Operator Cloud computing Outpost Guangdong Telecom start Optical Network strategy

November 8, China Telecom (Weibo), Guangdong, announced that its "optical network strategy" fully launched, in the next 3 years, Guangdong's fiber broadband will be greatly improved. At the same time, in order to meet the province's "Optical Network Strategy" Implementation, Guangdong Telecom will plan to invest 8 billion yuan, building the largest cloud computing IDC data Center in South China and other large cloud services projects, to build the Asia-Pacific region's largest, most advanced service cloud computing services base.

In February this year, China Telecom Group announced the "Broadband Chinese Light Network City" plan, the Guangdong Telecom's Optical Network strategy, is seen as the overall strategy of telecommunications in the local implementation and layout.

At present, among the three telecommunications operators, China Telecom in the fixed-network broadband advantage, but mobile and China Unicom also invested heavily in the fiber network, the future, whether it is 3G or cloud computing, will be connected with fixed-network broadband.

Core Broadband, Key 3G

With the implementation of optical network strategy, the next 3 years, Guangdong broadband level will be very large changes, the speed will also multiply.

The same day, Guangdong Telecom general manager Chen Deching said, the company announced the launch of "Optical Network strategy" in the province to popularize fiber-optic network, and strive in 3 years time, optical network coverage, broadband speed, application level reached advanced national level.

He said it will provide home customers with 20M, 50M, 100M three kinds of high-speed bandwidth, for government and corporate customers 100M, 500M, 1000M three kinds of speed bandwidth. And within 3 years, optical network user's target is 5 million, the current Guangdong Telecom broadband users about 13 million households.

In addition, Guangdong Telecom also on the basis of optical network, the introduction of cloud computing services. It is understood that the plan to invest 8 billion yuan, building capacity of 200,000 host cloud computing IDC data Center, such as large-scale cloud services, to build the Asia-Pacific region, the largest and most advanced cloud computing services base.

With the establishment of cloud computing infrastructure, Guangdong Telecom will launch a number of services such as cloud host, cloud office, cloud platform and so on for the government and enterprise customers, and a number of services, such as cloud community, cloud sharing, cloud acceleration and so on for family and individual customers.

Guangdong Telecom related people to the Times weekly reporter said, at present, Guangdong Telecom has been built to cover the backbone of the province's optical network, has achieved 100% of the province's commercial building fiber reach, the province's enterprises and enterprises 100% optical fiber to reach 3 million households, the province's urban 20M access rate accounted for more than 70%.

February 16 This year, China Telecom Group chairman Wang announced the full launch of the "Broadband China-Optical Network City" project, will be three years to achieve all urban fiber-optic, broadband user access bandwidth will jump over 10 times times in 3-5 years. Urban areas, the 2011-Year plan to add optical fiber home to 30 million households, is "Eleven-Five" period 3 times times, the cumulative coverage of 40 million households, to "Twelve-Five" at the end, will achieve more than 100 million fiber-optic households.

"The plan will address two issues from an investment perspective: one is to access the layer to achieve optical access, and the other is to put wireless 3G network and WiFi and Wifiap layout to more close to customer needs." With about 3 years to build covering China's every inhabited area, world-wide broadband network integration. Wang said at the time that this was the goal of China Telecom's plan for the next 5 years.

In accordance with the 2011-year project target of China Telecom, the southern city will realize the fiber-optic, the core urban area realizes the fiber-optic access, the highest access bandwidth reaches 100M, and the urban home access bandwidth reaches more than 20M. In addition, the southern city (including county) to achieve full 8M access bandwidth coverage, 20M coverage reached 70%, the eastern developed cities and the central and western capital city 20M coverage of more than 80%.

In addition, in the "Optical Network City" of the overall solution, China Telecom will focus on the introduction of IoT and cloud computing technology. China Telecom related Personage said, in the light network city construction at the same time, the video, the thing networking, the cloud computing, the Intelligent gateway, the security and so on technology and the application will popularize rapidly, the enterprise IT cost will descend rapidly, builds the comprehensive ability platform, the integration intelligent transmission pipeline, brings many, the brand-new In the process of urban fiber-optics, it will accelerate the promotion of the object-linkage and interconnection among individuals, objects and organizations in urban systems.

Wang stressed that the next 2-3 years is still an important strategic opportunity period, China Telecom will expand the scale to broadband as the core of the integration of business and 3G-focused mobile business.

The Battle of fixed networks

The three operators have started the optical fiber broadband speed-increasing project. According to media reports, in the "Twelve-Five" period, the total investment of China's telecommunications industry will reach 2 trillion yuan, of which broadband investment accounted for about 80% of the total investment.

The construction of optical network is more similar to the construction of Business Foundation. Earlier, the industry told The Times weekly reporter, optical fiber broadband is not only the promotion of fixed network, because of its own wireless network access, in some transport layer still need optical network support.

In China Telecom's Optical network strategy, it is worth noting that its cloud computing strategy. The advent of cloud computing, the opportunity to bring operators is very much, but the current cloud computing is still in the beginning, many of the current cloud-based products are testing water. However, this can also be seen as an exploration of the future development of operators.

Operators try to occupy a place in new business models, such as wireless cities, the more fundamental reason is that the mobile internet era, terminals, platforms, applications have become a new profit point, operators are no longer the core of the industrial chain, in order to avoid increasingly become plumbers, operators are seeking a variety of ways to open up new business model.

Mobile's chairman Mr Wang said that, based on this situation, telecom operators should avoid becoming dumb pipes. On the one hand, we should promote the establishment of open operating system and open business platform. "Operators should consider how to achieve the precise operation of data flow." Mr Wang stressed that operators should strengthen the study of traffic flow, but also to deal with the relationship between value-added services and data flow.

In August this year, China Telecom officially released the Sky Wing cloud computing strategy, brand and solution, became the first official launch of this program of the telecommunications operators, and plans to officially launch next year Cloud host, cloud storage and other series of Sky cloud products. Thus the development of cloud data center is clarified.

Earlier, China Telecom general manager Yangjie to the media that China Telecom will be optical network and cloud computing as a complete system and system together, optical network city and cloud computing is an organic whole. Previously, China Telecom in Shanghai has begun to build a "cloud village."

At the same time, with the gradual development of 3G and the coming 4G, the data business brings the heavy burden of wireless network. Therefore, in the promotion of 3G, vigorously build WiFi hotspot, will be a strong complement to the 3G data business. It is understood that Guangdong Telecom has more than 30,000 WiFi hotspots.

In the operator, mobile WiFi strategy is the largest, and the strategic thinking into the construction of its wireless city, previously, mobile in Sichuan province to invest 10 billion yuan to build the Sichuan wireless internet City Network, 5 years in XI ' an investment 16 billion yuan to build wireless city.

According to the mobile plan, this year plans to invest 10 billion yuan in the WiFi business, the target 3 years in the country set up 1 million WiFi hotspots, in the first quarter of this year, mobile about 38% of the data flow from WiFi. Its chairman, Mr Wang, said 1 million WiFi hotspots were equal to 100,000 access points.

The latest data show that the number of mobile iphone users in September doubled to 9.5 million on the basis of May, using WiFi services and subsidizing WiFi-related users.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)