[Beijing, China, February 24, 2017] Huawei announced that its CloudFabric Data Center Network Solution has helped China Unicom Henan Branch (China Unicom Henan) deploy a distributed cloud data center. This distributed cloud data center reuses resources from China Unicom Henan’s Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) equipment rooms to improve resource utilization and reduce the cost of cloud transformation. The transformed data center delivers localized cloud services with low latency, secure data isolation, and a unified management platform. These features satisfy the increasing demand for cloud services from local government, medical, and educational institutions, as well as small and medium businesses (SMBs).

Telecom operators play an important role in digital transformation and also face great challenges. On the one hand, as PSTN networks are made obsolete by all-optical networks, resources in PSTN equipment rooms need to be reused to reduce the capital expenditure (CAPEX). On the other hand, networks need to be reconstructed to meet demands for cloud services. China Unicom Henan has resolved the dilemma by taking advantage of cloud transformation with Huawei and the Network Technology Research Institute of China Unicom Group. As a result, China Unicom Henan is the first to provide localized cloud services using a distributed cloud data center.

This cloud data center reuses PSTN resources in multiple cities to implement unified management and sharing of computing, storage, and network resources. All key data is transferred within the local city to guarantee secure and efficient smart government services. In addition to local private line and technical support services for SMBs, localized cloud services also ensure low latency and high-quality of services such as enterprise system hot standby, video conferencing, and desktop cloud.

China Unicom Henan’s cloud data center uses an innovative 1+4+N distributed architecture: one provincial cloud data center management platform in the central base in capital Zhengzhou, four geographical regions (in the east, west, north, and south of the province), and N municipal data centers. The provincial cloud data center management platform interconnects with various cloud platforms by leveraging the Huawei CloudFabric solution’s cloud-and-network synergy, to implement centralized management, operation, and resource scheduling for the municipal data centers. CloudFabric uses a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) architecture and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) technology to connect networks within or across the four geographical regions. The municipal data centers offer localized cloud services and rack/bandwidth leasing services.

“China Unicom Henan and Huawei are working together to explore business scenarios in the trend of cloud computing and future network evolution,” said Yu Li, General Manager of the Huawei Data Center Network Domain. “Huawei’s CloudFabric Data Center Network Solution helped China Unicom Henan build an agile, open, and secure distributed cloud data center, and deliver high-quality localized cloud services for government, medical, education, and SMB customers. We believe that the localized cloud services will make China Unicom Henan more competitive and enable the utility to seize business opportunities in the cloud services market.”

As a world-leading network service provider, Huawei is committed to providing best-of-class network solutions to assist in the business success of customers. Huawei is consistently focused on customer-centric principles and in collaboration with global carriers to create a better connected world.

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 runs from February 24 to March 2 in Barcelona, Spain. Huawei is showcasing its products and solutions at booth 1J50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1, booth 3130 in Hall 3, and the Innovation City zone in Hall 4.