The "14th Five-Year Plan" takes the construction of digital China as an important development direction.
Digital transformation and upgrading will accelerate its integration into all industries. In the next five years, it will be at the forefront of new digital infrastructure. Emerging technologies such as 5G, cloud native, artificial intelligence, and digital twins will be enabled, and they will bear fruit and reshape social production methods. , Playing an unprecedented role in society, lifestyle and governance.
Especially in terms of cloud native and artificial intelligence, there has been a more eye-catching integration trend. Through "cloud smart native" to accelerate the release of data value, it has become a new driving force for industry-leading manufacturers to reshape the industry structure and accelerate industry transformation.
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"New H3C 2021 Top Ten Technology Trends Viewpoint White Paper"
The ten aspects mentioned,
aroused my great interest,
I think these ten trends are bound to be popular.
why?
Based on the brand-new strategy of "cloud intelligence native", focusing on the development route of "core cloud network edge end", relying on H3C's rich product technology and solution strength in the ICT field, it once again foresees new opportunities for the explosion of new digital infrastructure. Released insights into the top ten technology trends for 2021.
The ten technology application trends foreseen by H3C are exactly in line with the direction of building a digital China in the 14th Five-Year Development Outline. At the same time, strengthening the construction of new infrastructure and assisting industrial upgrading has become the keynote of innovation and development of the entire industry.
Especially since 2020, the new crown epidemic has profoundly affected the original economic and social operation mode, and the "new infrastructure" has played an important role in the resumption of production and stable development under the epidemic.
It can be seen that in the post-epidemic era, the prediction and grasp of technological trends has important practical significance for the development of the new digital economy, and also brings more value reference and direction guidance for the development of the industry.
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intelligent network
Achieving an integrated digital infrastructure
"New H3C 2021 Ten Technology Trends White Paper" predicts that in the next five years, more than 68% of people and things will be carried on the intelligent network.
Why? Because building the hub of new digital infrastructure, it is necessary to use the network as the base of all infrastructure, and it needs to continuously undergo the evolution of automation, self-optimization and autonomy. In this process, it will also be accompanied by data center networks, backbone networks and convergence. The innovation and upgrade of the network demonstrates the value of the base of the intelligent network.
In terms of intelligent network, H3C has been concentrating and investing in the field of network technology for a long time.
With the official release of H3C's self-developed high-performance intelligent network processor "Smart Engine" series, the industry understands that H3C's leadership and innovation in the network field once again confirms the comprehensive layout behind the "core cloud network edge terminal" deep meaning.
Not only that, but it has already valued the development trend in the field of intelligent connection. H3C has devoted all efforts to create cloud-based intelligent connection solution AD-NET 6.0, AD-DC SeerFabric architecture non-destructive network solution, etc., to realize simplicity, intelligence, and The ideal of a new generation of intelligent network that is integrated, reliable, and ultra-broadband has become a reality.
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5G private network
Boosting the landing of new industry applications
The "H3C 2021 Top Ten Technology Trends Viewpoint White Paper" predicts that in the next five years, the compound annual growth rate of 5G private networks will reach as high as 40%.
5G promotes global technological and industrial transformation. The non-public, private, dedicated, local, and customizable wireless private network based on 5G technology will play a specific role in transportation, electric power, medical and other industry scenarios, as well as enterprise park coverage scenarios. Its advantages of high reliability, low latency, exclusive resources, and private control will also be fully utilized.
H3C has comprehensively laid out the operator industry. In terms of China Mobile, in 2020, it has achieved a market share of more than 30% in the new high-end router market, including over a thousand CR series self-developed high-end routers. In terms of China Telecom, for the 2021 STN equipment (5G bearer network) construction project, New H3C has a market share of more than 20%, meeting the stringent requirements of 5G services on bandwidth, delay, slicing, and intelligence. In terms of China Unicom, H3C has also achieved a market share of about 20% in the procurement of network products for Unicom's smart metropolitan area network.
2020 has become a leap year for H3C's business in the carrier field to achieve leapfrog development. Layout around the operator's 5G network construction and business development, and focus on the network construction of high-end routers, greatly improving the performance and security of user networks. At the same time, H3C has built 5G cloud-based small stations, open UPF and lightweight core network elements deployed in 5G industry private networks to form a complete overall solution for the deep integration of 5G and industry.
