Liu Chao pointed out in his speech that the digital transformation of Chinese enterprises has entered an in-depth exploration stage, generally evolving from digitalization to digital intelligence, with significant stratification in the transformation progress of different industries and enterprises. Traditional fragmented networks have become a constraint on intensive management and control of large enterprises and a bottleneck for system replacement, making it imperative to build a secure and reliable integrated digital foundation.
Liu Chao further analyzed the difficulties and challenges faced by large enterprise networks:
In the early informatization stage of digitalization, various secondary and tertiary units of large enterprises built their own systems separately, resulting in information silos. When building a unified network, they face problems such as difficulty in unified management, challenging business model design, fragmented construction, and duplicate investment.
In the network construction phase, large enterprises encounter low efficiency and long cycles. For example, they need to verify resources with multiple operators in different regions, face difficulties and high costs in building access lines, experience long line activation cycles, and deal with opaque and hard-to-manage delivery processes.
In the operation phase, if large enterprises want to operate a unified network intensively, they face issues such as lack of professional O&M teams or insufficient personnel, inadequate experience in large-scale network O&M, suppliers passing the buck when problems occur, and inability to keep up with the pace of new technological changes.
In response to the above challenges, Liu Chao detailed four advantages of Optical Network's "One Network" overall architecture:
Each subsidiary deploys a branch egress network-security integrated SASE gateway, combining network and security into one. It not only ensures the high-performance establishment of an SD-WAN network but also provides border security protection capabilities. The gateway links with the controller to update virus signature databases in real-time. Combined with Optical Network's NSOC monitoring service, customers save equipment costs while enjoying high-quality professional managed services integrating network and security, truly realizing a "secure single network".
Optical Network adopts Huawei's independently innovative hardware in the "One Network" solution, paired with a fully self-developed system. This highly meets policy requirements while ensuring excellent performance and reliability.
Through the establishment of a group backbone network (with three optional modes: self-construction and self-operation, third-party construction and operation, co-construction and third-party operation), all secondary and tertiary branch networks can access "One Cloud" at high speed, forming an integrated "One Network" integrating cloud, network, and security.
All SASE gateways are managed through Huawei's HiSec SASE controller. Optical Network reads equipment and line alarm information through the controller's northbound API, combined with the backbone traffic monitoring system, to provide 7x24-hour protection for customers' networks. Once an alarm occurs, work orders are generated according to the level, and disposed of through AI+engineer collaboration.
The solution meets a variety of scenario needs, including but not limited to global networking, Internet convergence, IPv6/SRv6 transformation, policy compliance, and zero-trust secure office.
Liu Chao also shared a successful case of "One Network" construction and operation for a central enterprise group:
To strengthen intensive management, the group first built a "One Cloud" and deployed its OA system on it, requiring all subsidiaries to uniformly access the OA on "One Cloud" to realize the intensification of some core applications. Subsequently, the customer adopted Optical Network's "One Network" solution to transform its digital infrastructure.
At the group level, a group backbone network was built under the "co-construction and third-party operation" mode. Branches of all secondary and tertiary companies deployed Huawei SASE integrated gateways, enabling branches to access POP nodes nearby or through hierarchical aggregation, and completing the overall "One Network" layout in batches. Meanwhile, a Huawei iMaster NCE controller was deployed on "One Cloud" to realize unified management of equipment and lines.
As Huawei's capability-oriented MSP (Managed Service Provider) partner, Optical Network leverages its own ISP (Internet Service Provider) qualification to provide customers with high-quality backbone access resources, helping branches at all levels efficiently access the backbone network and seamlessly access cloud applications. This successfully breaks information silos and solves the problems of fragmented construction and duplicate investment.
Meanwhile, Optical Network designed a new business model for the customer's digital technology company to serve a wide range of customers inside and outside the group. Notably, the efficiency and professionalism demonstrated by Optical Network during the project construction won high praise from the customer.
Due to the wide distribution of the customer's branches, the project required coordinating multiple regions, operators, and property management companies to complete a series of complex tasks such as line access and equipment commissioning. Through digital end-to-end project management, Optical Network enabled the customer to grasp the construction progress in real-time and ensure transparency in every link.
Most satisfying to the customer is the full managed O&M service provided by Optical Network. The customer no longer needs to form a professional network O&M team or purchase equipment and controllers at one time. Optical Network adopts an asset-light service model, delivering all equipment, lines, and services in the form of monthly or annual subscription packages.
The professional team at Optical Network's NSOC operation center provides 7x24-hour all-weather network guarantee. Any problem detected is immediately notified to the customer and resolved quickly, completely avoiding the need for the customer to repeatedly communicate between equipment vendors, pipeline providers, cloud/IDC providers, and security vendors, demonstrating the excellent standards of professional MSP services.
As a leading global network service provider, Optical Network has built a global secure network through the innovative application of SD-WAN technology and intelligent networks. By integrating AI technology, Optical Network has not only realized the intelligence of network security but also promoted the implementation of automated operations, further improving network reliability and efficiency.
Its cross-border networking, cross-border acceleration, security acceleration, and secure networking solutions help enterprises achieve efficient and secure network connections worldwide, fully ensuring the smooth progress of digital transformation.
Optical Network, in cooperation with Huawei, provides enterprises with a combined solution of "excellent products + professional services". Through the "One Network for Large Enterprises" solution, the two parties jointly build a strong digital foundation for enterprises and continue to provide professional services, empowering enterprises to achieve high-quality development.
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