Kyushu Cloud opens "edge cloud" capability to help China Unicom extend its business boundary

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As one of the key elements of 5G network reconfiguration, MEC Edge Cloud can sink high-bandwidth, low-latency and localized services to the edge of network, and also provide unlimited possibilities for business service innovation.

With the edge cloud increasingly favored by the industry. China Unicom, one of the three major telecom operators in China, has planned its own layout plan in the development of edge cloud------------ In order to achieve this "wish", China Unicom established the Edge Cloud Innovation Laboratory, expanded the partner team, and in the recent "2018 China Unicom Edge Cloud Partner Conference", the United Kyushu Cloud and other enterprises to launch the "Cube-edge Edge business platform."

During the meeting, the communications world-wide media reporter interviewed Kyushu Cloud co-founder and Vice President Li Kai, listening to him share the challenges faced by operators in developing MEC, the role of establishing a cube-edge edge business platform and the role of Kyushu Cloud in it, and how the company's own open source technology forces Help operators achieve cloud-network transformation.


Communications world-wide media reporter and Kyushu Cloud co-founder, vice President Li Kai Photo

To cross-border, operators must be on the "Edge Cloud"

At present, operators in the car networking, vr/ar, industrial Internet, smart home, unmanned aerial vehicles, ultra-high-definition video and other innovative applications are accelerating the layout, and with the 5G Edge Computing, its application scenario and the above "coincide", because the edge cloud can be high bandwidth, low latency, localization services to sink to the edge of the network, It also provides unlimited possibilities for business service innovation.

For operators, Li Kai says, the application scenario is one of their current grip. "Pipeline" thinking is already a past style, operators are very clear, only provide "pipeline" outside the more innovative application services, into different industry areas, closer to users, to get control, in order to occupy a place in the future 5G era of competition.

As Ma Hong, general manager of China Unicom's operations and maintenance department, said: "Our goal is to break through the pipeline and extend the business boundary." "To this end, China Unicom pilot first, and actively promote the multi-service edge cloud pilot construction. For example, the world's largest MEC edge cloud test bed was built in Tianjin, the industrial edge cloud in Guangdong, the intelligent manufacturing, the promotion of Smart Park in Zhejiang, such as edge government cloud construction; in Hubei, Jiangsu and other areas, innovative MEC intelligent Security applied to the intelligent aquaculture medium China Unicom in the MEC industry, are trying to break through business boundaries, trying to get all walks of life to use their own networks.

Li Kai that edge Cloud technology is for the rich vertical industry applications, and the advantages of operators have been in the pipeline, in the development of OTT business needs to be further enhanced, so operators need to aggregate technical capabilities of partners to jointly develop the MEC Edge cloud, this foothold is the edge cloud business platform.

For the Edge Cloud Platform, Zhang Yi, dean of China Unicom Network Technology Research Institute, defines this. The location of the edge cloud platform in the entire network architecture is very flexible, can be deployed on demand, usually deployed in aggregation, integrated access and other edge room, can realize business localization processing, not only reduce the business response time delay, improve user perception, but also can shorten the large bandwidth business to the transfer resource occupancy, reduce costs. Moreover, because the Edge data center is widely distributed nationwide, it is possible to rapidly launch new business for the vertical industry market according to the characteristics of each region.

Cube-edge emerged as the core of open source technology

To this end, China Unicom together with the Kyushu Cloud, Intel and other companies, jointly launched the Cube-edge platform, which is currently China Unicom Edge Cloud Important task.

According to the introduction, Cube-edge is an open platform, and its openness is manifested in its openness to the cloud, the openness of platform management, and the openness of its network capabilities. In particular, the resources of the entire Cube-edge edge business platform can be applied on demand and managed by the integrated ICT orchestration.

At present, Cube-edge platform has been commercially deployed in Tianjin Baochi "Shang Jing shun Yuan" edge room. In Tianjin also built the country's largest edge-cloud test bed, by more than 10 units based on the X86 architecture of the general-purpose server to form the compute, storage and network resource pool. It is reported that the Platform compute node and storage node adopt the Fusion deployment scheme, control node separation deployment, can realize system management, alarm management and performance management.

There is no doubt that in order to achieve access to different industry applications, to build a successful edge ecosystem is whether its edge cloud platform is open source, open and API interface is friendly. As the leading enterprise in China's open source industry, the Kyushu Cloud has assumed an important open source capability in the platform.

Li Kai said that with ZTE, Huawei and other traditional equipment manufacturers to sell different to operators, Kyushu cloud capabilities in software, we provide operators with open source level of support, to this release of the Cube-edge platform, for example, we want to be able to create a China Unicom, rather than sell it a platform, This is our position on ourselves. In addition, the Kyushu Cloud is based on an open way to do some of the carrier's original core cloud business, different from the device manufacturer, different from the existing players to sell products, we are software and service providers, we are to create his own edge cloud business platform for operators. Our advantages in the distributed storage, orchestration, such as OpenStack, network, and the underlying, can be used to open the edge of the application.

Li Kai added that the Cube-edge platform can be placed in engineering as an industrial edge cloud platform, or as a VR edge cloud platform, or as a video-on-demand edge cloud platform, which has the advantage that the platform contains different templates, but the underlying configuration of the platform is the same. So every edge of the application has a professional knowledge, but these applications are not the same, the need for network resources may also be different, the role of the Kyushu Cloud is to define a blueprint, that is, the edge cloud business platform, this platform enables the common Application network source can be run up, But when it comes to a particular industry, it's customized.

Carrier's initiative to embrace OpenStack is the best choice

Referring to the operator's choice of open source technology, Li Kai said that at present, OpenStack as the fact standard technology of the private cloud, has dominated the operator NFV, and basically the case of the global operator NFVI, 90% is based on OpenStack to achieve, This is the key choice for operators to reduce costs.

And OpenStack is the strength of the Kyushu cloud. At present, the Kyushu Cloud has been providing Chinese users with quality OpenStack cloud services, in computing, storage, centralized management of the network has a deep accumulation, and these advantages have now been extended to the MEC Edge Computing, to provide users with services, especially in line with the open source solutions have high-level requirements of the telecommunications operators.

Li Kai stressed that China Unicom is a very important partner of the Kyushu Cloud, and we also maintain close cooperation with China Telecom and China Mobile in the open source field. In addition, this year, the Kyushu Cloud will reach a strategic cooperation agreement with Nokia to integrate the edge cloud products to meet the needs of the operators on the edge cloud business.

About Kyushu Cloud 99Cloud

Established in 2012, Kyushu Cloud (99CLOUD.INC) is the first professional company in China to engage in OpenStack and related open Source services. The company was founded six years, adhering to the "open source · The concept of empowering change has evolved from a single OpenStack product provider to an open source software and service provider across a broad range of areas including cloud core, cloud operations, cloud operation and cloud security. Kyushu Cloud has supported the national power grid, XXX, China UnionPay, China Mobile, China Telecom, Chinese unicom, Chinese resources satellite, AVIC letter (air travel), EBay, International land port Group, China Life, Wanda Information, Dongfeng Motor, Nokia and other heavyweight customers. In 2018, the latest Queen distribution rankings, Kyushu Cloud in the core module contribution to the global four, China second, which in the container deployment Kolla project, NFV Orchestration Tacker project and other heavyweight projects to contribute the world first.

Kyushu Cloud opens "edge cloud" capability to help China Unicom extend its business boundary

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