Intel Debuts at 2021 PT Expo, Leading the Integration of Cloud, Network, Edge, Digitalization and Intelligence with Many Partners

Intel Debuts at 2021PT Expo, Leading the Integration of Cloud, Network, Edge, Digitalization and Intelligence with Many Partners

September 28, 2021, Beijing - Intel attended the annual event of the communications industry - the 2021 China International Information and Communication Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as "PT Exhibition"), and hosted the "Intel 5G Cloud Network Convergence Intelligent Edge Summit" held today. The event invited technical experts and big names from the three major operators, ODCC, and star companies and professional institutions in the communications field to share the latest practical results of intelligent edge and cloud network integration and discuss future development.

“As more data is generated at the edge rather than created and processed in traditional data centers, network evolution will become increasingly complex,” said Ruan Bochao, director of the Network Platform Division of Intel’s Network and Edge Group. “The combination of 5G and edge has great potential and can fully help address this challenge. Intel provides a diverse portfolio of software and hardware products for 5G networks and edge infrastructure. It is solving network complexity through cloud-based networks and enabling 5G and edge development based on extensive ecosystem cooperation.”

Intelligent edge, unlimited innovation

The value of edge data is about to explode. By 2024, the market value of intelligent edge computing will reach 65 billion US dollars. By 2025, 75% of data will be generated at the edge outside of traditional data centers. Facing the vast market opportunities in the era of distributed intelligence, Intel is actively promoting data-centric transformation. At the same time, it is also relying on its foresight and multi-dimensional strength in the field of intelligent edge, relying on product leadership, innovative solution driving force, and ecological construction ability to continue to promote the integration and innovation of key technology turning points of intelligent edge, AI, and 5G, fully empower partners, build an industrial ecosystem, accelerate application innovation of intelligent edge and intelligent upgrades of the entire industry, and jointly unlock the broad opportunities of intelligent edge.

In this process, Intel and its partners such as major operators and equipment manufacturers continue to release the potential of edge data and enable the intelligent transformation of industry users. Among them, Intel and China Telecom have integrated advanced software and hardware products and technologies into the MEC platform, and provided the platform with powerful computing and storage capabilities through products such as Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and Intel Optane SSDs. At the same time, China Telecom also uses Intel SEO (Smart Edge Open) to enhance the platform's unified and flexible edge application management capabilities, and uses Intel's Edge Insights for Industrial (EII) to provide big data collection and AI analysis microservices for the MEC application layer. With the help of the OpenVINO toolkit, China Telecom has also effectively improved the model reasoning speed of AI applications in the platform, further strengthening the overall competitiveness of the MEC platform.

In addition, China Mobile Chengdu Industrial Research Institute also uses general-purpose X86 servers and GPUs to build a 5G edge computing iMEP platform to enable smart medical care with 5G medical edge cloud. At the same time, China Mobile Internet of Things Co., Ltd. also cooperates with Intel to build and improve the OneNET edge computing platform to accelerate intelligent innovation in the manufacturing industry.

Cloud-network integration empowers and intelligently shapes the future

Network transformation is the cornerstone of 5G infrastructure. Only by changing the traditional network can the business experience be upgraded. Intel continues to lead the transformation of industrial networks, helping operators to gradually realize cloud-network collaboration, cloud-network integration and cloud-network integration in stages, providing 5G end-to-end solutions from smart terminals, wireless access technology, access network, core network to cloud, creating a virtualized, software-defined and cloud-oriented network architecture, breaking the boundaries between cloud and network, and realizing the integration from network evolution, edge network to business. Intel continues to promote each network evolution and transformation, leading the key technology trends of cloud-network integration, and Intel's rich intelligent solutions are helping partners explore the intelligent future.

In terms of network cloudification, Intel can provide network element decoupling, cloud deployment of network functions and cloud-native reference designs, including cloud-native 5GC, FlexRAN and Intel SEO PaaS platform; in terms of high-performance cloud network connection, Intel promotes heterogeneous but universal high-performance access gateway reference designs based on FPGA, Tofino and the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor, and uses network programmability to adapt to flexible network feature requirements; in terms of network + cloud + application integration, Intel proposes CERA (Converged Edge Reference Arch) and SASE as typical cloud-network integration applications. Using the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor, Tofino programmable switching chip Ethernet switch product line and FPGA, Intel can provide high-performance SASE access gateways, and with QAT and security application components, it can also provide efficient and secure application capabilities, helping service providers deploy applications to a unified infrastructure and reduce operating and application costs.

Network AI is the next driving point for the evolution of telecommunications networks driven by Intel. Using the deep learning acceleration technology DLBoost (VNNI, AVX-512) of the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor, Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library (DAAL), Intel® Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL) acceleration library, and AnalyticsZoo toolset, Intel and its partners build AI models and optimize performance for different use cases, while simplifying the application deployment of network AI. Currently, Intel focuses on three areas, namely wireless network intelligence, network security intelligence, and core network intelligence.

Among them, Intel Tofino programmable switching chips have helped China Mobile build an open source WAN solution for cloud-network integration. The programmable features of the efficient P4 language hand over the key to network innovation to end users, greatly shortening the development and application cycle of new network data plane forwarding protocols and accelerating network innovation.

Based on this, Intel has joined hands with many ecological partners to jointly lead the future of comprehensive intelligence. Through cooperation with Intel, Lenovo's ThinkCarrier cloud platform, a 5G cloud-network integration product based on Intel CERA architecture and key technologies, can achieve open decoupling and edge-cloud collaboration, and has both high security and low cost; ZTE has implemented cloud native and microservice architecture in 5G virtualization and cloud native UPF solutions, and services can be decoupled from each other and upgraded independently, which can accelerate business innovation; with the help of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, big data analysis and AI platform Analytics Zoo, AsiaInfo Technologies' AISware NWDAF product has been piloted and uses AI and big data technologies to provide intelligent analysis services; by obtaining air interface strategies through Intel LPP interfaces, H3C can realize intelligent applications on RIC, perform link prediction and guide the optimization of game application-related strategies, and realize the intelligence of 5G small stations.

Looking ahead, the integration of 5G and the intelligent edge will unleash more new business value and create unlimited opportunities. Intel will continue to rely on its leading cloud-network-edge product portfolio, software and hardware acceleration solutions, and universal reference designs, with the mission of "creating technology that changes the world and benefits everyone on the planet", and with an open mind as always, to promote technological innovation with all domestic and foreign ecological partners, realize the digital and intelligent integration of the industry, help the communications industry flourish, and jointly shape the future of intelligent life based on the edge.

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