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Market Evaluation of Huawei S12700 Agile Switch.......................01
Agile Switch in the Education Industry ..........................................03
» Unparalleled Campus Experience—Huawei Agile Network Solution Applied in Southwest University for
Nationalities ......................................................................................................................................05
Agile Switch in the Transportation Industry...................................09
» Fully Improving Security Management of Railway Transportation Construction.....................................11
Agile Switch in the Medical Service Industry.................................15
» Digital Hospital Construction of Chongqing Daping Hospital ..............................................................17
» Creating a Digital Hospital and Promoting Mobile Medical IT Construction..........................................21
Agile Switch in the Radio & TV Industry.........................................25
» Huawei Agile Network Helps Changxing Media Transform into an Integrated Service Provider..............27
Agile Switch in Stadiums...............................................................31
» Huawei Agile Network Prospers in Ajax Stadium.................................................................................33
Agile Switch in Government..........................................................37
» Creating an Efficient E-government Platform, Improving People's Life Experience................................39
Agile Switch in Large Enterprises..................................................43
» Your Wish • Our Ways—Huawei Agile Switch S12700 Helps BAIC to Build the Agile Network............45
» Huawei Agile Network Helps Wuyang Iron and Steel Company Open a New Information Channel.......49
Contents
华为 S12700 系列敏捷交换机荣获中关村在线
“2013 年度卓越产品奖”
Market Evaluation
of Huawei S12700 Agile Switch
Agile Switch in the
Education Industry
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Bringing a Unique Campus Network Experience, Huawei Agile Network Has Been Deployed in Southwest University for NationalitiesFeedback from customer:
"Huawei agile network did a good job in three aspects. First, it realizes centralized management of wired and
wireless networks and in-depth convergence of the two networks. Second, it provides powerful user management
to deliver ubiquitous services. Third, it makes network quality perceptible and its security collaboration capabilities
help us monitor security of the entire campus network."
——Mr. Yu Mingsheng, head of SWUN information center
"The native AC and uniform user management functions of Huawei agile switch can full meet our requirement for
information network construction. We are especially interested in the SVF feature as this technology will significantly
simplify network management."
—Mr. Xie Shengjun, Mr. Wang Xiang from SWUN campus network management center
Advances and innovation in network technologies, such as open integration and resource consolidation, are rapidly
evolving campus networks into intelligently integrated platforms capable of supporting the next generation of
learning, research, and entertainment in educational environments.
SWUN is located in China’s Sichuan province, and is one of six universities of nationalities directly managed by the
State Ethnic Affairs Commission. The university has three campuses and a high-tech research and demonstration
center. After 11 years of development, SWUN’s campus network now services all three campuses. The network
connects over 80 level-2 websites as well as 15 application systems including the teaching and scientific research
platforms. As various applications had become increasingly dependent on the campus network, performance of
the campus network had become increasingly critical to the activities of the university. As a result, the design and
evolution of the campus network had become a priority task in recent years. With sharp increases of data in the
applications systems, the campus network had begun to see some new challenges.
Bringing a Unique Campus Network Experience, Huawei Agile Network Has Been Deployed in Southwest University for Nationalities
Feedback from customer:
"Huawei agile network did a good job in three
aspects. First, it realizes centralized management
of wired and wireless networks and in-depth
convergence of the two networks. Second, it provides
powerful user management to deliver ubiquitous
services. Third, it makes network quality perceptible
and its security collaboration capabilities help us
monitor security of the entire campus network."
—Mr. Yu Mingsheng, head of SWUN information center
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• SWUN’s existing campus network employed a
three layer network architecture. During new device
deployment or software upgrades, each access switch
had to be manually configured or upgraded. These
manual operations caused excess personnel workload
and would typically lead to misconfigurations due to
human error.
• In order to manage a rapidly increasing wireless user
base, the university purchased multiple independent Wifi
access controllers and attached them to the aggregation
switches in bypass mode. Configuration and user
management on the wired and wireless devices are
separate and independent, with service data needing to
be synchronized between wired and wireless devices. This
method of simply overlaying a wireless network on top
of their wired network increased network management
costs and degraded network service quality.
• As part of a reality that faults occasionally occur on
the network, in their existing environment locating the
exact location or cause of a fault was difficult and time-
consuming. To support their rapid service growth, and to
reduce network management costs, SWUN was in need
of a network upgrade that also improved operational
efficiency.
After a comprehensive and thorough evaluation of the
current campus network environment, Huawei created
a network solution to meet the university's current and
future service requirements.
The first step was simplification of the infrastructure.
SWUN’s campus network consists of hundreds of
network devices on multiple layers. To simplify the
network structure, Huawei employed an innovative Super
Virtual Fabric (SVF) based solution. This solution virtualizes
each access switch into a line card and virtualizes each
wireless access point (AP) into a port. Using SVF, the
entire network was able to be virtualized into a single
yet redundant highly-available virtual switch. By enabling
automatic topology discovery and uniform configuration
templates for wired and wireless devices, the access layer
gained zero-touch configuration, automatic upgrades,
and plug-and-play deployment, making network
management simpler and service deployment more
convenient.
The Huawei S12700 agile switch was used as the core
switch on the campus network to provide uniform user
management. Using Ethernet Network Processor (ENP)
chips, which provide native WLAN access controller
(AC) capability, the S12700 integrates and unifies the
functions of an AC and an Ethernet switch while
still providing terabit level wireless data forwarding
capability. The S12700 agile switch applies policies to
user groups consistently for both wired and wireless
access, providing centralized user management. The
system also supports differentiated accounting for
access users with different IP addresses. The SVF
based network implements uniform authentication for
wired and wireless users, uniform forwarding of wired
and wireless service data, and uniform configuration
management for wired and wireless devices. As a result
of these technology innovations, the number of APs and
access users that can be supported on the network are
increased dramatically.
Huawei’s Agi le Network solut ion also br ings
Huawei’s Packet Conservation Algorithm for Internet
( iPCA) technology to help improve performance
monitoring, with unmatched precision and granularity.
When a fault occurs, iPCA is able to rapidly detect and
identify the specific port or even the specific chip where
the fault is originating. This technology helps SWUN to
locate failure points quickly and precisely, enhancing
network troubleshooting capabilities and improving
operational efficiency.
Huawei S12700 agile switch is the world's first switch
that supports switch fabric hardware clustering – using
Huawei’s Cluster Switching System Gen2 (CSS2).
Multiple S12700 switches can be connected using
dedicated hardware channels via their switch fabric
units to create a cluster. This configuration shortens the
inter-chassis forwarding latency to as little as 4 µs. The
cluster supports 1+N backup of the Main Processing
Units (MPUs) and is able to continue operating with
even a single MPU. Inter-chassis link redundancy in the
cluster further improves reliability of the overall clustered
system.
"We chose Huawei agile network solution after
comparing products of multiple vendors," says Mr.
Yu Mingsheng, head of SWUN information center.
"Huawei agile network did a good job in three aspects.
