The three major operators accelerate forward computing power

With the increasing demand for computing power in the cloud computing market and the commercialization of 5G, solving computing power and coping with new scenarios have become the new focus. The three major operators have all mentioned computing power to an important position, but they have their own focus on development.

Computing power is the core of cloud computing. With the increasing demand for computing power in the cloud computing market and the commercial launch of 5G, solving computing power and coping with new scenarios have become the new focus. "The stage of productivity development is accelerating the evolution from the power era to the computing power era." According to the calculation of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology: in terms of input and output, my country's computing power industry will reach 2 trillion yuan in 2020, directly driving economic output of 1.7 trillion yuan , Which indirectly drives economic output of 6.3 trillion yuan, that is, every 1 yuan invested in the computing power industry will drive an average of 3-4 yuan in economic output. This year, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Energy Administration jointly issued the "National Integrated Big Data Center Collaborative Innovation System Computing Power Hub Implementation Plan" (Development and Reform High Technology [2021] No. 709 , Hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), clearly proposes to lay out the national hub nodes of the national computing power network, start the implementation of the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project, and build a national computing power network system. The three major operators have all mentioned computing power to an important position, but they have their own focus on development.

China Mobile: Three Steps to Computing Power Network

China Mobile stated that the computing power network is an important booster for China Mobile's transformation and development, and a new "foundation" for China Mobile to build its "power building" development strategy. The computing power network is a systematic project that continues the past and opens up the future. It is not only a mid-term plan, but also a mid- to long-term innovation direction. At the “2021 China Mobile Global Partner Conference”, Yang Jie, Chairman of China Mobile, also made it clear that: comprehensively promote the maturity of computing power network technology, industry, ecology, and business model, and deepen computing power in physical space, logical space, and heterogeneity. Construct space integration and development, promote the network from connecting computing power to sensing, carrying, and deploying computing power to realize computing power ubiquitous and computing network symbiosis; through integration of numbers and intelligence, building computing network brains, and achieving intelligent orchestration of computing network resources and capabilities , Unified management; through the integration of elements and the integration of computing power, an integrated service that transforms from a "resource-based" to a "task-based" is provided. China Mobile plans to divide the development of the computing power network into three stages, namely: the initial stage (ubiquitous collaboration), the development stage (integration and unification) and the leapfrog stage (integrated endogenous). The core concept of the ubiquitous collaboration stage is "synergy", which has the characteristics of network follow-up, coordinated orchestration, coordinated operation and one-stop service; the core concept of the integration and unification stage is "fusion", which has the integration of computing and network, intelligent orchestration, unified operation and Features such as integrated services; the core concept of the integrated endogenous stage is "oneness", which has the characteristics of integration of computing and network, endogenous intelligence, innovative operation and integrated service. At the same time, China Mobile released the "China Mobile Computing Power Network White Paper". In the white paper, China Mobile stated that it will take computing power as the center and the network as the foundation to build network, cloud, data, intelligence, security, edge, terminal, and chain ( ABCDNETS) and other multi-element fusion information infrastructure, promote computing power to become a "one-point access, ready-to-use" social-level service like hydropower, and finally achieve "network omnipresent, computing power ubiquitous, intelligent omnipotence" Not as good as the development vision. In addition, China Mobile also cooperated with some chip companies to release the diversified computing power incubation platform "Core Nest". It is understood that the "Core Nest" platform focuses on the nature of "computing" and "digital", with the purpose of incubating new chips, sorting out the application needs of key industries such as 5G, and mapping industry needs to chip-level functions, performance, and reliability requirements. , Through the development of a unified evaluation standard system, carry out evaluation and verification, and guide the improvement of chip technology and product iteration.

