Digital transformation has become a proposition of the times that is discussed, paid attention to and promoted by the social economy. Under the macro perspective of digital transformation, every new technology, new solution, and new business model requires some companies to take the lead in exploring and pioneering. The combined efforts of these pioneers will eventually open the door to the true prosperity of the digital economy.
Facing the deterministic future of digital upgrade, the campus network is becoming an entrance and an opportunity. The campus network is the network layer closest to enterprise business and directly carries enterprise data and intelligence. Many digital transformation practices must start from the campus network.
Some "intelligent IP pioneers" are accelerating digital transformation through campus network upgrades and becoming pioneers in the digital wave. Let’s talk about their stories today and see how enterprises achieve new breakthroughs in digital transformation from campus networks.
Digital power, network first
Many people are familiar with the strategy of "network power", but how advanced network capabilities can help enterprises complete digital transformation and intelligent upgrade is actually a proposition that needs more discussion.
As early as the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, "cyber power" has been clearly elevated to a national strategy. After several years of development, the focus of the network power strategy is expanding and upgrading from the consumer Internet and residents' network penetration rate to the industrial Internet and industry digitalization, becoming a new key fulcrum in the digital transformation process.
This year, we can see that from policy formulation to industry and academia, all sectors of society have strengthened their efforts to propose the inevitable connection between digitalization, intelligent upgrades and network infrastructure upgrades. For example, the "Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Action Plan (2021-2023)" issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in January this year emphasized the importance of enterprise networks in the process of industrial digitalization and intelligence.
Under the industry recognition of "digital upgrade first, network first", the importance of enterprise campus network has been highlighted. Because it is closest to the enterprise and directly carries the enterprise's OT and IT systems, it has a unique strategic position in the digitalization process.
Among the upgrade directions of many enterprise campus networks, the all-wireless intelligent cloud campus network has unique value. Let us start from the necessity and development trend of the overall upgrade of the enterprise campus network and understand the integration value of the all-wireless intelligent cloud campus network and the campus.
In the smart era, campuses are the “mobile phones” of enterprises
We have all experienced the wave of mobile Internet, and we know clearly how much smartphones have brought huge changes to our lives, work, and entertainment. The birth of smartphones and the mobile era is actually supported by a variety of technical conditions. Among them, mobile networks with clear generations and continuously upgraded data carrying capabilities are crucial.
Just imagine, if your mobile phone cannot carry out 4G or 5G-scale network transmission, and various applications, games, and videos cannot be connected to the terminal, will you still frequently refresh your mobile phone? From hardware manufacturers to software developers, they may all lose interest in developing the mobile industry.
This logic can actually also be applied to the development of enterprise campuses and campus networks. In the process of digital transformation, the campus is the "terminal" closest to the enterprise. With the strengthening of digitalization and intelligence, the campus will continue to accommodate a larger number of enterprise applications with greater data transmission volume and more complex data structures. And if there is not enough campus network support to carry these, all digital ideas will be in vain.
For example, we interviewed a manufacturing company not long ago. They originally only had digital businesses such as ERP, but the arrival of the epidemic prompted the company to rapidly advance the digitalization process. Video conferencing, machine vision networks in the park, industrial Internet, and industrial AR terminals were launched one after another. However, with such rapid digital transformation requirements, the first challenge encountered is that the campus network is unsustainable and must be upgraded and replaced first.
It is not difficult to see that, as we enter the deep-water zone of digital transformation and the vigorous stage of intelligent upgrading, the data circulation in corporate campuses is increasing exponentially. The powerful computing power of the cloud relies on enterprise network access terminals, mobile devices are spread throughout the factory, video has become the main interactive medium in the campus, and AI is everywhere, all of which have caused the data tide to directly overflow the original campus network.
In this case, as the digital needs of enterprises iterate, it is obviously unrealistic to frequently replace the campus network. The new campus network cannot come at the expense of increased operation, maintenance and management costs. Among various upgrade solutions, the all-wireless intelligent cloud campus network is the one with the lowest cost, clearest value, and most complete technical foundation in the digital transformation of enterprises.
Carrying the future in one domain:
Intelligent transformation of campus networks
In May last year, at the Huawei Analyst Conference 2020, Huawei's "Leading Intelligent Networks and Accelerating the Transformation of Connected Intelligence" summit was held. At the meeting, the overall logic of intelligent IP network as an intergenerational keyword of IP network was explained in detail for the first time, and intelligent IP network was defined through the three major characteristics of intelligent ultra-broadband, intelligent connection, and intelligent operation and maintenance. In April this year, the intelligent IP network was fully upgraded to an intelligent cloud network, which has been widely recognized in all walks of life. As the base of enterprise networks, the bridge connecting WAN and data center networks, the campus network is fully wireless and intelligent. It has also become the most critical iteration scenario.
Based on IP network innovation, we build upgrading of enterprise data communication capabilities, effectively utilizing the standardization, modularity and long-term development characteristics of IP network. The intelligent cloud network is just like the 3GDP planning for the next generation of mobile networks, with stronger standardization and generalization characteristics. Just like consumers have to connect their mobile phones to 4G and 5G networks, intelligent upgrades of enterprise campus networks are also an inevitable choice of the times.
Specifically on the campus network side, in March this year, Huawei released the CloudCampus3.0 cloud campus network solution, which can apply Wi-Fi 6, SDN, SRv6, cloud computing, Big data analysis and other technologies provide enterprise campuses with capabilities such as wireless access, one global network, all-cloud management, and all-intelligent operation and maintenance. They can comprehensively reduce campus network CAPEX and OPEX and meet the needs of enterprises to migrate to the cloud and deploy a large number of wireless devices. Main network demands include terminals, industrial-grade AI capabilities, and simplified operation and maintenance.
