"Fixed line broadband service and mobile communication service are the two pillars of many operators' services. Mobile communication network has moved from 1g to 4G and then to 5g. The fixed broadband service moves from 64Kbps to 100m, and then to Gigabit broadband.
It is said that 5g has the characteristics of high bandwidth and low delay, and may replace fixed broadband services. However, the fact is that the two businesses are developing synchronously, each with unlimited innovation opportunities, and also jointly open a broader market.
At the end of December 2018, the Ministry of industry and information technology planned the action of "double g and double lifting, same network and same speed" of broadband network to promote China to open the era of 5g and Gigabit broadband (G bit rate). After that, the three operators also successively released the "double g and double mention" strategy. During the recent 517 World Telecom and information society days, many local operators in China demonstrated various business innovations after "double g and double mention".
Looking at Gigabit business alone, its innovation has shown a hundred flowers bloom scale effect. Driven by the national strategy, nearly 25 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government have opened Gigabit services and formed a differentiated Gigabit service innovation model. It can be predicted that based on Gigabit Network and 5g, operators will bring better connection experience to users from the dimensions of 2B, 2C and 2H (enterprise, consumption and family).
Policy foundation laid, Gigabit broadband services will take off
Gigabit network is characterized by ultra-high speed. Theoretically, the maximum downlink rate can reach 1024mbps. Users download an 8g video file. In the 4m era, broadband takes at least 5 hours, 100m broadband takes about 7 minutes, and Gigabit broadband takes only 1 minute and 15 seconds.
Therefore, Gigabit broadband network can better support cloud VR / AR, cloud games, 4K / 8K IPTV and other business scenarios, help enterprises work more efficiently and help industries improve efficiency.
The value of Giga network is huge, but the construction faces many challenges, such as large investment and difficult access. Some people worry that after the Gigabit network is completed, there will not be enough innovative services to attract users; Some people think that cloud VR contains great opportunities, but there is no mature gigabit network support.
When the industry seems to fall into the strange circle of "chicken lays eggs, egg lays chicken", the national policies continue to be issued, giving the industry great confidence. At the National Conference on industry and information technology held at the end of 2018, Miao Wei, Minister of industry and information technology, said that in 2019, the action of "double g and double lifting, the same network and the same speed" of broadband network will be launched to accelerate the promotion of fixed broadband Gigabit applications.
Miao Wei, Minister of industry and information technology, said during the two sessions:
This year, we will carry out Gigabit broadband home demonstration
On April 23, 2019, at the press conference of the Information Office of the State Council, Wen Ku, spokesman of the Ministry of industry and information technology and director of the Department of information and communication development, said: as of March 2019, China's optical network cities have been fully completed, more than 100 cities have deployed Gigabit broadband access networks, and it is planned to deploy Gigabit broadband networks in more than 300 cities this year, Strive to reach 20 million network users.
On May 14, the State Council held an executive meeting of the State Council to further promote network speed and fee reduction, emphasizing that fiber to home access ports account for more than 90% this year, and Gigabit broadband access networks are deployed in more than 300 cities to promote fixed and mobile broadband into the Gigabit era.
On May 15, the executive meeting of the State Council defined the theme of 2019 as "further promoting broadband network speed-up and fee reduction to support high-quality economic development", and summarized the goal of "speed-up and fee reduction" into three goals of "double g and double increase", "same network and same speed" and "accurate fee reduction".
Until the world telecommunication and information society day on May 17, a large number of cities across the country carried out "double g and double mention" related activities and exhibitions, and put forward plans to further accelerate the construction of gigabit network and promote innovative business.
It can be seen that policy traction has brought great development driving force for Gigabit business innovation and built a good national policy foundation.
Globally, Gigabit broadband service is also a general trend. The latest ovum data show that 234 operators in 57 countries have successively released Gigabit services. Broadband infrastructure is the core competitiveness of a country, which has become the consensus of all countries. In the construction of Gigabit broadband, China should not only not lag behind, but also continue to lead.
