1, the market situation
(1) market demand and product stage analysis
With the rapid development of broadband network construction and intelligent buildings, indoor communications fiber optic cables market demand is also growing in parallel with a large market capacity. Indoor communications cable in addition to the introduction of the user side, can also be widely used as indoor wiring, patch cords, communications equipment and data equipment within the cable and data lines, with the deepening of fiber optic, the demand in this area will continue to increase.
In addition to the field of communications, but also to take into account other areas and export demand for indoor fiber optic cable, so the preliminary estimate of the domestic market demand for indoor fiber optic cable this year will reach about 7 billion yuan next year will be more than 10 billion yuan in the future, the market demand will be maintained or even more than 20% growth rate.
The development of domestic indoor optical cable can be roughly divided into four stages, before 2003 is the first stage, for the start of the indoor optical cable, basically for the research, preparation and to be developed, there are a small number of small-core indoor optical cable is used in the jumper market. 2004 ~ 2009 is the second stage, for the transition stage, the gradual formation of industrialization, the industry standard is simple to form a series, users gradually increase, the indoor optical cable, the indoor optical cable, the indoor optical cable, the indoor optical cable, the domestic market demand will remain even 20% growth in the future. Users gradually increased, the use of indoor optical fiber cables is increasingly broad and diverse. The third stage is 2010 ~ 2015, is the stage of rapid growth of industrialization, this stage of indoor optical cable will grow steadily, the rapid increase in manufacturers, the market price competition is very fierce, each manufacturer to explore ways to seek development and growth, a variety of structures, a variety of materials, a variety of uses for indoor optical cables are developed. The fourth stage is after 2016 to the next few decades, is the stage of the future development of indoor optical fiber cable. Indoor fiber optic cable will be used in a large number of various fields and scopes, the structure of indoor fiber optic cable will be more diversified, the technology tends to mature, the quality of the product is more perfect and reliable, the market is also more stable and standardized, indoor fiber optic cable production plant also tends to concentrate and scale, the indoor fiber optic cable market vitality will be more powerful and strong.
(2) market trends and market opportunities
While the user side of the communication cable or digital cable is still the main, but with the rapid expansion of online data, access networks and users of the site end of a large number of increases in the number of digital cables will be difficult to meet the demand for the development of indoor fiber optic cables will be steadily expanding the market year by year, the situation is very optimistic, which is the development trend of the market.
Early indoor fiber optic cable market is usually by some patch cord factory procurement of single-core and dual-core fiber optic cable, cable structure is less, the market is also relatively single. Due to several reasons, firstly, the increasing requirements of users led to the increase in the variety of indoor fiber optic cables. Second, the application range of indoor fiber optic cables has increased, and the customer base has increased. Third, the participation of operators and collective procurement has led to a significant rise in the use of indoor optical fiber cables of certain structures. Fourth, the customer choice shows diversification, and the user's choice increases. Fifth, the complexity and variability of the application environment requires the selection of different indoor optical fiber cables, and the procurement process is significantly more technical. Sixth, the market demand has increased significantly. The market has also changed a lot. The main requirements of the user's choice is product diversification, reliable quality, low cost, safety and environmental protection. The market demand for products is to meet the basic standard requirements, to meet the requirements of the user's choice, to meet the requirements of environmental use, to meet the requirements of the price cost, to meet the requirements of rationalization, etc..
Market demand is the leader of industrial development, but also the leader of enterprise development, so the changes in the market and the market development trend has been emphasized by each enterprise. These changes in the market will require each enterprise for different customer groups, analyze and understand the different requirements, to take different market strategies and product strategies.
China's current indoor fiber optic cable market is still in an imperfect stage, the development of space is quite large, the market is not mature, there is no real monopoly, most of the users are still in the choice, and there is no certainty of the supplier, which most of the fiber optic cable manufacturers competing for indoor fiber optic cable market is still a business opportunity.
(3) customer analysis
Indoor cable production in addition to some R & D, basically belongs to the processing industry, the material actually accounts for the price of most of the cost. Therefore, the mainstream suppliers of indoor fiber optic cable materials basically belong to the stronger side, indoor fiber optic cable market competition plays a very important role. In addition, indoor fiber optic cable is basically in the buyer's market, the customer can have a certain negotiating advantage in price, quality, service or other terms of sale, is a strong competitive force in the market. Even if the customer side of the purchase volume is not large, or also can not bring important market or some kind of reputation to the manufacturer, there is still a certain degree of strength.
Indoor fiber optic cable user groups are mainly optical device manufacturers, integrated cabling manufacturers, network integration companies, real estate developers, communications operators, broadcasting and telecommunications enterprises, enterprises and administrative units, military use.
Indoor fiber optic cable applications into all aspects of the use of fine-tuning, the current main market direction of the jumper class, cabling class, operator class, overseas market class and other industries. Customers are obviously different, the market behavior is different, the structure of the optical cable is different, the application is different, the requirements of the optical cable is also different.
