A few days ago, the 2020 Yunqi Conference was successfully held on the cloud. This conference brought together industry leaders to witness the future reconstruction process of Digital Intelligence. In the product launch hall on September 18th, Alibaba Cloud officially released the edge computing video cloud solution, which aims to rely on city-level cloud computing infrastructure to realize massive view data nearby cloud computing and help the industry maximize the value of view data , Enabling the development of urban industries.
View data in the 5G era has become the most important carrier of information digitization
Throughout the history of digital development in China, it is actually a process of continuous evolution of information carriers. From the initial text carrier, to the digital voice and pictures produced around 2000, and then to the outbreak of video in the 4G era, the way of carrying information has been continuously upgraded with the evolution of network infrastructure. The advent of 5G will surely promote the large-scale application of view data in various industrial Internet fields such as transportation, education, new retail, industry, and urban governance, and promote the industry to leap towards artificial intelligence.
As a 5G twin technology, edge computing has the characteristics of large bandwidth, low latency, and elastic scaling. It is the best solution for large-scale applications of view data in the 5G era, and can be widely adapted to the calculation and distribution requirements of massive view data in various industries .
Edge computing provides city-level cloud infrastructure for massive view processing
Alibaba Cloud's Edge Node Service (ENS) has always been committed to building a city-level cloud computing infrastructure. Last year, it has basically achieved full coverage of the national capital cities and third-tier cities in popular areas with 300+ nodes, and the computing delay is controlled to 10 Within milliseconds. In order to adapt to the massive view computing scenarios in the 5G era, Alibaba Cloud edge computing nodes focused on the direction of video uploading to the cloud and processing, and carried out a comprehensive product technical capability upgrade.
The first feature of the upgraded edge node service (ENS) is "fast". ENS products support 4G/5G/digital circuits and other flexible access methods, and the network delay can be further reduced to 5 milliseconds. The one-click cloud upload protocol based on Internet video accumulation can reduce the cloud operation time to less than 1 minute, and support operators to quickly complete the remaining configuration by scanning codes and other methods.
The second is a comprehensive upgrade of cloud video capabilities. For view scenarios, the edge computing node integrates view storage products, reducing storage costs by 50%, supporting h.265, 4k/8k ultra-high-definition video, supporting millions of concurrent video processing, and helping various industries to achieve massive views Application of data.
The third is the upgrading of AI capabilities. Based on the Edge Node Service (ENS), a new generation of GPU/NPU server is launched, and the computing performance of AI can be increased to more than 200%. At the same time, in order to allow AI algorithms to better adapt to urban computing scenarios, Alibaba Cloud Edge Computing also cooperated with Alibaba Dharma Academy to launch an edge intelligent AI open platform, with rich algorithm capabilities covering mainstream urban AI computing scenarios.
Alibaba Cloud senior product expert Xu Gang said: "Based on this series of capability upgrades, Alibaba Cloud Edge Computing will fully reconstruct high-performance city-level cloud computing infrastructure and empower the industrial upgrade of urban scenarios."
Insist on being integrated to create an open edge computing ecosystem
Since the inception of Alibaba Cloud Edge Node Service (ENS), it has always adhered to the integrated product strategy and collaborated with industry partners to create an edge computing ecosystem. In order to make the product more flexible and convenient to be integrated, the edge computing video cloud solution will be divided into two layers, the basic product layer and the video PaaS product layer. Alibaba Cloud customers and partners can choose the appropriate product to integrate according to the situation. .
It is understood that up to now, Alibaba Cloud edge computing and industry partners have jointly created solutions for 5 major scenarios and 15 market segments, covering transportation, new retail, education, smart housing, home and other scenarios to achieve digital upgrades.
Xu Gang said: Welcome more SaaS partners and equipment vendors to join Alibaba Cloud's edge computing ecosystem, and join hands with joint product solutions in the 5G era to build a better city life.