Outlook on Top Ten Development Trends in the Communications Industry for 2012
The global communications industry has entered a new era of deep integration, transformation, and restructuring. Next-generation information technologies, represented by next-generation communication networks, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things, as national strategic emerging industries, are becoming a key driving force for the next round of economic development. Ubiquitous, intelligent broadband communication networks have laid a solid foundation for the vigorous growth and continuous innovation of the Internet, creating favorable conditions for the transformation of the communications industry. The communications industry will further expand into information services, promote the deep integration of informatization and industrialization, drive the upgrading of traditional industries, develop information services for people's livelihoods, and deepen the application of information and communication technologies across various industries.
The communications industry in the new era will present diversified development trends:
First, accelerate the deployment of basic telecommunications network areas such as intelligent pipelines, heterogeneous networks, and fiber broadband access, laying the cornerstone for the development of informatization.
Second, cultivate new core competitiveness and achieve ICT integration by building cloud computing data centers, upgrading smart terminals, and developing new Internet and Internet of Things applications.
Third, while providing rich applications and new user experiences, information security, trusted computing, and green communications are receiving increasing attention.
Fourth, in the process of ICT integration, software has quietly become the core of informatization development, triggering transformation in traditional industries.
Intelligent Pipeline: The Path to Operator Transformation
Heterogeneous Networks: An Inevitable Trend in Mobile Network Development
Fiber to the Home: The Main Theme of Broadband Networks
Cloud Data Centers: Building the Basic Environment for Telecom Cloud Computing
Software Revolution: Triggering Transformation in Traditional Industries
Mobile Internet: Web-based Applications
Smart Terminals: Moving Toward Cloud-Device Integration
Internet of Things: Industry Applications Taking the Lead
Trusted Computing: Building a Proactive Security System
Green Communications: Full-scale Launch
The strategic call for implementing "Broadband China" has been sounded, the comprehensive construction of fiber access networks is in full swing, and next-generation mobile communication networks represented by TD-LTE are steadily advancing. A broadband, converged, ubiquitous, and secure next-generation information infrastructure has laid a solid foundation for telecommunications enterprises to transform into information service providers. The rise of emerging technologies and new services such as cloud computing, mobile Internet, and the Internet of Things has driven changes in traditional communication methods, business models, and service models. The public's demand for multimedia, personalized lifestyle and entertainment, as well as the requirements of various industries for convenient, secure, and environmentally friendly informatization, provide unlimited development space and enormous opportunities for telecommunications enterprises to transform into information service providers. Leveraging their technological and market advantages, the communications industry will build service platforms, innovate business applications, enhance user experience, and strengthen industry cooperation to jointly build an information service system shared by the whole society.