The three major operators have started construction in nearly 25 provinces and cities
The three operators put forward a clear plan for Gigabit development. China Telecom builds intelligent broadband with five intelligent "intelligent connection, intelligent networking, intelligent TV, intelligent application and intelligent service" to help users build a new life of smart family.
China Unicom builds Gigabit smart broadband based on three Gigabit basic boutique networks: 5g, Gigabit broadband and Gigabit home Wi Fi, creating four core applications: comprehensive upgrade of smart TV, smart home, wojia fixed line and wojia God eye.
China Mobile dual Gigabit has released a number of Gigabit home wide integration packages to comprehensively improve the quality of home wide, support home wide and 5g, and provide Gigabit services at the same time.
Local operators are actively implementing. It is understood that as of May 2019, nearly 25 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, including Shanghai, Beijing, Anhui, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou and Shaanxi, have released Gigabit networks. Among them, operators in 20 provinces have released Gigabit commercial packages, and most of them charge less than 400 yuan / month, providing more support for the rapid development of Gigabit broadband.
On May 17, Guangdong Telecom launched "telecom intelligent broadband", marking that the home ecology with optical fiber network technology as the core has entered the era of Gigabit broadband. It is understood that telecom intelligent broadband includes products, applications, services and services in five sections: intelligent connection, intelligent TV, intelligent networking, intelligent applications and intelligent services.
On the same day, Shanghai Telecom held a double Gigabit city promotion meeting to "meet 5g wisdom and enjoy the future", announcing that it would work with all parties to jointly build an open industrial ecology, accelerate the construction of 5g network, and basically form a 5g mobile gigabit network covering central urban areas and major towns by 2020, so as to build Shanghai into a "double Gigabit city" with 5g + broadband.
On May 15, Shandong Unicom held the "opening of Shandong Unicom 5g pilot network and 5g smart home full ecological press conference", and officially released the Gigabit smart broadband based on three Gigabit basic boutique networks: 5g, Gigabit broadband and Gigabit home WiFi.
In March, Shanghai Mobile announced that Hongkou District had been built into the "world's first dual Gigabit zone", planned to achieve Gigabit coverage in all communities within three years, and launched a policy of promising compensation for the use of Gigabit "new broadband", so as to ensure the convenient use of users in the stages of installation, use and maintenance.
Continuous innovation to build differentiated advantages
Another reason is that the three major domestic operators are also motivated to develop Gigabit access innovative services. The business of the three operators in 2C and 2H is facing challenges. In the 2C field, the introduction of unlimited data traffic package makes mobile operators face the dilemma of increasing revenue; In the field of 2h, the bandwidth demand of home users has maintained rapid growth, but the broadband user experience has not been fundamentally improved, and users are lack of interest in emerging services.
Facing the challenge, the Gigabit broadband network centered on user experience is the key to breaking the traditional broadband business of operators. We see that cloud VR service will be an important breakthrough.
In recent years, the global VR / AR industry has exploded with vitality. A large number of players have joined the industry, which has promoted the prosperity of VR / AR industry and become one of the key driving forces for the continuous innovation of ICT industry. From the perspective of the development track of video service, the video service has expanded from HD, 4K, 8K and other two-dimensional plane video to VR based three-dimensional video.
As a new service, VR puts forward higher requirements for bandwidth, because the network delay is too high, which will make consumers feel dizzy and other discomfort. The traditional VR business is generally localized, which requires consumers to buy an expensive PC locally, and the helmet is connected to the PC through wired mode.
In China, fiber to the home covers more than 380 million households, and the super 100m package exceeds 70%. To support cloud VR business, 100m bandwidth is not enough. Users must be more than 500m in order to better enjoy the ultimate experience of cloud VR and other new services.
Moreover, to achieve scale popularization of VR, cloud will be the inevitable choice. In order to promote the popularization of cloud VR services and enable ordinary users to enjoy VR services cheaply and quickly, Huawei officially launched the VR OpenLab industry cooperation plan in October 2017.
By promoting technological innovation, incubating business scenarios and building a complete cloud VR industrial ecology, VR OpenLab has achieved fruitful results in the past year.
