There will be 200 billion connections worldwide. IPv6 adoption will reach 90%
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
The average monthly data use on wireless cellular networks per person will increase by 40-fold to 600 GB
Gigabit or higher fiber broadband household penetration are expected to increase by 50-fold to reach 55%
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
Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network: Seamless and Continuous Broadband Experience.
10-Gigabit Connectivity for Individuals, Homes, and Organizations.
All-terabit Network: Access, Backbone, and DCN.
Deterministic Experience
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100 ms, 10 ms, and 1 ms Latency Assurance for Differentiated Service Requirements.
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End-to-end Slicing: Logical Private Networks and Services That Are More Adaptable to Vertical Industries.
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99.999% Availability for Industry Production Control Systems to Enable Enterprises to Migrate All Systems to the Cloud.
AI-Native
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Autonomous Driving Network (ADN): Continuously Evolving Toward L4/ L5 Advanced Intelligence.
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AI-Native Edge: Reconstructing the Intelligent Edge with Cloud Native and AI Technologies.
HCS
A New Area Emerging from Communications Technologies
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Wireless sensing
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Wi-Fi sensing
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Optical sensing
Security and Trustworthiness
A Six-Layer Framework for a New Security Foundation
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Equipment security, connectivity security, and management security fall under network security.
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Component trustworthiness, data trustworthiness, and federated trustworthiness fall in the trustworthiness realm.
Green and Low-carbon
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Simplified Architecture: Low Carbon Realized by Simplifying Foundation, Cloud, and Computing Networks.
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Optoelectronic Integration: Profoundly Changing the Architecture and Energy Efficiency of Communications Network Equipment.
