AP Intellisense Integrated into Digital Scenarios, H3C Embarks on a New Wireless Journey

The fast-growing wireless network has enabled us to play games in subway. Actually, as users of wireless network, we are also sensed by it. The capability of building a high-speed, efficient, intelligent wireless network holds the key for an enterprise to take the lead in the booming wireless network field.

All-dimensional Probe: Getting the Overall Exterior Information with One AP

Traditional probe technique is used in wireless network mainly for MAC address gathering and Wi-Fi locationing. It was a cutting-edge technology in earlier period when the hardware capability of wireless network was limited. Yet, today’s enterprises cannot settle for only knowing the locations of terminals connected to wireless network, since more precise locationing and deeper information perception can help them to know more about their clients. Meanwhile, when it comes to wireless network technology, both the hardware and software capabilities and diverse ways of connection are already there for enterprises to realize in-depth perception. Against such a backdrop, at 2018 NAVIGAT, H3C released 802.11ac wave2 AP—WA5340.

Based on fundamental wireless network, WA5340 provides 2RF2.4G, 5G giga Wi-Fi access, 2RF2.4G&5G all-channel tip scan and high-performance voice service, built-in low-power bluetooth i-Beacon, and provides a maximum access rate of 2.133Gbps, multiple RF choice, and high speed access, which would meet clients’ demands of wireless network access and data collection in various business scenarios.

As for data collection and processing, WA5340 supports MAC address, bluetooth, and Wi-Fi fusion positioning, which ensure more precise equipment positioning. What’s more, WA5340 also integrates face image recognition, voice recognition and other all-dimensional probes to enhance the recognition capability of clients. Highly accurate and comprehensive image, positioning, and voice information collection would provide firsthand information for further processing and analysis, and for forming clear user portrait. It is worth mentioning that, WA5340 supports full RFID, ZigBee, and BLE IoT expansion, and can also be connected with cameras and realize intelligent.

Hotel, shopping mall, and other sites are typical application scenarios of WA5340. For example, in shopping malls, bluetooth is combined with Wi-Fi to realize precise localization, which can help commercial tenants to learn the routes of customers.

WA5340 enhances the exterior perception of clients to a new level, and enables large quantity of information to flow into system from camera and other terminals. Oasis is the operation and maintenance center of client IT system. It can process and analyze data intelligently, and manage and control underlying resource in a unified manner.

Oasis 2.0: Realizing Comprehensive, Easy Operation and Maintenance of Complex Network

Oasis platform is a key part of H3C’s wireless network strategy. In the latest Oasis 2.0, more new technologies and concepts have been integrated to realize more intelligent operation and maintenance of wireless network. It is also called AIP (Application Intelligentize Platform) by H3C.

The core concept of AIP is to realize the platformization of big data, AI, blockchain, and other digital technology capabilities, and to help clients develop innovative digital applications. That is also a key work of H3C. Over the past year, H3C has joined hands with its partners in many research projects and practice, and built a solution system with big data engine as the core. Meanwhile, AI can help enterprises to free themselves from complex operation and maintenance and a quantity of data, so as to discern the value of data.

Therefore, the intelligent, automatic operation and maintenance of Oasis are built on AI and big data technologies, which enable Oasis to gather information of network in a comprehensive and deep manner, such as flow, data, and the operation of equipment, and to realize intelligent resource allocation and other operations. For users of upper layers, all complex operations are transparent, and the whole network solution is powerful, simple, and easy to use.

Such as the above-mentioned shopping mall scenario, Oasis platform can realize unified operation and maintenance management of multiple kinds of wireless AP and other equipment. Information like the operation of equipment, setting up operation, temperature, and security can be gathered from Oasis. What’s more, based on existing equipment operation and maintenance, Oasis can intelligently analyze data gathered by terminals, and feed back to users to help them make well-informed decisions. In the future, H3C will integrate Oasis, AP of traditional WLAN, and SaaS application service to the scenarios of new retailing. At that time, new retailing end-to-end solution of H3C’s wireless products would be more complete and intelligent.

WA5340 and Oasis 2.0 exist as two milestones of wireless network industry. Traditional wireless network technology represented by Wi-Fi and various kinds of IoT connection are fully integrated into WA5340, and realize intellisense of exterior environment by combining physical world with digital technology. By using AI and big data, Oasis 2.0 minimizes complex operation and maintenance of wireless network and IoT, thus helping enterprises get rid of tedious operation and maintenance. That, coupled with tailor-made wireless system, it is easy for enterprises to realize digital transformation.