According to the International Energy Agency, an affiliate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the global number of electric vehicles is expected to increase from 3.7 million in 2017 to 13 million by 2020. As Fu Qiang, co-founder and president of Aiways, mentioned at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show: "Just as smartphones swept the world ten years ago and changed the way humans interact, the era of smart electric vehicles has arrived and is bound to change the way humans travel." In the future, smart electric vehicles will create a brand-new travel experience that is more convenient, environmentally friendly, efficient and intelligent for all mankind. Today, this industry is facing an unprecedentedly huge growth space in its early stage of development.
In the electric vehicle industry, Aiways is a new energy intelligent vehicle company that drives the evolution of the automotive industry. It has a solid industry foundation and continuously evolves and breaks through. With the concept of "intelligent travel life" to create an infinite future, it customizes "black technology" products and services that are within reach for the new generation of young people, allowing them to enjoy a worry-free car life under fair conditions. Enjoy the pleasure of traveling. To promote the research and development of electric vehicles, Aiways has established a global R&D and supply system. And how to effectively manage its global branches became a problem that Aiways had to think about and solve at the very beginning of its establishment. For this reason, Aiways has joined hands with H3C, a subsidiary of Tsinghua Unigroup, to build a software-defined innovation network for the data centers of its Shanghai headquarters and Jiangxi manufacturing base, exploring new paths to drive business and market development through underlying platform innovation.
The new application-driven campus network connects Aiways' global layout
At present, Aiways possesses two core technologies: electric drive and artificial intelligence, covering three major fields: mobility services, automotive retail, and energy operation. With the four driving forces of "excellent quality, warm treatment, inheritance and innovation, and Aiways speed", Aiways aims to build an intelligent pure electric travel ecosystem. This is the long-term corporate vision that Aiways itself adheres to. To achieve this goal, Aiways is actively laying out a global layout. It has an office in Beijing, a headquarters and R&D center in Shanghai, a manufacturing base in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, a subsidiary in Germany, and a forward-looking technology laboratory in the United States. By aggregating global industrial experience, it aims to jointly promote the "fast lane change" of China's automotive industry.
Managing such a large global team requires building a strong enterprise network to achieve the sharing and intercommunication of business and the integrated management of data. Therefore, Aiways has chosen to collaborate with H3C, a leader in digital solutions, to adopt H3C's AD-DC solution in the data centers of its Shanghai headquarters and Jiangxi manufacturing base, achieving cross-regional resource integration and laying a powerful network that connects the core and key departments of the enterprise.
Tailor-made, H3C software-defined drives the network upgrade of Aiways vehicles
H3c has conducted a detailed and comprehensive in-depth understanding of the internal data traffic of Aiways. The internal traffic of Aiways' data center shows typical characteristics such as centralized data exchange and increased east-west traffic. The network construction of a data center must meet strict requirements in multiple aspects, including large-scale operation, high scalability, high robustness, low configuration overhead, high bandwidth between servers, efficient network protocols, flexible topology and link capacity control, green energy conservation, traffic isolation between services, and low cost. Against this backdrop, the traditional three-tier architecture is being challenged, and network flattening, network virtualization, and programmable and definable networks have emerged as new trends in data center network architecture.
To adapt to the above changes, the data center network must transition to VxLAN and SDN technologies to cooperate with the cloud platform to achieve the adaptation and interaction between the network and services, and improve the efficiency of resource utilization and service distribution. H3c's AD-DC solution is targeted at data centers and can provide a deeply integrated solution of cloud, network and security. After years of development, the AD-DC solution has the capabilities of intelligent operation and maintenance, all-round automation, flexible networking, and unified orchestration. It can achieve a business closed loop of perception, analysis, optimization, execution, and security, and can provide multiple networking architectures. At the same time, it has been widely deployed in various industries such as operators, finance, government, and enterprises, helping customers achieve digital transformation.
After deploying H3C's new software-defined network, Aiways has achieved full automation from network configuration, deployment to management. During network construction, technologies such as automatic discovery by VTEP and automatic establishment and association of VxLAN tunnels enable users to avoid manual configuration, reducing the difficulty of network deployment. Meanwhile, all devices are managed and controlled by H3C's highly reliable VCF Controller cluster, and business configuration can achieve fully automated deployment. At the network management level, H3C's new software-defined network has achieved the separation of the control plane and the data plane. The former is responsible for publishing routing information, while the latter is responsible for forwarding messages. The division of labor is clear and easy to manage.
Relying on its comprehensive technical strength in the field of software-defined networking, H3C has created a simpler, more user-friendly, flexible and efficient network architecture for Aiways, enabling this pioneer in China's new energy intelligent vehicle sector to integrate its core business and lead China's intelligent electric vehicles into a brand-new stage of development. In the future, the network will become one of the core platforms driving the transformation of enterprise business. H3c will continue to promote its cutting-edge layout in the field of network construction, drive new networks with automated and intelligent applications, and accelerate the digital transformation and upgrading process of users in various industries.
