How did the No. 1 brand of domestic load balancing products become successful? Here’s the answer from Deepin Technology!

According to IDC data in the first quarter of 2017, in the field of application delivery, Hangzhou DPtech Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "DPtech") ranked second in the domestic market share, and its market share has jumped to the first place among domestic manufacturers, becoming the first brand of domestic load balancing products. What made DPtech win such an honor is their masterpiece - ADX3000 application delivery platform.

ADX3000 is indeed a star product. It is the only load balancing product that has been selected for centralized procurement by the three major domestic telecom operators. It has been deployed in the communications, telecommunications, and education industries for many years. In the eyes of many customers, when they have high requirements for technical performance and application environment, ADX3000 is the first choice brand that pops into their minds. So why has this product achieved such a good result? What experience have DPtech gained from its deep accumulation and practice in the field of application delivery? How do they view the development and future of domestic application delivery? 51CTO reporter interviewed Fu Qiang, director of DPtech's application delivery product department, and asked him to share his understanding and trend forecast of DPtech in the field of application delivery.

Quality-aware application delivery

In Fu Qiang's view, application delivery should be the convergence of multiple technologies, such as link load balancing, server load balancing, global load balancing, application optimization, and DDoS protection. "The market has confused load balancing and application delivery. In fact, application delivery is an upgraded product of load balancing. Application delivery = load balancing + application optimization. Load balancing products focus on scheduling algorithms, while application delivery products further aim to release server resources to optimize and improve business systems."

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Fu Qiang, Director of Application Delivery Products Department of Deepin Technology

So what value can Deepin Technology's application delivery solutions bring to customers? Fu Qiang summarizes it into three categories:

The first is to ensure the continuity of the business system, which requires optimization from three aspects: the server, link and business expansion capacity of the business system. Taking Deep Technology's ADX3000 product as an example, through the optimal health check and load balancing scheduling algorithm, business access requests are reasonably distributed to ensure system response speed and business continuity, and improve the utilization efficiency and elastic expansion capacity of servers and links.

Secondly, improve user experience. As we all know, the construction of business systems is ultimately to serve users, so the user experience is crucial. Under the premise of network-level performance and latency, Deepin Technology's application security products can provide a flexible experience for business systems and give full play to the potential of business system capabilities.

Finally, it is to ensure business security. Deep Technology's ADX3000 provides a stateful firewall function that can effectively identify various network layer and application layer attacks, and prevent dangers from outside the business system. Especially for attacks such as DoS/DDoS that are extremely harmful to business systems, it can defend against various attacks including SYN Flood, DNS Query Flood, HTTP Get Flood, CC attacks, etc., and further realize multi-level security protection of business systems.

The growth path of the “top brand”

It is not an easy task to create an application delivery product that is highly recognized by customers. The purpose of IT informatization is to improve the service capabilities of business systems. The essential requirements can be summarized as "acceleration", "security" and "reliability". However, the contradiction between the business system's need for more in-depth analysis of application messages and the high performance requirements of the application system has always plagued the application delivery field, making it impossible to perfectly adapt user needs and products. Based on its leading L2~7 fusion operating system ConPlat, high-performance hardware architecture APP-X, and application identification and threat feature library APP-ID, Deepin Technology has developed the ADX3000 application delivery platform series of products to perfectly solve this contradiction.

Fu Qiang told reporters that Deepin Technology's ADX3000 application delivery platform eliminates the separation between networks and applications, meets the needs of the ever-expanding user base and higher requirements for application services, greatly improves user access speed, access security, and 7×24 uninterrupted stability, and greatly reduces operating costs.

It is worth mentioning that Deepin Technology's ADX3000 product adopts an independently innovative software and hardware platform and is the first to launch the industry's first 3.2Tbps application delivery platform. It has the advantages of strong processing power, comprehensive application delivery capabilities, and rich interface density. It can be applied to data centers and network exports of various industries and operators, providing service reliability, improving service response speed, facilitating flexible business expansion and other optimal business value.

It is not enough to just have strong technology. To satisfy customers, we need to understand their usage habits better. Nanchang Hangkong University is a multidisciplinary university jointly built by the province and the ministry, with coordinated development of engineering, science, liberal arts, management, economics, law, education and other disciplines, with more than 22,000 full-time students. At that time, there were many users online at the same time during the peak period of the campus network of Nanchang Hangkong University. Whenever the peak period came, the school's Internet export bandwidth was occupied by a few users' video, P2P, upload, download and other traffic, affecting the normal Internet experience of teachers and students. Finally, they chose Deep Technology's "Ronghui Guantong" integrated solution. Through technologies such as "zero bandwidth loss", "application intelligent routing" and "high-speed cache", the Internet export bandwidth loss rate was reduced by 30%, and the bandwidth utilization rate was increased by 20%, which comprehensively saved Internet bandwidth and improved students' Internet experience. And through SSL VPN, it made access to campus internal resources simpler and safer. Fu Qiang told the reporter a detail. Usually, the operating principle of application delivery products is that as long as the other party sends a request, I will schedule it in the product and execute it after giving the algorithm. However, Deepin Technology noticed that when students log in to the course selection system, when the resources are almost saturated, everyone will constantly refresh the page to rush to select courses. So Deepin will pop up a page prompt in this case, reminding students that the current website resources are tight and please wait a moment. This leaves time for the backend to process the business as soon as possible, and also improves the online experience of students. Although it is just a simple reminder, it also shows that Deepin will fully consider the user experience in the details.

End the monopoly and move away from the "Chinese style"

Fu Qiang believes that the trend of localization of application delivery products will become more obvious. After crossing the technological threshold, domestic manufacturers will develop rapidly in the rapidly growing IT construction and exceed the share of foreign brands in the Chinese market.

He said that in terms of technology, the deep coupling of high-performance platforms and businesses will become increasingly important. On the one hand, with the continuous improvement of data systems and the continuous increase of new businesses, products will be required to have high-performance platforms, and performance and function expansion must be simple and easy. On the other hand, with the climax of system construction in various industries, each industry has its own proprietary attribute requirements, and each subsystem also has various personalized functions, which puts forward higher coupling requirements for application delivery. It requires manufacturers to have excellent platform characteristics and deep accumulation of business systems to perfectly integrate products and user systems and maximize system performance.

In terms of the current domestic application delivery market structure, Fu Qiang believes that domestic manufacturers will become the main force in application delivery, especially high-end value customers that were previously monopolized by international manufacturers will gradually begin to pay attention to the products and solutions of domestic manufacturers. "Application delivery is an important link in the user system, and users need a complete set of solutions. Deep Technology has products and solutions in the fields of network, security and application delivery, and the overall solution can be intelligently linked and uniformly managed, which can truly realize 'system-level application delivery'."

He emphasized that the main growth driver of application delivery products comes from the demand for improving server efficiency and export link utilization efficiency, especially with the rapid development of cloud computing and the Internet of Things, users have higher and higher requirements for business system reliability and user experience. "The rise of domestic manufacturers has squeezed the development space of foreign manufacturers, and they have gradually become the main force in the domestic application delivery market."