more than 4,000 inhabitants. Carrigaline town of Cork County will be the first to get this fiber broadband service towns. According to the data show that Ireland does not exceed 50% of the fixed broadband subscribers bandwidth of 30M. Vodafone pointed out, SIRO of 1G (1000M) broadband project will bring revolutionary broadband experience Irish 500,000 homes and businesses.

Vodafone also announced plans to invest 125 million euros in Portugal FTTH network expansion plans before the end of 2016 to provide 1Gbps broadband network services for local 2.75 million homes and businesses. So far, Vodafone FTTH network covers 2.2 million homes and businesses in Portugal. In addition, Vodafone and France Telecom operator Orange also cooperate in the construction of gigabit FTTH network in Spain to provide broadband services to the local more than 200 million inhabitants. Meanwhile, Vodafone is working with the Italian electricity company Enel questionable establish a national FTTH network in the Italian plan.

Vodafone also reached an agreement with Swisscom, the market strategic partnership between the two sides extended to four years. The agreement will bring benefits roaming and high speed internet connection service broadband subscribers in Switzerland. Vodafone customers and corporate clients will roam when visiting Switzerland to Swisscom's broadband network.

2016 100G technology in the network equipment market will be a breakthrough year

IHS today announced network ports: 1G, 2.5G, 10G, 40G, 100G report, the corresponding statistics for each port technology and the growth rate of speed.

"Deploying more than 1G network ports continue unabated, whether business or service provider. In general, the higher the port speed, the higher the growth rate, which means 40G and 100G are key growth areas of the market. However, in 2014, as China's massive increase in GPON OLT expenditure, as well as North America gigabit FTTH deployments, 2.5G products increased the most. "Matthias Machowinski IHS enterprise networks and video research director said. "Looking ahead, we expect 40G revenue began to fall in 2017, the demand for enterprise and data center move to a new release based QSFP 100G technology."

For operators of transmission networks, IHS research director believes that 2016 was a breakthrough year for 100G coherent technology, such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon to massive ultra-large-scale data center launched 100G Ethernet switching technology.

IHS expects: 1G / 2.5G / 10G / 40G / 100G port shipments in 2015 will be over 700 million, amounting to $ 45 billion, compared to 2014, 100G port shipments more than doubled, to 163,000 ports .

IHS predicted five years from 2014-2019, the global income 100G ports will be 137 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) growth.

IHS expects 10G networking port spending to grow 70%, 100G to grow 262% from 2015 to 2019

Hong Kong FTTH penetration has reached 82%

On 8 September 2015, held the world's ultra-wideband Forum, Peter Lam PCCW-HKT, general manager of engineering department director level to share broadband development in Hong Kong.

Peter Lam expressed, PCCW has 100% of pay-TV, Huawei also our partners in the mobile space, and last year our entire network can achieve 300M bandwidth, and now we can achieve 3 carriers mobile network bandwidth. For residential customers in Hong Kong, he introduced a lot of high-rise buildings has become a landmark in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, more than 80 percent of the buildings are high-level, in this real estate layout, PCCW already has 82% of FTTH penetration, we can realization within four days of the fiber to the home, while FTTB penetration reached 77%.

PCCW past many networks are copper network, starting in 2010, PCCW begin large-scale FTTH deployment, Peter Lam further stated, HKT is Hong Kong's largest ISP, we are very proud that we are the first optical fiber instead of copper network in Hong Kong operators, is also the largest IPTV provider, which gives us a double benefit, fiber to the home for future consumption of high-bandwidth pave the way, to promote the development of mobile services, LTE network, 100% fiber ensures the 100M back pass rate. Other operators are required to rent mobile backhaul networks.

PCCW customers currently installed basically 500M to 1G networks while PCCW has begun deploying 10G networks to the home, which for PCCW to enter the field of intellectual life has brought convenience.

Be prepared to look at the development of optical communication industry

Wall Street analyst team Doyle Publishing Ltd yesterday wrote on SeekingAlpha analysis of financial performance of the leading companies in the field of optical devices Finisar's. Their conclusion is pessimistic. If they have a good analysis, whether our industry in trouble fast.

