Cloudnet Network Solution

Demand background

1. Network architecture

Wired and wireless access: The network offered by the office premises not only provides employees with network access but also provides visitors with wireless network access. The office network and visitor network are logically separated (physically isolated). In addition to PCs, the wired terminals include printers, IP phones, and other dumb terminals, which require PoE. Wireless access mainly involves portable computers, PADs, and smartphones.

VPN interconnection among branches: Branch sites must be able to communicate with the enterprise headquarters, mainly to access enterprise resources, OA systems, and some key data. The access channel must be encrypted, and the branches interconnect with the headquarters via IPSec VPN.

Traffic control: To guarantee good network experience, different traffic control policies can be applied for different applications for enterprise office business and visitor network access.

2. Terminal access

The access terminals of enterprise branches are divided into several categories, such as employees, visitors, office terminals, and monitoring terminals.

Enterprise employees: Through both wired and wireless access, employees can access the network resources of the headquarters, the internal network resources of the enterprise, and the Internet. When accessing internal resources, portal authentication is supported.

Visitors: Visitors generally use wireless access terminals to access the Internet. As a best practice, use an SMS or WeChat official account for authentication.

Office terminals: Office terminals mainly include printers, POS machines, and IP phones with wired access as the main access method. As a best practice, use MAC authentication.

Monitoring terminals: Monitoring terminals mainly include monitoring cameras and PoE power supplies. As a best practice, use MAC authentication.

3. O&M management

Instantly available cloud management network system: The system is available after users create an account without installing a professional network management system, which saves time and cost.

Instantly available network system: With the cloud management system, the network on the user side achieves plug-and-play, which significantly saves the labor costs for users.

Channel providers and integrators can provide convenient network O&M services for users based on the cloud management network system, saving labor input for users and maintaining continuous O&M incomes for channel providers and integrators. Compared with traditional O&M methods, the cloud management network solution significantly cuts the labor costs of O&M for channel providers and integrators.

Solution

H3C Oasis platform is a free cloud network platform provided by H3C for small and medium-sized enterprises. It eliminates the need for a dedicated network management system which is costly and heavy. You can log in and use the platform without installation. Oasis has now managed hundreds of thousands of network devices.

Oasis Cloudnet is an H3C enterprise cloud network management solution based on the Oasis platform. It is designed to centrally manage wireless and wired network devices of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Benefits of Cloudnet for small and medium-sized enterprises:

The Cloudnet solution is instantly available without requiring investment.

The Cloudnet solution realizes network plug-and-play, simplifying users' network configuration and completing it at a minute level.

The service configuration of the Cloudnet solution is not the traditional configuration based on device features (such as VLAN), but a de-specialized configuration based on users’ intents. It also eliminates professional concepts such as VLAN for O&M personnel to achieve an easy-to-use service configuration.

The Cloudnet solution supports users of multi branches or chains to quickly build an enterprise VPN and connect the networks of enterprise branches or stores to the headquarters'.

The Cloudnet solution only collects information on users' network devices for configuration and O&M, and no service data is collected.