Communications Network 2030

Future networks won't just connect billions of people; they will connect hundreds of billions of things. We envision those connections as being supported by green and cubic broadband networks that are AI-native, secure, trustworthy, and capable of providing deterministic experiences and HCS.

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Predictions

Internet of everything to intelligent internet of everything: Ever-growing network requirements

There will be 200 billion connections worldwide, and IPv6 adoption will exceed 90%

The average monthly data use on wireless cellular networks per person will increase by 40-fold to 600 GB

Gigabit or higher home broadband penetration is expected to increase by more than 50-fold to 60%

The average monthly fixed network data usage per household is forecast to increase by 8-fold to 1.3 TB

Defining Features

Cubic broadband networks provide ubiquitous intelligent connections

Cubic broadband network

10-Gigabit Connectivity For Individuals, Homes, and Organizations.
All-Terabit Network: Access, Backbone, and DCN.
Satellite Communications NTN: Effective Supplement to Terrestrial Network Coverage.

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Deterministic Experience

20 ms, 5 ms, and 1 ms Latency Assurance for Differentiated Service Requirements.
E2E Slicing: Logical Private Networks and Services That Are More Adaptable to Vertical Industries.
Higher Than 99.999% Availability for Industry Production Control Systems to Enable Enterprises to Migrate All Systems to the Cloud.

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AI-Native

ADN: Continuous Evolution Toward AN Level 4+.
AI-Native Edge: Reconstructing the Intelligent Edge with Cloud Native and AI Technologies.

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HCS

A New Area Emerging from Communications Technologies

Wireless sensing
Wi-Fi sensing
Optical sensing

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Security and Trustworthiness

The networks of the future are on course to be ubiquitous and cloud-based, and ToB and ToC services are likely to be converged. Therefore, network security systems must be capable of native, secure, trustworthy, intelligent, and flexible proactive defense.

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Green and Low-carbon

Simplified Architecture: Low Carbon Realized by Simplifying Foundation, Cloud, and Computing Networks.
Optoelectronic Integration: Profoundly Changing the Architecture and Energy Efficiency of Communications Network Equipment.
System Energy Saving and Multi-dimensional Energy Efficiency: Building Energy-Efficient High-Performance Networks.