I bet that after reading this story, you will definitely understand the "computing network"...

​A long time ago, there was a city called Paradise.

Paradise City is well-known throughout the country for its tourism and leisure industry. In Paradise City, there are many entertainment companies. Under the entertainment companies, there are many clubs that provide a variety of leisure and entertainment services.

Every day, many residents of Paradise City go to these clubs for entertainment and consumption, such as foot massage, acupressure, and so on.

The main means of transportation used by residents are taxis. These taxis belong to different taxi companies. As time goes by, the population of City A is increasing, and the spending power is getting stronger. Because the work during the day is very hard, the residents like to go to the club to spend money and relax.

Very comfortable!

As residents' consumption demand increased rapidly, the number of clubs and taxis in Paradise City also increased rapidly.

However, people soon discovered that there were still problems: first, there were still not enough taxis. Many customers wanted to go to the club but couldn't get a taxi.

Secondly, as the demand for cars increased, the roads became more congested, wasting customers' valuable time.

Third, different customers have different consumption needs. Some like foot massage, some like sauna, and some like back rubbing. Every time after getting on the car, the driver does not know which club to take the customer to, which affects the customer experience.

In order to solve these problems and ensure the steady development of the entire Paradise City entertainment industry, taxi companies and entertainment companies began to hold meetings to discuss solutions.

Soon, they came up with a solution:

First, the taxi companies upgraded their vehicles to faster and more comfortable ones.

Secondly, taxi companies began to improve their own management. They learned from the mamasan of entertainment companies, set up a command and dispatch center, strengthened the dispatch of taxis, and monitored the congestion of taxi routes at any time.

Third, taxi companies have strengthened their cooperation with entertainment companies and enhanced information sharing between them. Taxi drivers have also studied the entertainment programs of various clubs in depth.

In addition, they have made an important innovation. The entertainment company has placed some service projects directly near residential areas. In this way, many busy customers can enjoy leisure services directly around them.

After the first phase of cooperation was implemented, the taxi company's transportation efficiency was greatly improved, and customer satisfaction was also increased. Both the taxi company and the entertainment company were very happy.

In order to provide better services to customers, they soon began to plan more in-depth reforms.

In fact, although taxi companies and entertainment companies seem to be independent, the bosses behind some taxi companies have also opened many clubs.

These bosses thought, since I have taxi resources and club resources, why not merge them into a large entertainment group? Wouldn't it be better to let the entertainment group directly manage taxis?

The benefits of doing so are: First, taxi drivers can better serve the needs of users. Experienced taxi drivers can see the needs of customers at a glance and then send customers to their favorite clubs.

Secondly, for some wealthy VIP customers, luxury cars can be arranged to take them directly to the destination club.

Third, the club has a higher level of management, which can help taxi companies improve management and optimize vehicle dispatch.

After the merger of the group, the club is everywhere for users. As long as they have the desire to consume, they can enjoy the service at any time. When they go out and get in the car, they are equivalent to entering the club.

Under the new model, security has also been greatly improved. Without illegal clubs, the club company can provide all-round security and privacy protection.

After the merger, the club's manpower shortage problem was effectively solved because the technician resources were fully mobilized and could be mobilized at any time. Moreover, after the customer got on the bus, the driver could take the initiative to send the customer to a club with fewer people based on the reception volume information synchronized from the club, thus achieving dynamic allocation of passenger flow.

Okay, that’s the end of the story. Do you understand it?

This story about the club is actually our computing power network model.

Taxi companies are operators; clubs are cloud computing data centers; entertainment companies are cloud computing service providers. Residents are individual users, corporate users, and government users. When residents go to clubs to consume, they are using cloud computing resources and consuming computing power.

In the first stage of the story, the taxi company and the club company cooperated, which was the 1.0 stage of cloud-network integration - cloud-network collaboration. The operator carried out technical transformation of the network, and increased bandwidth and capacity through technologies such as optical communication to improve transportation capacity. At the same time, the operator carried out cloud transformation to increase the flexibility of the network and realize centralized scheduling. The small clubs set up by the club company near the community are edge computing nodes and edge clouds. This is a form of sinking computing power, which can meet the low latency requirements of some government and enterprise users.

The second stage of the story is the integration of cloud and network, and the more in-depth integration of cloud and network. In this stage, computing power and network are no longer just collaboration, but full integration. Providing users with flexible and cost-effective computing power services in the form of a network is a computing power network. After the club company swallowed up the taxi company, it can use the network to deliver computing power more flexibly, and can also provide customized and differentiated services to different customers to give customers the best experience. Specifically, users can jump into the cloud and jump into their own cloud; the communication network is divided into channels of various levels, and high-priority services can go through the VIP channel; the communication network has the ability to perceive computing power, knows where there is computing power demand, and knows where there is idle computing power; with the help of the management center, the communication network is more effectively managed; the communication network can provide safer protection; and so on... The computing power network is the development direction of computing and network. In the future, our network must evolve in the direction of "computing power as the center and network as the foundation". All IT and communication people should be prepared for this.