First, it realizes centralized management of wired
and wireless networks and in-depth convergence of
the two networks. Second, it provides powerful user
management to deliver ubiquitous services. Third, it
makes network quality perceptible and its security
collaboration capabilities help us monitor security of the
entire campus network."
In addition, the ENP chips used in the S12700 agile
switch provide full programmability to support future
development of the campus network and the evolution
to an SDN network as SWUN and its network evolve.
By working closely with SWUN to understand their
needs, requirements, and challenges, Huawei was able
to successfully deliver an Agile Network based solution
platform that is both user experience and service
deployment focused. SWUN’s campus network,
through the innovation of Huawei’s Agile Network
solution will now be more easy to manage, seamlessly
scalable, and smoothly upgradeable. This solution will
allow SWUN IT staff to spend more time supporting
SWUN’s educational and business goals with less time
troubleshooting and maintaining the infrastructure, all
while providing faculty staff and students high-speed
reliable access to the university’s online resources.
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Agile Switch in the
Transportation Industry
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Fully Improving Security Management of Railway Transportation Construction—Huawei Helps Beijing Construct a Network of Railway Safety Surveillance and
Emergency Command Center
Introduction: In recent years,
China has experienced significant
g r o w t h i n u r b a n r a i l w a y
transportation. It is estimated that
China will complete 89 metro
lines, with a total length of 2500
kilometers in 2016. With the rapid
development of infrastructure
construction, safety accidents
occur more frequently in railway
t ranspor tat ion and bu i ld ing
construction; therefore, facing
the large-scale national railway
construction, safety technology
management is urgently needed.
According to Beijing Urban Overall Planning (2004–2020), Beijing
will complete 30 metro lines in 2020, with a total length of 1050
kilometers. The metro lines cover the whole main urban district and
connect it with the new urban district, which effectively relieve the
traffic congestion in Beijing and lays solid foundation for it edging into
word-class city.
In the early stage of railway construction in Beijing, there is an under-
investment in secure plan, design, construction, surveillance, and
operation. Beijing is in urgent need of enhancing the capability of
safety surveillance management, accident prevention and emergency
response processing so as to perfect the urban railway transportation
and emergency handling system.
Urgent Need for the Railway Safety Surveillance and
Emergency Command Center
During the railway construction of Beijing, major accidents should be
prevented and information technologies should be utilized to enhance
the capabilities of surveillance management, accident prevention,
and emergency processing. Beijing Railway Safety Surveillance and
Emergency Command Center adopts various intelligent management
measures, including construction onsite video surveillance, safety
risk elimination, emergency handling video conferencing, scheduling
management, and fault statistics collection in pilot running. With
these measures, the center can provide dynamic and comprehensive
information on safety surveillance, which serves as scientific decision
support for management personnel. The Railway Safety Surveillance
Fully Improving Security Management of Beij ing Rai lway Transportat ion Construction
Huawei Helps Beijing Construct
a Network of Railway Safety
Survei l lance and Emergency
Command Center
• Switch fabric hardware clustering
technology, Cluster Switch System
Generation2 (CSS2), ensures stable
and reliable operation of the security
monitoring system and real-time data
transmission.
• The 576*10GE full-line-speed
forwarding capabil ity meets
requirements of high-bandwidth
applications, such as multi-media
video conference and data access.
• The full programmability flexibly
meets new network requirements of
customers.
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and Emergency Command Center achieves the routine management, surveillance and warning, and emergency
command functions; therefore, it can implement intelligent urban railway management, enhance emergency
handling capability during constriction, improve safety management capability, and support emergency handling
capability. The Railway Safety Surveillance and Emergency Command Center consists of multiple subsystems,
such as construction onsite risk surveillance, real-time management for shield construction, construction onsite
video surveillance, safety risk eliminate, scheduling management, fault statistics collection during pilot running,
emergency handling video conference, fundamental support system (including information security, transport
network, emergency database for safety surveillance, Large Screen Display System (LSDS), and power
supply system), and emergency command platform for safety surveillance. Each subsystem needs
to collect information on construction site and control center and send the information to the
safety surveillance and emergency command center through the transport network for
processing. The transport network should be of high reliability, scalability, and high
performance.
Agile Switches Shoulder the Responsibilities
The Railway Safety Surveillance and Emergency Command Center provides
a network platform for the entire emergency command system. The
network must be able to safely cope with the burst traffic and a large
volume of data. The core layer must provide sufficient bandwidth and
adopt backup design, to meet data transport requirements of video
and voice services.
After careful consideration, the Railway Safety Surveillance and
Emergency Command Center chose Huawei as the partner.
Considering the multi-service requirement of the Railway Safety
Surveillance and Emergency Command Center, Huawei deploys
two S12700 agile switches at the core layer. The S12700 agile
switches adopt Huawei-developed Cluster Switch System
Generation 2 (CSS2) technology to implement 1+N backup
of MPUs. Services are not affected as long as one MPU in the entire cluster system works normally. This design
significantly reduces transmission delay and ensures stable running of the security surveillance system and real-time
data transmission.
The S12700 series support high-density line-speed cards, such as 48*10GE and 2*100GE line cards. Each S12700
can provide a maximum of 576 10GE ports or 24 100GE ports. This large port capacity fully meets
requirements of bandwidth-consuming applications, for example, multimedia video conferencing
and data access. The S12700 implements 0 packet loss in forwarding and 576*10GE
line-speed forwarding. The performance of S12700 has been verified by Ixia and
Miercom. In the InterOP conference held in Las Vegas, Miercom presented
the PERFORMANCE VERIFIED award to Huawei S12700 agile switches.
Huawei S12700 agile switch delivers a high performance to meet
the requirements of Railway Safety Surveillance and Emergency
Command Center. It transmits real-time data of construction
sites and railway operation, reports emergencies, and
reduces security risks.
With built-in high-speed, flexible Ethernet Network
Processors (ENP) , the S12700 have the fu l l
programmability to meet customers' requirements
and protect customer investment in 10 years.
Huawei S12700 agile switches fully meet
the requirements of constructing a network
platform for Beijing Railway Safety Surveillance
and Emergency Command Center. This
project sets a good example for other railway
construction projects.
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Agile Switch in the
Medical Service Industry
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Digital Hospital Construction of Chongqing Daping Hospital—Huawei S12700 Agile Switch's Success in the Medical Industry
Building digital hospitals is the trend of modern
medical development. A digital hospital system is
a comprehensive information system integrating
hospital service software, digital medical devices,
and network platform. For hospitals, each patient's
information is crucial to the patient's life. Therefore,
the network platform that saves patient information
must be secure and reliable. It must also be scalable
to support future evolution and capacity expansion,
avoiding reinvestment.
