When it comes to the future network strategy of telecom operators, "computing power network" must be one of the "high-frequency" words. Ten years ago, when Internet companies were dancing on the tuyere, operators who had been "piped" had a deep understanding that the advanced upgrade of network capabilities should be done closely around the business needs of users. As a result, operators' communication networks have also begun to move rapidly towards "cloud" and "computing". In order to cope with the rapidly changing user needs and ensure the flexibility of their own services, NFV (Network Function Virtualization) came into being.
nfvAssist operators in pooling and upgrading their core networks
In the past, in order to pursue high reliability and high performance, operators often used special equipment that combined software and hardware to build core networks. However, while they bring high reliability and high performance, they also bring some problems: for example, the network elements (the smallest units that can be monitored and managed in network management) composed of them are mostly closed architectures with vertical integration of software and hardware, and can only solve specific problems, making it difficult to support friendly forces. In addition, because they do not belong to each other and have independent technical architectures, it is very difficult to establish a unified system, and it is difficult to cope with the complex and changing demand environment in the digital age. As a result, operators face the complex needs of customers at the front end, resulting in long overall service development cycles, difficult technological innovation, limited scalability, complex management, and ......high investment and operating costsIt is difficult to adapt to the high agility demands of today's digital business.
NFV uses standard IT virtualization technology to unify network equipment into industrial-standard high-performance, high-capacity servers, switches, and storage platforms to establish a unified system. NFV softens network functions so that they can run on standard server virtualization software, be installed and moved anywhere in the network as needed, without the need to deploy new hardware appliances. The unified industrialization standard means that under the premise of ensuring quality, communication equipment can effectively control the cost of hardware, and at the same time, software is developed based on a unified platform, and software and hardware are fully decoupled. This is equivalent to the fact that the legion is no longer a special force with a single function, but a standardized legionnaire, which can realize the flexible configuration of differentiated software according to different customer needs, so as to better and faster respond to complex and changeable customer needs. NFV has also successfully entered the core network business of operators, helping operators realize the pooling of computing, storage, and network resources.
Shenzhou Kuntai is the operatornfvProvide stable computing power support
In the past period, Digital China's Kuntai Kuntai R722 server has been shortlisted for China Mobile's core network business related projects for two consecutive years by virtue of its excellent product performance and high matching to operators' business needs, helping operators build general-purpose computing nodes, general-purpose storage nodes and general-purpose security nodes, providing virtual machines, block storage, object storage, file storage, cloud base control, big data storage, cloud security and other capabilities. Business innovations such as network cloud resource pools have built a solid foundation.
The Kuntai R722 server has the advantages of high-performance computing, high density, easy management, and easy deployment, and has excellent performance in terms of "server computing power" and "memory rate", and is suitable for big data analysis, cloud computing, software-defined storage, web and other scenarios, and is suitable for efficient acceleration of applications such as distributed storage, native applications, high-performance computing, and databases. Innovative business requirements such as integrated computing and network integration.
In the process of helping operators promote NFV construction, the many-core architecture and virtualization technology ecosystem built by China Kuntai help operators integrate multiple physical server resources into a single physical server, effectively realizing resource sharing and efficient utilization. At the same time, relying on the automated management function of the Kuntai R722, operators can quickly deploy and launch virtual machines, effectively shorten the time to launch new services, simplify the service deployment and management process, and significantly improve the efficiency of responding to complex and changing requirements.
During operation, the high reliability, high stability, and disaster recovery and backup technology of the Kuntai R722 not only effectively support the long-term normal operation of virtual machines in NFV scenarios, but also improve service flexibility and effectively ensure service continuity and stability. At the same time, based on the data security requirements in NFV operation scenarios, the built-in security mechanism of the KUNTAI R722 also effectively helps operators implement security functions such as data encryption and access control to ensure data security.
In addition, in response to the flexible and changeable practical needs of operators' NFV scenarios, Shenzhou Kuntai relies on its strong expansion capabilities to match the unified computing power packaging standards of operators' customers to form diversified intelligent computing power, form automatic computing power perception and status propagation with the help of cloud-native concepts, and form unified orchestration with the help of visualization capabilities to effectively adapt to changes in different business scales and needs.
The maturation of cloud computing and industrial-standard high-capacity server technology is the driving force behind the development of NFV. The continuous boom of Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing and other services has brought about a rapid growth in data traffic. This not only puts pressure on operators' networks to expand capacity and O&M, but also prompts operators to strengthen traffic operations and increase net data traffic revenue. Through the decoupling of software and hardware platforms, it realizes the elastic scaling of resources and improves resource utilizationOn the other hand, it is convenient for system upgrade and maintenance, saves costs, accelerates service deployment and rollout, and works with operators and customers to meet the opportunities and challenges of the digital era.