China Mobile announced the centralized procurement of PON equipment expansion from 2022 to 2023 – a list of equipment suppliers from a single source, including: ZTE, Fiberhome and Shanghai Nokia Bell.
Previously, China Mobile released the 2022-2023 PON equipment new centralized procurement project announcement, planning to purchase 3,269 OLT equipment and 65,100 MDU equipment. This project is divided into package 1 (XG-PON OLT equipment and MDU) and package 2 (XGSPON OLT equipment and MDU). This time, only the centralized procurement results of package 1 are announced.
It is reported that China Mobile’s last two large-scale centralized procurement of group-level PON equipment were in 2018 and 2020, and the products were GPON products, while in 2022-2023, all PON equipment were 10G PON (XG/XGS-PON) products. On the one hand, it reflects the social trend of my country’s vigorous construction of gigabit broadband networks. On the other hand, it promotes the advancement of 10G PON to a larger-scale commercial stage, and supports the iterative development of the optical communication industry chain towards the next generation of PON.
Post time: Jan-14-2022