China Unicom: Computing power network is cloud network integration 2.0, computing and network integration is the key direction

China Unicom believes that the computing power network is the next stage in the development and evolution of cloud networks, and the computing power network is cloud-network convergence 2.0. This year, China Unicom upgraded its network innovation system to CUBE-Net3.0. As one of the key directions of China Unicom’s CUBE-Net3.0, "Integration of Computing and Networking" strives to provide a "extreme, flexible, intelligent, and simple" computing power network. , Has been carried out in Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Guangdong 4 provinces and cities, and achieved initial results. Liu Liehong, Chairman of China Unicom, said that China Unicom is striving to build a “Unicom Cloud” that integrates cloud and network, safe and reliable, exclusive customization, and multi-cloud collaboration, forming a multi-level computing power with digital-network collaboration, digital-cloud collaboration, cloud-side collaboration, and green intelligence. The facility system supports the comprehensive and diverse digital needs of different dimensions and levels, and promotes the new layout of the computing power network with advanced architecture, safe and reliable, and excellent service, to create the "first computing power engine" for the digital economy. According to Tang Xiongyan, deputy dean and chief scientist of China Unicom Research Institute, “In the next step, China Unicom will use IPv6+ technology system research and application as the starting point to build a computing-network brain, empower computing-network integration services, and use SID (SID as a Service) SRv6 enables integrated computing and network services, building a high-quality, low-latency all-optical computing power network, and working with partners to build a new digital infrastructure integrating computing and networking, and empowering the digital transformation of the entire society ." In addition, China Unicom has also released a computing power network action plan, which will strengthen the construction of integrated computing and network infrastructure, focus on the layout of national hub nodes, establish a well-arranged three-level computing power resource pool, and realize multi-level computing at the national, provincial, and municipal levels. Power synergy; Based on a safe and reliable all-optical transmission base, we will continue to build a low-latency, wide-connected, and intelligent cloud-network-side collaboration integrated new computing power network, and promote the evolution of China Unicom’s public Internet to a dual-core architecture of users and computing power. Achieve high-quality access for public users to the computing power center; give full play to the technological leadership of China Unicom's industrial Internet, and promote effective connections and integrated scheduling between national hub nodes, and with provincial, prefecture, and edge data centers. According to the plan: China Unicom will complete the construction of the overall function of the computing power network through phased implementation of core research on the computing network resource plane, computing network resource management plane, computing network control plane, and service orchestration plane.

China Telecom: Combine edge computing, cloud computing and other multi-level computing nodes with the network

The overall idea of ​​China Telecom's computing power network is to further integrate edge computing, cloud computing and other multi-level computing nodes with the network to achieve resource supply under cloud-network integration and provide users with the best services and operational guarantees. It is worth mentioning that on July 5-16 this year, at the Rapporteur Meeting of Study Group 13 (SG13) of the International Telecommunication Union’s Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), the computing power led by the China Academy of Telecommunications was passed. Network framework and architecture standard (Y.2501), which is the first computing power network standard approved by the International Organization for Standardization. According to China Telecom’s plan, the computing power network system includes computing power consumers, computing power providers, network operators, computing power network trading platforms, computing power network control planes, etc. Users can associate computing power application stores according to business development needs , AI empowerment platform and other application providers. In 2020, my country's computing power will increase by 30%, and data center standard racks will exceed 4 million. Among them, China Telecom has about 700 data centers with more than 420,000 racks, accounting for one-tenth of the country's computing power. At present, China Telecom is actively advancing the construction of the national cloud. In accordance with the requirements for the construction of the national integrated big data center hub node, it will further improve the "2+4+31+X+O" cloud and big data center layout, and build tiered distribution, cloud A new type of information infrastructure with integrated collaboration, multi-technology integration, and green intensive. Build integrated resource pools in two national cloud bases in Mongolia and Guizhou; build large-scale public clouds in 4 regions including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei; build localized exclusive clouds in 31 provincial capitals and key cities; build differentiated edge clouds at node X ; Layout in countries along the “Belt and Road” and extend the computing power system overseas. Lei Bo, director of the IP and Future Network Research Center of the China Academy of Telecommunications, once said that the computing power network focuses on solving two problems: on the one hand, resource correlation, organic integration of computing resources, network resources, etc. according to users’ demands. To meet the diverse needs of users; on the other hand, resource transactions allow users to purchase the most suitable computing resources and network resources on the computing power trading platform according to their business requirements and the costs they can bear.