China's data center market size has exceeded 100 billion, and new infrastructure is helping to drive a new round of growth.

Currently, the development momentum of the data center industry in our country is good. The latest report released by the Forward Industry Research Institute shows that the market size of data centers in our country is estimated to have exceeded 100 billion yuan in 2019, and is expected to approach 150 billion yuan in 2020. From 2012 to 2019, the year-on-year growth rate of the data center market size in our country has maintained around 30%. Compared with traditional infrastructure, the essence of 'new infrastructure' is the infrastructure for information digitization. As the country clearly emphasizes accelerating the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G networks and data centers, 'new infrastructure' may become a 'catalyst' for a new round of development of data centers.

New infrastructure sounds the horn for a new round of growth in data centers.

Nowadays, with the continuous innovation and development of 5G, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, the connotation of data centers is constantly enriched, and their important role is increasingly prominent.

During the process of fighting the epidemic and resuming work and production, data centers have fully met the remote service needs for epidemic prevention and control, online education, online office, and online medical service platforms, allowing many local governments to deeply realize the importance of data centers, leading to relevant layouts or plans.

On March 31, the unveiling ceremony of the Henan Provincial Big Data Center was held in Zhengzhou; on March 26, the Shanghai Municipal Economic and Information Commission issued a notice on collecting proposed new internet data center projects for 2020, stating that Shanghai will add 60,000 data center racks before the first quarter of 2021. On April 24, the Shaanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission announced that it has started planning and research work for major new infrastructure projects such as '5G data centers' to promote and support a batch of new infrastructure projects to land as soon as possible. On April 28, the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government held a meeting to promote the construction of industrial internet, digital economy, 5G networks, and data centers across the province.

Relevant data shows that as of the end of March, the number of operational cabinets in data centers around Beijing reached 173,500, with 601,000 cabinets under construction and planning. From just Beijing, it can be seen that the scale of planned and under-construction data centers is astonishing.

Giants leverage new infrastructure to intensify data center construction.

'New infrastructure' brings new opportunities for the great development of data centers. In addition to actively deploying data center construction in various regions, internet giants and operators are also continuously increasing their investments.

Currently, Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei are accelerating the deployment of data centers through self-built, co-built, and leased methods to meet the incremental market demand.

On the operator side, China Telecom is accelerating the layout of data centers and Tianyi Cloud resource pools, with core nodes and data centers in all 31 provinces, achieving over 550 IDC centers and over 250 CDN nodes. By the end of the year, four regional core cloud nodes will be established in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Sichuan-Shaanxi-Chongqing regions, forming an overall resource layout of '2+4+31+X'.

China Unicom focuses on the five key regions of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Sichuan-Shaanxi-Chongqing, and Shandong-Henan to implement the '5+2+31+X' data center layout system planning, promoting the construction of provincial data centers and edge data centers in 31 provincial capital cities and economically developed cities.

China Mobile is laying out and constructing data centers across the country. Currently, data centers in Kunming, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Nanning, Harbin, Hohhot, and other places are under construction or have been completed. Among them, China Mobile's data center in Yunnan is being built in three phases, and once completed, it will provide over 23,000 cabinets and an export bandwidth of over 4,000G.

Data center construction must avoid a rush.

Currently, data centers are assigned an important historical mission, becoming the engine driving the development of the digital economy. In the wave of new infrastructure, orderly and large-scale construction of data centers is timely.

In response to the recent 'enthusiasm' for building data centers in various places, some experts have expressed concerns. Lv Tianwen, secretary-general of the Data Center Energy Efficiency Technology Committee of the China Electronic Energy Saving Technology Association, admitted that a large number of data centers being concentrated may widen the supply-demand gap, leading to more idle data centers. He believes that localities should make top-level planning based on demand and reasonably arrange data center construction to align with the timing of major applications such as artificial intelligence, vehicle networking, and edge computing.

At the same time, the energy consumption issue of data centers cannot be ignored. According to statistics, the total electricity consumption of global data centers currently accounts for 3% of global electricity usage.

In this regard, experts have called for the government to not only provide directional guidance but also to support the electricity consumption required by data centers in terms of pricing and supply.

How to use fiber optic infrastructure to improve smart city governance

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With the development of computer technology and communication technology, in order to meet the demands of the industry and the market, the structured cabling system is continuously being updated and iterated. From Category 3 to Category 5, from Category 5 to Category 5e, and now to the mature and widely used Category 6 system, the Category 6a system with 10G copper cables has also become popular in data centers. In response to the demand for network and video acceleration, Category 7 and Category 7a systems have emerged, and the standards for Category 8 systems are being formulated. Multi-mode fiber has also been optimized from the gigabit OM1 to the 10G OM3 and the OM4 fiber that supports longer 10G transmission distances. Looking to the future, the structured cabling market mainly presents several hotspots: (1) Intelligent cabling systems, what is intelligent cabling? Intelligent cabling is a system that uses electronic patch panels along with network scanners and management software to monitor and manage the connectivity, disconnection, and unauthorized access of the network's physical layer in real-time. With the widespread application of concepts such as virtualization, cloud computing, and big data in the new generation of data networks, structured cabling, as the physical foundation of the network, has become increasingly important to maintain and manage effectively to minimize losses caused by network interruptions. (2) POE cabling, POE cabling refers to the technology that provides power to IP-based terminals (such as IP phones, WiFi access points, network cameras, etc.) while transmitting data signals without making any changes to the existing Ethernet cabling infrastructure. (3) Combination of wired and wireless, due to the popularity of smart terminals, the demand for wireless has become increasingly urgent, with over 90% of current projects having wireless requirements. The combination of wired and wireless refers to the deployment of wireless APs at the end of wired connections, generally using POE for power supply. (4) High-density high-bandwidth cabling, high-density high-bandwidth cabling refers to the use of high-density devices with MPO connectors pre-terminated. The size of a 12-core or 24-core MPO connector is similar to that of an LC duplex connector, saving more space. In limited space environments (especially in data center applications), this can greatly simplify the configuration process of fiber optic networks while supporting high bandwidth transmission of 10G/40G/100G. (5) Smart home cabling refers to the internal wiring and management of homes after fiber is brought to the home. Currently, most still follow this model, but with the rise of smart homes, there are higher demands for home cabling. Whether home cabling can perfectly integrate with smart home systems has extended the function of home cabling from mere wiring management to the ability to store, process, and exchange data. (6) Micro-module data centers, micro-module data centers integrate traditional data center systems such as cabinets, cooling, network cabling, power supply, lighting, and environmental monitoring into a unified whole. They use modular components and standardized interfaces to achieve rapid and flexible deployment of data centers and subsequent expansions. This not only significantly reduces construction costs but also shortens the construction and deployment cycle of data centers, enhancing the mobility and flexibility of data center deployment. Of course, with the continuous development of various technologies, structured cabling will have more technological hotspots and application scenarios.

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