- Dell’oro Group issues the latest access to broadband access and 5 -year -old domestic networks
- Among its findings was the focus of Chinese telecommunications companies in FTTR (room fiber) and 50 Gbps Pon deployments
- 50g is a relatively new technology, and I am surprised by the speed at which this is being implemented
China advances its broadband infrastructure with its 50g-Pon deployment, a next-generation fiber technology capable of delivering speeds of up to 50 Gbps (50,000 Mbps) downstream.
A recently published report by Dell’oro Group, which brings together information from conversations with equipment suppliers and publicly published tender awards, projects that EP PAD revenues will grow from $ 10.5 billion in 2024 to $ 12.1 billion for 2029.
While this growth will be largely driven by 10 Gbps XGS-PON deployments in North America, Emea and Cala, China’s 50 g-pon deployments place it ahead of the rest of the world. Last year, OMDIA predicts that China will be the only commercial market for 50G-PON in 2024 and 2025, which represents 93 percent of the global market and will generate $ 1.55 billion in revenues by 2027.
Room fiber
Pon, or passive optical network, it is a fiber optic technology that allows several users to share a unique fiber connection using passive optical divisors. This design reduces the need for active electronic components between the supplier and end users, reducing infrastructure costs, reducing energy consumption and improving network efficiency.
The 50g-Pon IU-T standard admits theoretical speeds of up to 50 Gbps downstream and up to 25 Gbps upstream, although the current players of the real world in China, led by China Telecom, its regional branch of Shanghai Telecom, and Zte, typically They provide 10 10 Gbps Allptic Access.
Beyond 50 G-Pon, China is also expanding the fiber to the room (FTTR), which extends the fiber optic connectivity to individual rooms within homes and companies. Unlike traditional fiber at home configurations (FTTH), which generally deliver fiber to a central modem and then depend on Ethernet or Wi-Fi for distribution, FTTR brings fiber cables directly to each room, ensuring faster speeds, lower latency and more stable connections.
Other outstanding aspects of the Dell’oro Group report include that cable distributed access equipment revenues will reach a maximum of $ 1.3 billion in 2028 as operators continue Docsis 4.0 and early fiber implementations.
The wireless fixed CPE is expected to reach its highest income in 2025 and 2026, driven by 5G Sub-6 GHz and Millimetr units, while Wi-Fi 7 residential routines and the broadband CPE with WLAN are projected to generate $ 8.9 billion in 2029 as adoption between consumers and service providers grows.
“In silence, broadband access networks are evolving large -scale edge computer platforms, with the ability to allow service convergence much faster and easily than ever,” said Jeff Heynen, vice president of Dell’oro Group
“This evolution means that the combination of income for broadband equipment is changing in the next five years, and traditional hardware and software spending is now complemented by AI spending and automatic learning tools to facilitate convergence and reliability of service “.