(1) Patch cord class is mainly a variety of patch cords, connecting line plugs, within the handover box and end-user use, etc..
(2) cabling class is mainly used for house wiring, can be vertical wiring, horizontal wiring, house wiring and end-user wiring, etc., currently in this market, the largest amount of disc-shaped introduction of fiber optic cables, the future application in this area of cabling than there will be more types of fiber optic cables form.
(3) operator class is mainly the various operators bidding for the purchase, in the country, the market is the most concentrated, the procurement volume is relatively large, but the competition is also very fierce. Unicom, telecom, mobile and radio and television are developing.
(4) Overseas market category mainly refers to indoor fiber optic cable exports, the sales direction can be developed countries, but also developing countries.
(5) Other industry categories are mainly military, aerospace, automotive, high-speed rail, coal mine, medical and non-communication applications.
2, the state of the art
(1) the understanding of indoor optical fiber cable
In the past, when people mention indoor optical fiber cable, usually considered to be indoor soft optical fiber cables, referring to the single-core or double-core patch cables, a single structure, a small number of material types, not much market volume, and then gradually understood to the cabling of some of the optical fiber cables, known as multi-core fiber optic cables such as branching cables and wiring cables (or bundled fiber optic cable). (or bundle fiber optic cable). In recent years there have been some changes, that is, the butterfly introduction of fiber optic cables, there are still a lot of people think that indoor fiber optic cables are butterfly introduction of fiber optic cables, or called skin cable.
Now the concept of indoor fiber optic cable has been greatly expanded, involving the introduction of indoor, special indoor environment. The types of fiber optic cables have been expanded to hundreds of species, involving a wider range of materials, the use of fiber optic cables significantly broaden the scope of equipment, structure, technology has evolved into a dazzling variety of situations. People generally have a feeling that the indoor optical fiber cable is very wide, very mixed.
In the next few years, indoor fiber optic cables will continue to appear new varieties, standards and materials and technology will tend to mature and perfect. People are no longer strangers to indoor fiber optic cables, it will expand the field of application, many kinds of indoor fiber optic cables tend to improve and be accepted by people, the concept of indoor fiber optic cables will become very large.
(2) the status and development trend of the cable standard, structure and production process
a standard
On the standard, China's standard on indoor optical fiber cables started relatively late, on the classification, materials, performance and user requirements, such as the difference is relatively large. Must be indoor optical cable according to the application level for a large classification, and then combined with the user's requirements, the characteristics of the cable, performance, materials, etc. on all types of indoor optical cable standards for standardization. Only a unified standard is conducive to the development of the industry, product quality improvement and protection, but also conducive to the consistency of the product as well as the user's choice.
b Cable structure and production process
Indoor fiber optic cable technology is very important, in the whole process are occupying a very important position in the procurement of raw materials, cable production, product development, marketing and technical exchanges and other aspects of the need for technology as a backing, as a guarantee. At present, the technology of indoor optical fiber cable is not very mature, there is a serious lack of technicians, and the ability of technicians and uneven, which is one of the factors that bring difficulties and even obstacles to the development of indoor optical fiber cable. Technology must be strengthened.
Indoor fiber optic cable product development should take into account the user's choice, market development, technological foresight, the development trend of materials, fiber optic cable structure changes, performance requirements, technical support in the market as well as indoor fiber optic cables own characteristics. There are several development trends of fiber optic cable structure for reference. ① development and development of FTTX cable, such as multi-core fabric cable, ribbon multi-layer structure of the cable and the introduction of cellular cables and so on. ② Further development of optical fiber cables used in remote units. Development of micro cables. Development of indoor optical fiber cable with dry center tube structure. ⑤ The development of several types of rationally designed optoelectronic hybrid cables.
There are many types of indoor optical cables due to the type of structure, shape changes, dimensions, fiber core number, material type, cable color, application environment and user preferences and other reasons gradually formed. However, a variety of structure itself is the characteristics of indoor optical fiber cable, is also in line with the actual needs. But this gives each enterprise increased difficulty in production equipment, related personnel, material supply, storage and management, and even packaging and transportation need to strengthen the equipment, increased costs. There are many types, assessment and management difficulties also increased, each variety of orders and not very sufficient, the use of production equipment intermittent, undoubtedly have increased costs. If the manufacturer of fiber optic cable variety is not complete also does not meet the needs of market development, not to mention the purpose of bigger and stronger. So how the enterprise is equipped with resources, the development of which varieties, how to operate is worth serious thinking and careful choice.
Currently, the indoor optical cable production process is immature, the process is not easy to develop documents, process parameters are difficult to determine and stabilize. Due to fiber attenuation, cable segment length, shrinkage, strength, mechanical properties and environmental performance, compactness, flexibility, environmental protection and other requirements make the production of optical fiber cable more difficult. Product requirements change too much too fast, the production process can not keep up with market demand, production scheduling is difficult. How to regulate and manage, how to assess the production of indoor optical fiber cable is a very difficult to solve the problem.
