The prospect of plastic optical fiber is in great need of improving "soft power"

Looking at the communications industry, 2011 is the first year of fiber optics. In particular, research and development of plastic optical fiber is one of the most popular research areas in the industry. Plastic optical fiber has attracted widespread attention at home and abroad because of its advantages such as large core diameter, good flexibility, strong plasticity, light weight, and low price.

At the same time, it can be seen from the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” that the state has introduced various policies to vigorously support the construction of communication and information networks and upgrade them to national strategies for implementation. The use of plastic optical fiber for communication with quartz fiber will be effective at the end of the FTTH, ie home wiring, and it will solve the "last hundred meters" of access problems, and is favored by the network construction market. In addition, at present, the whole society advocates low-carbon construction, and the use of more environmentally friendly plastic optical fiber is also more competitive with other five types of copper cables.

Plastic optical fiber is about to usher in a billion-dollar feast. According to relevant information, plastic optical fiber will have a huge market in the coming years. In 2012, China's FTTH subscribers can reach 50 million. If a household uses 50 meters of plastic optical fiber, the market size can reach 5 billion, plus the scale of supporting equipment market will reach 20 billion yuan. In 2015, China's FTTH subscribers could reach 100 million, and the market size will double. China has a construction area of ​​about 2 billion square meters under construction each year, a new construction area of ​​5-10 billion square meters, a new network port number of 10 million, and a market size of nearly 5-10 billion yuan, and this data does not include the transformation of old houses. . Coupled with the application of plastic optical fiber in industrial control, defense, and sensors, it is expected that plastic optical fiber will have a market size of 100 billion a year. Looking at the future market opportunities, plastic optical fiber will usher in another 100 billion yuan feast.

Plastic optical fiber has entered the FTTH market with broad prospects. Currently, operators continue to promote broadband acceleration, and 4M, 8M, and even 20M access bandwidth has become a new target for the construction and transformation of access networks. To achieve higher access bandwidth, FTTH will bear the brunt of progress, while China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom are also accelerating FTTH deployment.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of FTTH, in the case of PON equipment use is already very mature, the building and indoor fiber optic cabling has become the last FTTH promotion difficulties. At the critical moment, the technical advantages of plastic optical fiber broke through the last difficulty of FTTH. The plastic optical fiber for communications has a thick core diameter, is easy to couple, does not require welding or welding, is light-weight, flexible, flexible, corrosion-resistant, moisture-proof, and shock-proof. No electromagnetic interference and radiation, confidentiality, safety, and strong anti-interference ability, and the attenuation is constant, does not change with the transmission status, etc. Therefore, the plastic optical fiber for communication is a strong competitor and even a substitute for copper cables, within a building. Or a computer network terminal in a computer network, through the connection of plastic optical fibers to form a complete superior network, has become the main force of FTTX.

Not only the FTTX business, but also with the deepening of the triple play, light into the copper, smart grid and other business development, to China's plastic optical fiber industry has provided an unprecedented opportunity. In fact, at the time of the implementation of the “Guangjin Tongtu” construction, the state hopes that more resources and green technologies and products will be involved. Plastic optical fiber products already possess these basic technical conditions. What they need most is to develop into a healthy and orderly industry as soon as possible, improve standards, and integrate more industrial forces as soon as possible. To accomplish these, China's plastic optical fiber urgently needs to enhance core competition. The "soft power" of force.

China's plastic optical fiber "soft power" urgently needs improvement and development of applications in more fields. From October 29 to 31, 2010, the "6th National Conference on Plastic Optical Fibers and Polymer Photonics" was held in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, to discuss together. Opportunities and challenges of plastic optical fiber, and important issues based on plastic optical fiber standards. At the conference, Han Yuer, an expert from the Shanghai Institute of Communications, proposed to speed up the development of China's telecommunications plastic optical fiber industry. First, he worked hard to improve the “soft power” of core competitiveness. Han Tonger emphasized that standards are the bottleneck restricting the development of plastic optical fiber. Second, the development of plastic optical fiber applications in more fields.

It is reported that in June 2011, the "China Plastics Optical Fiber Industry Alliance Founding Conference" was injured. Ma Min, Deputy Director of the Quality Management Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the smart grid, the Internet of Things, and the integration of the three networks will be rapidly promoted. For the development of plastic optical fiber industry brings development opportunities, its broad market, its broad market prospects will attract more companies to join the plastic optical fiber industry. At the same time, it pointed out that it is necessary to increase the development of standards in the field of optical communications and provide technical support for the promotion of industrial development. At the same time, we must do a good job in the formulation of domestic standards and, on this basis, actively participate in the development of international standards. In addition, the application range of plastic optical fiber products is becoming wider and wider. Plastic optical fiber has the characteristics of environmental protection, cheapness, and easy operation, and is particularly suitable for optical fiber access. In addition, seize market opportunities and actively promote the application of plastic optical fibers in smart grids and Internet of Things.