How can the wire and cable industry find new pain points with the arrival of 5g?
Published on：2022-07-17 12:21:18
After entering 2019, the commercial pace of 5g is accelerating. The 5g era has arrived. What changes will it bring to our work and life? Where are the pain points and explosive points of 5g? For a while, the debate on 5g has become more and more intense. Then, with the arrival of 5g, how can the wire and cable industry find new pain points?
Before the advent of 5g, the networks we used were constantly updated from 1g to 4G, and more importantly, they served the communication applications between people. However, the emergence of 5g was more about the interconnection of "things" and "things" and "people" and "things", that is, everything based on the Internet of things was interconnected to form a vast world.
The Internet of things has a long history, and the arrival of 5g network will accelerate its development to a certain extent, but it has a major reliance on some key components, especially connectors and cables used in wireless and wired infrastructure. The ultimate goal of 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 synchronously with everything on the earth through live broadcasting without time difference. However, to realize this leap on a large scale will depend on the adoption of new cable technology.
However, the current situation in China is that the quality problem is getting worse, the wire and cable manufacturing industry is developing in an excessive and extensive manner, the overall capacity of wires and cables is seriously surplus, and the utilization rate of ordinary wire and cable production equipment is generally less than 40%,
If this kind of free indulgence continues, it is likely that it will not match the development speed of 5g. Optical cable can transmit higher bandwidth, so it is an essential configuration for the processing speed of future 5g network products. To achieve rapid development, necessary hardware is also essential. Therefore, the pain points to be solved in the future are more to improve the speed and density of processing, reduce delay, consume less energy, and generate less heat.
At the same time, a new generation of cable and connector suppliers should actively prepare for the arrival of 5g networks. In 2019, 4G capacity expansion + 5g began to be commercialized, and in 2020, 5g was commercialized on a large scale. If equipment manufacturers can start to launch new connectors and cable products on a large scale in 2020, it will not only achieve breakthrough growth in enterprise performance, but also accelerate the rapid landing of 5g applications. The arrival of 5g is bound to stimulate the development of the global wire and cable industry, but China's top ten cable enterprises only account for less than 10% of the Chinese market share, which means that leading enterprises have great development potential and can first increase China's market share.
In addition, from the perspective of larger vision and wider vision, with the continuous development of high-speed network infrastructure, the processing speed is getting higher and higher. It is also a matter of time before the composition of 5g networks and optical cable solutions replace copper in transatlantic submarine transmission pipelines. In order to realize the technology, the optical cable must be squeezed into a smaller and smaller space for development, and the size and diameter of the cable bundle need to be further improved, which requires leading enterprises to improve their R & D capacity and technical level.
This means that if wires and cables are to be better applied to special industries, the technical content, application conditions and added value of cables will be much higher than those of ordinary industrial applications, that is, the quality improvement of wires and cables is also one of the keys to the development of 5g networks.
According to the state's planning for the main application fields of wire and cable - power (new energy, smart grid), rail transit, aerospace, marine engineering, etc., China's wire and cable industry has a promising future, and the industry's product upgrading trend is obvious. It is expected that by 2024, the industry's demand scale is expected to exceed 1.9 trillion yuan, and with the support of 5g, the industrial capacity will also be further improved.
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