Chongqing Daping Hospital, also known as Third
Affiliated Hospital of Third Military Medical University,
is one of the first batch of national tertiary hospitals
in China. Located in Yuzhong District of Chongqing,
Daping Hospital is the only comprehensive military
hospital that integrates medical treatment, teaching,
and research. It has 44 cl inical and medical
departments and over 3,000 beds. Every year,
the hospital has over one million outpatients and
inpatients, and receives and treats over 60,000
patients. More than 30,000 surgeries are carried out
yearly in the hospital.
Daping Hospital always attaches importance to
medical IT construction and benefits from the
construction. The hospital network platform must run
normally 24/7 around the year to support the hospital
information system (HIS) and picture archiving and
communication system (PACS), and provide services
such as patient treatment and fee settlement. At the
beginning of network platform construction, the
hospital faces the following two challenges:
1. The hospital has thousands of large medical devices and
network terminals, as well as multiple service application
systems. How can the network retain reliable and stable to
support medical services?
2. How can the network platform be scalable and
adaptive to appl icat ion innovat ions to
maximize return on investment (ROI)?
Network platform reliability includes
device reliability and network
reliability. To ensure device
reliability, main processing
u n i t s ( M P U s ) , p o w e r
supplies, fans, and switch
fabric units (SFUs) all work
in redundancy mode. To
ensure network reliability, a
loop-free network structure
is used to build a network
with the highest reliability.
The entire hospital network
is divided into multiple logical
m o d u l e s b a s e d o n n e t w o r k
characteristics and campus layout. The
teaching center is the core of the hospital's
external network. Huawei S12700 agile switches function
as core devices on the network and form a cluster using
Cluster Switch System Generation2 (CSS2) technology.
Aggregation devices are connected to core devices
through gigabit optical fibers. The network provides
gigabit-to-the-desktop service. Intelligent stacking (iStack)
Digital Hospital Construction of Chongqing Daping Hospital
• Switch fabric hardware
clustering technology, CSS2,
ensures real-time, reliable
operation of services such as
the hospital information system
(HIS) and picture archiving and
communication system (PACS).
• Native AC builds a solid
foundation for a wireless hospital
and facilitates wired and wireless
convergence management.
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technology is deployed on aggregation and access
switches. The entire network uses a tree structure to
ensure network reliability, requiring no loop prevention
protocol and saving forwarding bandwidth.
Huawei CSS2 switch fabric hardware clustering
technology virtualizes multiple physical switches into
a logical switch. Member switches in the cluster work
in redundancy mode. CSS2 technology provides high
network reliability for the hospital network, ensuring
the normal operation of real-time services such as
teleconsultation, distance learning, and PACS services.
Hardware operation, administration and maintenance
(OAM) and Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) are
also deployed on all network devices to implement 50
ms protection switching. This minimizes the impact of
network faults on hospital services.
To support future service development and maximize ROI, the network
should support both existing services and new services in the next three to five
years, especially wireless hospital services.
Wired and wireless convergence is a big advantage of the solution. On traditional
networks, switches and ACs provide policy control for wired and wireless users respectively.
Wired and wireless users cannot be controlled and managed uniformly, making network difficult
to manage and maintain. Huawei S12700 agile switches provide the native AC function to implement
unified authentication, policy control, and management for wired and wireless users. The use of native AC instead
of independent AC devices facilitates wireless service deployment in the future. The entire network can be smoothly
evolved into a wired and wireless converged network. Users can obtain information regardless of their locations and
access modes. For example, doctors can query historical diagnosis information on the hospital network, and patients
can obtain hospital information on the Internet or the official hospital website. Huawei S12700 switches provide
consistent wired and wireless data forwarding. The wireless forwarding performance is as good as wired forwarding
performance, enabling the network to provide wireless PACS services.
Huawei S12700 agile switches have dual control planes. The network can not only meet current HIS requirements,
but also be smoothly upgraded to a software-defined networking (SDN) network. S12700 switches facilitate
network evolution and new service deployment in the future.
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Creating a Digital Hospital and Promot ing Mobi le Medical IT Construction
• Innovative switch fabric hardware
clustering technology, CSS2, ensures
reliability of the hospital's internal
and external networks.
• iPCA technology will be deployed
on the entire network to improve
ne twork O&M qua l i t y and
implement accurate O&M on the
entire network.
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The medical reform promotes digital hospital
construction. Based on computer, network,
and intelligence technologies, a digital hospital
integrates and transmits patient information,
and includes patient information in the society
medical database. It facilitates medical resource
integration and process optimization, reduces
operating expense (OPEX), and improves service
quality, work efficiency, and management level.
Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of
Chinese Medicine (GZUCM), a hospital adopting
both traditional Chinese and western medicine,
is a comprehensive hospital integrating
medical treatment, teaching, and research.
The hospital is an important research
center for the Chinese orthopedics
science, which is a national and
provincial key discipline in GZUCM.
The hospital decided to build a
digital hospital network for its new
building. Future service growth,
network sca labi l i ty, and logica l
isolation between internal and external
networks should be considered in
network construction. Core devices should
be robust and stable. Even when single-point
failures occur, the network must stably process
internal services such as hospital information system
(HIS), laboratory information system (LIS), and picture
archiving and communication system (PACS) services.
The internal network should also support wireless
services, ensuring the construction of mobile medical
treatment in the hospital.
Creating a Digital Hospital and Promoting Mobile Medical IT Construction—Huawei S12700 Series Agile Switches Help Third Affiliated Hospital of
Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine Build an Agile Network
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Network Reliability Is Crucial
According to Huawei's experience in building digital hospitals,
hospital service systems such as HIS, LIS, and PACS require the
network to process services efficiently, transmit image information in real
time, and have high reliability.
To prevent service interruptions caused by single-point failures, Huawei uses the industry's
most advanced switch fabric hardware clustering technology: Cluster Switch System Generation2
(CSS2). CSS2 technology virtualizes two physical core switches into a logical switch through switch fabric units
(SFUs). The innovative 1+N backup of main processing units (MPUs) further improves cluster reliability.
Improving Network O&M Quality and Ensuring Internal Network Security
To simplify network operation and maintenance (O&M), Huawei uses the unique Packet Conservation Algorithm
for Internet (iPCA) technology of S12700 series agile switches to mark, color, and count packets of services such as
remote medical video teaching and teleconsultation. iPCA technology provides precise quality detection and real-
time fault location without extra traffic costs. It helps O&M personnel easily obtain network status, improves fault
location efficiency, and ensures the high quality of videos used in remote medical teaching and teleconsultation.
IT technologies and communications networks facilitate medical IT construction, but also bring various security
risks. Unauthorized users may steal confidential hospital information for personal gain, access hospital application
systems, and tamper data in the systems. Terminals may not have patches installed in time, causing worm spreading
on the entire network. Based on the Big Data concept, Huawei S12700 series agile switches use a next-generation
security firewall card to help O&M personnel find security risks by analyzing user behaviors. The firewall card enables
the network to actively defend against attacks, solving security problems in mobile payment and remote wireless
access that cannot be solved by traditional security devices.