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silicon photofusion
Promote the rapid development of communication
"New H3C 2021 Top Ten Technical Trends Viewpoint White Paper" predicts that in the next five years, the global silicon photonics market will be about 5 billion US dollars, silicon photonics modules will account for more than 35% of optical modules, and ultra-large capacity silicon photonics switches will enter commercial use.
In the network field, we have been facing the challenges of power consumption, volume, and cost, and the characteristics of silicon photonics technology, such as high integration, small size, low power consumption, and low cost, naturally become advantages. This not only brings new opportunities for innovation in the field of network communication, but also is expected to be applied to cutting-edge fields such as optical neural network computing, multi-dimensional optical storage, and optical quantum computing in the future.
New H3C not only focuses on silicon-photonic fusion technology innovation, but also takes the lead in the industry in terms of product innovation practice. In terms of improving the performance of the whole machine, H3C is also at the forefront of the industry in terms of product innovation practice. As early as 2017, the CR19000 series cluster routers, which were launched and widely used in the carrier network market, innovatively adopted optical backplane technology to realize the innovative connection from electrical signals to optical signals, solving the bottleneck of circuit interconnection and transmission distance, and providing silicon Contribute to the optical fusion scheme. The cluster cascading technology that integrates chip output makes the forwarding capability of the CR19000 stronger. The performance improvement also greatly reduces the workload of equipment deployment and maintenance, and better meets the requirements of the cloud, 5G and other intelligent connection eras for networks.
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Chip solution
Diversification to meet multiple challenges
"New H3C 2021 Ten Technology Trends White Paper" predicts that more than 75% of chip solutions used in data centers will adopt diversified designs.
The diversified application requirements of various industries have increasingly stringent requirements on chip performance, power consumption, and size. As a result, the new generation of semiconductor materials, modular design, and 3D packaging have attracted the attention of the industry. Advanced chip solutions are bound to become a trend.
In terms of chip innovation, H3C has been following the "application-driven" development route of diversified chips, adopting a combination of commercial chips and self-developed chips. The research and development direction of H3C Semiconductor will focus on the chip field that is of strategic significance to the group. For example, in the field of network chips, the "Zhiqing" network processor (NP, networking processor) launched by H3C has attracted widespread attention in the industry. Of course, H3C not only wants to attract widespread attention from the industry, but also wants to contribute to the full-stack independent innovation of Digital China based on the "Smart Engine" chip. The newly released H3C CR18000 core backbone router is equipped with Zhiqing 660 self-developed chip.
The Zhiqing 600 series adopts a 16nm process, has 256 processing cores, and accommodates 18 billion transistors. In addition, in 2022, H3C will continue to release the more powerful Zhiqing 800 series, which will realize a 7nm process, more than 500 processing cores, and 40 billion transistors. The performance will be greatly improved and the power consumption will be greatly reduced.
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Distributed all-flash
Break through the storage bottleneck
The "H3C 2021 Top Ten Technology Trends Viewpoint White Paper" predicts that in the next five years, the proportion of storage systems using distributed all-flash architecture design will reach more than 35%.
Why? Distributed all-flash memory combines the advantages of distributed storage architecture, which is flexible and easy to expand, and the high-performance advantages of all-flash memory, and can meet the comprehensive needs of enterprise users for data storage capacity, performance, and scalability during the digital transformation and upgrade process.
For distributed all-flash, the newly released all-flash model X10828 of the H3C UniStor X10000 family is an industry-leading distributed all-flash product that integrates NVMe protocol and SCM media technology. The high-bandwidth and low-latency features of the NVMe protocol and the many advantages of SCM in terms of performance and reliability enable H3C X10000 to provide ultimate storage density and business stability while providing higher performance and lower latency to help users Realize a more comprehensive big data application with a more advanced infrastructure.
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New application acceleration component
Promote the evolution of computing architecture
"New H3C 2021 Top Ten Technology Trends Viewpoint White Paper" predicts that data processing units will integrate network, storage, artificial intelligence, and graphics acceleration capabilities, and will be used in most enterprise computing devices.