In fact, a few days ago Finisar CEO Eitan Gertel sudden resignation if he had let the outside world because of poor financial performance of Finisar resign, although officially denied this claim Finisar. Doyle analysis to verify the financial problems may encounter Finisar. These problems can be summed up that is Finisar's profitability fell again, and the reason is behind the rise over the past few years COGS costs faster than sales growth. As a direct result, Finisar's ROA is only 0.07%, ROE was 0.1%, which means that management is no return to investors. This means that even if investors put money in the bank than to vote for Finisar in exchange for higher returns.

finisar financial

Finisar Doyle conclusion is not supported by the current earnings outlook for the stock now. We are not the financial industry, for their analysis and conclusions can not comment. But from the feeling we live in the optical communications industry, the costs continue to rise should be an indisputable fact, more than Finisar, other optical device manufacturers face the same. Finisar has the leading technology in fact there are new technologies and products to improve profitability, most of their competitors do not have this power.

Market prospects for the optical communication industry, all these years of rapid development FTTH, data center, driving the rapid growth of optical devices and fiber optic cable and other markets. Now China Mobile to host the 90 million core km of fiber optic cable is an example of the bidding market hot. Today, however, Doyle read this article, but people have some concerns. After all, the world macroeconomic situation is also far from clear, the Americans say that the increase does not raise interest rates to observe the performance of the Chinese economy, China's own ability to maintain 7% in the second half of the growth or problems. Optical communications market in Europe has just improved, and now into a refugee crisis. Russian oil prices dragged down the market far less. Development of optical communication market growth depends on the bandwidth consumed by an unstable economic situation is difficult to say to have stable bandwidth consumption growth. Today, we still see the Wall Street Journal said that Verizon is expected to next year's estimated income levels and unchanged from 2015, is one of the reasons behind the rapidly changing needs of consumers.

If even Huawei said his far without success, so for today's optical communications industry, especially optical components industry, vigilant even more indispensable.

Chinese PON equipment revenue to break $ 1 billion mark for Q2

IHS company reported that in 2015 Q2 worldwide broadband aggregation devices (DSL, PON, Ethernet and fiber to the home) revenues increased 12%, an increase of 11%. GPON growth largely from the rapid growth in China's shipments of drives, and high-speed DSL (VDSL) in.

"Service providers realize fixed broadband services highly profitable, so the level of investment to expand the speed and fixed broadband capabilities should remain stable and continue to focus on promoting the fiber to the access network. We have seen the expansion of FTTH in China, driven by the government to the country's policy China's EPON and GPON equipment continues to greatly enhance delivery record. "IHS researcher broadband access and pay TV Jeff Heynen representation.

GPON equipment market

More broadband market view:

Chinese market in 2015 Q2, PON equipment revenue hit a record-breaking first-quarter revenue estimate $ 1 billion.

2015 full-year expenses will be more operators tend to deploy FTTH.

North America 2015 Q2 consumption environment is very complex: GPON expenses
increased 1%, but the chain fell 10%; DSL expenses fell 18%, growth of 5%.

Due to the huge Chinese market, continued investment, IHS expects global broadband aggregation market will reach $ 9 billion in 2019.

Competition status and trends of soft cable

1. FTTH with a soft optical cable

FTTH customer base with a soft optical cable main suppliers, competition in this area is mainly between traditional cable companies, and professional soft cable companies due to lack of brand influence, market channels is imperfect, the lack of scale advantages, it is difficult to enter the fields. But due to the current FTTH market with a soft optical cable capacity is relatively small, so the market can not accommodate too many cable companies, the market concentration degree will be far higher than ordinary cable, over the next three to five companies expected to occupy 80% of the market share, and currently occupy the forefront of the enterprise market will likely further expand the advantages, the industry average profit margin would be in a more reasonable level.

2. The optical connector device with a soft optical cable

Unlike soft FTTH optical cables and optical connectors for flexible cable customer base is a communication device manufacturer and device class manufacturers, more than the number of such enterprises, a relatively small-scale enterprises. Before 2005 professional soft cable companies occupy the market, but after 2005 with the expansion of market demand, the traditional cable companies quickly cut into the market, by virtue of its good brand image as well as the scale of strength and technical strength, coupled together with ordinary cable cost advantages and fiber resources supporting the formation of scale procurement of raw materials, the market share of traditional cable companies in the field of rapid increase, severely squeezed the soft cable professional living space, and this trend will become more pronounced. It can be expected, a few years later, the existing professional soft cable companies will gradually withdraw from the mainstream market in the field, the market will be the preceding several traditional cable business division.

