Editor’s note:
Cloud network integration is an internal requirement for scientific and technological self-reliance, a solid support for the development of digital economy and an effective guarantee for maintaining national information security. It is of great strategic significance for the construction of China’s network power. Recently, Ke Ruiwen, Secretary of the Party group and chairman of China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) Group Co., Ltd., published a signed article in the people’s Forum magazine of the people’s daily, pointing out that China’s cloud network integration started early and made great efforts to promote it, which has formed a first mover advantage. In the future, the integrated development of cloud networks in China must be guided by the strategy of becoming a network power, follow the new development concept, adhere to people-centered development, adhere to the common development of the industrial chain, adhere to green and low-carbon development, adhere to safe and controllable development, and build a development model with Chinese characteristics. The full text is reproduced.
When presiding over the 34th collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the general secretary proposed that “we should speed up the construction of new infrastructure, strengthen strategic layout, and speed up the construction of high-speed ubiquitous, heaven and earth integrated, cloud network integrated, intelligent, agile, green, low-carbon, safe and controllable intelligent comprehensive digital information infrastructure”, It marks that cloud network integration has officially become an important part of China’s digital information infrastructure construction, and greatly encourages China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) to adhere to the strategic confidence of cloud network integration.
In 2016, China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) took the lead in proposing the development direction of cloud network integration in the industry and was the first telecom operator in the world to put forward the development concept of cloud network integration. In 2018, China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) released the industry’s first cloud network integration white paper. In 2020, it took the lead in releasing the 2030 technology white paper on cloud network integration. Over the past few years, China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) has deepened its understanding of cloud network integration, adhered to the development practice and scientific and Technological Innovation led by cloud network integration, and contributed an important force to open up the information “artery” of economic and social development.
cloud network integration is an inevitable choice for building a network power
Xi Jinping the general secretary stressed that we must keenly seize the historical opportunity of information development, make independent innovation and promote the construction of a network power. Cloud network integration is of great strategic significance for the construction of China’s network power.
first, cloud network integration is the internal requirement of scientific and technological self-reliance. China is the first country to propose cloud network integration, and its development level is in the forefront of the world. Strengthening the original and leading technology breakthrough of cloud network integration and forming local advantages can drive the progress of a series of related technologies such as server chip, operating system, open source software and hardware, and provide an important carrier for the integration of many innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, Internet of things and so on, It has become the key entrance to break the technological monopoly of western countries in the information and communication industry.
second, cloud network integration is a solid support for the development of digital economy. the traditional architecture of cloud network separation can not meet the large-scale cloud demand of enterprises brought by the rapid development of digital economy. On the basis of unifying cloud network resource technology base, supply mode and operation management, cloud network integration realizes the service of cloud network capability, effectively promotes the application innovation and operation mode reform of integration industry, and enables thousands of industries. In the early stage of the outbreak of covid-19 pneumonia, China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) showed a strong advantage of cloud network integration, completed the 5g network deployment of Huoshen mountain and Leishen mountain hospitals within 48 hours, and synchronously built the edge capability of 4K ultra-high definition MEC live broadcasting, which not only provided a safe and stable “cloud live broadcasting” platform for hundreds of millions of netizens, but also through medical cloud Information applications such as remote consultation win time and space for the war on “epidemic”.
Third, cloud network integration is an effective guarantee for maintaining national information security. business and data security has become one of the most concerned factors on the cloud in key national departments and enterprise core systems. Through cloud network integration, we can open up the independent security architecture of the original pioneer, network and cloud, establish an integrated security system with the ability of defense, detection, response and prediction, and maintain the information security of the party, government and army, power, transportation, finance and other key fields. China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) took the lead in introducing the network attack protection service product “Yundi” with global coverage into Tianyi cloud, realized the annual defense of 330000 large-scale network attacks, disposed of 282000 network counterfeiting and phishing sites, and recovered hundreds of millions of yuan of economic losses.
cloud network integration is the core feature of digital information infrastructure
The rapid integration of communication technology and information technology promotes cloud and network from independent development to comprehensive integration, and brings profound changes to the technical architecture, business form and operation mode of information infrastructure. Both cloud and network will adopt the deployment mode of virtualization and cloud, and even based on the unified logical technology architecture, give birth to the new architecture, new technology and new business of cloud network integration at all levels such as general physical resources, basic capability platform and digital application.
Driven by business digitization, technology integration and data value, cloud network integration has become the core feature of digital information infrastructure. Network and computing power dependent services such as HD video and AI are becoming the standard and main body of business digitization. They need cloud network integration to provide ubiquitous computing power. Virtualization, software, cloud and AI technologies accelerate the integration with communication technologies, promote the separation of network functions from hardware devices, and enable cloud and network to adopt a consistent technical architecture, laying a technical foundation for the unified scheduling and intelligent operation and maintenance of cloud network resources.