Mobile Medical Treatment Promotes the Medical IT Construction of
Third Affiliated Hospital of GZUCM
Mobile medical treatment, renowned as a crown jewel, is a key project in the Ministry of
Health. It is also a focus of the medical IT construction in Third Affiliated Hospital of GZUCM. The
construction of mobile medical treatment accelerates the deployment and implementation of wireless
medical services such as wireless ward round, mobile nursing, mobile infusion, and patient positioning. To
help the hospital quickly deploy wireless services and simplify wired and wireless networks management, Huawei
uses the native AC function of S12700 series agile switches to manage and control APs and forward APs' traffic
through Ethernet Network Processor (ENP) cards. S12700 series agile switches provide industry-leading unified
management, policy, and forwarding for wired and wireless services, ensuring uniform and optimal user experience
and management experience on the wired and wireless networks.
Future-oriented Network Evolution Capability
The implementation of Huawei solutions in Third Affiliated Hospital of GZUCM enables the hospital network to
support various services. Huawei S12700 series agile switches function as core devices on the network. S12700
series agile switches have the full programmability and shorten service provisioning from two years to six months,
removing the need to replace hardware. The live network can be smoothly evolved to a software-defined
networking (SDN) network, providing a more open and reliable architecture, faster transmission speed, and higher
security and scalability.
Summary
The deployment of Huawei agile network in Third Affiliated Hospital of GZUCM promotes the hospital's mobile medical
IT construction and improves the operation capability of the digital hospital.
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Agile Switch in the
Radio & TV Industry
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Huawei Agile Network Helps Changxing Media Transform into an Integrated Service Provider
• Wired and Wireless Convergence
Helps to Build a Wireless City.
• Huawei-patented iPCA improves fault
location efficiency and ensures stable
network operation.
05Huawei Agile Network Helps Changxing Media Transform into an Integrated Service Provider
As the broadcast te lev i s ion network ,
telecommunications network, and Internet
become integrated, national broadcast
television operators cannot compete with
telecom operators by providing only traditional
cable television services. The only way to stay
relevant in such a heavily competitive market
is to transform into an integrated service
provider that offers value-added services and
uses advanced network technologies. In order
to retain customers and increase the average
revenue per user (ARPU), broadcast television
operators have started to construct digital
cable television systems, deliver value-added
services, and explore new ways to develop
into a full-service provider offering voice,
video, and data using existing broadcast
television resources.
Changxing Media was founded in 1998 and has become
a fast developing broadcast television operator in the
Zhejiang broadcast television industry through decades of
development. It has expanded its scope from the confines
of the broadcast television industry and has undertaken
the construction of the social security video surveillance
system and country-wide video consultation system by
utilizing high-quality network resources. The continuous
expansion of data services as well as other network value-
added services has made Changxing Media a classic case
of successful transformation in the Zhejiang broadcast
television industry.
Changxing Media Encounters Many Stumbling
Blocks on the Development Road
Along its transformation path, Changxing Media has
expanded to provide a variety of services for high-ARPU
consumers, such as set-top box interactive two-way
services, high-definition VoD services, home broadband
Internet access services, VPN services for VIP customers,
and video surveillance. These services must be two-way as
well as interactive and have carrier-class service network
reliability, bandwidth resources, multi-service control,
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scalability, and manageability. When many
services are running concurrently on such a
large scale, these network requirements will
directly affect the service transmission quality
and user experience, and become the key factor
that determines whether the service transformation
of a broadcast television operator is successful.
The ongoing construction of the safe city video surveillance
system as well as the video bandwidth requirements of over 5000
cameras require the broadcast television's MAN to be upgraded from
a GE to a 10GE backbone network. To meet this as well as other reliability,
operation, and maintenance requirements, Changxing Media's MAN must be
reconstructed into an IP data MAN that features high performance, high reliability, operability,
and scalability and applies to multi-service transmission to support service development and expansion for
the next 3 to 5 years.
To meet network service requirements, Huawei innovatively proposes a suite of customizable agile network
solutions. Huawei meets the service transformation requirements of Changxing Media through a customized
adaptation of the agile network solutions.
Industry's Only Switch Fabric Hardware Clustering CSS2 Ensures a Solid and Reliable Network for
Changxing Media
As the data access traffic generated by Changxing Media gradually increases and network reliability requirements
become higher, a single switch can no longer meet multi-service development requirements. To implement large
scale data forwarding and high network reliability, switch clustering technology can be deployed on the broadcast
television network. Huawei's latest released second-generation switch fabric clustering technology Cluster Switch
System Generation2 (CSS2) fully meets the requirements of broadcast television operators. In CSS2, 1+N backup of
main control units solves the problem of single-point failures and provides inter-chassis main control unit backup to
improve network reliability. Additionally, the CSS2 cluster bandwidth reaches up to 1.92 Tbit/s, big data forwarding
requirements of broadcast television operators are met allowing more services to be transmitted.
Huawei's Innovative Network Monitoring Technology iPCA
Guarantees a Stable Network Operation
The safe city video surveillance service constructed by Changxing Media needs
to be deployed in many towns, and the network topology needs to cover the
entire Changxing county. In network situations such as this, O&M is complex and
network fault location may last for long periods of time. Since traditional network
monitoring technologies start after faults occur, they can neither locate network faults in a
rapid manner nor perform real-time monitoring and assessment of the live network. Huawei's
innovative Packet Conservation Algorithm for Internet (iPCA) technology solves these problems. iPCA
changes the traditional method of using simulated traffic for fault location and is capable of monitoring
the network quality for any type of service flow anywhere and anytime, without extra costs or reduction in
network performance. This cutting-edge fault detection technology turns "extensive management" to "fine granular
management." iPCA can work with the Controller to quantify the network quality and report the video service
operating status in real time. iPCA is enabled on both the aggregation switches in towns and core switches for the
county to ensure the stable operation of the backbone network. This technology greatly reduces the network O&M
investment of Changxing Media and improves network O&M efficiency.
Huawei Wired and Wireless Convergence Helps Changxing Media Build a Wireless City
Huawei agile network solutions provide strong support for the wireless city construction undertaken by Changxing
Media. The native AC function is implemented on the S12700 agile switches in the Huawei wired and wireless
convergence solution to support various access modes including MAC address authentication and Portal
authentication. Cameras on the video surveillance network use MAC address authentication, while wireless APs use
Portal authentication. The deployed Controller can automatically collect MAC addresses for identity authentication.
Wired and wireless converged network greatly simplifies the network structure of Changxing Media, reduces the
investment in ACs, facilitates network O&M, and reduces the CAPEX. In addition, the converged network eliminates
the forwarding bottleneck in traditional AC branched networking and eliminates unnecessary delay generated
when wireless service traffic needs to pass through an AC after entering a switch, greatly improving wireless
forwarding efficiency. The converged network model supports future capacity expansion, has high scalability, and
allows configurations to be delivered based on a template. Therefore, the converged network increases the working
efficiency of maintenance personnel and greatly reduces maintenance difficulty.
