Optical fiber communication will continue to play an important role as the foundation of digital infrastructure, said Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, at the inaugural meeting of CCSA Next Generation Optical Transmission Network Industry and Technology Standards Promotion Committee (TC618) on December 15, which is also the NGOF 2020 Annual Conference.
Wu HeQuan pointed out: in 2020 the world unforgettable, is not only the globalization COVID - 19 outbreak, and inverse globalization "decoupling", representative is the "clean 5G network path plan", and directed at China mobile communication and Internet technology products and services, and China's optical fiber cable system and international telecommunications carriers in the United States are not immune.
Will the coming year 2021 be a time of great change not seen in a century? Wu said that in 2021, the international situation still faces great uncertainties, but the trend of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation led by information technology will be more obvious. The recovery of the global economy after the epidemic has a higher expectation for the digitalization, networking and intelligentization of the economy and society.
"It is certain that the new generation of information technology will continue to be the main engine for a long time to come, the commanding height of international competition, the starting point for China to create a new pattern of development, and the accelerator of a smooth double cycle. Fiber-optic communications will continue to play an important role as the foundation of digital infrastructure, and the nation's mission is honored." Wu said.
