The development of 50G PON (5G-A) cannot be separated from user demand. At present, 50G PON, like 5G, lacks a convincing explosion application scenario, and is not a very needed technology. Compared to 5G, the biggest advantage of 50G PON is cost. Although it will cost significantly more than 10G PON, it will still be much lower than 5G. By pairing with Wi-Fi 7, 50G PON is easier to provide users with low-cost, high speed, low latency Internet access capabilities, and is more easily accepted by the market.

Nowadays, with the imminent freezing of the 3GPP Rel-18 standard and the continuous emergence of new scenarios, new services, and new demands, the industry has set off a wave towards 5G-A.

After receiving the industry's largest Open RAN contract worth US$14 billion from AT&T at the end of last year, Ericsson's publicity and marketing voice for Open RAN technology has been unprecedentedly high-profile. "Promoting the industrialization of Open RAN" is one of the loud slogans Ericsson put forward when releasing these latest products.

The communications industry has ushered in another annual global technology “feast”. From February 26 to 29, 2024, the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the world's largest and most influential mobile communications conference, was held at the Fira Convention Center on Gran Via in Barcelona. The theme of this conference is "Future First", which means that MWC has embarked on the path of integrated development. It is no longer mobile first or digital first, but future first. MWC2024 will bring you a feast of tomorrow's technology.

Market research organization Yole Intelligence stated that silicon photonics technology has made great progress since 1985, from the initial development of highly constrained waveguides to the strategic adoption of materials, integration and packaging technologies in the CMOS industry.

Open RAN is a general term for open RAN architecture, including open interfaces, virtualization and AI intelligence. OpenRAN is a project initiated by TIP, aiming to realize open RAN, and its work scope includes 2/3/4/5G. TIP, Telecom Infra Project, a telecommunications infrastructure project.

Recently, during the 2023 Global Mobile Broadband Forum, Cao Ming, president of Huawei Wireless Network product line, released the world's first full series 5G-A (that is, 5.5G) product solution. Cao Ming said: "5G-A is the right time to support the development of new experiences, new connections, and new services.

On August 3, 2023, the Revenue Department of the Ministry of Finance of India issued a notification No. 07/2023-Customs (ADD), stating that it accepts the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India’s May 5, 2023 regulations on imports from China, Indonesia, and South Korea.

In 1966, K.Kao, a Chinese scientist working at Standard Telecommunications Laboratories Ltd. in the United Kingdom, joined forces with his colleague G.A. Hockham to publish a paper titled "Dielectric-fiber surface waveguides for optical frequencies".