From the application point of view, the optical connectors for flexible cable market capacity will not be great, and dispersed customer base, pre-equipment and research and development into a larger, more post-market investment, and general profitability and many other reasons, so new entrants were underpowered, the future market structure will remain relatively stable.

Soft fiber optic cable

The definition of soft cable


Cable from the use of the environment can be divided into outdoor and indoor fiber optic cables, indoor cables use of fiber-reinforced materials or very thin reinforcing member, the outer diameter of the smaller, flexible, and easy to bend, suitable for indoor or space smaller occasions wiring. But with the ever-changing cable applications, in the traditional sense of its structure indoor cable or fiber optic cable and similar materials often used for outdoor or other specific circumstances, so in order to more scientific definition of such products, suggested that it be defined as "soft cable ", its application areas include optical connector, FTTH, military field and sensing.

Soft cable Product Categories


Soft cable classification there are many, can be classified in terms of applications, application scenarios, product structure, from the point of view of applications, mainly divided into three categories:

(1) FTTH with a soft optical cable, such as: butterfly cable, drop cable, optical cable and other tree

(2) with a soft optical cable for connecting devices, such as: single cable, dual cable, flat ribbon cable, etc.

(3) Other Special soft cable: Military field cable, fiber optic cable station pull away, blowing micro-optic cable, optical cable and other sensor

Latin American FTTH / FTTB line during the year to reach 5.1 million

Market research firm Pyramid's latest report says Latin American FTTH / FTTB connections will reach 5.1 million during the year, the next five years the average annual compound growth rate of 34.9%, but compared to DSL remains the main broadband access technology in the region.

Pyramid expects the total amount of fixed lines in Latin America during the year reached 163.8 million, an increase of 2.3% compared with 2014, the average annual growth rate of the next five years to reach 2.1%.

Pyramid noted that broadband is the main driver of growth in Latin America Wireline Communications, 2020, the total number of fixed lines in the region will reach 181.9 million. In contrast, FTTH / FTTB development, there are many potential. 2015 Latin American FTTH / FTTB penetration is less than 6.9%, DSL accounted for 57.5% of the market in 2014, by 2020 there will still be 40% of the market. Price question is now the bottleneck problem in Latin America FTTH / FTTB development encountered.

Fixed construction potential solutions - VDSL

"Broadband China Strategy" by 2020 China's fixed broadband subscribers to reach 400 million fixed broadband household penetration rate reached 70%, the number of Internet users reached 1.1 billion urban broadband access capacity of 50Mbps, rural broadband access capacity 12Mbps. How to effectively implement such an ambitious communications project is placed in front of the major operators of a problem. China from the current mainstream carriers fixed construction situation, FTTH undoubtedly get the operator's favor, but full use of technology to achieve FTTH broadband speed, how many there are some problems, such as high construction costs, low profitability, engineering deployment long period, the old district FTTH difficult, interoperability and so on. So, how to solve these problems the operator's problem? VDSL technology is a promising solution.

From the perspective of technical maturity perspective, VDSL technology in Europe, North America, after years of business we have been popular. FTTH construction interoperability issues that exist in a relatively different manufacturers PON and PON terminal between the central office, the interconnection and VDSL VDSL central office terminal has been quite mature. VDSL infrastructure currently the main chip only Broadcom, Lantiq, Ikanos, the mainstream of the terminal VDSL chip includes Broadcom, Lantiq, MTK, Triductor, Ikanos, central office and terminal chip must follow the DSL interoperability specification TR67/TR100/TR114, and must Broadband Forum the IOP testing before commercial DSL interoperability lab. VDSL equipment interoperability is guaranteed by the main chip firmware, qualified VDSL CO or CPE main core must Broadband Forum certification, including TR67 (ADSL), TR100 (ADSL2/2+), TR114 (VDSL2), TR115 (VDSL SRA etc) specification test. Chinese shipments of mainstream VDSL terminal chip manufacturers have Broadcom, Lantiq, MTK, Triductor, 2013 China Telecom organized the interoperability testing VDSL, including interoperability testing G.vector, G.INP and other advanced features of the ideal test case and can meet the requirements of different manufacturers interoperability. In addition, VDSL terminal chips in addition to support VDSL2 central office, but also backward compatible with ADSL/2/2+, ADSL and VDSL to meet then mixed scenarios.