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Agile Switch in
Stadiums
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Huawei Ag i l e Network Prospers in Ajax Stadium
• High-density Wi-Fi coverage is
provided, wired and wireless
convergence is deployed in the entire
stadium.
• Unified user and device intelligent
management improves network
maintenance efficiency of the
stadium.
06Huawei Agile Network Prospers in Ajax Stadium
Preface: As mobile Internet reaches out to
almost every part of people's life, mobile users'
demand for "stay connected" keeps increasing,
presenting huge business opportunities. A
stadium crowded with people on matchdays is
challenged by building a network that is easy
to manage with the minimum deployment and
maintenance cost, to offer spectators ubiquitous
access and innovative value-added services.
Huawei Agile Network and the Giant
Football Club Had Their First Met.
Founded in 1900, Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax,
also known as AFC Ajax, is a long-established giant
football club that has won four UEFA Champions
Cups. It is one of the top ten most successful clubs in
the world and is revered as the "World's No.1 Talent
Factory". Its renowned Youth Program has produced
many elite soccer talents, including top soccer stars
Johan Cruyff, Dennis Bergkamp, and Marco Van
Basten.
In 1996, AFC Ajax moved to its current home
ground--Amsterdam ArenA stadium, which was
completed that year. Equipped with advanced
and complete facilities and a seating capacity of
53,000, the stadium remained fans' favorite for a
long time. Since the stadium had been in use for
over a decade, poor network coverage remained a
challenge, making it difficult for spectators to share
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06their joy and experiences online with friends
and families. This was in stark contrast with
the stadium's intended purpose which was to
provide spectators with a superb match watching
experience by combining competitive sports with
advanced technologies.
In 2014, Huawei became Amsterdam ArenA's overall
network solution provider and partnered with K&H to provide
full Wi-Fi coverage for the stadium. The stadium operator had
high expectations on the Wi-Fi network and required the network to
be highly reliable, easy to operate and maintain, and capable of providing
full signal coverage for the stadium. To meet the expectations, constructing a fully-
functioning wireless network is the first step. Through the network, the spectators can
access the Internet at anytime, from anywhere and the stadium can provision various value-added
services, including online shopping, video replay, and indoor positioning.
Agile Network Creates Infinite Possibilities.
Amsterdam ArenA uses Huawei's latest agile network solution, which deploys two S12700 agile switches as the
campus core devices and the Campus Controller as the user policy and service management center. Paired with the
next-generation firewalls NGFW USG6650, Huawei solution offers an all-round security guarantee.
The currently used wireless coverage solutions all use independent wireless controllers to manage wireless networks
and wireless user policies separately. Such solutions cause repetitive work of network administrators and increase
the network Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The native AC technology applied on Huawei S12700 agile switches
integrates wireless access controller functions on regular line cards based on the programmability. By implementing
uniform AP management and control, and traffic forwarding, Huawei agile
switches converge the wired and wireless networks to achieve unified policy
control, forwarding, and management, greatly improving the user experience
and simplifying network management.
On matchdays when crowds of spectators delight in sharing their joys and excitements
by FaceTime, a network fault will totally ruin the delights. Therefore, network stability
is significantly important. Huawei's unique CSS2 technology virtualizes two S12700 agile
switches into one logical switch to obtain higher cluster bandwidth and enhance core node
reliability. The unprecedented CSS2 technology implements 1+N MPU backup, making the network
extremely reliable.
It is a very challenging task for the stadium to maintain and manage a network that can accommodate 53,000
users, especially that the stadium has more than one network service provider. Huawei agile network solution makes
wireless network management and maintenance easy and simple for the stadium's maintenance team. Huawei
eSight, the network management platform, enables unified management of wired and wireless users on the entire
network. Through visualized monitoring, the network administrator can easily obtain information about wireless
coverage, user access, interference sources, and rogue APs. Huawei eSight provides end-to-end monitoring on users,
SSIDs, APs and ACs, which improves the O&M efficiency and user experience.
In high-density access scenarios such as stadiums and concert halls, wireless signals easily interfere with each other,
which is also the case in Amsterdam ArenA. Amsterdam ArenA has made various attempts and efforts to deal with
access failures and terminal disconnection errors that occur on matchdays, but all failed.
With 20 years of accumulated technical experience in the wireless communications field, Huawei formulates the
Wi-Fi coverage solution well suited for the high-density access scenarios. Together with accurate network planning
and innovative hardware and software features, Huawei's solutions overcome access difficulties in high-density
environments, allowing a large number of users to access networks in a small physical spaces.
Huawei leverages a series of innovative technologies and solutions to build an agile network for AFC Ajax, including
wired and wireless in-depth convergence, unified user and device management, CSS2 switch fabric hardware
clustering technology, and high-density Wi-Fi solutions. These technologies and solutions help improve the Ajax
network quality and enhance the fan experience. Huawei will form alliances with more and more European giant
clubs to boost agile network popularity, creating a new brand.
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Government
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C r e a t i n g a n E f f i c i e n t E-Government Platform, Improving People's Life Experience
• iPCA network quality awareness
improves online administrative
approval efficiency.
• The fully programmable architecture
facilitates e-government service
innovation.
07Dongguan's GDP rose to CNY550 billion in 2013 with a 9.8% increase compared to the previous year, ranking
eighth in China. Dongguan is a city with one of the fastest growing economy and population in China. Such
economic growth and increase in population is a rare occurrence in the world today. Therefore, constructing a new
e-government platform that effectively serves economy and people's lives has become a top priority.
An e-government network works in service of the government and the general public to increase government
working efficiency, enhance government transparency, and improve public policies.
Creating an Efficient E-Government Platform, Improving People's Life Experience—Agile Switches Help Build a Next-Generation E-Government Network for Dongguan
A Well-Designed E-government Platform
Requires High-Performance Network Devices
An e-government network is a large unified platform
and must have the capability to support continuous
dynamic evolution involving application software,
servers, and network devices. The network is the core
of the dynamic platform and connects all nodes as a
whole.
Traditional network devices have extensive bandwidth
requirements and lack flexibility in their forwarding
capability. They may also have many functions which
come at high costs. This creates big challenges for
network evolution.
Among the products and solutions distributed by many
major network equipment vendors, the agile network
solutions using S12700 Series agile switch together
with the high-performance data center solutions using
CE12800 data center switches stand at the forefront.
Robust Network Requires Reliable Core Devices
By the end of December 2013, there had been 172,800
mini, small, and medium enterprises in Donguan with
a 14.5% increase compared to the previous year.
Indicators of investment, consumption, foreign trade,
and investment promotion ranked the highest in China.
Such a vigorous economy will bring a large number
of government activities and government application
requirements. To meet these requirements, a stable,
unified, and efficient e-government platform is required.
S12700 switches support the industry-leading switch
fabric hardware clustering technology: Cluster Switch
System Generation2 (CSS2). They also feature the
industry's lowest inter-chassis forwarding delay of
4μs, and innovatively implement 1+N backup of main
control units, ensuring that a cluster can work normally
even if only a single main control unit is functioning.