Specifically speaking of application scenarios, Huawei's CloudCampus3.0 cloud campus network solution can effectively strengthen the implementation of applications such as 4K high-definition video office conferences, educational VR/AR, AGV unmanned warehousing in logistics scenarios, and electronic price tags in retail stores.
It can be seen from this that the all-wireless intelligent cloud campus network is not only an improvement in large bandwidth, but also has the characteristics of supporting new technologies and new services through independent identification capabilities, which can reduce the overall cost of enterprise campus networks. This means that campus network upgrade is not a one-dimensional expansion of data carrying capacity. It also needs to include: technological inclusiveness on the X-axis, industry application and knowledge carrying capacity on the Y-axis, and long-term operation and maintenance management possibilities on the Z-axis. .
Only in this way can the campus network carry the deterministic future of the intelligent era and establish the possibility of long-term evolution with a ten-year cycle.
The park is the entrance: Portrait of a smart IP pioneer
In terms of campus networks, we can see that Huawei's CloudCampus campus network solution has activated many smart IP pioneers around the world. From Shenzhen University City, SAIC Ningde Factory, to SONGMICS, Dubai International Financial Center, and the Mexican Water Conservancy Bureau, there are pioneers exploring the digital future based on Huawei Cloud Campus Network.
We can look at the stories of several smart IP pioneers to understand how campus networks bring value to enterprises’ digital transformation.
SAIC's Ningde factory is known as a "science fiction factory" in the industry. It can produce one car every minute on average, which can be called the "China speed" of manufacturing. At the Ningde factory, which uses a large amount of AI technology, unmanned equipment, and handheld management equipment, GM is also facing huge network challenges. The business processes are complex, the production system is huge, the throughput of process data is extremely large, and different business systems have different requirements for the network. The Ningde factory needs to build strong support on the network. Huawei's CloudCampus campus network solution achieves this goal very well.
A large number of robots and unmanned equipment in the Ningde factory have realized industrial-level applications with the support of intelligent cloud networks. Manufacturing, processing, warehousing, and quality inspection are organically integrated to achieve full-system and full-service interconnection. With the support of intelligent cloud network, the industrial Internet in Ningde factory has shortened the production delivery cycle by 10%, increased production efficiency by 48%, increased product output by 50%, and reduced quality defects by 36%, and can complete dynamic sensing and assistance during the production process. Decision-making and intelligent early warning. The intelligent IP of the campus network can be said to be the basis for realizing a series of almost "science fiction" capabilities at SAIC Ningde Factory.
In Shenzhen University Town, this educational park that houses many universities and is known as the explorer of higher education in China also has high-quality and exploratory requirements for the park network. For example, the university town campus network needs to carry a large number of education management, building intelligence, office and scientific research platforms from different schools, and requires a highly stable connection state; education exploration models such as AR and VR require effective transmission of business data, which in turn requires high bandwidth. Network support; online lectures and meetings with extremely high attendance require effective operation and maintenance management capabilities to avoid network problems that delay teaching work.
Based on this, the Shenzhen University Town Auditorium uses Huawei AirEngine Wi-Fi 6 full coverage to provide wireless access for teachers and students in the University Town, improving the previous problems such as network lag and delay when many people are online. Based on Huawei smart antennas, the signal The coverage has also been expanded by 20% than before. At the same time, Shenzhen University Town integrates Wi-Fi 6 and IoT networks to give the campus network the ability to sense, and launches innovative applications such as smart book inspection, asset management, and electronic price tags to create a smart service experience in future science and education parks, including book borrowing. QR code processing, one-code sign-in for classes and meetings, one-code payment services for canteens, supermarkets, venues, and logistics, and one-code access for dormitory and campus access control. Shenzhen University City Library, after introducing intelligent inspection robots, collects and locates RFID data of books based on the Internet of Things, and uploads mis-shelf information of books in real time through the Wi-Fi 6 network, realizing automatic inventory of 700,000 books on shelves. Efficiency is significantly improved.
Summarizing the stories of these smart IP pioneers, we can find that through intelligent upgrades, these parks have achieved the goals of massive terminal support, multi-system integrated operation management, and intelligent reduction of park operation and maintenance management costs.
In August 2020, at the Intelligent Connect sub-forum of the China Information Network 100 Summit 2020, Huawei released the innovation-driven campus 4.0 standard for 2025. The iconic feature of Park 4.0 is to provide a full range of intelligent operation services through the integrated application of big data and AI technology, forming a smart park that continues to grow. From the cases of these smart IP pioneers, we can find that Huawei's CloudCampus campus network solution has effectively implemented campus 4.0 network support. For enterprise digital transformation, Campus 4.0 and Huawei CloudCampus campus network solutions have three obvious promotion effects -
Upgrade: Improve the connection quality, improve the network environment, and expand the carrying capacity of massive terminals.
Increase: Effectively carry more network, intelligence, and IoT capabilities, creating new network development opportunities.
Change: Aiming at core changes in production, through campus network upgrades, we support cloud migration and intelligent implementation of core businesses.
Just like the transformation from functional phones to smart phones, it supports the comprehensive upgrade of consumers' personal lives. The upgrade of the campus network to a fully wireless and fully intelligent network will also support the implementation of a large number of intelligent applications and digital capabilities in enterprise scenarios, supporting the intelligent iteration of enterprise development.
Embracing the intelligent era with campus networks is becoming a new possibility and industry opportunity. The next smart IP pioneer story may happen in the corporate campus closest to you.
