Chapter 728 Fiber to the Home
Yang Xing had a long-standing idea of integrating three networks at the meeting. Thanks to his efforts, Nebula Electronics has already had the strength to compete with international competitors in the field of consumer electronics products, and has vaguely stood at Apple in the previous life. But Apple was a super expert in software and hardware training back then, which put forward higher requirements for Xingdong Network. His ambition is not limited to integrating three networks.
When foreign countries first proposed the integration of three networks, the United States, Britain and other countries had not yet formed large-scale mobile Internet applications. Now, as the Internet enters more and more ordinary families in the world, the mobile Internet demand through mobile devices such as smartphones will bring about the next Internet revolution, which the outside world calls Internet version 2.0. The mutual integration and promotion of fixed networks and mobile are the new growth points of the information industry in the next stage.
Driven by this general trend, Yang Xing took advantage of the opportunity of this conference to propose to put the next generation of Internet IPV6 protocols, the rising 3G communications, as well as emerging IPTV and other information technologies into a pot, and cook a sumptuous and new dish with a full menu of Manhan.
To meet the foundation of future information technology, it is based on sufficient network speed and bandwidth. Yang Xing can't wait to ask the country to popularize optical fiber and 3g and 4g communications as soon as possible. After years of hard work, domestic optical fiber technology has basically approached the international advanced level. At the beginning, the military presided over the three-dimensional and three-dimensional national backbone fiber network has been built. On this basis, the country has now expanded the optical fiber backbone network to eight-dimensional and eight-dimensional connecting major provinces and cities across the country. Fiber optical communication has become the main means of communication in my country.
In the field of communications, fiber optic has many incomparable advantages over traditional copper cables. It has high transmission capacity, long distance, low deployment cost, safe, stable transmission, strong interference resistance, long service life, high compatibility, etc. On the surface, many advantages are the only choice for building the next generation of three-network integration backbone network. However, in reality, fiber optic to home (ftth, fibertothehome) and fiber to building (fttb, fibertothebuilding) have been repeatedly mentioned, which seems to indicate the future of high-speed Internet access. However, in actual promotion, several operators value the relatively backward adsl (asymmetric digital subscriberline), which makes industry insiders unconfident.
Yang Xing put forward his opinion on this, which is also a lesson that should be paid attention to in promoting the integration of three networks and building the next generation of Internet in China. Although "fiber to home" is recognized as an ideal network access method. However, the promotion and use of "fiber to home" in China has a total share of the market for adsl, which is not entirely a price issue, nor is it a technical issue. The reason why adsl is vital is that it can make full use of the original copper wire resources and can basically meet the requirements of various current services. Especially in the current network applications, even the video on-demand website that is the most popular in the Internet speed, although the video quality provided by users is terrible, users feel satisfied. Naturally, there is no motivation to upgrade high-speed Internet access.
This is actually another paradoxical circle of "there are chickens first or eggs later". In his previous life, Yang Xing also felt that upgrading from 56k "kitten" to 1madsl is necessary to go online. However, it seems unnecessary to upgrade from 1madsl to 20m optical fiber. He has long used 1m adsl at home. The peak download is about 110k, and he likes to download videos through BT and e-dons. The reason is very simple. At that time, the mainstream video website Tudou and Youku video resources on Youku were too poor, and they were often buffered. I tried pps by chance and found that the clarity of the video through optimization of pps is no less than that of downloading movies. The most important thing is that the viewing can be kept smooth when the Internet speed is not high. He switched to online video on demand, and later gradually upgraded to 4m bandwidth.
At present, my country's copper wire and wired cable resources are spread across thousands of households. Faced with such huge existing investment, traditional telecom operators have abandoned their existing resources. In addition, spending huge amounts of funds to deploy is somewhat unrealistic for consumers. What's more, whether consumers have the ability to bear or are willing to bear the high costs of "fiber to households" is also unknown. The commonly used adsl can provide 8mbps bandwidth after technological upgrades, which means that although the adsl technology is old, it is not outdated. Unless the cost and price of "fiber to households" can be reduced to a level similar to that of adsl, "fiber to households" will not be very attractive to operators and consumers.
For this reason, Yang Xing proposed an idea, which is to pull forward and pull backward. The front-end refers to the government and enterprises spending a sum of funds to subsidize "fiber to households" in universities and research institutes across the country, and take this opportunity to promote the conversion of IPV6 network protocols, because to achieve a smooth transition from IPV4 to IPV6, someone must dare to take the lead and take this step first. The scientific research power of universities and the nature of user groups make it responsible and also have the conditions to be a pioneer in IPV6 trial commercial use.