As the core feature of digital information infrastructure, cloud network integration is embodied in the capability requirements and collaboration among cloud, network and digital platform. On the one hand, with the acceleration of digital transformation, the cloud has strengthened its flexible customization and rapid delivery capabilities, which requires the network to have stronger agility, availability, intelligence, security and adaptability; On the other hand, in order to flexibly adapt to the development of Internet and cloud services, the traditional closed and rigid network is developing from hardware based architecture to virtualization, cloud and service. The cloud needs to provide unified service carrying and intensive operation, open virtual network element capability and carrier level security. At the same time, the digital platform needs cloud resource backup and multi line access, service-oriented provision of cloud network capabilities, as well as cloud native development and cloud network endogenous security environment.
cloud network integration is the technical direction of information and communication technology innovation
The general secretary pointed out that “we must adhere to the path of independent innovation with Chinese characteristics, face the world’s scientific and technological frontier, the main economic battlefield and major national needs, accelerate scientific and technological innovation in various fields and grasp the first opportunity of global scientific and technological competition”. Cloud network convergence is an important direction of information and communication technology innovation. From the technical connotation, cloud network integration realizes the integration ability of three dimensions: first, integrated supply, which uniformly defines, encapsulates and arranges network resources and cloud resources to form a unified, agile and flexible resource supply system; Second, integrated operation to realize cloud network wide resource perception, consistent quality assurance, integrated planning and operation and maintenance management; Third, integrated services. Cloud services can be accepted, delivered and presented in a unified manner.
From the perspective of technical architecture, cloud network integration mainly occurs at three levels: cloud network basic resources, cloud network operating system and digital platform. They support and rely on each other and need to be promoted together. Among them, cloud network basic resources include cloud resources (computing resources, storage resources and algorithm resources), network resources, data resources, etc., which should adopt universal and standardized hardware forms as far as possible. The cloud operating system needs to uniformly abstract, manage and arrange the cloud basic resources, realize the rapid opening and high-quality guarantee of cloud service integration, and support the original development environment of cloud. The cloud operating system is a digital platform, which should provide open cloud capabilities, digital development and operation environment and multi-party data sharing, and provide digital solutions for various industries.
From the perspective of technological innovation, cloud network integration should focus on six categories of key core technologies. First, the ubiquitous connection of air, earth and sea integration, which aims to improve the performance, quality and coverage of network connection; Second, cloud network edge intelligent collaboration, to achieve efficient distribution and intelligent collaboration of the network on the cloud side, edge side and terminal side; Third, new resources such as data and computing power are integrated to realize unified management, control and scheduling of multi-dimensional resources; Fourth, the cloud operating system with unified management and control of cloud resources abstracts the underlying infrastructure of the cloud network into general capabilities and services to support the real-time, on-demand and dynamic deployment of business systems; Fifth, the integrated intelligent endogenous mechanism uses AI technology to realize end-to-end adaptation, self-learning, self error correction and self optimization; Sixth, the end-to-end security endogenous mechanism to build an endogenous security system integrating defense, detection, response and prediction.
practice the network power strategy and consolidate the new infrastructure of cloud network integration
The key to implementing the network power strategy and building a cloud network integrated digital information infrastructure lies in strong technology and wide coverage, promoting the upgrading of information infrastructure to cloud network integration on a large scale, improving penetration, promoting more enterprises to “go to the cloud and use digital intelligence”, and becoming a solid foundation for the sustainable development of digital economy. As the main force in the construction of Digital China and a network power, China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) fully implements the integration of cloud and network, adheres to the principle of “network is the foundation, cloud is the core, network moves with the cloud and cloud network integration”, and strengthens the key core operation technology while carrying out the construction of information infrastructure on a large scale, so as to strive to achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.
In terms of “network is the foundation”, China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) has actively built a high-speed ubiquitous basic network integrating heaven and earth. Now it has built the world’s largest 5g SA co construction and sharing network, the largest NB IOT network and the largest gigabit optical fiber network. It is the world’s leading Internet operator and the only satellite mobile communication operator in China. China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) takes the lead in introducing ROADM technology to realize all-optical switching, and is gradually moving towards the era of all-optical network 2.0; Take the lead in introducing srv6 technology on a large scale to build a new metropolitan area network and a new plane of cn2 backbone network, so that cloud, inter cloud, multi cloud and other services can be opened in one hop and one stop; Take the lead in large-scale deployment of IPv6 single stack to improve IPv6 network traffic. At the “leading scientific and technological achievements release activity” of the sixth World Internet Conference, China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) ‘s R & D achievements of “operation level IPv6 technology innovation and super large-scale deployment” were rated as “World Internet leading scientific and technological achievements”.
