■ Within this year, Shanghai Telecom will invest more than 3 billion yuan in gigabit broadband construction, and plans to complete gigabit broadband access in more than 5,000 communities by the end of the year, and 60% of residential communities will achieve gigabit coverage.
■ By next year, Gigabit access will "jump one level"-users will exceed one million, the average access bandwidth will reach 280 megabytes, and the download rate perceived by home users will exceed 100 megabytes per second. By then, Shanghai will become the first city in the world to achieve full coverage of Gigabit broadband, and establish the "new national standard" of urban optical network with "100 Mbps start and Gigabit mainstream" in one fell swoop.
Just after 8 o’clock in the evening, Mr. Ma, who lives in Pillow Flow Apartment, sat down in front of the camera, turned on the iPad and started a video call with his youngest son in the United States: "The broadband at home has just risen by 1,000 megabytes today. What do you think is the difference?" "It doesn’t shake when moving, and the picture quality is much smoother than before. Mom, it’s quite fashionable for you. We can only play 100 megabytes here until now … "
Located on Huashan Road in Xuhui District, Pillow Flow Apartment was built in 1930, and currently there are more than 60 families living there. The scale of the apartment is not large, but it is a famous "excellent modern building" in Shanghai. In July this year, Shanghai Telecom ranked the pillow apartment in the "octogenarian" into the list of upgrading gigabit optical network, and sent a crucial team headed by Xu Zan, a national model worker, to enter the site for construction. "Because the building is old, the pipeline is old and there are many restrictions, the network speed upgrade here has been half a beat slower than other nearby communities. This time, the company made up its mind to make it reach gigabit in one step. Teacher Ma, who has always suspected that the Internet speed at home is not strong, volunteered to’ eat crabs’. We helped her from 50 megabytes to 1000 megabytes, and we also made an intelligent network for the whole room. Now, there are three 4G TVs in her home, plus two high-definition cameras. Even if they are used simultaneously, there is absolutely no problem. " Xu Wei told reporters.
Shanghai Broadband "Leaping" Upgrade
From 50 megabytes to 1,000 megabytes, the "leap-forward" upgrade of the Internet speed of Aunt Ma’s apartment in Pillow Flow can be said to be a microcosm of the construction of Shanghai Telecom’s urban optical network in recent 20 years-from the opening of Shanghai ATM broadband communication experimental network in 1997, it has become one of the cities in the world that can provide broadband communication services based on ATM WAN, and now gigabit network has entered the homes of ordinary people, and it takes only 2 seconds to download a high-definition movie … 20 years.
In 1997, Shanghai Telecom provided ATM broadband service to the outside world, and its unique networking dial tone became the wonderful melody of China netizens’ first close contact with the Internet world. In 2000, Shanghai Telecom completed the transformation of broadband network and fully opened ADSL broadband access service; In 2004, the number of broadband users of Shanghai Telecom reached the first 1 million, and increased to 1.8 million the following year, ranking first in China. In 2009, Shanghai Telecom launched the "Urban Optical Network" action plan to comprehensively promote the construction of optical fiber network and implement broadband optical fiber access; In 2011, the first "smart city" broadband was launched at a high speed, with the goal of "starting at 20 megabytes and reaching every household at 100 megabytes". In the same year, the coverage capacity of urban optical network exceeded 4.5 million, and Shanghai became the "first city of urban optical network" in China. In 2015, after seven broadband speed increases, Shanghai Telecom’s optical network coverage capacity exceeded 8.4 million, and the number of optical network users reached 4.4 million, achieving full optical network coverage in urbanized areas; In 2016, Shanghai Telecom released Gigabit broadband products and promised to make Shanghai the first city in the world to achieve global coverage of Gigabit broadband within three years; At the same time, the eighth broadband speed increase was implemented. At present, Shanghai Telecom’s optical fiber coverage rate exceeds 99%, the optical network coverage capacity exceeds 9 million, and the average access rate of household users reaches 71.7 trillion.
