BEIJING, April 17 (Xinhua) -- China's content distribution network (CDN) operator team grew alongside the regulator’s recent approval of the five batch of CDN licenses, according to report of Shanghai Securities News Tuesday.
Recently, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the country’s industry and IT sector regulator, granted CDN licenses to 23 enterprises.
Year to date, there are in total 331 firms having acquired CDN licenses, of which 19 ones own qualification for nationwide CDN operation, including Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, ChinaCache, Kingsoft Cloud, etc.
Apart from them, other enterprises are applying for CDN licenses currently thus the operators team is likely to further expand in the future.
For the sector, bigger chances may come alongside the emerging 5G market in China. Benefited from 5G technology, the Internet of Things is expected to hail significant development in the following years.
Statistics with International Data Corporation (IDC), a global IT data and advisory services provider, forecasted that connected Internet of Things (IOT) terminals may exceed 30 billion ones in 2020, the year when 5G technology will be formally applied in commercial use and each person may own four devices connected to the IOT by then.
Despite that 5G technology largely improves the bandwidth of broadband, the transmission speed and time delay, it still can not handle an explosive growth of the number of terminals connected to the IOT without the CDN services.
Kong Lingshan, manager of CDN operating center of China Mobile Communications Group (China Mobile) said to well support application of 5G technology, it is necessary to deploy CDN business in advance.
China Mobile plans and builds the CDN as mobile network infrastructure and targets realizing transmission to the base transceiver stations to support CDN business, Kong noted. (Edited by Duan Jing, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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