For example, in terms of ecological construction, it has gathered more than 60 cloud VR industry partners, covered all links of the cloud VR industry, created the industry's first cloud VR rendering cloud platform, carrier grade VR content aggregation platform and cloud VR all-in-one machine, and preliminarily built an end-to-end cloud VR industry ecology.
Based on this, this year, Fujian Mobile officially released the world's first operator cloud VR service "he · cloud VR". After more than 6 months of business practice, the monthly user activity rate of Fujian Mobile "he · cloud VR" has reached 62.9%.
Operators are also exploring how to reconstruct many current business forms with the help of cloud VR, specifically involving five aspects of business.
First, VR education and training, including VR training, virtual laboratory, virtual reality emergency drill, virtual driving, remote experiential teaching, etc.
Second, VR high-end manufacturing, including building construction machinery, industrial simulation, emergency plan, rail transit, process flow and digital chemical plant.
The third is VR architecture exhibition, including building real estate home decoration, interior design, BIM roaming, digital exhibition hall, roads and bridges and virtual model room.
Fourth, VR public health, including building panoramic video, telemedicine, mobile navigation, digital city, cultural relics and historic sites, and geological disaster prevention.
Fifth, VR interactive games, including creating simulated flight, simulated driving, simulated operation, AR ordnance operation, VR simulated operation
It can be seen that cloud VR has become the main application scenario of Gigabit broadband and the acceleration engine of Gigabit broadband development. Of course, the innovation of Gigabit broadband market is not just an application innovation like cloud VR. Looking at the whole industry, the innovation of Gigabit broadband market has been a magnificent scene full of spring and flowers.
"Gigabit + 5g" has become a trend, which will form a scale effect
5g can also provide gigabit network anytime and anywhere. The biggest advantage of 5g is that it can support the continuous mobile networking demand. 5g has changed society and is supporting the digital development of cloud VR, autopilot, industrial manufacturing, UAV, telemedicine and other vertical industries.
If you are careful, you will find that many services of 5g and Gigabit fixed network broadband coincide. For example, in cloud VR, both sides can provide good network support. However, in the author's opinion, the two are not competitive relations, but each has its own advantages, and the joint force of the two forms a double g business, which will expand the ecological scale and accelerate business innovation.
It can be predicted that based on Gigabit Network and 5g, operators will bring users a better connection experience from multiple dimensions such as 2B, 2h and 2C.
At present, the partners of vropenlab are jointly carrying out joint innovation around the dual gcloudvr business scenarios in the fields of 2B, 2h and 2C.
In the 2B field, focus on vertical industries such as film and television, education and medical treatment for business incubation to enable enterprise digital transformation with VR; In the field of 2h, relying on the scale effect of IPTV, focus on heavy interactive scenes such as education, giant screen and live broadcast to accelerate the application of VR in the family; 2C field, based on the construction of 5g network, focuses on light interactive scenes such as social networking, so as to enable the ultimate VR experience of individual users.
Gigabit Network and 5g parallel development strategy can expand the survival soil of innovative business, build industrial scale effect, and become the basic guarantee for operators to provide new business development.
The era of Gigabit innovative business is coming
Overall, in 2019, with the trial commercial use of 5g in the mobile access field and the large-scale deployment of 10G PON in the fixed access field, China's network development has entered a new dual Gigabit era.
The 5g + Gigabit business strategic planning launched by domestic operators, such as Shanghai Mobile, Guangdong Telecom, Anhui Telecom, Beijing Unicom, Shandong Unicom and Hainan mobile, will not only provide consumers with high-quality network experience, but also bring more business innovation to the Gigabit broadband market.
As an important part of network connection, fixed line broadband will not decline in the 5g era. Under the guidance of Gigabit broadband, it will realize the super combination of cloud VR, multi-channel extreme 4K and 8K IPTV, ultra-high definition home camera, home data fast backup, home cloud and other services for consumers, and accelerate the realization of the vision of smart home., Read the full text, the original title: not only 5g! Gigabit broadband service innovation is in full bloom and has entered a period of scale development
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