At the International Information and Communication Exhibition held yesterday (25th), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology revealed that in the first eight months of this year, the communication industry operated basically smoothly, the total volume and income of telecommunications services maintained growth, and the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G and gigabit optical networks continued to advance. At present, there are more than 4 million 5G base stations in mainland China, and "gigabit through counties and 5G through townships" has been realized. The person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also said at the meeting that in the fields of data centers and computing power networks, the mainland will continue to adhere to the construction concept of moderately advanced information and communication infrastructure.
Moderately advance the construction and development of new infrastructure such as computing power networks
Zhang Yunming, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Adhere to the moderate advance and build a world-leading infrastructure system. The total scale of computing power has reached 246 Eflops (2460 trillion floating-point operations), ranking among the top in the world, covering a wide range of high-speed and smooth information infrastructure, greatly promoting the efficient and smooth flow of information, and strongly supporting the smooth economic cycle.
The reporter saw at the exhibition site that many exhibitors have launched the latest technologies and applications around intelligent computing networks and green computing power. This is a low-altitude intelligent networking platform developed by using AI + computing power network, which commands the UAV group to carry out monitoring and rescue through the digital twin electronic sand table.
Zhang Chuangang, general manager of Inspur Communication Information System Co., Ltd.: Take our forest fire prevention inspection as an example. This AI can help forest fire prevention automatically plan inspection routes and emergency rescue routes. The identification rate of fire and other problems can reach more than 99%. The backhaul latency of data is milliseconds.
In order to improve the training efficiency of AI large models, large-scale high-speed data transmission and interaction between various computing facilities are required. Communication equipment vendors and telecom operators are actively promoting the openness and improvement of the standard system for computing network interconnection.
Cui Li, Chief Development Officer of ZTE: We are working with China Mobile, China Telecom, etc. in China to promote the openness of this standard. We also hope to accelerate this process as soon as possible and lay a solid foundation for our domestic intelligent computing (intelligent computing power) standards.
According to the "Economic Operation of the Communications Industry from January to August 2024" just released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, emerging businesses such as Internet data centers, big data, and cloud computing networks related to computing power networks have completed business income of 289.7 billion yuan in the first eight months, a year-on-year increase of 10.5%, accounting for 24.7% of telecom business revenue, driving the growth of telecom business revenue by 2.4 percentage points. Among them, cloud computing and big data revenue increased by 12.3% and 61.6% year-on-year, respectively.
The mainland will promote the pilot deployment of 10 Gigabit optical networks
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that the mainland will promote the deployment of 10 Gigabit optical network pilot applications, and support all localities to rely on various industrial activities to explore 10 Gigabit optical network application innovation.
The network speed of the 10 Gigabit network is 10 times the average network speed of the existing network, and the network signal delay is only 1/10 of that of the Gigabit optical network, and the network reliability reaches 99.9999%.
Zhao Ce, Deputy Director of the Information and Communication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Promote the pilot deployment of 10 Gigabit optical networks, deepen application empowerment, accelerate the application empowerment of gigabit optical networks around key areas of the industry, support all localities to explore 10 Gigabit optical network application innovation, rely on various industrial activities, deeply explore emerging application scenarios, and guide the high-end, intelligent and green development of industries.
It is understood that the popularization and promotion of 10 Gigabit optical networks will greatly help AI and intelligent applications to achieve "ubiquitous" intelligent connection. It is estimated that it only takes 16 seconds to download a 20GB 4K high-definition movie through the 10 Gigabit optical network, and you can "immersively" play large-scale 3A cloud games by connecting to the 10 Gigabit optical network with an ordinary terminal. In addition, the 10 Gigabit optical network can connect computing power centers in different regions to realize the sharing of computing resources. In the past, tasks such as 3D rendering and online simulation, which required a professional server and several days of time, can be completed in a few hours by connecting to a 10 Gigabit network on a portable computer.
Jin Zhiguo, Vice President of Huawei's Optical Product Line: More and more high-definition cameras will complete some quality inspection and other work in our production lines, and the traffic generated by these high-definition cameras will far exceed the gigabit bandwidth and reach the 10 gigabit level in an instant.
(CCTV reporter Sun Jiwei, Sheng Jinyu, Liu Yongbo, Shi Haichao)
Source: CCTV news client