Omdia: 2024 will be the first year of 50 GPON commercialization, and the following ten years of rapid development

“One will benefit the world, and thousands of miles are still neighbors.”In this era, a fast and stable fiber-optic broadband network has become a necessity for people’s life and work. With the acceleration of the global digitization process and the gradually clear outline of the future intelligent world, various emerging digital applications emerge in an endless stream, putting forward higher requirements for the network infrastructure. What’s going on next? Towards the “ubiquitous ten gigabit connectivity (10Gbps Everywhere)” is an exact answer.
Just as the widespread deployment of 10 GPON has enabled the spread of ultra-gigabit broadband, the ubiquitous implementation also requires superior “new tools”. As the next generation PON technology defined by ITU-T, 50 GPON has 5 times higher bandwidth and 100 times lower delay than 10 GPON. It has the ability to provide deterministic business experience, supports smooth upgrade of PON network and is more green and energy saving. With many outstanding advantages, 50 GPON has attracted attention and favor both inside and outside the industry.
In such a critical period when new technology turns cloud into rain, Omdia, an international authoritative research institute, released the white paper “50 GPON and the Rise of the ubiquitous Network”, focusing on various cases of 50 GPON and discussing its application in family, industry and other scenarios. The white paper predicts that the 50 GPON will begin commercialization in 2024 and maintain a rapid momentum of growth over the next decade.
New trends, new opportunities, to start a new journey
Since 2018,10 GPON has flourished around the world, leading the broadband industry into the gigabit era. According to Omdia, 10 GPON ports accounted for 73% of total global OLT PON port shipments in 2022. At the same time, FTTR is driving the optical connection extending from every home to every room, from every office to every desktop and even every machine.
However, “from nothing, from good to good, from good to better”, people’s pursuit of network experience is endless, gigabit / super Gigabit is not the end, Omdia reveals a lot of noteworthy trends in its latest white paper. On the one hand, the needs of ten trillion families are clear. With the emergence of emerging technologies, the demand for bandwidth and latency will grow, and the era of immersive experiences is coming. Take “naked eye 3D” as an example, with the increase of perspective, up to 7 Gbps bandwidth is required to support more than 60 perspective images, and the exponential growth of bandwidth will improve the user experience of each perspective. Local access to cloud data requires a stable 2 Gbps rate, and operators need to ensure seamless network connectivity, supporting easy capacity expansion and high security protection.
On the other hand, new industrial demand is driving emerging solutions. In industrial or enterprise environments, networks are often more complex and difficult to upgrade, and sustainable network solutions are urgently needed. Quality control is an important link in factory production. The transformation from artificial quality control to CNC quality control inspection requires the installation of image recognition artificial intelligence, In other words, stable 3 Gbps network connection is needed. New applications in the park are also accelerating their popularization. Electronic whiteboard in the smart classroom supports professional teaching modes such as course live broadcast, remote collaboration and simulation training. 3D film reading in the medical industry will be completely retired in the future


Post time: Nov-28-2023