Microsoft announces cooperation with domestic Internet infrastructure service provider century interconnection

Absrtact: November 1 This year, Microsoft announced a partnership with the domestic Internet infrastructure services provider century interconnection to achieve Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Services Office 365 and Windows Azure in China's Landing. According to the agreement signed by the two sides, Microsoft will turn to the century interconnection licensing technology

This November 1, Microsoft announced a partnership with the domestic Internet infrastructure service provider century interconnection to achieve Microsoft Enterprise Cloud services--office 365 and Windows Azure in China. According to the agreement signed by the two sides, Microsoft will be connected to the century licensing technology, the latter operating the two services.

Amazon's Kindle series, which was approved by the Ministry of the Sun, also sparked the dawn of a public cloud into China. But multinationals, including Amazon, run public clouds with 3 of them:

The first is the qualification issue, which is also the hardest problem to solve; the second is the local data center; The third is the operational unit of the Public cloud service.

What else is there? Science and Technology blog site Pingwest published a professional Lillian Shao article, for the public cloud of China's war did a brief analysis, the Tiger olfactory network excerpt as follows:

You often hear questions about why there is no reliable public cloud service in China. Internationally mature cloud services such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace are also difficult to transplant to China, but domestic and indigenous Aliyun and Sheng, even without policy constraints, are facing many infrastructure problems.

Equipment Room Infrastructure

In China, the computer room is the first monopoly business, only a small number of companies with resources to operate. The state-owned telecommunications operators. China's computer room may be more than 95% of telecom operators to build. I haven't talked about the internet yet, so here we go, and we'll just talk about infrastructure. Operators can build hardware that looks like a decent room, and management has basically failed to pass any standard certification. Also heard that some room staff can't help smoking in the room.

Maybe you're fed up. Operators, looking for independent operations like the United States data centers, the choice is really not much, the quality is more mixed. I have seen the basement of Beijing Oriental Plaza Room, the computer room from the security considerations in fact can not be built in the basement. But the room has many of the world's top 500 customers. I have also seen the room near the capital airport, from the safety of the computer room should not be close to the airport. Last month, a separate data center in Beijing, a power outage, caused several websites such as Amazon and Fank to interrupt hours of service. But there is no way that even Amazon China will have to lower standards to find data centers in China, which is the best option. On the other hand, Amazon China has set up a mechanism to regularly back up its domestic content to Amazon's cloud services, so it is the fastest recovery service on every site. In China, online business is probably the world's biggest challenge to operations.

Century interconnection is a few of the country through the ISO-certified independent operation of the data center. But they also rely heavily on operators on the Internet. See his web site says BGP (Boundary Gateway Protocol) Bandwidth full network of more than 400 Gbps. This could be the daily flow of some of the world's first-tier internet companies. And their cabinets have been in short supply. China's Internet development is very fast, the Internet room is basically scarce resources, even if such a problem, is still in short supply.

Network environment

Europe and the United States network is completely interconnected, this year's market, 1Gbps around the bandwidth, their own backbone network, everywhere and others peering together with the access, about 1 U.S. dollars/mbps. Tier 1 ISP, has a national backbone network of several, the price of 3-5 U.S. dollars/mbps. Once heard a data is a famous American CDN (Tiger Sniff: CloudFlare), 70% of the bandwidth is free to obtain.

On this basis, first of all, the technical BGP (Boundary Gateway Protocol) is the universal standard, only in the DNS service such cloud services and CDN will use the basic services, Anycast is a universal technology. Full-network CDN node, will only give an IP. Whether it's a cloud service or a CDN, except for a very old service provider, almost every other household is anycast.

And China's Internet environment, at least what I see is quite bad. Two major operators of the interconnection between the very few, I do not bother to go to the cnnic to check the latest two interconnection between the bandwidth, the competent ministry of the Web site published on the interconnection of the guidance price is 1000 yuan/mbps, which can be equivalent to 160 dollars/mbps Ah, This is a figure that makes people all over the world look shocked!

Even if negotiated, the price of interconnection is actually still very high, because the price of BGP in the Beijing market is 100 dollars/mbps. In Taiwan, China Telecom is one of the largest, the government to the Internet interconnection prices are 5 U.S. dollars/mbps.

Want to use BGP to realize automatic interconnection? BGP is strictly limited by operators, not just price. Operators in the two or three-tier cities are basically not open BGP. The price of BGP in Beijing is as high as $100/mbps and Shanghai is more expensive. If you want to buy more, you may not buy it. There are many kinds of network access modes, such as false BGP, double line, multi-line and so on in the Chinese market. In this case, most of the business can only take static bandwidth. Technology such as anycast is simply impossible to talk about in China.

Overseas cloud service providers, even if they have the opportunity to do some service in China, can only be isolated from global networks in network scheduling. For example, CDN, has contacted a number of overseas CDN companies want to put CDN point cloth to China, sorry, do not say that the problem of regulation, technology can not be done.

Policy control

Finally, the policy constraints, in fact, I think it is okay. A foreign company that can nominally authorize its own brand to provide services to Chinese users in a business-licensed company in the cloud can be a data center license, but the ICP license is also possible, Because hosting services in China have been thousands of service providers with an ICP license.

The uncomfortable part: the control of online content contradicts the spirit of the cloud. The value of the cloud is that you have good ideas that can be online anytime, encouraging innovation and trial and error. But our provisions on ICP record is entirely in the spirit of better kill 1000, not miss a spirit. For example, for the record, the site owner will be photographed by a service provider providing server hosting services.

The internet is borderless, even in the domestic network, a Shanghai company to the content host in Beijing is also completely possible, then you can only find a way to Beijing to take photos, or the service provider to the photo of the background cloth sent to Shanghai. Do not say that completely do not understand this set of foreign service providers, the domestic cloud service providers in the beginning also on the record of this piece is also very headache.