Report says China will surpass Japan's fiber-optic market

Date：2010-08-12    Author：

According to Pyramid Research released a new report shows that at the end of 2011, China will surpass Japan to become Asia's largest optical fiber market, operating 25.9 million fiber access lines.

Fiber access lines increased to promote the main driving force for the government is committed to the deployment of fiber-optic technology promises. Pyramid Research analyst, said: "to switch faster, so the price higher fiber connections will be able to ensure China's continued growth in the fixed service revenue. The next three years, as a whole, the industry is expected to spend 22 billion U.S. dollars to deploy fiber-optic network, bringing the total interface from 20 million to 80 million. "

Network in urban areas of China mainly FTTB / N configuration and the newly developed multi-household model, rather than the higher cost FTTH configuration. However, FTTx services are expensive. The analyst explained: "With the expansion of demand for high-speed access for equipment and CPE costs will increase economies of scale can be purchase of this service.

The report predicts that by the end of 2015, FTTx broadband account in the share of the total from 14.8% in 2010 to 30.9%. 2010 net increase of broadband users will reach 19 million, with the fiber-optic technology is increasingly recognized by the market in 2015, this number will increase to 24 million.