Fiber optic cable in 5G: It is greatly relied on.
Digital technologies, higher security, reliability, massive machine to machine communication seamless, a real-time high-speed broadband requirement from any time and any location drives for the 5G coming around the corner.
5G is a time for connecting everything with low latency and 1- 10Gbps speed which is ten to hundred times higher than 4G, all these performance and quality services will depend on the availability of fiber optic infrastructure.
5G as a converged fiber wireless network,the convergence and availability is obtained by a higher density small cell with fiber optic cable interconnected to consist a centralized RAN(C-RAN) which more willing than the previous generation to make fiber optic deployment a central part of the network especially the fronthaul network.
According to the expected requirement, the fiber optic cable requirement will be 16 times of 4G, and 2-6 times of FTTH due to fiber-based small cell MBH, fronthaul and backhaul.In a word, 5G formidable network performance heavily depends on the availability of fiber, a lot of fiber optic cable to the cell site.