Indoor fiber optic cable production equipment and production process is more different, the requirements are higher, the equipment suppliers and cable manufacturers to increase the difficulty. The future development trend is to improve the precision of equipment, process refinement, maturity.
Indoor optical cable is along the miniaturization, low cost, compact and reasonable structure, high fiber density, performance to meet the requirements of the direction of development. Production process technology, focusing on the need to explore the material, temperature and humidity, online tension, extruder structure parameters and settings, molds, cooling and production speed of indoor fiber optic cable production impact.
(3) materials and development trends
Indoor fiber optic cable used in a very large number of materials, each material can be changed out of different formulations of many kinds. The main components of indoor optical cable are optical fiber, reinforcement and sheath materials.
Fiber optics involve both single-mode and multi-mode, and all kinds of fibers are possible in indoor optical cables. Of course, the development trend is resistant to bending, geometric stability, high mechanical strength of the fiber is more suitable for indoor optical cable requirements.
The types of reinforcement are also more varied, non-metallic reinforcement is the mainstream, of which aramid yarn is the most common reinforcement material. Of course, other reinforcing materials, such as PBO, high-strength polyethylene fibers, glass fibers, polyester yarns, GFRP, KFRP, steel wire, and different braided shapes of reinforcing materials may appear in the indoor fiber optic cables, which is mainly due to the performance requirements of indoor optical cable, the structure of the size of the requirements of the user's choice and the cost of price and other factors. Indoor fiber optic cable on the requirements of the reinforcing material strength, tensile resistance, low smoke flame retardant, high temperature resistance, environmental protection, easy processing, protection of optical fibers and so on.
Sheath material involves more aspects, the most commonly used materials are polyvinyl chloride (PVC), low-smoke halogen-free flame-retardant polyolefin (LSZH), halogen-containing flame-retardant polyolefin (flame-retardant polyethylene) (ZRPO), nylon (PA) and polyurethane elastomers (TPU) and other materials, composites, that is, a mixture of several materials will also appear. In the future, the requirements of the sheath material is low-smoke non-halogen, high flame retardant, low shrinkage, low temperature resistance, high temperature resistance, easy to process, environmental protection, high strength, resistance to cracking, suitable for the softness and hardness, aging resistance, color and color uniformity, suitable mechanical and physical properties, odor, feel and low-cost prices, and even anti-rodent bites, corrosion resistance, resistance to sunlight, resistance to bending and can be thin-walled processed, and so on.
Changes or instability in material batches can be fatal to the production of indoor fiber optic cables, with quality problems due to materials accounting for almost 60% or more of the quality problems in indoor fiber optic cables. This puts higher demands on material suppliers, and also requires material engineers to conduct research and development to develop various materials that meet the requirements of indoor fiber optic cables as early as possible and require stable material performance.
The development of raw materials also determines the development of indoor fiber optic cable, its role can not be ignored. Indoor fiber optic cable on the raw material dependence is very strong, the material requirements are very high, and, with the user and the market choice changes, the requirements for raw materials also change at any time. The development of raw materials must be aware of the adaptability, stability, reliability, diversity and low cost.
3, the state of the industry
Currently the domestic indoor fiber optic cable manufacturers increased significantly, a conservative estimate of nearly two hundred, competition has increased significantly. Most of the manufacturers are located in Guangdong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other coastal areas, there is a geographical advantage, but also closer to the market, a small number of enterprises in the interior and other provinces and cities. These manufacturers according to the nature of the enterprise and the development of strength can be broadly divided into such categories:
(1) the state-owned system of a number of companies, with considerable strength and brand, the development of great potential.
(2) private nature of the large companies, and many are listed companies. This kind of enterprise has considerable strength, strong market ability, in the indoor optical cable products have been explored for many years, is likely to be the main force of the future indoor optical cable.
(3) private companies specializing in the production of indoor optical cable. This kind of company only produces indoor optical cable, more professional, and started earlier, with a certain scale and brand, indoor optical cable has a very deep understanding of the market, there are fixed customers, the development prospects are better.
(4) in the past two years, just set up a number of indoor fiber optic cable industry companies, industry scale is not large, just started. These companies are very flexible and also have the ability to compete in certain markets. Which is divided into three kinds: the first, only do the patch cord with fiber optic cables, including the patch cord factory's own formation of the industry. The second kind, only for the operator bidding to do butterfly introduction of fiber optic cable. The third kind, do not pick the market, with the market demand for production.
(5) foreign-invested companies, including joint ventures and purely foreign-invested companies. Orderly and standardized management, pay more attention to product quality, with a certain strength.
(6) Some companies operating other cables for many years, the current tender for operators to carry out some of the development and production of indoor optical fiber cable. The company's management and financial strength can be, and a better understanding of the industry.