Why? New applications from the Industrial Internet, Internet of Vehicles, and new media require real-time data access, processing, and storage. New computing devices have two important divisions of labor, CPU and data processing unit. The CPU is responsible for general computing and task scheduling, and other graphics , AI, IO, etc. are carried by the data processing unit, so as to realize the innovation of computing architecture.
In terms of smart computing, H3C has a comprehensive computing platform and GPU platform, a very complete combination of computing power and computing forms, and always implements the technical strategy of "endogenous intelligence to achieve smart computing", and realizes the full stack with a comprehensive and intelligent platform intelligent. Newly released 14 new server products, including rack servers, AI servers, high-density computing servers, and server cabinets, to meet users' diverse intelligent computing needs with intelligent, efficient, stable, and agile products and solutions.
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cloud native
Promote the Unification of Cloud Computing Architecture
"New H3C 2021 Ten Technology Trends White Paper" predicts that more than 80% of new applications will be cloud-native applications.
Why? With cloud-native technology concepts and applications such as containers, microservices, service grids, and DevOps, it not only improves the availability and elasticity of cloud resources, but also improves the agility of application architecture and the degree of management refinement, enabling the unification of cloud computing architecture to be realized.
For cloud native, the concept has been proposed for many years, but the "cloud smart native" launched by H3C includes the native of cloud and smart. Quickly implement application deployment based on cloud native, and provide a unified digital base and application experience based on cloud native infrastructure. Realize native AI in All, allowing users to focus on their main business, which is more conducive to digital innovation.
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Continuous innovation of core technology
Accelerating the Popularization of AI Applications
"New H3C 2021 Ten Technology Trends White Paper" predicts that in the next five years, more than 50% of large enterprises will adopt AI technology in their key businesses, and more than 70% of AI applications will be assisted by non-professional developers on AI open platforms Next complete.
Why? Continuous innovation and breakthroughs in key AI technologies can solve a series of problems such as excessive consumption of computing resources and over-reliance on AI talents at the current stage, and bring about the development of AI "industrialization", which will greatly improve the efficiency and quality of modeling, and reduce the threshold for application development. Accelerate the penetration of AI in key businesses of enterprises.
Broadly speaking, there are AI applications in various industries. New H3C is also vigorously promoting the implementation of cloud intelligence. For example, the value of AI is also integrated into smart terminals, such as the new generation of smart screen cloud screen MagicHub, which integrates office functions and AI functions. Through sound source positioning, AI smart people Face tracking technology can realize intelligent framing of portraits.
From further analysis, AI application is also an important aspect of intelligence. However, "smart" has been constantly evolving, combining cloud and user business applications to realize innovations such as smart cities, smart industries, and smart education. , AI applications have evolved from intelligence at the initial IaaS layer, such as intelligence at the server computing layer, to intelligence at the storage layer, to intelligence at the network layer, and then to intelligence on the cloud. Now more "intelligence" is reflected in the data, "digital intelligence" has become a very popular development direction, and it can better reflect the innovative value of "intelligence".
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digital twin
Stimulate the infinite potential of the fusion of virtual and real
"New H3C 2021 Top Ten Technology Trends Viewpoint White Paper" predicts that in the next 5 years, digital twins will reach 30 billion US dollars. In smart cities, smart manufacturing and other fields, digital twin technology will be widely used.
Why? From the physical world to the digital world, digital twins can help users realize the understanding, analysis, control and optimization of the physical world. Thanks to technological innovation and integration in multiple fields such as big data, artificial intelligence, data storage, and high-speed network transmission, digital twins in the future will It will play a greater value in a wide range of fields.
The process of digital transformation is mainly supported by a series of key driving technologies, including big data, cloud computing, digital twins, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The Industrial Internet and the Industrial Internet have become the channels for digital twin data collection, the big data center provides multi-dimensional data sources for digital twin applications, and artificial intelligence is equivalent to the brain derived from digital twins.
After realizing the intelligent transformation of the manufacturing base, the Xinhua Third Factory has built a complete R&D, equipment, production and operation and maintenance link with digital technology, forming a digital management closed loop, realizing high efficiency and refinement of management, and in the factory A high level of automation in the areas of production, testing, warehousing and logistics is implemented in the complete business process.