While laying a solid "cornerstone" of broadband, Shanghai Telecom also shares the information dividend with users through "speeding up broadband" and "doubling the age of the network". Since 2011, a total of seven "big speed increases" have been implemented, with more than 3 million users sharing the "big broadband bonus" and speeding up broadband for free. Up to now, Shanghai Telecom’s broadband unit price per megabit is 1.40 yuan, down 8.1% from the end of 2016.
Quietly change the life and work of citizens.
ISDN, all-fiber access, 100G, 1000 Gigabit … It is these seemingly boring technical terms and numbers that are constantly evolving and upgrading, which have quietly changed the lives and work of ordinary citizens in the past 20 years. In this regard, Mr. Ma, who works as an investment analyst in Huatai Securities, has a deep understanding.
"Do you want to ask me how I feel after upgrading Gigabit? In one word,’ cool’! " According to the "securities man", after upgrading the Gigabit optical network, his resource download speed is changed to "seconds": a 2G HD movie takes only 16 seconds to complete the download; 150 high-definition photos, it takes only 1.2 seconds to upload or download. He told reporters that he is engaged in quantitative trading of securities and is very sensitive to network speed. Even an error of 0.1 second may be related to the profit and loss of millions of yuan. His main research field is to capture market opportunities in real time through computers, quantify fund management, and achieve stable and profitable results through a large number of short-term transactions according to the "product theory" model. "Because quantitative trading requires very high speed and reliability of the network, my previous work can only be carried out with the help of the company’s dedicated lines. If you use the same mathematical model to trade at home, the originally profitable transaction may become a loss. With the arrival of Gigabit optical network, even if I take a vacation at home in the future, it will not affect my work any more. "
For users like Mr. Ma, Gigabit optical network has opened a new window for their life and work. For Shanghai Telecom, the measures of "speeding up and reducing fees" that have been continuously increased in recent years have not only optimized and upgraded the energy level of urban network infrastructure, but also laid a solid foundation for enterprises to realize transformation and upgrading, become a "leading integrated intelligent information service operator" and realize network intelligence, business ecology and operational intelligence.
Cloud project online to improve government efficiency
In March this year, Shanghai Telecom successfully won the bid for the government cloud project in Shanghai, providing a package of services from computer room infrastructure, network, cloud-based platform, a complete set of government cloud security and operation and maintenance service system, and application system migration. As of July 30th, Shanghai government cloud Project has successfully launched five commissions and nine business systems, including Shanghai comprehensive supervision system and Shanghai public credit information platform. Government cloud project greatly improved the online efficiency of government information system, shortened the time limit of government information system construction, reduced the operating cost, and improved the security and reliability of the system.
In caohejing Development Zone, Shanghai Telecom undertakes the pilot promotion of the National Development and Reform Commission’s dual-innovation demonstration project, and the new generation of cloud network convergence service has been put into operation, and has signed contracts with more than 20 science and technology parks. Taking caohejing Science and Technology Oasis Venture Park as an example, according to the needs of different users, Shanghai Telecom has created a creative space access resource model based on telecom LSN network, and provided value-added services including cloud hosting, cloud storage, cloud desktop, office Saas application, information security and network monitoring to resident customers … IT is convenient for space managers and small and micro start-ups to quickly build an IT environment, and at the same time, it eliminates the tedious affairs of hardware equipment procurement and maintenance, and the corresponding IT service cost is obviously reduced.
The reporter was informed that this year, Shanghai Telecom will invest more than 3 billion yuan in gigabit broadband construction, and plans to complete gigabit broadband access in more than 5,000 communities before the end of the year, and 60% of residential communities will achieve gigabit coverage. By next year, gigabit access will "jump one level"-users will exceed one million, the average access bandwidth will reach 280 megabytes, and the download rate perceived by home users will exceed 100 megabytes per second. By then, Shanghai will become the first city in the world to achieve full coverage of Gigabit broadband, and establish the "new national standard" of urban optical network with "100 Mbps start and Gigabit mainstream" in one fell swoop. (Reporter Zhu Wei)