Rung cloudband:cloud2.0 Solution

From "Cloud computing" to "cloud services", the cloud led to an industrial revolution, a variety of cloud services, the market response is enthusiastic. With more than 125 million icloud business users for individual users, Amazon's AWS Business for developers has covered 190 countries for more than hundreds of thousands of users, and Microsoft's office365 business for corporate users is now available to users in 41 countries. Rich cloud services facilitate people's work, life and learning, but also bring new business model, but the cloud is still imperfect, many problems still plague users, business providers, operators and cloud solution providers. "I'm uploading icloud photos in New York, why does Shanghai look so slow?" "Do we offer the same applications all over the world," and "What are the advantages of the cloud services we offer?" "," how many areas of strong cooperation to provide better solutions? ”

Cloud 2.0 was born

This shows that the main challenges facing cloud services at this stage are geographical differences, End-to-end QoS is not guaranteed, user experience is good and bad. "Alcatel-Lucent Asia Pacific Vice president, software and business group leader Liu Jun said:" These three problems arise because we are still in the Cloud1.0 era, the construction of the cloud platform focuses on computing storage resources, the large-scale data center deployment is too concentrated, and thus leads to the relative concentration of application and data, the network connection between cloud and user is too simple, lack of sensitivity, security and reliability. ”

"To solve these problems, we have to implement Cloud2.0, i.e. application and data distribution deployment to close users, ensure end-to-end quality of service, and provide a consistent user experience with no geographic differences," Liu Jun. ”

"The key to achieving Cloud 2.0 is to build a ncloud, a networked cloud, a next-generation cloud." Liu Jun stressed. What kind of cloud is Ncloud? First, to use the Distributed resource deployment model, that is, the distribution hierarchy, close to the user, at the same time in the business unit, make full use of the entire network of cloud resources to achieve the best coverage, the lowest cost, best experience and maximum efficiency; second, the network layer needs to be cloud-based, viewable and manageable, friendly to the user layer, At the same time, the application needs as the starting point to deploy the network; Finally, the implementation of the unified management of cloud resources, that is, a ncloud OS (Ncloud management System), information intelligence collection, and automatic real-time end-to-end resource allocation.

Alcatel-Lucent is actively assisting communication service providers to fully leverage the cloud business in their network and business operations and deliver next-generation cloud services to meet the demanding needs of business and individual users for cloud service performance. Alcatel-Lucent launched its CloudBand solution on November 17, 2011 and released its official commercial version in May 2012. This solution is oriented to the operator-level cloud market, integrates the computing power and flexibility of the cloud with the high performance, reliability and security of the communication network, and through the dynamic network coordination and configuration of the operator-level cloud service, helps the operators to improve the application speed, enhance the bandwidth control and guarantee the service quality.

CloudBand: The world's first Cloud2.0 product solutions

CloudBand is a comprehensive cloud service solution that integrates computing capabilities, storage services and related data, network connectivity, management, and system integration. CloudBand Unified management of computing, storage and network resources, operators can simultaneously allocate network resources and compute storage resources, ensure that customers can flexibly deploy resources across the data center, improve the flexibility of the business and resource utilization, and optimize the end-user experience.

The CloudBand solution consists of a CloudBand node and a CloudBand management system. CloudBand node provides computing, storage, network hardware and its supporting software, hosting a wide range of cloud services. CloudBand management system is used to achieve business coordination and optimization with the cloud.

Based on the innovative algorithm of Bell Labs, CloudBand can make optimal cloud deployment decisions by monitoring network status while considering service strategy and cost structure. such as the placement of virtual machines, data storage, and other resources to configure, so as to provide the best user experience. Planners do not have to worry about predicting the volume of business for each service, nor do they need to make high-capacity configurations specifically to cope with peak hours. The system can dynamically adjust the configuration according to the actual traffic volume: if the volume of voice traffic increases, increase the virtual machine to the voice; If the video traffic increases, increase the virtual machine to video; If a service business drops, close the corresponding virtual machine. In this way, the development of applications for operators becomes very simple. The coordination layer of cloud services will automatically handle many aspects including network distribution, virtual machine placement, data storage and so on. Application developers can focus on the development of their capabilities.

CloudBand can save the capex and OPEX of cloud service for operators, and can help operators to increase business agility and increase business revenue. CloudBand can also help operators change their operations and operations, leverage the flexibility of cloud computing to increase operational efficiencies, provide cloud services to meet the business's critical business needs, accelerate the time-to-market of new business and generate revenue, highlighting brand differentiation and driving growth.

In May 2012, Transtelco, a network operator dedicated to businesses and wholesale business communications customers in the United States and Mexico, tested CloudBand to enable customers to connect to their El Paso (El Paso) data centers. and realize the flexible deployment of cloud computing resources between data centers. Test lines from southern Dallas to Austin, San Antonio, Laredo and McAllen, connect Transtelco's wholesale business customers and corporate customers to their core network backbone. "Delivering carrier-level cloud services to customers is an important part of our corporate vision," said Arturo Iglesias, chief technology officer at Transtelco. We believe that Alcatel-Lucent's unique CloudBand solution will create opportunities for us to further expand our cloud business. ”

Through CloudBand, resources from any location can be used by business in other locations. CloudBand optimizes resource allocation based on the availability of computing resources and network resources. The CloudBand solution integrates the computing power and flexibility of the cloud, while safeguarding the high performance, reliability and security of the communication network. CloudBand will help operators to give full play to the cloud business in their network and enterprise operations, and is conducive to providing enterprises and consumers with a new high-performance public cloud business.