In particular, the deployment of large-scale "digital twin" technology has brought a series of innovative applications such as simulation analysis, key equipment visualization, and intelligent remote maintenance to H3C.
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New operation and maintenance model
wider layout
"New H3C 2021 Top Ten Technology Trends Viewpoint White Paper" predicts that in the next five years, nearly 69% of enterprises will transform to a new generation of operation and maintenance models, and some of them will be implemented.
Why? Higher requirements for operation and maintenance efficiency from the user end, and more powerful innovative integration of the manufacturer's technology end to the cloud, big data, AI, etc., jointly drive the new operation and maintenance model from birth to implementation to industry popularization, and the cloudification of operation and maintenance services is further advanced. Development will be implemented faster in education, medical care, government affairs and other industries, so that "cost reduction and efficiency increase" can be better reflected in the new operation and maintenance model.
For the new operation and maintenance model, the digital infrastructure is integrated into the intelligent operation and maintenance process and control means, which can greatly reduce the complexity of deployment and improve the efficiency of use. Intelligent operation and maintenance, intelligent infrastructure, intelligent cloud platform, intelligent security, intelligent data platform, and intelligent algorithm together constitute the core capabilities of Xinhua's three or six "intelligence". New H3C focuses on intelligent operation and maintenance to help the majority of operation and maintenance personnel improve work efficiency. Especially for the launch of Tsinghua Unigroup 3.0, it adopts management-platform, application-architecture, SDN-one network, and security-one strategy, creating a new operation and maintenance mode of homogeneous hybrid cloud.
summary
Continue to practice the ten trends
Towards a digital future
It can be seen that the 2021 technology trends proposed by H3C focus on intelligent networks, 5G private networks, silicon photonics integration, chips, distributed all-flash storage, computing architecture, cloud native, AI applications, digital twins, and new operation and maintenance models. A technical field of great interest to the industry.
With the explosion of new infrastructure, these ten trends will not work if they are not popular. Although professional analysis agencies in the industry also launch trend analysis in many fields every year, new trends can be seen, but they may not be realized. It is worth mentioning that H3C is not only the proposer of the ten trends, but also the practitioner and leader of the ten trends.
At the level of innovative products, H3C has a comprehensive and rich layout, and the key lies in its high and far-sighted perspective. Based on the general trend from core to cloud to network to edge, with the help of technology research and development, we will build innovative products and solutions one after another.
The so-called specialization in the technology industry means that even if H3C has made achievements in multiple fields such as chips, networks, storage, servers, and security, its products and technologies cover a wide range of fields. However, the user's application environment has diverse characteristics, and the industry itself also has differences in industry development. From user applications to industry differences, it is natural that more manufacturers in professional fields need to pay for it. Furthermore, it is difficult for a certain manufacturer to fully meet all the needs of users in a variety of industries.
It can be seen that, as a leading provider of digital transformation, H3C's appeal is not only to help enterprises with digital transformation and upgrade, but to build a three-dimensional ecology covering the entire industrial chain. It is also the unbounded ecology proposed before, so that products and technologies at each layer can integrate ecological forces, and business innovation for enterprise users can be fully enabled.
To this end, Liu Xinmin, vice president of H3C Group and president of the Technology Strategy Department, also emphasized that driven by new-generation information technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, network, digital twin, big data center, industrial Internet, Internet of Things, and edge computing, , the joint innovation of industry-university-research, and the ecological peers, can create a more exciting future.
"New H3C hopes to work together with all walks of life in China to accelerate technological integration innovation, cooperation model innovation, service capability improvement, digital talent training, and digital ecological platform construction while constantly breaking through the boundaries of digital technology, so as to empower China with high-quality digitalization. development and realize the value of scientific and technological innovation.”
Indeed, this should also be the original intention of H3C to position itself as a "leader in digital solutions".
If you don't change your original intention, you will always succeed. H3C's "always" is to promote the healthy development of the construction of digital China, and unite with the industry to contribute ideas and efforts, and work together to build a better digital future. (by Aming)
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