CSS2 greatly improves stability of network core devices.
These features make S12700 switches applicable to
scenarios that require a large number of cross-platform
applications, such as access to cloud data centers. As
the town-level interconnected network core, S12700
switches together with the data center network
providing 100 Tbit/s switching capacity and using
CE12800s construct a stable and high-speed network
platform for each government application.
Real-T ime Network Qual i ty Awareness
Effectively Solves Network Problems
Online application approval is an effective way to
optimize work procedures, increase administrative
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approval efficiency, and enhance the overall investment
environment. Therefore, 90% of administrative approvals
undertaken by the Dongguan Municipal Government
are performed online. However, it is impossible to
ensure that each network node is working normally
and stably on a network, especially on an inter-region,
large-scale Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) because
unpredictable problems often occur on access networks
of such complexity. To prevent such situations from
occurring, the network quality must be detected in real
time and network faults must be located rapidly without
increasing network load. This network detection process
plays a crucial role in the construction of a unified,
standardized, interoperable, and shared e-government
network platform.
Huawei's patented Packet Conservation Algorithm for
Internet (iPCA) technology provides excellent service
quality awareness and accurate fault location capabilities
for the network. Before user experience is degraded, the
network can assess the service quality, accurately locate
network faults, and provide detailed, visualized quality
records on eSight, helping network administrators
quickly determine which faults affect service experience.
Serv i ce Innovat ion Takes the Lead in
E-Government
The ultimate aim of an e-government network is to
benefit the public and enable the results of innovation
and development to be shared and published easily. It is
the purpose of an e-government network to make the
results of network technologies facilitate online office
for organizations and service handling for the public. An
e-government network is a new way to promote open
administration and strengthen the public service level.
One innovation is wireless office and wireless service
handling.
Research data shows that by 2015, the number of Wi-Fi
Internet connections will exceed that of wired Internet
connections, and Wi-Fi traffic will account
for 46.7% of the total global data traffic. The
fast development of technologies as well as the
increasing popularity and enhanced performance of
mobile terminals make AP bandwidth and concurrent
user capacity a bottleneck. Traditional deployment
methods cannot ensure network quality and a good
user experience. Constructing a wireless network on
the existing wired network results in high management
costs and reduced management efficiency. A wired
and wireless converged network technology is required
to control and manage wired and wireless users in a
unified manner.
Huawei agile network provides full programmability to
simplify network deployment. The wireless AC function
is built-in function of service cards, removing the need
to deploy independent AC devices or AC cards.
A unified wired and wireless management GUI manages
wireless users similar to that of traditional wired
management GUIs and allows zero-configuration for
access switches like wireless APs, implementing a one-
time learning, one-time management, and one-time
deployment model.
Agi le switches with unif ied user management
technology can implement fine-grained management
and control over campus network users and easily
perform differentiated management for users in
government and the public sector.
Network Security——Key to Constructing an
E-Government Network Platform
Network security and informatization are crucial
to many industries. The Internet has become an
integral part of our lives and has brought profound
changes in the way we live, work and interact with
each other. Therefore, ignoring network security of a
new e-government platform will seriously affect the
government's executive power and credibility.
Conclusion
As network statistics technologies continue to develop, the daily life of people, the economy, production, and shopping are
becoming more and more centralized on the Internet. This makes the construction of an e-government platform network
crucial. Traditional person-to-person government system models have restricted government from working efficiency. There is an
emergent need to construct a new network platform to strengthen the public service level.
To meet this demand, a unified, standardized, interoperable, and shared e-government network platform must be constructed.
Use network information technologies, integrate information resources, optimize service procedures, implement approval
information sharing and collaborative approval, as well as utilize tools such as digital certificates and electronic seals to achieve the
following functions:
1. Allow enterprises and the general public to submit applications over the Internet.
2. Enable approval data to be transmitted over the network.
3. Allow administrative departments to approve applications over the network.
4. Publish approval results on the network.
As new application modes differ greatly in the future, constructing a network that can dynamically evolve is a necessity in order to
meet application requirements for the next 5 to 10 years. Huawei agile network supports a variety of innovative technologies and
has SDN evolution capabilities provided by Huawei Ethernet Network Processor (ENP) chips, meeting all requirements and taking
the lead in e-government through application innovation.
To prevent such issues, Huawei agile network solutions provide device- and network-level security protection.
In device-level security defense, Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) cards on S12700 switches provide security defense
functions such as Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and anti-Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) utilities. In network-
level security defense, network collaboration protection evolves from single-point protection to total-network
protection, covering the data center network using CE12800s as core switches. All the devices on the network
are security event listeners and forward suspicious traffic to the virtual security resource center, implementing on-
demand security resource allocation and network security protection to prevent the entire network from attacks.
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Your Wish Our Ways
• The agile network with S12700 agile
switches as the core is deployed on
the live network.
• High performance and large-capacity
entries ensure smooth forwarding
of big data between departments of
the Beijing Automotive Group.
08Your Wish • Our Ways—Huawei Agile Switch S12700 Helps BAIC to Build the Agile Network
BAIC and Agile Switch
Beijing Automotive Group (officially Beijing Automotive Industry
Holding Co., Ltd., also known as BAIC Group or Beiqi) is one of
five largest Chinese automotive groups. BAIC Group is mainly
engaged in automotive manufacturing, production of auto
parts, service trade, R&D, and readjustment. It is also the
development and planning center, capital operation
center, product development center, and talent center
of the Beijing automotive industry.
In June 2013, Beijing Automobile Works Co., Ltd.
(BAW) was founded. It is a subsidiary of BAIC
that produces light off-load vehicles and military
vehicles. This is an important measure for building
Chinese specialized military vehicle and SUV base,
which was proposed by Beijing municipal leaders.
The blueprint of BAW is ready to come out.
On August 8, 2013, BAIC leaders were invited to
join the agile switch press conference. Participants
are deeply affected by the press conference. The
subject "Now, it is time to change the future" of
the first agile switch S12700 press conference strikes
resonance in BAIC leaders' heart and mind. The topics
of agile switch, agile network, and continuous evolution
draft the future blueprint, which is also the objective of BAW
network construction.
Huawei communicates with BAIC multiple times after the conference.
The switching fabric hardware cluster technology CSS2, large-capacity
entries, and native AC (wired and wireless convergence), fully programmable
architecture of Huawei agile switch S12700 fully meet requirements of BAW
future network construction.
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Blueprint Leads the Way
"Rapid development of science and technology creates
increasing requirements of production enterprises
on technologies. Without technology foresight, the
intelligent system architecture established using
outdated technologies may become outdated rapidly
and cannot meet users requirements. To ensure that the
system is able to adapt to intelligent development trends
for the following several years, hardware, software,
network devices, and information systems should use
open protocols that are compatible with international
standards. The intelligent system should use advanced
products and technologies so that an intelligent system
with high performance, high speed, large capacity, high
reliability, ubiquitous connection capability is available."
