Business fields such as home entertainment, home cloud VR, enterprise dedicated line and park network have put forward clear demands for operators' broadband network. Extensive business drivers are accelerating the upgrade of operators' broadband network to 10G PON.
In the field of home entertainment: with the help of higher-bandwidth networks, operators can offer cloud VR services to home users, bringing a range of experience upgrades, such as home theater experiences, immersive concerts, sports events and travel. Cloud VR games have a low demand for home storage and processing, which further reduces the cost for home customers. In addition, gamers will have more games and apps to choose from when they use the cloud VR services provided by carriers, which will increase gamers' loyalty to carriers. And the operator has more customers and better loyalty, can realize the network realization faster.
In the field of home networking: cloud VR live streaming is a powerful application scenario, such as cloud VR live streaming of sports events such as football, basketball playoffs, World Cup and Olympic Games, and it can also make it easier for fans to "meet" their idols. Users are also willing to pay a high price for these experiences, since their subscription or one-time fees will be significantly lower than the airfare and in-flight fees to the site. However, operators must provide the ultimate customer-aware experience (QoE) to ensure that users have a real-world experience, whether sitting outside the game or interacting with their idols in real time. High-quality cloud VR experience requires the family bandwidth to reach at least 200Mbps, which will undoubtedly drive the network upgrade of 10G PON.
In the higher education market: students and educators are looking for technologies that enhance learning outcomes through cloud-based applications, so VR-based applications are increasingly important, providing students with experience and hands-on training that would otherwise be difficult and costly. These new educational approaches require advanced communication networks to cover university campuses, providing bandwidth capable of supporting 20 or 30 high-qualities, interactive VR experiences in classrooms, while a network based on 10 gigabytes of PON can easily support the hundreds of Mbps bandwidth required for high-quality VR headsets and applications. Thus, with the adoption of a 10G PON LAN, universities can provide the campus with an easy-to-upgrade and high-capacity fiber-optic communication network to connect classrooms, laboratories, administrative and security offices, dormitories and auditors. Not only on campus, can the operator’s campus network also serve a variety of scenarios such as hotels, resorts, hospitals, manufacturing plants and retailers.
In the enterprise user market: based on the 10G PON network, operators can provide enterprise users with higher quality dedicated line network to meet the special SLA requirements of various vertical industries (such as finance, government, etc.), thus bringing new revenue growth.
