China Unicom Guangdong's Top-Quality SD-OTN Network Promotes Industry Upgrade in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
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China Unicom Guangdong has built a top-quality SD-OTN (Software Defined Optical Transport Network) network covering the Greater Bay Area based on the in-depth analysis of user requirements in various industries, such as finance, cloud VR, government, healthcare, and education. This network leverages the operator's advantages in cloud-network integration, and lays a solid foundation for digital transformation of various industries around the Guangdong area.
By Luo Kai, Transmission Marketing Support Dept of Huawei
The digital economy has become the main driving for China's economic growth. According to the Digital China Construction and Development Report 2018, China's digital economy reached CNY31.3 trillion in 2018, accounting for 34.8% of China's GDP and contributing more than 67.9% to China's GDP. Guangdong is the pioneer of China's digital economy development. In recent years, China has launched the strategy for developing digital economy and created the opportunity for building the Greater Bay Area. Guangdong actively promotes the digital transformation of industry clusters to improve industrial competitiveness. This province strives to cultivate 30 pilot projects for the digital transformation of industry clusters by 2022. It also seeks an industrial Internet platform for 20 specific domains (regions) to drive the cloudification of 20,000 enterprises. Against this backdrop, the digital transformation of various vertical industries in Guangdong is in full swing.
Guangdong's government has formulated a series of policies to help various enterprises implement systematic transformation, covering not only large enterprises such as government, finance, and Internet enterprises, but also a large number of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As the main information carrier of Guangdong's digital transformation, Guangdong's communications networks also face big challenges.
The favorable conditions in the Greater Bay Area and Shenzhen pioneer demonstration zones have led national and international financial resources to quickly gather in the Greater Bay Area. Guangdong's financial growth rates such as those in the bank credits, securities, futures, and insurance markets are higher than the national average. The Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the core financial institution for the economic development of the Greater Bay Area, is serving 2,205 listed companies with a total market value of CNY23.7 trillion and an annual stock of CNY508.93 billion. The finance industry values low latency for transaction processing. According to the evaluation of the market research institute TATB, in financial electronic transactions, a transaction processing latency of 5 ms higher than competitors will reduce profits by 1%, and a transaction processing latency of 10 ms higher than competitors will reduce profits by 10%. In other words, a latency of 1 ms will cause a loss of US$4 million. For example, Shenzhen Stock Exchange's fifth-generation trading system can process 300,000 transactions per second, which is three times greater than its predecessor. The average entrusted processing latency is about 1.1ms.The financial industry has entered an era where every millisecond counts.
Furthermore, Guangdong's gaming industry has led to an emerging trend in recent years. A large number of game companies have begun investing in the VR game industry, especially in cloud VR. This has also led to various cloud VR experience arenas starting to emerge. For large-scale cloud VR games, a network latency less than 20 ms, a frame rate greater than 60 FPS (Frames per Second), and a terminal-to-cloud latency less than 70 ms are standard specifications for ensuring a smooth game experience. Several Gbit/s of bandwidth is required when dozens of users are playing in an arena.
Guangdong gathers Internet giants such as Tencent and NetEase, which places greater requirements on data center interconnection. At the same time, enterprise cloudification has become an inevitable trend, which China is vigorously promoting. It is predicted that 85% enterprise applications will be migrated to clouds by 2025, which will bring explosive growth of inter-DC (east-west) traffic. It is also estimated that traffic will increase four-fold (CAGR: 32%) in the next five years. The migration of an increasing number of enterprise core services requires higher DR and backup for data center interconnection. How to ensure the normal operation of services, when traffic surges such as the "Double 11" shopping event in China occur, poses a great challenge to the entire private line network. Network bandwidth, reliability, and latency must correlate with traffic increase.
In addition, healthcare, government, education, and a large number of SMEs require high-quality private line networks to carry their cloud services. This both benefits and burdens China Unicom Guangdong.
China Unicom Guangdong has built a top-quality SD-OTN government and enterprise network covering the Greater Bay Area based on the in-depth analysis of user requirements in various industries, such as finance, cloud VR, government, healthcare, and education. This network leverages the operator's advantages in cloud-network integration, and lays a solid foundation for digital transformation of various industries around the Guangdong area.
China Unicom Guangdong has invested huge manpower and resources to reconstruct the basic communications networks in the Greater Bay area. It took six months to successfully build the world's largest all-optical top-quality network with optical-electrical integration, centralized management and control, and flattened architecture. To retain the world-leading network innovation capability, China Unicom Guangdong and Huawei deployed the world's most advanced optical network products and solutions, such as the all-optical grooming OXC and 20-degree ROADM. They used the flattened network architecture to cover more than 530 core and aggregation nodes in Guangdong, achieving the shortest route between two points and instant connection between any two points. They deployed iMaster NCE to meet the requirements of continuous network innovation in the future. With the top-quality SD-OTN network, China Unicom Guangdong will provide five differentiated network service capabilities for enterprises and industry customers:
China Unicom Guangdong, leveraging these capabilities, launched customized premium private line services for all enterprises and industry customers in the Greater Bay Area to fully support their digital transformation.
China Unicom Guangdong is responsible for the integrated network construction of the Greater Bay Area. By upgrading the communications infrastructure, China Unicom Guangdong provides smart top-quality network products that are a first for customers in the Greater Bay Area. China Unicom Guangdong has taken great strides to develop the Greater Bay Area and contribute to the digital and intelligent construction of the Greater Bay Area.