Sam Bucci, general manager of Nokia's Indian optical network business, said. 'China's infrastructure has been built relatively well, and its growth will be incremental, but there will be infrastructure investment in the Indian market. We have seen the market here. Explosive growth in bandwidth. '
According to a recent Ovum report, India became one of the best performing optical network markets in the world in 2017, with sales increasing by 11.8%. 'Mobile broadband growth will push India to become the world's (optical network) growth by 2022. Fast market. 'Ovum predicts that the compound annual growth rate will reach 11.4% driven by 4G and future 5G growth. The so-called 'fiberization' of towers and homes is crucial. Telecom operators are quickly realizing that they are Fibers need to be deployed to improve service quality for end users. Currently, the fiber color of the Indian market tower is only 20%, and the market will need more fiber resources to meet the needs of future 5G services.
'The scale of the solutions we need to build for India is amazing, which is much larger than in other countries.' Bucci said, 'Besides, these systems are built and populated very fast and are suitable for multiple networks.' In addition, Indian telecom operators are now adopting new technologies as fast as operators in other markets.
He also believes that India's demand for innovation is huge. 'Now the pace of innovation to meet the needs of Indian operators has exceeded that of North America and China.' He said. 'We do see India taking the lead in innovation demand and scale. I believe that India will become a leader in 5G deployment. '
Nokia expects its optical networking portfolio, especially the Photonic Service Engine 3 launched in March this year, to help it gain market share in India.
When it comes to the upcoming innovations in the field, Bucci said that Nokia will focus on helping telecom operators automate and take advantage of virtualization. 'We hope to completely eliminate the complexity of optical networks.' He said. 'We are working hard The edge of the network introduces high speed, and then there is still part about network automation.'
Bucci said that through virtualization, operators can build optical networks that dynamically allocate bandwidth and increase efficiency. 'Like using Airbnb to find hotels, people can rent rooms when no one is using them. The network is not 100% of the time. Used. Our goal is to get it to use more.'
Nokia faces competition from companies such as Ciena, ECI, Tejas and Huawei in the Indian market.