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