From the perspective of the carrying capacity in terms of bandwidth, VDSL technology also meet the 2020 Chinese urban broadband access broadband China strategy proposed to achieve 50Mbps, 12Mbps rural broadband access capacity requirements. VDSL2 technology is quite mature, with a capacity of over 300 meters 50Mbps bandwidth. In addition, Vectoring technology has been in commercial quantities in 2014, found within 300 meters downstream can support 100Mbps of bandwidth capability, within 500 meters of 80Mbps bandwidth capabilities. G.fast technology is expected after 2015 with commercial power to support bandwidth capability within 100 meters of 1Gbps. Therefore, VDSL+FTTB or VDSL+FTTC this application mode can well meet the requirements of broadband speed broadband China strategy.

VDSL

From the perspective of the construction costs, the use of FTTH technology deployment laying fiber to the home network requires a comprehensive, but VDSL technology can take full advantage of the existing network of the original copper line resources already deployed in some twisted family, if need to deploy VDSL, you do not need to reproduce the wiring line cost savings. Secondly, VDSL network without deploying FTTH networks like optical splitter, optical connectors and other devices, which are very expensive period, saving the cost of network components. In addition, VDSL terminal and infrastructure costs are much lower than FTTH terminal and infrastructure costs, which reduces the equipment cost. Overall, construction costs line VDSL users about one-third of the construction cost of the first-line PON subscribers. This cash-strapped operators provincial company or to the city, it means they can spend less money, construction of a high-bandwidth network, which also meets the requirements of the national broadband strategy.

From an engineering point of view deployment, FTTH network construction is equivalent to re-building the access network, the central office OLT main work includes deployment, debugging, fiber optic cabling, terminal and infrastructure interoperability testing and so on, a long construction period. The VDSL network deployment is relatively simple, and can utilize the existing copper line resources, eliminating the need for network cabling link, simply replace the ADSL central office VDSL central office, and there are no interoperability issues, VDSL terminal equipment can be directly and VDSL infrastructure equipment to achieve docking, greatly simplifies the difficulty of engineering deployment, while compressing the construction period and construction costs of the project deployment.

Simply put, in China FTTH construction in full swing wave, there VDSL technology still has great significance:

(A) for the network construction funds tight provinces or cities, you can take advantage of VDSL technology for broadband speed, while saving construction costs;

(B) to ensure high-bandwidth fiber to the home at the same time an effective solution to difficult issues, improve user viscosity;

(C) the requirements for the network construction period short speed network transformation project, the network may consider the use of VDSL technology to FTTB+VDSL or FTTC+VDSL way to achieve broadband speed, significantly shorten the construction period.

Here are the main scenarios VDSL terminal:

(A) DSLAM upgrade part of the current network by ADSL DSLAM support the board upgrade to VDSL cards, VDSL gateway can be directly mounted at DSLAM, ADSL cat replace user's original VDSL terminals, broadband upgrade and provide IPTV, OTT etc. can control business.

VDSL terminal

(B) replace the existing ADSL infrastructure by MDU
If the original can not be upgraded to support VDSL DSLAM central office, FTTB+VDSL technology can be used in new residential MDU or replace the original can not be upgraded DSLAM. VDSL gateway can be directly mounted in the MDU, the user to replace the original cat ADSL VDSL terminals, broadband upgrade and provide IPTV, OTT, etc. can control business.

2016 China Telecom Solutions XG-PON1 interoperability

Currently, China Mobile added, broadband access market is highly competitive. China Telecom and China Unicom have copper resources are not willing to discard, so broadband network construction development should consider both asset protection. China Mobile is no copper "burden", and funded with strong competitiveness. Faced with the impact of China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom efforts to strengthen the construction of FTTH.

As the main force of China Telecom FTTH in the past few years, we have begun a gradual transition from the access technology G / EPON to 10G-EPON. Recent China Telecom's 2015 Central Purchasing PON equipment, including one million 10G EPON port, close to the G / EPON port level.

XG-PON is the next generation of GPON evolution of technology. Judgment based on practical needs and technology maturity, FSAN NG-PON evolution of the definition of planning is divided into two stages: XG-PON1 and NG-PON2. XG-PON1 medium-term evolution of PON, focusing on the study of both existing GPON ODN laying next generation standards.

10G EPON interoperability has been resolved, the current focus is to reduce equipment costs. XG-PON1 current focus is to promote interoperability, China Telecom will launch in the second half of 2015, 2016, respectively, and interoperability testing different vendors OLT ONU (SFU / HGU) devices, target solve interoperability in 2016, the scale of 2017 Commercial technical preparedness.

