Control the air conditioner, adjust the temperature and open the seat through voice, adjust the music played according to the driver's preference, experience the 3D map panorama...smart cars are speeding all the way in pursuit of higher comfort, smarter and safer driving experience , Cars are evolving from traditional mechanical means of transportation into a new generation of mobile smart terminals. Looking at the current auto market, smart cars are flourishing. According to Morgan Stanley estimates, 60% of the value of smart cars in the future will come from software, and "software-defined cars" has gradually become the consensus of car companies. Whether it is a traditional car company or a new force in car manufacturing, more and more companies have begun to adjust the strategic layout of their core business, aiming to enhance the core competitiveness of their brands by building intelligent and connected cars.

Facing the new development trend of intelligent networking in the automotive industry, accelerating the development of automotive software applications has become an important part of building and improving the industrial chain of the Internet of Vehicles. Today, automotive applications have become the basis of the car experience, and the application architecture has rapidly evolved from the large and complex single applications in the past to modern applications based on microservice containerization in order to quickly respond to complex and changing user needs. F5's modern application services create exclusive solutions for the automotive industry, realize efficient, safe, intelligent, and interconnected application collaboration, help automakers accelerate the rapid development and deployment of intelligent networked automotive applications, and inject new innovations into comprehensively improving consumers' car experience power.

Create an efficient interconnection of the Internet of Vehicles to achieve data security and reliability

With the increasing business applications of emerging technologies such as autonomous driving, Internet of Vehicles, and in-vehicle entertainment systems, more and more data and applications will be generated at edge nodes such as each vehicle. These interaction methods are extremely dependent on network quality, and network delays However, it threatens the personal safety of the driver, and at least affects the various experiences in the cabin. Therefore, how to deal with the network delay faced by the edge nodes has become a major challenge for car companies. In addition, for complex deployment environments, car companies need to create a unified security strategy that complies with various deployment environments such as local data centers, private clouds, and public clouds to ensure the security of vehicle operating data and Internet of Vehicles information.

F5 distributed cloud service provides V2Xbox real-time data fast interaction capability based on 5G network and MEC edge computing base, which can quickly build edge nodes and form a large-capacity backbone network with large connections, low latency, and high bandwidth to achieve cross-platform Efficient interconnection and transmission of the Internet of Vehicles. In addition, the extended connectivity and security of nodes in the multi-cloud environment provided by F5 ensures application delivery within the cloud and network security between clouds. At the same time, in order to meet the needs of new scenarios of electrification and intelligent experience in the automotive industry, user data generated by users at car charging piles and experience stores are all stored in the local data center to meet the requirements of local data security and compliance.

Innovating Internet of Vehicles technology to boost the development of autonomous driving

At present, the industry has classified autonomous driving technology according to the degree of intelligence of the system, and stipulated multiple levels of standards from driver assistance to full automation. The next two years will become a key node in the development of L3 and higher-level autonomous driving. It also provides opportunities for the development of assisted autonomous driving software. However, in the development process of autonomous driving, collecting and storing high-quality training data, analyzing and processing them in a timely manner, and being able to release continuously iterative autonomous driving applications online, this series of key actions is the core of promoting the development of autonomous driving.

F5's high-concurrency security protection architecture and high-performance large-throughput forwarding platform can ensure the timely deployment of automatic driving iterative applications and quickly improve users' automatic driving experience. The strong SSL encryption and decryption capabilities provided by the F5 Internet of Vehicles solution ensure that intelligent networked vehicles can easily meet the requirements of timely uploading of large concurrent and strongly encrypted data, and encrypt transmission through the security protection of HTTP, TCP, and MQTT protocols to ensure data protection Information security during collection and transmission. For the large-throughput, high-concurrency, and low-latency data generated by autonomous driving training, the F5 Internet of Vehicles solution can use hardware and software parallel acceleration technology to ensure timely processing of autonomous driving data. In terms of data storage, facing the problem of insufficient native high-availability capabilities of object storage, the F5 distributed object storage architecture supports a cross-cloud and cross-center object storage active-active architecture to ensure business continuity. At the same time, it provides object storage protocol-based monitoring storage service availability and selects the best node, allowing object storage to achieve nearby access and improving data access flexibility.

Efficient and intelligent network connection to realize collaborative interaction between vehicles and road networks

With the coordinated development of smart city infrastructure and intelligent connected vehicles in many cities across the country, an intelligent connected vehicle ecosystem of "smart roads + smart cars + flexible networks" has gradually formed, which is safe, efficient, economical and The environmentally friendly vehicle-road coordination scheme was born. However, in order to achieve a vehicle-road coordination solution with all-round connection and efficient coordination, it is also necessary to form a closed-loop control that constitutes collaborative perception and collaborative decision-making.

On the roadside side, in view of the characteristics of many roadside information collection protocols and complex data, the F5 intelligent network connection solution can perform protocol proxy and data format customization to realize the standardization of roadside information collection. In terms of cloud, F5's multi-cloud and multi-active application architecture supports application access from various deployment environments: in the edge cloud environment, F5's intelligent network solution allows unified access of applications, high availability of the MQTT protocol and SSL offloading, ensuring Unified publishing and management of edge applications; in the regional cloud environment, F5 can realize multi-factor authentication access to the edge cloud, and provide security protection against various emerging attack methods such as DDoS, BOT attacks, and API attacks; in the central cloud environment , F5 intelligent network connection solution can realize cross-center application multi-activity, and provide unified service release, unified application detection, unified data display service and high reliability management for applications. In addition, the high-efficiency data transmission and high security assurance capabilities brought by F5 can build a low-latency, high-interaction infrastructure platform required for vehicle-road collaborative interaction.

Build modern application services to empower automotive software development

Nowadays, automobiles are mobile intelligent terminals, and intelligent systems such as on-board intelligent network connection, intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, intelligent electric, intelligent car cloud, etc. promote the exponential growth of intelligent vehicle applications, which have many applications, wide distribution, and high performance requirements. At the same time, the large-scale surge of applications, the security protection of applications and data, and the collaborative scheduling in different cloud environments also bring challenges to automotive application development and maintenance personnel.

As a senior expert in application security and application delivery services, the F5 modern application service platform can provide CI/CD agile development services for software development, and automatically release applications through container platforms to achieve rapid application development, deployment, and elastic expansion. Provide support for rapid iteration of intelligent software. Security is F5's traditional field of strength. Against the backdrop of escalating offensive and defensive confrontations, the application security risk control of F5's modern application service platform provides protection against DDoS attacks, external access authentication, sensitive data protection, application code reinforcement, and Internet of Vehicles protocols. Security, API gateway security and other multiple security protections, escorting the interconnection and openness of automotive applications and business security. At the same time, the F5 modern application service platform bridges the technical gap between private cloud and public cloud platforms, and provides a unified management framework in a multi-cloud environment to ensure consistent application experience and security protection capabilities.

In the era of intelligent networking, F5 is committed to providing flexible, safe and efficient solutions for the automotive industry, helping car companies build a modern application service architecture, bringing a better intelligent car experience, and opening up a better digital future for the automotive industry.