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Today I will share with you some knowledge in the field of smart gateways.
Broadband terminal development road
The earliest broadband access equipment was the ADSL Modem product, which provided a bandwidth of 2M/512k, and gradually developed to ADSL2+, which can provide 8M copper wire access bandwidth. With the development of telecommunication services, ADSL cannot meet the needs of operators gradually.
The increasingly mature FTTH technology, with its bandwidth several times higher than ADSL, has won the favor of operators. ONU has also become the protagonist of home broadband access. It can provide higher data access and voice access capabilities. It satisfies the requirements of broadband access well.
However, with the requirements for integrated telecommunications service access, and the increasing requirements for operation and maintenance, activation, and management, SFU and ONU products are increasingly unable to meet the needs of operators, and their comprehensive access capabilities are insufficient, and WiFi is not supported. Remote management and the most important thing is that the product itself is a second-tier data processing device, which cannot process data above the third-tier, lacks routing capabilities, and has weak CPU processor capabilities.
According to the development needs of their own services, operators have proposed customized home router products, namely home gateways. This is an integrated access device that provides broadband Internet access, voice calls, and IPTV services at the same time. It provides TR069-based remote management, supports automatic work order opening, and has WiFi wireless access capabilities, which can support users to use PAD, smartphones, etc. The product is connected to broadband networks and supports multiple upstream products such as PON (EPON/GPON), LAN, ADSL/VDSL, etc.
The home gateway should also have three-layer protocol processing capabilities, support IPv6, support firewall, routing data forwarding, support DDNS, UPnP, support external storage devices, and load custom applications.
Telecom operator networks have deployed a large number of home gateway products of this type, and the number of equipment purchased has reached tens of millions, which has well promoted the implementation of the broadband strategy.
With the continuous improvement of operators’ performance requirements, the processing capabilities of home gateways have also been continuously enhanced. Data forwarding is more handled by the hardware forwarding engine, and the processing capabilities of the CPU have also been continuously enhanced. Most devices are dual-core 600MHz processors. The main operation management program and wireless data forwarding, the processing capacity is idle to a certain extent, this has caused the operator to think: whether to provide value-added service capabilities on the existing home gateway? Equipment providers are also thinking about how to further develop the home gateway?
Competition among Internet vendors
With their consistent acumen, Internet manufacturers dare to subvert traditional behaviors and join the competition in the field of smart hardware. A series of products are dazzling. Smart routers include extremely routing, smart OTT set-top boxes, smart wearable devices such as smart bracelets, smart scales, smart switches, smart plugs, and other products.
Behind this series of products, we can see the efforts of Internet manufacturers to acquire end users. They use cost-based hardware sales, services, and advertisements to obtain profits, and exert the power of economies of scale. The target user group is Hundreds of millions of users reflect the nature of the traffic economy.
This business model is extremely lethal to traditional equipment manufacturers. Because the source of profit obtained by traditional equipment manufacturers is the gross profit of the equipment itself, which is the basis of everything. If the gross profit margin is low, it will inevitably lead to meager profits or losses, and it will gradually fall into the quagmire over time.
The main reason why Internet manufacturers value routers are that routers are the traffic entrance of the Internet. By transforming and upgrading traditional routers, it has some intelligent characteristics, which can not only attract the attention of ordinary users but also increase all possible possibilities on the router. Services, as small as WiFi control, such as WiFi switch, power enhancement under specific circumstances, Internet download acceleration, etc.; as large as smart homes and home Internet of Things, it is possible to recreate a market full of unlimited imagination.
The concepts such as smart routing, smart homes, and even smart communities are in full swing and are flourishing. Companies have launched or deployed smart home-related products, and their control is done through smartphones. The entry of Internet manufacturers has further intensified market competition, requiring traditional equipment manufacturers to conduct research and respond effectively.
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