For China Telecom, XG-PON is insurmountable stage. Within three years, is expected to TWDM PON (NG-PON2) in standard equipment maturity, cost, interoperability and other aspects not yet reached the large-scale commercial level. China Telecom will organize XG-PON interoperability testing, as the Point XG-PON technology matures.

SingTel will soon test 10Gbps FTTH service

The beginning of the next season's largest telecom operator Singtel Singapore announced FTTH (Fibre-to-the-Home, FTTH) deployed a new generation of online Gb grade passive optical network (Gigabit Passive Optical Network, GPON), allows customers to choose 10Gbps Fibre broadband network services, initially on a small scale deployments, and will be extended to all users by the end of this year.

Singtel Tay Soo Meng, chief technology officer, said the company has 70% of customers use fiber-optic network, and believe continued innovation through the latest technology to provide better speed to the user. Given that most families there are many networking devices, coupled with the increase of bandwidth for various applications and requirements, the relevant technology is expected to meet the needs of users.

Singtel Singapore is the leading fiber-optic network services market share exceeds 50%, the current Singtel-eat fiber-optic network services to provide only up to the rate of 1Gbps, after upgrading to new technology customers will choose to 10Gbps broadband service can cater to high-definition 4K video service quality at 10Gbps transfer rate, 50GB of movie in one minute will be able to download.

In addition, 10Gbps of bandwidth can benefit online games, telemedicine, 3D television, but also support future 8K television service.

Calix NG PON2 platform launched in North America FTTH Assembly

Broadband access network equipment manufacturers Calix recently said it would increase the NG-PON2 TWDM function of its E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform series NG-PON2 4-way 10Gbps wavelength supports the gradual upgrade from the current GPON to 10G PON and WDM PON.

Calix indicates NG-PON2 technology supports both fixed and tunable wavelength in two models, and will be publicly displayed two models this fall. Market research firm Broadbandtrends representation of Teresa Mastrangelo , Calix fiber access in the field has a long history in this area have made many contributions. They launched the next generation of PON products not surprising. NG-PON2 will become the future of PON network standard. Calix has been ready for it.

Calix will showcase this product at FTTH Conference in North America this week.

FTTH difficult five crux, light copper binding or a recipe

In March 2012 the Ministry of Industry has announced plans to achieve nationwide coverage FTTH 35 million households in the year, but a dream awake, "fiber to the home is difficult," "Broadband is not wide," the problem did not get solved. The implementation of the light to change so that Chinese netizens project was eagerly looking forward to, but the reality is cruel, slow process of reforming the unbearable, too many users expressed anger and dissatisfaction. China's broadband network construction shortcomings presented more worrying, rectification imminent. FTTH really that difficult? What is the reason? There is no solution?

Originally a technician can hold 10 ADSL broadband every day, the light changed only a day to complete two.

Fiber to the home, a stumbling block too much.

1, high-care costs, expensive charges, operators, equipment manufacturers, users tripartite coordination difficult;

2, property slotting allowance, the operator, the property is difficult to coordinate the two sides;

3, most of the building, the old district no internal embedded fiber optic lines, which makes the transformation more difficult and more time consuming to install;

4, after the light changed, fixed must be connected to the power supply, the power went out in a hurry very tangled;

5, some people need some people do not need, it is difficult unified, carrier pressure.

Of course, in China this population, the relationship between a complex environment, there will be this kind of problem, fiber to the home difficult, already reasonable.

Expert Weapon: "Light copper" Combined, hybrid deployment

Earlier reports said that, in addition to improving network speed through fiber transformation, utilizing copper technology also enables certain bandwidth of 12M, or 16M. There is also news that a foreign telecommunications equipment manufacturers announced last year new technology "VDSL2 Vectoring" has been achieved under the conditions of the use of copper, the family of bandwidth up to 100M.

In this regard, communications Standards Institute Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications Research Institute, deputy director Li Ao said that the current building is not embedded inside most of the fiber-optic lines, fiber to the home to a large scale, it means to be in an existing building internal re-laying of fiber optic cable. Fiber itself impatience tension and bending characteristics, determine the layout of the optical fiber is much more difficult than copper. He believes that "fiber + copper" combinations can be used as an important reference and select the current broadband construction.

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