Building Intel's Network Ecosystem

Intel still has a lot of opportunities in terms of networking. In fact, Intel has always been concerned about the development of the network. In the past, it has continued to optimize the relevant architecture. In the future, it will conduct in-depth research on the technologies that the industry is paying more attention to, so as to lead the development of the industry. The goal is to forge ahead. Highly integrated, low-cost, software-defined networks are also the focus of end-user attention. Let's wait and see.

With the rapid development of mobile devices, networks and data centers are undergoing major changes and transformations. Users want to have a full set of solutions to better achieve data transmission and migration between different platforms and different devices, whether through cloud services, switches, enterprise applications, or personal applications. So there are different series of developments, different series of applications, including wireless network, wireless network access applications and core components, and even including EPC, these are the understanding and definition of the network. As the lead player of this IDF 2014, Intel began to slowly shift its development focus to the network, and hopes to better grasp the opportunities. It can better define cloud computing, wireless networks, enterprise applications, CPUs, and DSPs, and promote the industry. Further development.

Rose Schooler said that the entire online market has a huge market share of 16 billion. Although the entire market is worth it, Intel’s current market share is only about 5%. In other words, this is a very big opportunity for our growth. Rose Schooler is vice president of data center division of Intel Corporation and general manager of communication and storage infrastructure division. She has held various positions in software development, silicon chip manufacturing and Q&R department, and is also an expert in communications and networking.

Rose believes that through a very large background, he hopes to better integrate Intel's technology and Intel's plans when understanding the network and user needs, and better meet the development and expansion of the Internet. Therefore, when it comes to enterprise-level applications, it is hoped that they can provide better solutions and reduce the application costs while realizing commercial value. In terms of cloud computing, Intel hopes to improve its scalability and allow cloud computing providers to better provide services to their customers. For telecom operators, Intel also hopes that through a better network architecture, they can better deploy a profitable service while reducing the cost of network operations. Intel wants to build a platform that inspires different application innovations. Enterprises, cloud systems, and telecom operators need to have better SDN architectures, they must be more flexible and efficient, and they must be more responsive. This places more stringent requirements on servers and other infrastructure.

Define network load

Speaking of network load, Rose said: We must have a better definition of network load. There are four main aspects of network load: the first one is the application, the actual system like billing and operation is within the scope of application; the second is the control, and the control includes the routing protocol and dialogue management; the third is the data packet. There are QS, data compression and DPI, QI and so on; the last one is the signal, which includes transcoding and signal processing. As Intel, we hope to achieve a better definition of the network and the integration of the network through Intel technology and the Intel platform. Through this method, the load is managed and integrated on the same architecture.

Intel makes certain upgrades and innovations through web applications. At the same time, Intel has also made very large investments and R&D in other fields. One of them is a transition to multi-core. In this transition process, performance is improved and power consumption is further reduced. Second, Intel also further integrated the situation including PCI and CPO. In this process, it can better optimize Intel's architecture and ensure its performance, while further reducing its power consumption. This is also based on the further development of Intel architecture. .

Intel's rapid development through acquisition

In 2013, Intel conducted two acquisitions to better provide solutions. The first time it was mainly focused on how to better optimize computing power, better optimize the entire Intel architecture, and acquire a company that better helped Intel. The second issue is about specific base stations. The acquisition was successfully completed on January 10th this year, and some of the SOCs were processed during the acquisition process.

This is Intel's two major initiatives made in 2013, through the acquisition to make up for the problems that still exist on the platform and have not yet found a correct solution, and optimized them from four different loads.

Better management through NFV

In terms of NFV, there are currently two core requirements for telecom operators and users in the market. First, we hope that the cost will be further reduced. In the process of setting up the infrastructure, the hugeness of data and data flow issues will be taken into consideration. The entire infrastructure construction cost will be considered. With rising costs, the control of costs has become a key link. Intel also hopes to better promote NFV through services and integration with Intel architecture, and hopes to better help some users solve problems through this method.

With NFV, you can better separate software and general-purpose software with specific tools so that they can interact with each other better by running some software on virtual machines. Users can transition from traditional firewalls to new architectures running on virtual machines, including firewalls, managers, and intrusion detection systems.

It enables better management of the four main loads, better use of NFV, better application and management of loads, and is mainly achieved through the integration of virtual machines and servers.

Building SDN-related architecture

In terms of SDN, Intel is more concerned about how to build related architectures, as SDN has the flexibility and scalability to change from traditional center-based elements for resource management to more centralized ones. As SDN, Intel hopes to better establish bidirectional physical exchanges and virtual exchanges at the same time. As a physical exchange, we hope to do more optimization through this aspect. As a specific virtual exchange, virtual exchanges can better optimize the overall platform, and we believe that physical exchange It coexists with the virtual exchange, and it is called hybrid exchange.

Build your own ecosystem

Intel hopes to make better use of NFV technology so that it can be used on hardware processors such as Smart to Xeon. Secondly, in the CPU product line, it hopes to better apply NFV, including the acquisition of these companies. These are the main ones of Intel. The practice is to better invest actively and accelerate the process of network transformation. Constantly improve Intel's architecture and promote ecosystem building.

Intel hopes to make better use of open source and better applications such as DPDK, NSA, and AGE.

Actively cooperate with operators and enterprises

Speaking of the cooperation between Intel and the operator, Rose said that most manufacturers and operators have adopted Intel's architecture to a certain extent, but not all fields. Like ZTE and Huawei, they started to use Intel architecture products early on.

Why did you choose other vendors in some areas before? This may be because Intel's technology roadmap does not have a complete product in related areas. For example, some products may not be able to meet customers' specific requirements for low power consumption. However, Intel also found better technical innovations through specific solutions. This is Intel's two major plans: the first is to further expand the technological development and make the roadmap more complete; the second is not only to focus on standard applications and standard products, and Intel is also actively developing SoC. To provide customized products to customers, so that customers integrate their technology into the chip.