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With the explosion of data volume and the trend of "optical advance and copper retreat", how will the optical communication industry develop?
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Author : HAODIBAN
Update time : 2023-04-28 13:45:11
Benefiting from the explosion of data traffic, the market size of the optical communication industry will reach 133.1 billion yuan in 2022
With the rapid development and accelerated application of cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and other information technologies, global data traffic has surged. The digital transformation of traditional industries and public life forms is accelerating, and the popularity of mobile payment, mobile travel, remote control, high-definition video live broadcast, mobile catering takeaway, virtual reality, etc. has driven explosive growth in data traffic and data exchange. According to IDC data, global data traffic increased from 8.59 ZB in 2015 to 41 ZB in 2019, and is predicted to grow to 175 ZB in 2025, with a compound annual growth rate of 35.18% from 2015 to 2025.
"Light into copper back" has become the development trend of the global information technology industry. Compared with the traditional electrical communication using copper wire as the medium, the optical communication using optical fiber as the medium has advantages in transmission rate, network bandwidth, signal attenuation, propagation distance, data capacity, power consumption, anti-interference, anti-corrosion, volume weight and communication. It has significant advantages in terms of cost, and data transmission is more reliable, high-speed, and economical. Communication has become the mainstream communication method in the world.
The demand for large-scale data processing has brought a new round of development opportunities for my country's optical communication industry. According to data from the CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the China Commercial Industry Research Institute, the market size of my country's optical communication industry will grow steadily to 133.1 billion yuan in 2022 .
With the rapid development and accelerated application of cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and other information technologies, global data traffic has surged. The digital transformation of traditional industries and public life forms is accelerating, and the popularity of mobile payment, mobile travel, remote control, high-definition video live broadcast, mobile catering takeaway, virtual reality, etc. has driven explosive growth in data traffic and data exchange. According to IDC data, global data traffic increased from 8.59 ZB in 2015 to 41 ZB in 2019, and is predicted to grow to 175 ZB in 2025, with a compound annual growth rate of 35.18% from 2015 to 2025.
"Light into copper back" has become the development trend of the global information technology industry. Compared with the traditional electrical communication using copper wire as the medium, the optical communication using optical fiber as the medium has advantages in transmission rate, network bandwidth, signal attenuation, propagation distance, data capacity, power consumption, anti-interference, anti-corrosion, volume weight and communication. It has significant advantages in terms of cost, and data transmission is more reliable, high-speed, and economical. Communication has become the mainstream communication method in the world.
The demand for large-scale data processing has brought a new round of development opportunities for my country's optical communication industry. According to data from the CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the China Commercial Industry Research Institute, the market size of my country's optical communication industry will grow steadily to 133.1 billion yuan in 2022 .
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