Huawei Cloud Managed Campus Solution Accelerates Enterprise Digital Transformation by Saving OPEX by 87% in Three Years

[51CTO.com original article] In the digital age, enterprises cannot stand out in the fierce market competition without the support of ICT technology. Seizing the opportunity of technological changes such as cloud computing, SDN, big data, and mobile Internet, it is imperative to quickly and efficiently complete agile and intelligent digital upgrades. To achieve a successful upgrade of enterprise digital transformation, the first thing to consider is the construction of the enterprise park network.

Due to the low deployment efficiency, complex network management, and high operation and maintenance costs of traditional networks, traditional networks can no longer meet the digital transformation needs of enterprises. Imagine if an enterprise needs to deploy hundreds or thousands of APs. If they still use traditional methods to deploy, manage, and configure them, the workload will be enormous. In particular, a series of tasks such as wireless network site survey planning, software configuration, and optimization need to be completed on-site by professional IT personnel. This traditional method will inevitably affect the speed of network online and expansion efficiency, and affect the speed of service provisioning.

So, how can enterprises build a campus network that suits them, improve efficiency while reducing costs, and achieve network automation and centralized management to truly help the enterprise? At the "Cloud Management Network Reconstructs Business Model" forum at Huawei China Ecosystem Partner Conference 2017, Huawei's CloudCampus cloud management campus solution impressed reporters and participating corporate users.

Huawei Cloud Managed Campus Solution Accelerates Enterprise Digital Transformation by Saving OPEX by 87% in Three Years

Traditional network management is implemented locally. Huawei CloudCampus cloud management campus solution moves enterprise network management to the cloud, realizes cloud-based campus management, and fully wireless access, turning it into a plug-and-play management mode. On the one hand, the solution uses cloud computing technology to centrally and uniformly distribute network configurations, reduce on-site workload, and comprehensively improve deployment efficiency through network automation and centralized management and operation and maintenance, so that the network can be expanded on demand and help enterprise users reduce OPEX costs. At the same time, the solution adopts a set of product cloud and local management modes, that is, it manages network devices through software-defined free switching between the two modes to achieve smooth evolution and protect investment. On the other hand, Huawei Cloud Platform's big data analysis capabilities and open APIs can provide enterprises with richer applications and help users obtain the best business experience and network value-added services.

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At the Huawei China Ecosystem Partner Conference exhibition area, staff are introducing Huawei Cloud Management Park Solution

In addition, in order to facilitate enterprises to monitor their own networks in real time, the cloud management platform and cloud box provide a secure interface for access to the mobile operation and maintenance APP. Through the real-time synchronization of information between the mobile operation and maintenance APP and the cloud platform, enterprise users can collect various data about the installation and installation environment recorded by network service engineers, and provide visual operations for the installation and operation of network equipment based on indoor and outdoor maps, so that users can see it at a glance.

Based on Huawei's CloudCampus cloud management campus solution, enterprise network deployment can be improved from the previous monthly unit to the daily unit. Through cloud management functions such as automated planning and deployment, modular provisioning, cloud software commissioning acceptance, cloud full-scenario automated tuning, cloud inspection, and one-click fault diagnosis, enterprise users can significantly save OPEX costs, and it is expected to save OPEX by 87% in three years.

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Demo: Automated planning and deployment through a cloud management platform

Mr. Peng, General Manager of Beijing Fanglian Century Information Technology Co., Ltd., a distribution channel partner of Huawei, said: "Fanglian mainly provides ICT solution services such as IT infrastructure construction, network security, data backup, virtualization, etc., and its company mission is to serve government and enterprise customers. It has been cooperating with Huawei for six years and has achieved excellent results. Through cooperation, Fanglian has achieved centralized operation and maintenance of the entire network, plug-and-play automatic deployment, and reduced operation and maintenance personnel and costs. After adopting the cloud management campus solution, it is calculated that our company's network operation and maintenance costs have been reduced by about 80%, and the personnel and time costs have also been reduced a lot. In the end, the overall cost was reduced by about 60%."

In addition, based on Huawei's CloudCampus cloud management campus solution, MSPs can provide enterprises with maintenance and construction services to achieve their own value-added. Huawei helps MSPs independently operate cloud management services, enhance customer stickiness, enjoy exclusive service revenue, and increase their own value-added services as needed.

Huawei provides two models for MSPs: leasing and overall solution sales. That is, MSPs can directly use the Huawei cloud platform through leasing, or Huawei can provide solutions to help them build MSP public clouds, and ultimately provide SaaS services to enterprise users through the cloud management platform.

So, how can Huawei channels become "quasi-MSPs" that sell cloud management? On the one hand, because cloud management networks simplify user installation and maintenance, CSPs with three diamonds all have installation and basic maintenance capabilities. On the other hand, channels are usually required to have long-term network management capabilities and the ability to solve complex network problems, which only CSPs with four diamonds have.

In this regard, Niu Zenghui, general manager of Tianxiang Ruiyi Technology Co., Ltd., said: "We are a professional WiFi network construction and operation company. With the continuous expansion of business and the growth of the company, we often encounter problems such as WiFi coverage in multiple business districts and high complexity of operation and maintenance in the operation of more and more projects; or strong demand in the value-added field and urgent need for transformation; or reliance on enterprise dedicated lines and limited business expansion scope. Our cooperation model with Huawei is mainly that Huawei provides basic services such as online support, software subscription, and NBI interface, and we provide network planning, maintenance, remote operation and maintenance, value-added services and other services. Through cooperation with Huawei, Huawei Cloud Management Campus Solution has reduced our costs and business support, and also met the needs of adding value-added services on demand, which has solved the problems we face very well. For example, it only takes one hour for us to deploy services such as big data services."

As all industries embark on digital transformation, cloud computing has become an inevitable choice for enterprises. Cloud-based network management has also become the preferred direction for enterprises due to its advantages such as convenient operation and low operation and maintenance costs, and the market development space is quite huge. In the future, Huawei will provide users with comprehensive services to solve network construction problems through CloudCampus cloud management campus solution, and will also achieve a win-win situation for MSPs and Huawei with a new business model.

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