From September 17 to 18, the annual event in the science and technology circle-Yunqi Conference was staged as scheduled. The theme of this conference is "The Future of Digital Intelligence, Reconstruction at Full Speed", which lasted 2 days and adopted the model of Cloud on Cloud for the first time. Together with industry colleagues and partners, we have created a cloud gathering in the digital age. Among them, the field of edge computing technology has attracted much attention due to the commercialization of 5G, and the special field of edge computing technology application innovation has also received strong onlookers from netizens.
In the edge computing technology application innovation special session held on the afternoon of September 18, Alibaba Cloud joined hands with industrial partners such as Gansu Highway Transportation Construction Group Co., Ltd., Wasu Media Network Co., Ltd., and Shouyue Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. The dimensions of architecture, technological innovation, and industry application further elaborate on the technical thinking of "edge computing is urban computing".
Jiang Yanxiang, vice president of Alibaba Group, believes that edge computing, as an extension of central cloud computing, naturally has the characteristics of decentralized deployment, wide area coverage, and complex environment. Because of these features, edge computing and edge networks must form a cloud-network integration to allow computing Become more flexible and suitable for more application scenarios.
Speaking of the progress of Alibaba Cloud edge computing, Jiang Yanxiang said that at present, Alibaba Cloud has formed a collaborative network between “edge-edge” and “edge-center” to provide a high-quality and secure network between edge computing and central computing. Transmission capacity. In the 5G accelerated application phase, the edge network is working closely with telecom operators to build a “cloud-side-end” integrated network based on the operators' core capabilities such as MEC and 5G slicing.
At the meeting, Alibaba Cloud senior technical expert Yang Jingyu also focused on Alibaba Cloud's edge computing technology achievements and application practical experience, and conducted an in-depth technical interpretation. He said: The core concept of urban computing is to gradually deploy edge computing nodes (ENS) with cities as the unit, and connect with Alibaba Cloud's public cloud infrastructure and ecological applications, focusing on providing local consumer applications and industrial computing services. In the past two years, Alibaba Cloud has gradually carried out technical iterations of more than 2,800 CDN nodes around the world. Through CDN running on ENS, Alibaba Cloud's edge computing infrastructure has gradually evolved from an accelerated business to an integrated edge cloud and network service, with all-round capabilities. Upgrades, including: multiple computing forms (virtual machines, containers, secure containers, digital twin computing), multiple storage services (highly available block storage, file storage, edge view caching, CDN caching), multiple network services (Internet IP, VPC network, Internet IP+VPC hybrid network) and integrated security (node security, network security, system security), etc. At present, many PaaS platforms and applications such as Alibaba Cloud CDN system, RTC system, urban Internet of Things, industrial Internet platform, cloud gaming, cloud desktop, and Dharma Academy visual computing platform have been smoothly deployed and run on ENS.
At the 2019 Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Cloud defined edge computing as urban computing for the first time. Today, one year later, Alibaba Cloud edge computing already has a wealth of implementation practices in multiple localized urban scenarios such as new retail, transportation, education, home entertainment, and manufacturing. This special session also invited technical experts in the fields of transportation, radio, television and media to share the cutting-edge applications of edge computing.
Hao Juming, general manager of the Operation Management Division of Gansu Highway Transportation Construction Group Co., Ltd., attended as a guest speaker and shared the panoramic view of highway video cloud networking solution capabilities and the application practice of edge computing. Using edge computing and superimposing AI capabilities, Gansu Public Transport Construction Group has built a smart high-speed system to allow traffic videos to be processed on the cloud nearby. The video delay is reduced to 10 milliseconds, and the AI calculation response time for traffic incident videos is increased by 70%, allowing road safety incident processing The efficiency has been increased by 80%, the situational awareness of the entire traffic area has been truly achieved, and the service level has been greatly improved.
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As 5G technology matures, the development of intelligent transportation, vehicle-road collaboration, Internet of Vehicles, and autonomous driving will become more rapid. Xia Zhiqing, Senior Director of Internet of Vehicles Business of Shouyue Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. said: For Shouqi's own car-hailing business, the value of Alibaba Cloud edge computing is that it can greatly reduce resource consumption, increase the cost-effectiveness of AI business, and have multi-dimensional data. The ability to process scenarios under the environment and the natural geographical reliability can not only support the rapid implementation of vehicle-road collaboration and Internet of Vehicles, but also the best choice for V2X applications under 5G, which can empower the industry to open up the decision-making, perception, and analysis chain Road, let smart traffic come faster.
An Zhuyong, technical director of the National Operations Support Center of Wasu Media, shared the innovative practice of edge computing in the media industry from his own business perspective. He believes: "Video +" applications have driven the explosion of media processing needs, and more applications have begun to use AI to analyze, identify, and manage videos. Wasu Media uses Alibaba Cloud Edge Node Service (ENS) as the platform base to create a national radio and television intranet CDN for flexible capacity expansion and convenient operation and maintenance. At the same time, it optimizes the streaming media live broadcast experience based on the ENS edge live broadcast transcoding capabilities. In addition, relying on the edge computing power and edge storage capabilities of ENS, Wasu Media and Alibaba Cloud collaborated to form a smart radio and television city cloud, which will provide city-level cloud infrastructure for applications such as smart communities, smart parks, municipal management, and smart campuses.
At present, all walks of life are using digital intelligence transformation as the core means of connecting consumers, and going to the cloud as the core means of improving efficiency. How to design application computing architecture based on experience and minimize network transmission costs is a problem that every industry needs to think about. Jiang Yanxiang, vice president of Alibaba Group, said: I hope that more industry partners can work with Alibaba Cloud to deeply integrate edge computing standards, technologies, products, applications and other dimensions to explore rich and diverse industry-oriented landing scenarios. , To build a prosperous 5G edge computing ecosystem.