Carrier

Facing service model innovation, data volume increment and the surging construction cost, traditional public and private cloud construction models are difficult to support the digital transformation of enterprises. Governments and enterprises will choose the lease model to migrate their IT systems to the industry cloud platforms provided by cloud service providers. This will allow the IT department to truly release its business innovation potential, and promote the digital transformation of enterprises, by relieving their own pressure on the server room, equipment, and O&M departments.

Overview

The overall architecture of the carrier industry cloud is divided into three layers: IaaS as the infrastructure layer, PaaS as the intermediate platform layer, and SaaS as the industry application layer.

In addition to standard IaaS services, the carrier industry cloud can provide more customized services for large government and enterprise customers, such as diverse and customized security services and industry-based PaaS services. The entire solution has full-stack cloud service capability. At the same time, it can be combined with private lines, VPN and other connectivity capabilities to achieve automatic deployment of cloud-network collaboration and one-stop delivery of IT and CT capabilities.

Highlights

● Full-stack cloud service capability: It provides IaaS-PaaS-SaaS layer cloud services. IaaS: cloud host, cloud hard disk, cloud network, cloud security, cloud disaster recovery, etc.; PaaS: Big data, database, microservices, container services, etc.; SaaS: Various industry applications.

● Security grade-3 classified protection 2.0: It provides highly reliable carrier IDC server rooms, as well as VM agentless security and anti-virus functions, NFV security resource pool for east-west traffic within the tenant, M9K for north-south traffic between tenants, and various security devices in the security egress area.

● Cloud-network convergence and cloud-network synergy: The cloud-network security convergence architecture is adopted. Cloud OS and SDN controller VCFC is connected, and external customers can access the industry cloud adopted dedicated line/cloud dedicated line to access dedicated line into the cloud.

● Customized industry scenario: For different industries, customers have different needs, and can develop customized scenario functions for customers on the common industry cloud architecture.

● Professional cloud migration guarantee: With a full lifecycle service system, it provides business consulting, planning and design, project implementation, business migration, and O&M services.

● Good development compatibility: Cloud OS platform is developed based on open source OpenStack, and the virtual platform CAS is developed based on open source KVM architecture.

● Supports on heterogeneous resource compatibility: Bare metal, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, pCenter, vCenter, CVM.

Benefits for customers

● Stable revenue: It helps expand high-value government and enterprise customers to bring sustainable and stable revenue. It grows with our industry customers relying on the cloud platform built in the early stage and the stock.

● Preparation for 5G construction scenarios: The 5G construction is dependent on scenarios. Relying on the coverage of industry cloud scenario and the penetration of 5G in the industry, it can provide rich services to industry customers.

● Establishing brand influence: Creating provincial and municipal industry cloud model sites can expand the brand influence of operators in industry customers. Cooperating with vendors to deepen operators' understanding of various industries and to get close to customers' business.

● Improving customer stickiness: Through the cloud network collaboration solution, we provide one-stop service experience with all the CT and IT resources to improve customer viscosity.

Success story

The Shanghai Unicom Industry Cloud Project is an earlier provincial industry cloud platform project built by H3C, a subsidiary of Unigroup, in Shanghai. It is also an earlier Unicom provincial industry cloud resource pool and cloud platform customization project. The company achieved a milestone breakthrough in customizing cloud supervision platform for operators. The industry cloud platform currently carries more than 100 tenants, including large hospitals, key research institutions, large enterprises and groups, etc. Shanghai Unicom Industry Cloud provides general industry cloud platform resources to meet the differentiated needs of industry users. Features of the project: large scale, multiple service types and diverse demands.