The 5G era has arrived, how will the wire and cable industry find new directions

Source: Shanghai Shenghua Cable Date: 2020-03-16 Belonging to: Industry News

After entering 2019, the commercial pace of 5G is accelerating. The 5G era has arrived. What kind of changes will it bring to our work and life? Where will the pain points and explosive points of 5G appear? For a time, the debate on 5G was divergent and intensified. So, with the advent of 5G, how can the wire and cable industry find new hot spots?

Before the emergence of 5G, the network we used was constantly updated from 1G-4G, and it was more to serve communication applications between people, and the emergence of 5G was more for "things" and "things". The interconnection of "people" and "things", that is, the interconnection of everything based on the Internet of Things, accumulates into a big world.

The Internet of Things has been around for a long time, and the arrival of 5G networks will accelerate development to a certain extent, but it will have a significant dependence on some key components, especially the connectors and cables used in wireless and wired infrastructure. The ultimate goal of the 5G network is to realize the interconnection of everything at any time and anywhere, so that human beings dare to expect to participate in it without time difference through live broadcast of everything on the earth, but the large-scale realization of this leap will depend on the adoption of new cable technology.

The current situation in my country is that quality problems are becoming more and more serious, the wire and cable manufacturing industry has developed excessively extensively, and the overall production capacity of wires and cables is seriously surplus. The utilization rate of ordinary wire and cable production equipment is generally less than 40%. If this free indulgence continues, it is likely that it will not be able to match the development speed of 5G. Optical cables can transmit higher bandwidth, so they are an indispensable configuration for the processing speed of future 5G network products. To achieve rapid development, the necessary hardware is also indispensable. Therefore, the pain points to be solved in the future are more to improve the processing speed and density, while reducing the delay, consuming less energy, and generating less heat.

At the same time, a new generation of cable and connector suppliers should actively prepare for the arrival of 5G networks. 4G large-scale expansion + 5G will be commercialized in 2019, and 5G will be commercialized on a large scale in 2020. If equipment vendors can start large-scale launch of new connectors and cable products in 2020, it will not only achieve breakthrough growth in corporate performance, but also accelerate the growth of 5G applications. Landed quickly. The advent of 5G will inevitably stimulate the development of the global wire and cable industry, but my country's top ten cable companies only occupy less than 10% of the Chinese market. This means that leading companies have huge development potential and can increase my country's market share first.

Furthermore, from the perspective of greater vision and wider horizons, with the continuous development of high-speed network infrastructure, processing speeds are getting higher and higher, and the composition of 5G networks, optical cable solutions replace the copper in the transatlantic submarine transmission pipeline Electricity is also a matter of time. To achieve technology, optical cables must be squeezed into smaller and smaller spaces for development, and the size and diameter of cable bundles need to be further improved, which requires leading companies to improve their R&D capabilities and technical levels.

This means that if you want to better apply wires and cables to special industries, the technical content, applicable conditions, and added value of the cables will be much higher than those of ordinary industry applications. That is, the quality improvement of wires and cables is also the development of 5G networks. One of the keys.