In the new infrastructure era, intelligent connectivity is driving digital transformation into the fast lane

Bi Shouwen, Vice President of H3C Group and President of Network Product Line

The "new infrastructure" strategy proposes an infrastructure system that is guided by the new development concept, driven by technological innovation, based on information networks, and oriented to the needs of high-quality development, providing services such as digital transformation, intelligent upgrading, and integrated innovation. Bi Shouwen, Vice President of H3C Group and President of the Network Product Line, believes that this makes digitalization and intelligence an important tool to accelerate the rapid development of the industry, and also the main driving force for the digital transformation of all industries. Guided by policies, the new infrastructure strategy allows enterprises' intelligent transformation to start with intelligent native, while helping upper-level business decisions to become more accurate and processes more efficient through efficient infrastructure. Starting from the needs of the market itself, the rapid development of technologies such as 5G has accelerated the integration of IT, CT, and OT, and further leveraged the reconstruction of industry competitiveness, stimulating a new transformation of the industry's digital evolution.

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New infrastructure injects new impetus into network transformation

5G construction is in full swing, AI exploration continues to improve, and "new infrastructure" is becoming a new engine to drive the development of the digital economy. From a macro perspective, "new infrastructure" consists of urban components covering the Internet of Things, the Internet of Vision, and the Internet of People, as well as industrial components including the Industrial Internet and the Industrial Internet. In order to organically connect urban components with industrial components, network connections need to be matched with diversified development from end to cloud, from network to computing power.

However, traditional networks only act as "pipelines" during data transmission. The network itself does not have the ability and function of relevant computing. This "passive connection" has long been unable to adapt to the current rapidly changing business needs of enterprises, and will undoubtedly slow down the pace of digital transformation.

In order to make the network more intelligent and vital, especially in the process of promoting the "new infrastructure" to change the network connection capability from passive to active, the traditional "pipeline" network must evolve towards the direction of "open and integrated network resource platform".

It should be said that no matter what kind of component connection needs are met, "new infrastructure" is bringing new development opportunities to the network industry. For industry users, an intelligently connected network can deeply integrate intelligent technology with connection technology, thereby improving the efficiency of the network and computing, and making better use of the value of connection in the process of digital transformation.

Intelligent connection network lays the foundation for intelligent development

Tsinghua Unigroup's New H3C Group has spared no effort in promoting intelligent upgrades and practicing the digital transformation of the industry. Through the "AI in ALL" intelligent strategy, it has made its products and solutions more intelligent. Connecting everything with an intelligent network and continuously empowering all industries is the foothold for practicing digital and intelligent development.

Based on this, H3C Group proposed the "Intelligent Connection" strategy to help customers build ultra-broad, intelligent, converged, trusted, and minimalist network connections. By reconstructing the network, it accelerates the intelligence and innovation of the infrastructure, freeing customers from the network and allowing them to focus more on the development and innovation of their own business.

In recent years, through the research and judgment of cutting-edge network technologies and combined with the understanding of customer services, H3C Group has a deeper interpretation and outlook on intelligent connection networks: that is, by supporting native software definition, built-in AI capabilities, and connection capabilities based on active security technologies, the components are connected in the best way to ensure that the entire network system can operate efficiently. Driven by the "new infrastructure" trend, intelligent connection networks will not only solve simple connectivity problems, but also enable the network to support upper-layer services more intelligently through more advanced technologies.

Rooted in the implementation of products and technologies

H3C Group has always been committed to promoting the rapid development of the ICT industry. As a pioneer and market leader in the network industry, it has unique technical expertise and genes from the product level to the solution level.

Based on the SNA Prophet network architecture on a unified architecture, H3C Group has made enterprise users' networks more intelligent through practical technology applications. AD-NET, a unified network solution for customers that began to be built in 2015, has evolved from the 1.0 era to the 5.0 era, and has developed to achieve the construction of an intelligent network that covers all scenarios, all domains, and the entire life cycle. At the product level, the H3C S12500 equipped with a 400G service line card is the industry's first intelligent switch product that supports full-rate ports, and is the first in China to commercialize 400G Ethernet. At the same time, at the beginning of this year, it worked with Spirent to complete the industry's first large-scale 400G test based on SRv6.

With ultra-wide terminal connection capabilities and network carrying capacity, H3C Group can help customers achieve full-standard pan-wireless connection capabilities and a more open connection mode, while also providing very comprehensive service capabilities in backbone network carrying and wireless device access. From the full range of product layouts from core, high-end, mid-to-low-end to edge access, H3C can meet the different needs of customers.

At the integration level, in the process of helping customers build integrated intelligent parks, H3C Group can promote the diversified development of enterprise businesses with the SNA Prophet network architecture that integrates multiple scenarios, multiple services, and multiple platforms. In the scene integration, network virtualization solves the problem of personnel migration in the park. The headquarters branch establishes EVPN tunnels on demand, which is easy to expand and reduces latency. At the product integration level, H3C Group has made wireless and the Internet of Things more integrated by building a high-performance network with 5G+Wi-Fi+IoT full wireless access for customers. At the same time, it has also strengthened the integration between network security and IoT terminal management and control, and between the park and data center products.

In terms of security, by introducing the zero-trust mechanism, H3C Group has realized the active security defense capability against network attacks. The trusted active security throughout the full stack of exhibits not only makes network control more trustworthy, but also enables the trustworthy capabilities of the cloud. Through the coordinated linkage of network, security, and software, as well as practical capabilities such as the AI ​​strategy risk control center, H3C helps customers quickly build intelligent and secure campuses based on trusted active security.

After having a high-performance network system, customers often need a minimalist network that is easy to manage. H3C Group has achieved minimalist deployment through applications such as All in One and AD-NET in One. Wired, wireless, PON and security can achieve unified orchestration and minimalist operation and maintenance, helping customers to quickly launch enterprise services based on fewer devices, fewer configurations, fewer interfaces and fewer operations.

The five capabilities of intelligence, ultra-broadband, integration, trust, and simplicity are the essence of H3C's intelligent connection network, and are also the solid foundation for responding to and promoting the development of the "new infrastructure" strategy.

Promoting innovation and change in industrial development

With the continuous evolution of network technology and product forms, intelligent connection networks will gradually play a huge role in promoting the digital transformation of the industry. In terms of value, intelligent connection networks can actively connect resources, thereby further enhancing the core value of network connection.

Through continuous innovation and change, H3C Group has accurately grasped customer needs, truly starting from customers' actual pain points and demands, allowing intelligent connection networks to evolve from automation and self-optimization to autonomy, fully empowering customers in various industries, and applying the genes of wisdom to every product.

Undoubtedly, in the development wave of "new infrastructure", digital transformation and intelligent upgrading have become the key to enterprises building future core competitiveness, and are also the core engine driving industrial upgrading and transformation. H3C Group activates network value by building intelligent connections, continuously provides enterprise users with more convenient, efficient and secure intelligent network services, and enables the smart future with intelligent connections by virtue of its dual roles as a leader in digital solutions and an enabler of "new infrastructure".