On June 14th, the edge cloud became more and more popular in the industry. China Unicom's development edge cloud has its own layout plan, in one sentence: to make a big ecology.
In order to realize this "wish", China Unicom established the Edge Cloud Innovation Lab, expanded the team of partners, independently developed the Cube-Edge platform, and launched the pilot project of 15 provinces and cities.
At the same time, many explorations have been carried out in the research of edge cloud technology, standardization and business demonstration. International and domestic standardization organizations have led the development of a number of technical standards.
As Ma Hongbing, general manager of the operation and maintenance department of China Unicom Group, said: "Our goal is to break through the pipeline and extend the business boundary, and together with all partners, we will create an era of universal connectivity."
The key part of 5G development
For operators, edge cloud will be a key part of 5G development. Because operators need a large number of edge nodes in the edge cloud, this is precisely a perfect opportunity for operators to re-asset assets, and it is also a new window for operators and OTT to cooperate.
Building a platform for edge business and incubating innovative business with partners is the main focus of operators on the empowerment of 5G services.
Because the edge cloud can sink high-bandwidth, low-latency, and localized services to the edge of the network, and it also provides unlimited possibilities for business service innovation.
As the DC closest to the user, the edge cloud is also one of the key elements of the operator network reconfiguration, and is the “last mile†to optimize the 5G service experience.
Ecology: More than 100 partners
"Doing a big ecology, cooperation and win-win" is the "wish" of China Unicom.
In this “wishâ€, China Unicom provides partners with the empowerment and support of technology, market and service processes, helping partners to shorten business start-up cycles and costs, and to cooperate to expand the market. At present, China Unicom has more than 100 partners in the edge cloud field.
It is reported that in terms of technology, China Unicom provides an open edge cloud service platform, which can provide IaaS, PaaS, network capability API and other services for partners.
In terms of market, China Unicom uses its own resource advantages to cooperate or provide support to partners in the development of industry customer markets and large-scale exhibitions.
In terms of services, China Unicom is based on the edge cloud business platform and can provide support for system integration and operation management for partners.
Platform: Independently developed the Cube-Edge platform
There is no doubt that the success of building a fringe ecosystem depends on whether its edge cloud platform is open source, open, and API-friendly. To this end, China Unicom has independently developed the Cube-Edge platform, which is also an important task for China Unicom's edge cloud.
According to reports, Cube-Edge is an open platform, its opening is reflected in the openness of its cloud, the openness of platform management and the opening of network capabilities. In particular, the resources of the entire Cube-Edge edge business platform can be applied on demand and managed by ICT.
At the same time, the platform realizes the carrier-class virtualization deployment, eliminating single points of failure, ensuring the smooth operation of the platform as a whole, and the business is not interrupted.
At present, the Cube-Edge platform has been commercially deployed in the marginal machine room of Tianjin Baodi “Shangjingshun Gardenâ€. In Tianjin, the country's largest Edge-Cloud test bed has also been built, and more than 10 general-purpose servers based on the X86 architecture form a pool of computing, storage and network resources. It is reported that the computing nodes and storage nodes of the platform adopt a converged deployment scheme, and the control nodes are deployed separately, which can realize system management, alarm management and performance management.
In addition, on this platform, high-performance transcoding clusters and high-performance storage clusters are also installed, which effectively improves the overall business performance and business fluency of the Cube-Edge platform.
Landing practice: 15 provinces and cities have been launched
The MEC edge cloud is the direction of China Unicom's key efforts in 2018, and landing practice is the most important driving force to realize the value of the MEC edge cloud. At present, China Unicom has successfully launched pilot projects in 15 provinces and cities to explore the business scenarios of MEC edge cloud. The pilot content is rich and varied, for example:
The edge vCDN deployed in Tianjin and Zhejiang focused on solving the traffic surge caused by the massive issuance of China Unicom's “Tencent Wangka†and “Ant Wangkaâ€. The vCDN node can be distributed in the MEC edge node to reduce the processing load and end-to-end delay of the centralized node, improve the user experience, and increase customer stickiness.
In Hubei, Jiangsu and other places, innovative intelligent security is applied to smart aquaculture, and the network system of security monitoring system is reconstructed based on MEC edge cloud. By deploying edge intelligent AI in the edge cloud, video preprocessing is performed on the edge side, local judgment is made on the AI ​​Inference, and real-time response is performed; and the cloud center performs AI Training to implement edge cloud collaboration.
Pilot verification of smart venues in Shanghai and Beijing. As a partner of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games in 2022, China Unicom will jointly launch the “Smart Stadium†pilot project based on 5G edge cloud in conjunction with INTEL, Ali and Tencent. The pilot business covers security, 360-degree VR live broadcast, virtual sacred fire and so on.
In the provinces of Guangdong, Liaoning and Henan, we will build a demonstration base for edge cloud intelligent manufacturing industry. With the opportunity of the lead country special "Edge Computing for Manufacturing: Edge Cloud Model and Technical Requirements", combined with local industrial manufacturing status and business needs, China Unicom will focus on promoting industrial edge cloud platforms, integrating local networks, computing, storage and applications. Core capabilities provide full chain management services for smart factories in terms of fast connectivity, real-time services, data optimization, application empowerment, and security.
In Chongqing, Beijing and other places, in conjunction with Baidu, Bianshi Technology, Changan, etc. to create an edge cloud vehicle networking demonstration application, to achieve cloud-side collaborative intelligent transportation.
Lab: Establishing Edge Cloud Innovation Lab
Yesterday, China Unicom's Edge Cloud Innovation Lab was unveiled.
Relying on the "Edge Cloud Innovation Lab", China Unicom will further promote the development of the "CUBE-EDGE" edge business platform, providing application developers with rich PaaS capabilities and a unified API interface.
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