Being customer-oriented, BAIC quickly learns customers
requirements, stipulates Big Data strategic planning, and
formulates Big Data blueprint. New service models can
be deployed to understand consumers' requirements.
By doing this, BAIC can implement precision marketing
and targeted advertising, reduce operation costs, and
even accurately predict sales performance. To deploy
innovative services, the lower-layer network must use
advanced technologies. Network devices should be
open to support new service deployment.
To meet advancedness requirements of the BAIC
network, Huawei deploys the agile switch S12700.
The S12700 uses the first built-in Ethernet Network
Processor (ENP). The S12700's fully programmable
architecture allows innovative services to be deployed,
improving service provisioning four times. The S12700's
open interfaces and user-defined forwarding processes
meet service customization requirements. The S12700
works with Agile Controller in the SDN solution, which
allows the current network to be smoothly migrated to
the SDN network, protecting investments.
"The Huawei S12700 series agile switches can play a
significant role in campus networks now and for years
to come, thanks to its future-proof design and capability
to accommodate evolving user needs. Key components
of the future-proof design include large capacity of
MAC, FIB and ARP tables as well as its SDN-ready/
programmable architecture."—Miercom
Openness is the core of BAIC. More than 30 years
ago, BAIC took the first step in opening to the outside
world. "We can gain the initiative to international
competitiveness and better develop BAIC only through
openness." —leaders emphasize the openness. In the
future network blueprint, openness is a necessity.
"Hardware, software, network devices, and information
systems should use open protocols that are compatible
with international standards."—This is the network
design principle.
Traditional network products carry many proprietary
protocols or use current international standard
protocols but cannot well support future international
standard protocols. Huawei S12700 on the BAIC live
network uses Huawei stable and reliable Versatile
Routing Platform (VRP), hardware structure based on
the core router. This ensures the leading connectivity.
The S12700 not only uses international standard open
protocols, but also is compatible with proprietary
protocols of mainstream vendors. Tests from global
well-known test organizations Miercom and Tolly show
that the S12700 and Cisco switches have excellent
interoperability. Miercom test of the S12700 shows that
Protocol Oblivious Forwarding (POF) enables devices to
support future innovative protocols.
"Because POF applies to all protocols, in the future it
will be able to control traffic types that have yet to be
introduced."—Miercom
Intell igent System Meets Fast-Changing
Requirements
"The intelligent system should use advanced products
and technologies so that an intelligent system with high
performance, high speed, large capacity, high reliability,
ubiquitous connection capability is available."—BAIC
has original ideas of the intelligent system platform,
which are unique in the automotive industry.
There are many networks in BAIC, including purchase,
production, R&D, sales, f inance, and customer
data networks. The lower-layer network is required
to provide high capacity, high performance, and
intelligence. Furthermore, the network layers and
network management need to be simplified. To meet
BAIC requirements, Huawei deploys the Agile Network
Solution on the live network.
The S12700 agile switch provides millions of MAC
and FIB entries, with the cluster bandwidth as high
as 1.92 Tbit/s. IXIA test shows that the S12700 agile
switch has the highest density of 10GE interfaces
and line-speed forwarding capability. The line-speed
forwarding capability of 576 10GE interfaces on the
S12700 is leading around the world. The high-density
10GE interfaces ensure data transmission bandwidth
between BAIC departments. The SFUs can be upgraded
to provide higher switching capacity, protecting BAIC
investments.
Innovative CSS2 of the S12700 implements 1+N backup
of MPUs. The cluster system can work when only one
MPU works. The CSS2 technology ensures the cluster
system works properly with only one MPU. The reliability
surpasses traditional card-level backup. The switching
fabric hardware cluster technology provides the inter-
chassis forwarding delay only 4 μs. CSS2 is suitable
for many inter-platform applications such as cloud data
centers.
To simplify the BAIC network, Huawei Agile Campus
Network uses native AC technology. A common service
card can be integrated with AC processing and Ethernet
switching. The switch provides as high as Tbit/s data
forwarding. Compared with traditional AC, the switch
manages more APs and STAs and allows 802.11ac high-
speed access.
In addition to service processing, BAIC requires
intel l igent O&M. As BAIC services develop, the
BAIC network scale increases. There are increasing
requirements for intelligent deployment and accurate
O&M. The S12700 cons iders inte l l igent O&M
requirements starting from its design. The S12700 uses
innovatively patented technology Packet Conservation
Algorithm for Internet (iPCA). iPCA allows the network
to detect the quality and accurately locates faults.
iPCA determines whether services can be provisioned
according to the service model, uses real service flows to
detect the network quality, displays detailed visualized
quality records in eSight, and accurately locates network
faults in real time.
Conclusion
The thrive of BAIC services brings in explosive
increase of purchase, production, R&D, sales, finance,
and customers data. BAIC also considers analysis of
unstructured customers information data from the
Internet, social networking, and communication
tools to understand customers' requirements
and attitudes. By doing this, BAIC can implement
precision marketing and targeted advertising, reduce
operation costs, and even accurately predict sales
performance. BAIC will take a farewell to the best-
effort (BE) model on the IP network and focuses
on service and user experience. Huawei, a pioneer
of the next-generation network, users the agile
network architecture and agile switches to help BAIC
go along the agile way and become the leader of
the automotive industry network.
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Huawei Ag i l e Network Helps Wuyang Iron and Steel Company Open a New Information Channel
• A hierarchical, robust, and scalable
network meets capacity expansion
requirements brought by rapid service
growth of enterprises for the next 10
years.
• U n i f i e d u s e r m a n a g e m e n t
implements accurate management
and control of core resources of
enterprises.
09Huawei Agile Network Helps Wuyang Iron and Steel Company Open a New Information Channel
Foreword: Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. of Hebei Iron
and Steel Group (Wuyang Iron and Steel Company for
short) is China's first base for producing and researching
wide and heavy steel plates, an important import
substitution base for national wide and heavy steel
plates, and one of China's top 500 enterprises. There are
more than 10,000 employees in Wuyang Iron and Steel
Company. Its total assets reach CNY13.2 billion. Wuyang
Iron and Steel Company was founded and prospered
because of iron and has made a lot of contributions. Its
products are widely applied in major national projects and
major technical equipment items. Wuyang Iron and Steel
Company provided 120,000 tons of steel plates for Three
Gorges Project, which accounted for more than 80% in
the total use of similar products. All the 24 permanent ship
lock gates in Three Gorges Project are made by Wuyang
Iron and Steel Company. The company also developed 110
mm thick Q460E-Z35 steel plates specifically for Beijing
2008 Olympic Games. For the first time in the world, the
steel of the Bird's Nest is all made in China. In addition,
Wuyang Iron and Steel Company played a critical role in
fields including West-East Gas Pipeline, West-East Electricity
Transmission Project, Manned Space Flight, and National
Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Agile Network Journey of Wuyang Iron and
Steel Company
Wuyang Iron and Steel Company rapidly developed
in the last 10 years and currently produces 3 million
tons of steel and 2.6 million tons of steel plates
every year. Its annual sales income exceeds CNY10
billion and its total profits nearly reach CNY2 billion.
