On June 13th, the "Enterprise Fast Growth" event hosted by Huawei AI+ The Retail Innovation Summit was successfully held in Shanghai. The conference focuses on the theme of "AI driven retail innovation", bringing together multiple consumer brands and technology service providers to deeply explore in depth AI Under the background of accelerated technology popularization, how can retail enterprises reconstruct their network infrastructure and achieve digital upgrading.
As a strategic ecological partner of Huawei, Guanglian Century was invited to attend. Liang Zhiwei, Director of Guanglian Solutions, gave a special speech on "Cloud Network Integration, Digital Supply Chain Transformation of Retail Enterprises". Starting from the actual pain points faced by the retail industry, he elaborated on the smart store network solution jointly created by Guanglian and Huawei, as well as the key technical capabilities and customer success experience in the implementation process.
Four major pain points of retail network transformation
Based on over 20 years of experience in serving retail customers, Liang Zhiwei points out the four core challenges that retail enterprises face in the process of network architecture and digital upgrading:
Complex deployment is difficult to unify: the number of chain stores has surged, and the standardization requirements for network operation and management are becoming increasingly high;
The explosion of devices brings high risks: the dense access of smart terminals leads to a doubled exposure of security, and stores become the front line of network attacks;
Uncontrollable business experience: Multiple businesses share the network, lacking application recognition and scheduling capabilities, making it difficult to guarantee user experience;
New technologies are difficult to implement: the pace of technological evolution is fast, and enterprises IT Facing the pressure of constantly adapting and implementing new technologies.
This series of issues is becoming a resistance for retail enterprises to move towards "smart stores", and also driving the urgent need for enterprises to build a more intelligent, secure, flexible, manageable and controllable network base.
Collaborate with Huawei to build the "four key capabilities" of smart stores
Next, focusing on industry pain points, Liang Zhiwei elaborated on the smart retail jointly created by Guanglian and Huawei SASE Network solutions. The plan aims to build the core capabilities of the new generation of store networks from four dimensions: management, connectivity, security, and agility
Intelligent central control platform: integrated with Huawei iMaster NCE Unified management with Guanglian's self-developed operation and maintenance platform LAN-WAN All network devices achieve centralized strategy orchestration, significantly reducing IT Burden;
Multi link intelligent scheduling: support MPLS、 Internet, 4/5 G Multiple link combinations, coordinated A-FEC、 Data compression and other technologies ensure stable operation of different businesses;
Native security protection: Store side devices are equipped with built-in firewalls, antivirus, and intrusion prevention functions, which provide IoT Equipment and business systems provide "plug and play" security capabilities;
On demand flexible interconnection: adapted to various scenarios such as stores, headquarters, data centers, etc., with highly flexible network architecture, supporting one-stop delivery and expansion.
Advantages of the plan
Liang Zhiwei stated that through EasyBranch The six in one device solution integrates the past 6-10 devices into one, greatly simplifying the deployment process:
Faster Start: Support U Disk/registration center/remote start, the fastest time for a single store to go online is 10 minutes, and thousands of store network deployments can be completed in 10 days;
More efficient operation and maintenance: through configuring templates and GIS Visual platform, one map control of store network operation status, IT Significant reduction in resource pressure;
More flexible access: combining 5 G Network capability to meet special scenario requirements such as "no fixed network", "multiple backups", and "fast online";
Security is more endogenous: does not rely on external firewall procurement, SD-WAN The device itself has a complete security system, effectively defending against hacker attacks and virus intrusions.
This solution has helped numerous customers achieve rapid online and secure operation of their store networks, significantly reducing deployment and operation costs; In a chain of over a thousand stores in Fujian, Guanglian has built an independent brand SD-WAN The network has successfully solved the problems of high cost and insufficient carrying capacity of the original dedicated line network, achieved intelligent routing and parallel operation of new and old businesses, and provided strong support for its rapid expansion;
In a retail enterprise with hundreds of stores in Beijing, traditional point-to-point MSTP The structure limits the pace of store deployment and lacks visual management capabilities. A new plan has been introduced SD-WAN Backbone networking and 5 G The escape mechanism, coupled with an intelligent central control platform, not only accelerates deployment progress, but also significantly improves overall operation and maintenance efficiency, becoming a practical example for the transformation of smart retail stores.
Retail network upgrade, Lightlink and Huawei build future foundation
with AI、 Big data IoT As technology continues to integrate into the retail scene, stores are no longer just sales terminals, but also the intersection of data, operations, and experience. Faced with the trend of intelligent retail restructuring, Guanglian Century will continue to rely on its own integration of cloud and network SD-WAN、 Professional capabilities in security networking and other areas, working together with Huawei to serve more retail customers.
On the road of smart retail, Guanglian and Huawei are building the "next network" for retail enterprises.
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