Huawei CloudEngine 16800 switch has been successfully put into commercial use. Why did BIT choose Huawei?

[51CTO.com original article] Recently, at the Huawei Network Innovation Technology Summit, Huawei officially announced that its AI data center switch CloudEngine 16800 has successfully helped Beijing Institute of Technology complete the real-time connection and management of millions of new energy electric vehicles across the country.

The reporter learned that the new energy vehicle monitoring and management platform project is a national key project. Through Huawei's AI data center switch CloudEngine 16800 and other complete intelligent data center network solutions, Huawei helped BIT build a national new energy vehicle monitoring and management platform to manage new energy vehicles and power batteries across the country, and obtain the dual value of new energy safety and energy conservation and emission reduction. As of August 8, 2019, the new energy vehicle national supervision platform has connected 2.5 million vehicles, with an average of nearly 150,000 vehicles connected per month, and a total mileage of 58.96 billion kilometers.

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From left to right: Wang Lei, President of Huawei Data Center Network, Wang Zhenpo, Professor of Beijing Institute of Technology and Director of National Laboratory for Electric Vehicles, Bi Jinjun, Director of Huawei EBG China Data Communication Solutions Department

Why did BIT choose Huawei?

Back to the original intention of the cooperation between the two parties, why did BIT choose to adopt Huawei's AI data center switch CloudEngine 16800? In this regard, both parties said that this has to start with the construction needs of the national new energy monitoring and management platform.

First, there is a high demand for data storage security. On January 1, 2017, the National New Energy Monitoring and Management Platform was officially launched, which means that both technical data and vehicle location status data, driving status data, etc. will be uploaded to this platform. This information involves the company's technical core and the owner's privacy information. Therefore, the main demand in the initial stage of platform construction is the security of data storage, which requires servers, switches, networks and other equipment to provide "safe and reliable" capabilities.

"Huawei is highly consistent with our keywords 'open innovation, security and reliability' and fully meets our needs for platform construction." said Wang Zhenpo, professor at Beijing Institute of Technology and director of the National Laboratory for Electric Vehicles.

Second, the need for massive data processing and analysis capabilities. In the past three years, more than 7PB of data has been generated, with more than 20TB of data generated daily. At the same time, it is necessary to process big data calculations and mining and analysis in real time, and provide data services for more than 1,000 tenants. Given the large volume, the requirements for fast data retrieval capabilities and data transmission capabilities are high. Without powerful performance, it is difficult to meet the needs of network equipment such as servers and switches.

Wang Lei, President of Huawei's Data Center Network Domain, said that in the face of the exponential increase in data volume in data centers, Huawei CloudEngine16800 can achieve high-speed transmission and meet the 5-fold increase in traffic, which can support the development of digital torrents in the next 10 years in the AI ​​era. "In the past, when the data transmission volume reached 400GB, 800GB, and 1TB, the high-speed signal line was equivalent to a highway. With ordinary copper wires, this 'road' is full of potholes. If the data increases by 100 times, there must be a very smooth 'road', otherwise the signal will not be able to run. The nano-scale high-speed signal transmission materials used by Huawei can make this 'road' smoother."

Third, the need for rapid networking and efficient operation and maintenance. The new energy vehicle monitoring and management platform needs to serve a large number of customers, involving different departments and enterprises. Therefore, it is also necessary to be able to quickly complete network virtualization and networking functions, which poses many new challenges to the platform operation and maintenance team. In terms of electronic vehicles, BIT has absolutely outstanding strength, but for networking, operation and maintenance, and underlying hardware, Huawei's capabilities are undoubtedly unquestionable. Wang Zhenpo said: "Huawei has provided us with a lot of technical support, and we have jointly innovated to achieve intelligent operation and maintenance and rapid networking."

"Faced with links with staggering amounts of data, it is impossible to maintain the entire network by humans. So we need the ability for the network to drive itself." Wang Lei introduced to reporters that Huawei CloudEngine 16800 has an embedded high-efficiency AI chip. Through the iLossless intelligent lossless switching algorithm, it gives Ethernet a packet loss-free mechanism and implements adaptive self-optimization of traffic models, building a zero-packet-loss, low-latency data center network to give full play to the AI ​​computing power of the application layer.

In addition, in order to meet the business needs of flexible deployment, rapid adjustment, and secure isolation of thousands of virtual machines of tenants such as electric vehicle companies and insurance companies on the platform, Huawei's Intelligent Data Center Network provides the Agile Controller SDN controller, which realizes the pooling and automation of computing resources, network resources, and security resources, ensuring that business applications are online in minutes. In view of the difficulties of BIT's small number of operation and maintenance personnel and heavy maintenance workload, Huawei's Intelligent Data Center Network provides the FabricInsight network analyzer to realize automatic association of applications and networks, reducing business failure recovery time from hours to minutes.

Talking about the next cooperation intention between BIT and Huawei, Wang Zhenpo revealed that in addition to networks, technologies such as AI and deep learning will also pose new challenges to the storage and computing capabilities of the platform. Therefore, "in terms of network storage, data processing, and computing power, there is a wide range of room for future cooperation between BIT and Huawei."

Huawei's Four IP Network Engines Enable Enterprise Digitalization

In fact, Huawei not only jointly innovates with Beijing Institute of Technology, but Bi Jinjun, director of Huawei's EBG China Data Communication Solutions Department, said that based on the four major "engines" of Huawei's IP network, it also serves customers across the industry, including Beijing Electric Power, Beijing Energy Group, Beijing Television, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Airport, Beijing Railway Bureau, Dongcheng District Education Committee, etc.

At this point, you may be curious about what the four major "engines" of Huawei's IP network are? They are CloudEngine, NetEngine, AirEngine, and HiSecEngine. The Huawei AI data center switch CloudEngine 16800 mentioned today is one of them that has been commercialized.

Bi Jinjun explained to the media, why is it named Engine? Because the network connects all the people in the enterprise, and connects all the computing and storage of the enterprise. Huawei hopes to become an engine to help customers develop their business, to help customers enable their business and help them succeed in their business, and to exist as such an engine. Huawei's four major IP network "engines" cover the entire data communication industry: CloudEngine includes switches for data centers and campuses, NetEngine for routers, AirEngine for wireless, and HiSecEngine for security gateways.

"Huawei has been at the forefront of China's router, Ethernet switch, and SDN controller markets for many years. In the future, Huawei's four major IP network engines will continue to stimulate the potential of connectivity and have the ability to continue to promote the development of China's network technology and market." Bi Jinjun concluded: "In the future, Huawei's hardware technology strength plus software intelligence will enable us to run faster and better and serve our customers."

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