The fiberization of the national scientific research and education network that Yang Xing had early planned is also ahead in China. Well-known universities across the country have achieved the use of fiber optics on campus LANs, only the last distance between the student dormitory and teacher apartment. Zhang Shengli’s name, the largest chain of Internet cafes built on this network, has promoted a number of online games with the high speed of the scientific research network and has become a strategic collaborator of Xingdong Network. The scientific research network can be won in one fell swoop with the experimental platform.
Contemporary scientific research is no longer something that can be completed by hiding in the house and working behind closed doors. International collaboration and international division of labor have become the only way for large-scale scientific research projects. The European Large Hadron Collider (LHC) under construction is preparing to be equipped with an ultra-high-speed network with a transmission speed of up to 100g, because the data generated by the lhc operation for a year requires 56 million CDs to be stored, and the height of these CDs is about 64,000 meters. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a strong enough Internet to quickly transmit massive data to research centers around the world for online storage.
Nowadays, fiber optic networks with bandwidth of up to 1gb (1g=1000m) or above are generally called ultra-high-speed networks. Domestic researchers who are catching up with international advanced technology levels want to catch up, so they naturally cannot lag behind in network construction. For this reason, domestic subsidies for scientific research education networks mainly based on scientific research education are justified.
In addition to the government's introduction of the education and research network as an experimental platform, the Internet was successful, not only because it was led by the US side at that time, but also cooperated with major universities. The key is to provide content that can be easily obtained by ordinary people, covering almost all the knowledge and entertainment information in human history. Various novel applications on the Internet are the biggest reasons that stimulate users to upgrade and purchase various strange peripherals.
Whether it is adsl or "fiber to the home", it is like a road, and various applications (online, video, high definition) are like cars running on the road. How wide does this road need to meet the needs of users? Experts from Star Network have proposed a concept similar to "effective utilization". If the current performance of 2mbps bandwidth and 10mbps bandwidth in 90% of applications is no different, and the remaining 10% are not time-sensitive applications, then "repairing" 2m of this road is enough. Opening 10m is actually a waste.
If you want to integrate three networks, "fiber to household" is the minimum condition. Yang Xing suggested that you should learn from foreign experience, and the country should encourage and support the "fiber to household" policy, and open up the right to play film and television (high-definition) content, and open up more user-based network operation licenses to share the construction costs and risks of "fiber to household". In addition, operators should form an industrial alliance with equipment manufacturers to jointly promote the "fiber to household" market.
Yang Xing's suggestion embarrassing enterprises and officials in the radio and television system. The main reason why the fusion of the three networks has been quarreling continuously is that the radio and television system controls the film and television content, thinking that this has moved their cheese. Now Yang Xing is not going to take it all away? But then Yang Xing proposed to let the radio and television system host promote IPTV, which made them really excited.
iptv (network TV) was first proposed by telecom operators. The original intention was to consider that there were fewer people with computers and more people with TVs. iptv actually uses a dedicated set-top box, with dedicated chips inside to access the Internet. After connecting to the TV, you can browse the content of the Internet directly without having to go through a computer. iptv has all the functions of conventional TVs, as well as functions such as broadcasting and time-shifting TVs. In addition, online programs can be broadcasted on demand through the Internet, and the content far exceeds traditional cable TVs, which has caused a conflict of interest between telecom operators and broadcast operators.
Although the State Council later announced policies such as restricting the issuance of licenses to protect broadcast operators under repeated protests from the Ministry of Radio and Television, the general trend of the integration of three networks is unstoppable. In fact, many local broadcast operators have begun to transform their broadcast networks into digital two-way, with the function of developing IPTV, which is also a tentative step in the integration of three networks.
Zhongxing Group is actually ahead of this aspect. In terms of hardware, the "smart era" advocated by Yang Xing has been fruitful, expanding from "smart home" to "smart city". The biggest common point of all mobile phones, TVs, refrigerators, living room computers, etc. listed in the "storm" last year is that they can access the Internet, and use star computing to achieve back-end operations and service upgrades on the network remotely, meeting various requirements put forward by customers.
In terms of software, many applications and game programs provided by Star Dynamic Network and Black Hole Software have made more and more users firmly stuck to the Internet. The survey found that many users who purchased the phone used their online time to be close to their eating and sleeping time every day. The science fiction idea of individuals becoming network nodes is becoming a reality. The network bandwidth and traffic consumed by users on the Internet, such as ordering songs, watching programs, and video calls, making 3g difficult. Now major telecommunications companies have begun to consider launching the next generation of 4g.!~!
Chapter completed!