THE BIG WINNER IN 5G INFRASTRUCTURE--FIBER OPTIC CABLE
5G is the interconnection of everything, and the demand for optical fiber will not decrease, but increase exponentially. Not to mention the current 5G, even the future 6G, is far slower than the transmission speed of the fiber optic network on which 5G base stations are based
Top experts in the industry predict that 5G will increase the demand for fiber 16 times and base stations 4 to 5 times more than 4G. In the future 5G network, due to the high wireless spectrum of 5G, it will be difficult for the signals of outdoor acer stations to cover the indoor part, which is the main business area. For this reason, in the ultra-dense 5G network in the future, a large number of small base stations will be introduced to cover. 5G networking will be completed by the way that acer stations cover outdoor areas and small base stations cover indoor areas.
Therefore, a large number of small base stations will be introduced and covered in the future ultra-dense 5G network. 5G will be achieved by the way acer base stations cover outdoor areas and small base stations cover indoor areas. Therefore, the transmission speed of fiber is much faster than that of 5G, and a good optical transmission network is the technology of 5G network. The two are not mutually substituted, but interdependent.
5G brings new opportunities and challenges to the development of optical communication. The opportunity is that the entire industry, including fiber optics, optical modules and optical access network systems, will benefit from the construction of 5G. The challenge is that the real realization and large-scale application of fiber optic communication in 5G still needs technological innovation and economic breakthrough.
