Three stages of telecom business moving towards cloud computing

The current network of telecom operators can be divided into three categories, namely, the main business, base operations, long tail and SP business. The main business includes the application of SMS, MMS and other telecommunications applications, including the current operators of music, video, animation base and so on, long tail business and SP business mainly includes the Internet class and the application of cooperative class.

current business System existing main problems: the main business platform vertical construction, continuous investment, the existing SP business is small, equipment utilization is low, can not be shared, long tail business development and operation cost is high, can not form an effective contribution; base business construction, content can not be shared, user information can not be shared. If the traditional business network architecture, these problems can not be fundamentally resolved, and the rise of cloud computing technology has brought us a glimmer of light.


　　


and virtualization
of telecom Business

　　


Virtualization Technology has experienced more than more than 10 years of development, technology has been more mature. and cloud management technology after several years of rapid development, technology has been more perfect. Therefore, in the first phase of cloud of current network service, Cloud management and virtualization technology can be used to centralize the physical server to form pool resource pool (including computing resource pool, storage resource pool and network resource pool) to realize the virtualization of the underlying resources. Virtualization will be a host virtual into more than one virtual host, so as to improve server utilization. Cloud management technology provides unified management of virtual machines and physical entities, storage devices, network devices, and upper application deployments.


　　


in the composition of the resource pool, it must be the mixed form of entity machine and virtual machine, the entity machine undertakes the fixed traffic processing, the virtual machine is mainly responsible for the processing of the flexible traffic, taking into account the robustness and flexibility of the system.


　　


at this stage, the original business can be migrated directly to the cloud computing resource pool. The business itself does not need to be changed, but the underlying physical facility is transformed from exclusive to shared mode. The supply and release of resources, the cloud management platform according to the business request unified scheduling, fast completion. Obviously, the benefit of this approach is to achieve the sharing of resources, improve the utilization of resources, reduce costs, the supply efficiency of resources has also increased significantly.


　　


Business pooling and terminal Cloud is the first step, most can produce benefits, can be used first in the hall, call center for rent. From the current situation, the technology involved in this phase has been generally mature, basically have the ability to support the transformation of the underlying resources. At present, the domestic three operators have started the resource pool and terminal cloud-related work, and has landed in a number of major provinces resource pool and business hall, call center Terminal Cloud Project.


　　

The platform of
telecommunication service


　　


The first step of the cloud of telecommunication services, the problem of sharing the underlying resources is solved, but the problems such as application sharing, isolation, application of rapid low-cost development and deployment, and low cost promotion are not solved. The application is still exclusive of the original middleware, database, the application of the development is still the original way, development, deployment, promotion of high cost.


　　


in the second step, it is recommended that telecom operators introduce cloud computing PAAs platform, so that the application developers only care about the application itself, do not need to consider the purchase of development tools, operating systems, databases, servers, storage, and does not tie in with SMS, MMS, WAP, location and other telecommunications business systems docking The PAAs platform encapsulates these features, including the business execution environment, the telecommunications/Internet IT capabilities API (creator programming Interface, the application programming Interface), and the SDK (Software Development Kit, Software development package, only need developers to have a good application of creativity can greatly reduce the application of the development threshold.


　　


application on the line, the PAAs platform to provide the application of the promotion and payment function, that is, the application of marketing also need not too much concern developers, by the PAAs platform based on user behavior analysis, targeted promotion.


　　

The introduction of
PAAs platform will greatly improve the efficiency of application innovation, development and marketing. The PAAs platform realizes the application platform and realizes the sharing and aggregation at the application level.


　　


With the introduction of the PAAs platform, the original stand-alone application can invoke the external public service capabilities of the PAAs platform, such as SMS, MMS, location, advertising, payment and other public service capabilities. The application based on PAAs platform does not need the system of operating system, database, middleware and so on, which can be implemented by the PAAs platform in the business execution environment, which is provided with the automation deployment of the application, load balancing, the application of multi-tenant capability support, the application of flexible scalability and other functions.


　　


from the integration of basic resources to the integration of the upper application is the inevitable choice of operators. Taking cloud pioneer Amazon as an example, its EC2 and S3 infrastructure rental services have fallen 40–50% in the past three years, and Amazon is now extending its application to the top tier, offering High-value PAAs platform services, E-commerce platform services.


　　


, for example, the European operator Vodafone has launched a PAAs platform based VBP service (vodafonebusinessplace) for the Spanish enterprise market, the open development platform and the App Store for the enterprise. Vodafonevbp's business model is that Vodafone offers PAAs platforms, API/SDK to a wide range of SP developers, and the development of applications that are marketed by Vodafonevbp, where revenue is divided, and more than 100 local SPS have been integrated, Developed more than 500 applications and services for small and medium-sized enterprises, the number of enterprise users from the original hundreds of thousands of rapid development to millions of, achieved market success.


　　


business platform to achieve a small and long tail application platform integration, further enhance the application development and on-line efficiency, the construction of IDC operating system and Enterprise store. At present, this stage is also the focus of the operators, combined with the PAAs platform technology, in a limited scope of the business attempt, and then gradually expand its application scenarios, will be a period of time the main theme of cloud business. China Mobile and China Telecom have already used PAAs platforms in major provinces to integrate a large number of niche and long tail business platforms.


　　

Distributed and cluster Management for
applications


　　


The above two steps have completed the sharing of the bottom resource pool and the upper level application, solved the problem that the resources cannot be shared, the application can not be low cost, the fast development on-line and the promotion. The third step to solve the problem is how to support the problem of mass application and information processing, which requires the introduction of distributed and cluster management capabilities.


　　


introduces distributed database, distributed file system, parallel computing and cluster management ability in resource pool, the application of upper layer needs to support distributed deployment, the upper application database is replaced by the lower distributed database, and the data supports the extension of infinite ability. The original application based on PAAs platform does not need to be reformed at this stage, but it needs PAAs platform to fit the distributed database, distributed file system, parallel computing and cluster management.


　　


in the third step of the network architecture, all applications are based on distributed and cluster management, support the application of unlimited expansion and the best processing costs of massive information. In this framework, the telecommunications business will be fully integrated with the Internet business, and access to Google and other internet and cloud computing giants close to the cost and efficiency.


　　


Telecom business to cloud computing, the ultimate goal is to achieve the full integration of telecommunications business and Internet services, and to deal with a large amount of applications and information industry's best efficiency and cost, to achieve the operator from the telecom operation to the comprehensive information operation of the overall transformation. In the three stages of the telecom business to cloud computing, the first two phases are mature, the operators can do it first, and the third stage is not mature enough for the core technology of distributed database and cluster, it still needs a period of maturity.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)