Why Does the Campus Need the AD-Campus Solution?

What is AD-Campus?

AD-Campus (Application Driven Campus) solution is a simple, intelligent, integrated, reliable and ultra-wideband campus network solution created by H3C to realize application-driven, intelligent connection and construction of new digital connection.

It not only achieves the unified platform of network control, orchestration, and management, but also realizes the integration of campus, data center, and WAN.

At the same time, through refined data collection and big data and AI analysis, it brings intelligent O&M capabilities to the campus network.

On top of the cloud-native architecture, combined with SDN+VXLAN and SDN+VLAN technologies, the effect of "network follows people" can be achieved throughout the entire campus network, reducing the complexity of campus operation and maintenance, and meeting new demands for IoT and intelligent, mobile campus networks.

Why do we need AD-Campus?

With the widespread application of new technologies such as big data, the Internet of Things, and AI, as well as the continuous advancement of enterprise digital transformation, all industries have put forward higher requirements for the management efficiency and security control of networks and terminals . Campus networks must not only optimize office efficiency, but also be intelligent and flexible to ensure data security. Currently, traditional campus networks face many challenges:

• Complex scenarios: There are various access methods and complex application scenarios. Design, deployment, change, and verification are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to errors.
• Terminal diversity: Massive terminals are growing rapidly, terminal identities are complex and diverse, terminal identification capability is poor, access efficiency is low, and terminal access is uncontrollable.
• Variable business: There are many types of business and detailed network requirements. The network cannot respond quickly to business changes and cannot meet the differentiated security control of the business.
• Operation and maintenance difficulties: The scale of the network has increased dramatically, and the experience requirements are higher. Network operation and maintenance rely on manual work, which leads to slow troubleshooting and poor network experience.

Based on the above challenges and demands, H3C launched the AD-Campus solution, which builds high-speed smart campus networks for enterprises through leading technologies such as holographic network data perception, full-scenario automation empowerment, end-to-end integrated management and control, and AI big data analysis.

What key technologies does AD-Campus include?

Simplified Fusion

Full process automation

AD-Campus provides full-network and full-process automation capabilities for the campus to meet the needs of automated deployment in multiple scenarios such as new construction, renovation, expansion, and fault replacement.

Multi-dimensional fusion

After introducing the cloud-native architecture, the AD-Campus solution can support multi-dimensional integration and solve the problems existing in traditional campuses in multiple dimensions.

• Full-scenario integration: AD-Campus supports integration of multiple scenarios such as campuses, data centers, and WAN, and achieves a unified entry for cross-scenario network control, orchestration, and management through a set of management platforms.
• Multi-campus integration: AD-Campus can realize automatic deployment of campus networks, unified policy configuration, and business mobility in multi-campus scenarios, reducing the complexity of campus operation and maintenance; it can also realize local authentication, local forwarding, and regional autonomy in each campus, simplifying the complexity of mutual visits between campuses, and automatically following permissions when employees travel across campuses, thereby achieving unified management and control of multiple campuses and simplifying operation and maintenance.
• Multi-network integration : AD-Campus supports integrated management of cable networks, wireless networks, and optical networks to achieve unified resources, unified topology, and unified authentication.
• IP intelligent optical network: More than just optical network, it also integrates Ethernet optical, EPON, and GPON in all scenarios and products , supporting reuse, compatibility , and smooth network upgrade and expansion.

Intelligent IoT

IoT terminals in campus networks are growing rapidly, and their management has become an important part of campus network operation and maintenance. AD-Campus, based on active scanning and passive sensing technologies, can quickly sense and identify IoT terminals , automatically sort and put them online, capture and isolate counterfeit terminals in the first place, achieve integrated terminal-network management and control, maintain campus network boundaries, and improve the security and trustworthiness of campus networks.

The“network follows people”

AD-Campus has overturned traditional campus networks, allowing network access to no longer be restricted by scenario restrictions such as network type, network access method, IP address, access location, etc., and escapes from the complex network management process. When the physical location changes, the resources (such as IP addresses, security resources, isolation channels, etc.) and policies (such as network policies, security policies, etc.) corresponding to the business and users can dynamically follow, thus realizing the true sense of the campus network and business following the people.

Intelligent O&M

AD-Campus uses the intelligent analysis component ( SeerAnalyzer ) and combines telemetry and other technologies to achieve rapid perception of holographic network status and visualization of campus networks. Based on technologies such as big data and AI learning algorithms, it achieves full network trend prediction and rapid fault location, thereby improving the efficiency of operation and maintenance management, freeing network administrators from complex network operation and maintenance work and focusing more on the business itself.