At each stage of business growth, network administrators face different problems and challenges. When a company starts out, waiting for the equipment to arrive can be like a year. When the company is growing rapidly, the network performance seems to never keep up with the business needs, and often encounters the embarrassment of "This webpage cannot be opened, please try again later". As businesses expand across geographies and national borders, the unevenness of customer experience from place to place is troublesome. Today, I will take a typical company as an example, and show you how Alibaba Cloud solves these problems based on the network problems encountered by the company at different stages. X is an internet company whose long-term vision is to provide an immersive gaming experience to online gamers around the world.
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Scenario 1 : Company start-up, product development and testing
Customer Story: At the beginning of Company X, the core development team of 10 people was small and flexible. The company realized that the elastic scaling and out-of-the-box features of the public cloud are very suitable for rapid product iteration, and decided to build the product development and testing environment on the public cloud. At this stage, company A mainly tests products through domestic seed users and improves them in time. The company is not yet profitable.
Recommended network architecture: After consulting Alibaba Cloud network experts, the customer decided to adopt the following network architecture on the cloud based on virtual network VPC. While making full use of elastic computing and network resources, data security is ensured through the Layer 2 isolation feature of VPC. Combined with Elastic Public IP (EIP), torrent users can access game services in the VPC through the public network. On-cloud VPC satisfies customers' business needs for agile development, rapid testing, and timely push of new versions.
Scenario 2 : Business growth, network reliability requirements
客户故事：X公司的产品定位精准，制作精良，迅速收获了目标用户群体的良好口碑。产品日活跃用户数在短短3个月期间翻了一番。为了维持良好的客户体验，在激烈的行业竞争中领先，公司CTO对网络服务的稳定性和可用性提出了更高的要求。
推荐网络架构：在这个阶段，我们建议客户把游戏服务器架设在不同的可用区内，可以有效避免同一可用区发生的单点故障。阿里云负载均衡SLB融合阿里巴巴集团多年实战经验，能有效应对高并发、大流量的网络突发场景。
场景3：优化云上网络成本
客户故事： 经历了一年用户数的飞速增长，X公司开始考虑盈利和优化成本问题。削减BGP公网成本是CTO急需解决的问题。此前，每台服务器购买独立的带宽，为预留未来增长空间，往往过量购买，造成资源的浪费。
推荐网络架构：阿里云为客户推荐了新产品共享带宽。多台服务器共享带宽模式能减少单独购买带宽的闲置浪费，95计费模式去除了突发业务量造成的峰值陡增，计费更合理。客户无需改变原有网络架构，就能加入共享带宽服务，服务开通和计费完全自动化。
场景4：多服跨地域高速互联
客户故事： X公司业务持续增长，第二年起公司计划在不同地域架设新的云服务器，以提升当地游戏用户体验。公司需要构建不同地域服务器间的高速互通，保证数据实时同步。
推荐网络架构：除了在华东地域为客户搭建一套包含ECS集群的云上VPC以外，阿里云还为客户接通了两个地域之间的高速通道。该通道采用独享线路，保证了客户安全稳定的数据传输。
场景5：全球游戏同服
Customer Story: As the domestic online game market becomes increasingly saturated, Company X tries to develop overseas markets. Whether the cross-border line is stable or not and the delay of foreign players accessing domestic game servers are two major problems for CTOs.
Recommended network architecture: Alibaba Cloud recommends global acceleration services for customers to ensure high-speed communication between overseas VPCs and domestic VPCs. In the past, the complicated routing configuration work between multiple VPCs was daunting for users. Now the global acceleration service can be done with one click, which greatly reduces the deployment time of multinational networks and accelerates the expansion of overseas markets by X Company.
Original link: https://yq.aliyun.com/articles/206020