Nowadays, the most common use of mobile communication networks is 4G networks in China. With the maturity of 5G technologies, it is believed that 5G networks (fifth generation mobile communication technologies) will become a hot spot in the field of information and communication in the next five years. The construction and upgrade of Bearer network will continue to increase the demand for optical components in the telecommunications network. At the same time, the demand for data center networks will grow exponentially in the era of cloud computing. The domestic Internet companies led by BAT will enter the IDC demand expansion period, and the high-speed 25G optical modules and 100G optical modules demand rapid growth.

Features of 5G network:

Ø Large bandwidth

Ø Low latency

Ø Traffic Mesh

Ø Network section

Ø NSA evolves toward SA

The 5G bearer network is connected to the base station through the 10 GE and 25 GE interfaces on the user network side interface (UNI). The network side will introduce 25 GE, 50 GE, 100 GE interconnection technologies, and the metropolitan area may be evolve 200 GE, 400 GE in the future. So 5G network construction will inevitably have optical modules with integrated, miniaturized, high-speed, long-distance, low-cost, low-power consumption and so on, such as 25G optical modules and 100G optical modules etc.

Development trend of 25G optical module /100G optical module

The rate of optical modules has always been the focus of the market, and it can be divided into 622Mb/s, 1.25Gb/s, 2.5Gb/s, 10Gb/s, 25Gb/s, 40Gb/s, 100Gb/s etc. At present, the factors driving the upgrade of optical module rate mainly come from several aspects.On the one hand, the “Broadband China” strategy requires 100Mbps fiber to enter the home, and the optical interface pressure is increased from the access layer, and the optical interfaces from the bottom to the top are step by step. The pressure has driven the demand for high-rate optical modules. With the deployment of 5G, operators need to deploy wider bandwidth to implement high-traffic data applications, such as telemedicine, VR, 4K video etc., so mobile network must have higher speed at all levels, which also promotes the development of 25G and 100G optical module.

In the era of 4G networks, optical modules benefit from operators' optical network upgrades, cloud computing data center demand bursts, and data center all-optical demand growth trends, especially 10G optical modules. I believe that 25G optical modules and 100G optical modules will lead the sustained growth trend of optical communication industry in 5G network era in the future.

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