In terms of “cloud as the core,” China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) continues to strengthen the construction and deployment of cloud, laying a solid foundation for cloud network integration strategy. At present, China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) IDC ranks first in China, IAAs ranks first among global operators, and the number of public cloud customers ranks second in China. At the same time, it has continuously strengthened its efforts to tackle key core technologies such as cloud infrastructure software and hardware, cloud technology base and cloud innovation services, broke through a series of key core technologies such as distributed database, cloud operating system, elastic computing, cloud storage, cloud network and CDN, and carried out customized development of multi-form infrastructure and cloud services such as server, switch, sdwan and information innovation cloud, At present, Tianyi cloud 4.0, which is independently developed, has important functions and characteristics of distribution, self-control, security, credibility and open cooperation. It can provide customers with full stack cloud services such as public cloud, private cloud, exclusive cloud, hybrid cloud and edge cloud.
In the aspect of “the network moves with the cloud and the cloud network is integrated”, China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) realizes “where the cloud is and where the network is deployed” according to the three principles of network resources according to the needs of the cloud, network scheduling moving with the cloud and integrated deployment of network and cloud. China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) took the lead in proposing the “three clouds” 5g network architecture, regarded 5g as the best practice of cloud network integration at this stage, and realized the cloudization of 5g core network, access network and network edge. In addition, the self-developed new generation cloud network operation system has broken through key technologies such as cloud network automatic arrangement, and can realize business minute opening and fault minute recovery. In the next step, the cloud network operation system will be built to comprehensively manage and uniformly adjust cloud network resources, data and capabilities, and enable cloud network applications in the whole industry.
create a cloud network integration development model with Chinese characteristics
The general secretary pointed out that “development must be scientific development and must unswervingly implement the development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing”. The integrated development of cloud and network in China must be guided by the network power strategy, follow the new development concept and build a development model with Chinese characteristics.
First, we should focus on the people and achieve inclusive, balanced and full development. We should take serving the overall situation of China’s economic and social development as the starting point, accelerate the upgrading and popularization of cloud network integration infrastructure, continuously improve the user experience, and meet people’s sense of gain, happiness and security. China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) has always adhered to the concept of “customer first and attentive service”, and made every effort to promote universal service, especially the construction of communication network in poor areas, so as to help the country get rid of poverty accurately; Actively implement the speed increase and fee reduction, and promote the average tariff of China’s fixed broadband and mobile phone traffic to drop by more than 95% within five years; Actively promote the development of all Netcom mobile phones and reduce the threshold for users to change phones and access the network.
Secondly, we should adhere to the collaborative innovation of industry, University, research and application to realize the common development of the industrial chain. Cloud network integrated digital information infrastructure is related to the healthy and safe development of China’s national economy, and is currently in the key stage of innovative development. It is urgent to participate in many parties to create a healthy and orderly industrial ecology. China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) actively play the role of the main force in cloud network resource construction, technology R & D and business innovation. Cloud network integration has become an important advantage for enterprises to deeply implement the “cloud to digital transformation” strategy; By means of strategic cooperation, industry collaboration, industry university research cooperation and capital layout, we actively build a cloud network integration ecology, take the opportunity of returning to a shares, introduce 20 heavyweight strategic investors in key areas such as 5g and cloud network integration, and effectively promote the development of industrial chain, supply chain and innovation chain.
Thirdly, we should adhere to green and low-carbon development. In order to achieve the goal of “double carbon”, the development of cloud network integration actively adopts new technologies and models, continuously promotes energy conservation and consumption reduction, increases the proportion of renewable energy, reduces carbon emissions, and creates a green cloud network infrastructure; Help other industries achieve green development through digital empowerment. China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) the “1236” action plan for carbon peaking, carbon neutralization is released. The goal is to reduce the comprehensive energy consumption per unit of total telecommunications business and the carbon emission per unit of total telecommunications business by more than 23% by the end of the 14th five year plan.
Finally, we should adhere to safe and controllable development. Without network security, there is no national security. The development of cloud network integration must ensure security and controllability. China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) adhere to self-developed security platforms and products, comprehensively support cloud network security, provide mainstream security products including cloud embankment, quantum man and dense flow security computing platform, and build the only network attack protection platform with global coverage in China. At the same time, focusing on the core technologies of cloud network security and data security focuses on network endogenous security, cloud native security and data security.
In the future, China Telecom Corporation Limited(601728) will continue to firmly implement the important discussion of Xi Jinping general secretary on developing digital economy, earnestly perform the main force responsibility of building a network power and digital China and maintaining network information security, increase the innovation of cloud network integration key core technologies, accelerate the transformation and development to a science and technology-based enterprise, and strive to become an important support for the national strategic science and technology force.
(people’s post and Telegraph)
