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Since the launch of the Broadband China Strategy in 2011, after 10 years, China has built the world's leading FTTH network and achieved world-renowned achievements. According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as of May 2021, there were 475 million fiber optic access (FTTH/O) users in China, an increase of 10.5% year-on-year, and it has accounted for 94% of all broadband users.

The value of the all-optical access network has been unprecedentedly proven in the 2020 outbreak of the epidemic. Under the conditions of physical isolation, high-quality home broadband networks have become an indispensable part of people's work, life, and entertainment. Emerging outlets such as online education and remote conferences are all based on FTTH network cabling.

FTTR, dominate the next decade?

In fact, with the rise of the global F5G construction boom, the development of all-optical access networks has never stopped. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a document in March this year, setting forth specific development indicators for the gigabit optical fiber network in the next three years. Not only that, the "14th Five-Year Plan" outline also clearly mentions the need to "promote and upgrade gigabit optical fiber networks."

From the perspective of Fiberhome, the above-mentioned policy support is aimed at the general direction of the future smart society. It is true that the current mainstream 100M broadband is basically sufficient for activities such as watching TV, scrolling short videos, watching online dramas, and experiencing games; however, the epidemic has triggered a blowout in network application scenarios and traffic, which makes people can’t help but say “existing Conjecture about whether the home network is enough. As more scenarios and richer applications are used in the home, services such as remote meetings, online education, 4K/8K ultra-high-definition video and VR/AR games continue to challenge the basic capabilities of the network. The tolerance for common problems such as asynchrony will become lower and lower. It is foreseeable that if the development of the basic network cannot be one step ahead, it will become a bottleneck restricting business development.

Following FTTH, FTTR (Fiber to The Room, fiber to the room) began to enter the field of vision. At present, FTTR has become the preferred solution for high-quality experience home networking. It has truly realized the whole house fiber optics, and can provide gigabit access experience for every room and every corner through broadband and Wi-Fi 6.

As an extension of FTTH in the home, FTTR will further improve the gigabit fiber broadband infrastructure and create a new industry space of over trillions.

Fiber optic cabling sinks FTTR to break through the technical bottleneck

The quality of the network cable has always been the bottleneck of indoor Gigabit cabling. CCTV's weekly quality report shows that the unqualified rate of Internet cable quality in the Chinese market exceeds 30%. In addition, due to the aging of the network cable and other reasons, the bearer bandwidth cannot reach Gigabit, which seriously affects the experience and causes complaints.

Therefore, optical fiber is currently recognized as a faster signal transmission medium. After deployment, it can be completed in one step without upgrading; its low price and long service life also have unique advantages compared with network cables. The core idea of FTTR technology is to replace the network cable with optical fiber, let the optical fiber go from "to the home" to the "room", and truly solve the existing problems of home network wiring in one step.

For FTTR technology, Fiberhome also has unique insights. The new end-to-end home network solution improves the end-user business experience, identifies target customers, intelligently and efficiently manages network resources, and operates accurately; through high-performance dual-band gateways Or distributed Wi-Fi whole house coverage to solve the problem of home network coverage and rate; P2MP point-to-multipoint fiber-to-room solution completely solves the problem of network cable and port limitation of network rate. The technology has the possibility of industrial opening, in addition to the home scene, it can also be extended to the small and micro government and enterprise scenes, with the ability to reach super gigabit to the room.

Optical fiber recasts brilliance, FTTR can be expected in the future

Broadband network operations are becoming more homogeneous, with similar network speeds, similar package prices and converged services. For users, it does not seem to make much difference which operator to choose. Therefore, the future competition point is the real experience of broadband users' service use, that is, to provide the real ultimate experience. In this "experience is king" competitive situation, FiberHome's end-to-end FTTR solution uses a series of advanced technologies to help create a high-quality home wireless network experience, which can attract more broadband users, especially high-end users, It can also enhance the differentiated competitiveness of the market.

On the other hand, new businesses such as high-frequency video, VR, and cloud games are the engines driving revenue growth, but they are not supported by a well-experienced network environment. Without a good home network foundation, applications rely on innovative home services to drive income and increase broadband ARPU. That can only be "moon in the water, flower in the mirror".

In the next ten years, whether FTTR can create brilliance like FTTH remains to be tested by the market. Fiberhome believes that FTTR still has several issues that need to be addressed at present: the focus is to solve the standardization of optical fiber pre-deployment. For the pre-installation market, it is urgent for the industry to uniformly consider the intelligent building specifications for optical fiber cabling, and optical fiber-based Or light-copper coexistence wiring and decoration construction specifications; and in the after-installation market, the focus should be on solving delivery problems, including professional installation tools, standardized service procedures, and standardized business acceptance.