The company is moving forward to the target of
constructing a cutting-edge base for wide and heavy
steel plates. The core competition among modern
enterprises is the information competition, which
is inseparable from the network. A robust, stable,
and secure information network is the booster of
enterprise information system construction, which
can greatly improve enterprises' core competitiveness.
The problems in the campus network of Wuyang
Iron and Steel Company, however, are hindering the
company's pace of rapid information development.
Problems in the Network of Wuyang Iron
and Steel Company
With the rapid information system development of
Wuyang Iron and Steel Company, the company's
network is confronted with more and more problems.
Proper reconstruction on the existing network is
necessary to cope with company's information
system development.
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Based on functions, the company's campus network consists of several functional networks such as the production
network, equipment network, and Office Automation (OA) network. As the number of enterprise application
systems increases, Wuyang Iron and Steel Company has an urgent demand for fast information sharing and network
convergence to improve comprehensive work efficiency. Because network traffic will further increase after network
convergence, the network bandwidth will become a bottleneck. In addition, multiple functional networks share link
bandwidth and are logically isolated based only on VLANs. Terminal access cannot be controlled, posing great risks
to the company's network and making network management difficult.
Agile Network Addresses the Problems
Targeting the company's network requirements, Huawei performs proper reconstruction on the company's campus
network as follows:
1. Converge functional networks to improve network efficiency. After the reconstruction is completed, the
measurement network and energy network are independent from other networks that are converged. As the hub of
data transmission, the core layer has high reliability requirements. Huawei deploys high-performance S12700 series
agile switches as core switches and uses CSS2 technology to implement high reliability of the core layer. Meanwhile,
Huawei deploys seven aggregation nodes for departments, including the sales department, the automation
department, and headquarters. The production areas in the company, including all departments and all workshops,
are covered. A layered, reliable network is therefore constructed, facilitating operation and maintenance (O&M) and
management.
2. Huawei S12700s provide the unified user management function to control authorization on all users on the
campus network. The campus network is divided into multiple resource domains, such as the portal domain,
management domain, and server domain. Management and control on network resources are implemented
based on security levels of the domains. In this manner, terminal access is controlled, behaviors of employees on
key positions are strictly managed and controlled, standard and proper terminal access is ensured, and employee
bandwidth is controlled in a refined way. Therefore, bandwidth for key services is guaranteed, and the cost of traffic
to the Internet is lowered.
3. Deploying Huawei Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) to enhance network security management based on
all information systems passing through the NGFWs and network antivirus system, terminal access control, and
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) protecting core data resources. If required, deploy Huawei Agile Controller that can
work with agile switches and NGFWs to implement united security, providing all-round high security for the agile
campus network.
Agile Network Opens a New Information Channel for Wuyang Iron and Steel Company
The campus network of Wuyang Iron and Steel Company is successfully reconstructed. Huawei leverages existing
equipments to protect the company's investment and uses innovative technologies including unified user
management, CSS2, and united security to deploy a more stable, secure, flexible, and proper network for the
company. A new channel is opened for information development of Wuyang Iron and Steel Company.
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Huawei Agile Switch's Customer List
Radio & TV
Changxing Media Group Co., Ltd.
Shandong Cable TV Co., Ltd.
Transportation
Beijing MTR Corporation Limited
Beijing Municipal Rail Transit Security Surveillance and
Emergency Command Center
Guangzhou Metro
Ningbo South Railway Station
PIS of Line 16 of Beijing Metro
Yanfang Line of Beijing Metro
Education
Adigrat University in Ethiopia
Datong University
Guangdong College of Industry and Commerce
Guangxi Academy of Fine Arts
Guangzhou Medical University
Hubei University
National Judges College
No. 3 High School of Baoding
Shanghai Second Polytechnic University
Southwest University for Nationalities
Tianjin Experimental High School
Turkey's Ulakbim Education Network
Finance
Bank of Communications, Hebei Branch
People's Bank of China, Chengdu Branch
Shanxi Provincial Rural Credit Cooperative
Yuxi Rural Credit Cooperative
Internet
Company
Founder Broadband Network Service Co., Ltd.
GOME Electrical Appliances
Tai'an Cloud Computing Center
Energy
China Southern Power Grid
Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd., Yunan Branch
Large
Enterprises
Ajax Stadium in the Netherlands
BAIC Group
Beijing Xinwei Telecom Enterprise Group
Broad Group in Hunan
BYD
Fiberdata Data Center in Sweden
Hebi Branch of Henan Provincial Tobacco Company
Qinghai Oilfield
Reading FC Stadium in the UK
Sinopec
Sichuan Media Mansion
Sinopec Shengli Oilfield Education Center
Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. of HBIS
Zhong An Joint Coal Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
Medical Service
Daping Hospital in Chongqing
Duyun Municipal People's Hospital in Guizhou Province
Hainan Province Nongken Sanya Hospital
Jilin Municipal People's Hospital
Kunming Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
No. 3 Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese
Medicine
Shanxi Coal Central Hospital
Shanxi Provincial Cardiovascular Hospital
Shishou Municipal People's Hospital in Hubei
Yangpu District Central Hospital
Zengcheng Municipal Regional Medical Service
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Government
Baoding Safe City
Beijing Traffic Management Bureau
China Executive Leadership Academy, Yan'an
Chongqing Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau
Chuxiong People's Procuratorate in Yunnan
Department of Police, South Africa
Department of Environmental Protection, Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region
Desom SSC Government in the Netherlands
Dongguan E-Government
Examination and Approval Administration Office, Tianjin
Municipal Government
Guangdong Provincial Hydrographic Office
Guangdong Provincial Office, State Administration of Taxation
(SAT)
Gansu Provincial Party Committee Party School
Gansu Province Road and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd.
Guangdong Provincial Office, State Administration of Taxation (SAT)
Guangzhou Construction Project Bidding Center
Guizhou Provincial Public Resource Trading Platform
Hainan Provincial Jail Administration Bureau
Hebei Provincial People's Procuratorate
Jinhua Municipal Jail in Zhejiang
Kunming Public Security Building
Laos Ministry of National Defence
Laoshan People's Procuratorate in Qingdao, Shandong Province
Nanjing E-Government Intranet
Patent Examination Cooperation Jiangsu Center of the Patent
Office, State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO)
Pingliang Municipal Housing Accumulation Fund Management
Center
Government
PLA Information Engineering University
Qinhuangdao Economic & Technological Development Zone
Administration Committee
Shandong Provincial Price Bureau
Shilin Educational MAN
State E-Government Extranet of P.R. China
Supreme People's Court of P.R. China
Urumchi Hydrographic Office
Venezuelan Government
Xinjiang Public Security Video Surveillance
Yiwu Municipal Education Bureau
Huawei Agile Switch's Customer List
This list is in alphabetical order
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