Подробности дела
Highlights
- Business units are deployed using POD modules, allowing for rapid, standardized scaling. Core devices can expand horizontally to support large-scale business nodes.
- Network equipment supports PFC and ECN, ensuring efficient, lossless RoCE and RoCEv2 traffic forwarding with low latency and no congestion.
- The network uses an Ethernet CLOS architecture with full three-layer IP forwarding and ECMP for optimal load balancing and redundancy.
- The access layer supports VSU stacking and MLAG technology, enabling dual server uplinks and seamless ToR upgrades for uninterrupted operations.
Key Stats
- Using an all-Ethernet, lossless three-tier network to build a high-performance computing data center, boosting computational and data processing capabilities.
- Compared to traditional InfiniBand, this solution cuts network construction costs by over 50% and simplifies maintenance with unified Ethernet management.
- Supporting 64x 400G ports, the network uses RoCEv2 technology for efficient, low-latency, lossless packet forwarding, greatly improving system throughput.
Overview
With the rapid development of the internet, the digital media industry faces intense market competition and growing user demands. A digital media company, founded in 2012, specializing in high-quality digital media solutions such as website design and development, social media management, and mobile app development, is confronting these challenges head-on. To meet the high computational demands of diverse content like HD videos, virtual reality, and 3D films, the company has decided to upgrade the network of its São Paulo data center. They aim for the upgraded network to be scalable and reliable to accommodate future business needs.
Challenges
This digital media company is grappling with the computational demands of managing high-resolution video, image, and audio files, which require substantial computing power. Additionally, with the rapid surge in self-media and user-generated content, the network must be highly scalable to accommodate the growing user demands and traffic.
However, the existing network frequently experiences interruptions during peak periods of video streaming services, adversely affecting the user experience. There's an urgent need for a high-performance network that is non-blocking and low-latency.
Moreover, the high costs and complex operations of traditional network architectures pose significant challenges for customers. They are seeking a solution that not only enables efficient management but also reduces overall costs.
Solutions
To address these challenges, the digital media company opted for the high-performance computing network solution provided by Huawei. This solution utilizes a fully Ethernet-based, lossless three-tier network architecture.
It employs the Huawei S6720-30Q-EI as the core layer switch, the Huawei S5735-L24P4S as the aggregation layer switch, and the Huawei S5735-L24T4S as the access layer switch. The architecture supports RoCE and RoCEv2 lossless Ethernet technologies, ensuring no packet loss and low-latency, efficient data transmission.
This ensures continuous and stable high-throughput network communication when handling large data tasks such as HD video, virtual reality, and 3D films, significantly improving GPU utilization and overall computational power.
Additionally, Huawei's solution uses a modular POD deployment approach to enable standardized and rapid scalability of business units. This ensures that core layer devices can be expanded horizontally to meet future business node access demands.
The network architecture provided by Huawei features a CLOS structure with full three-layer IP forwarding, using ECMP to achieve robust redundancy and load balancing, ensuring uninterrupted operations even if any device or link fails.
The access layer features VSU stacking and MLAG technology, supporting dual uplinks for servers and independent ToR smooth upgrades, further ensuring business continuity.
To simplify maintenance, the solution supports automated operations through Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) technology, enabling zero-configuration deployment for servers and switches.
This significantly enhances operational efficiency while reducing complexity and costs. Additionally, unified Ethernet management further cuts network construction costs to just half of what traditional InfiniBand networks require, significantly lowering overall network construction expenses.
Results
By implementing Huawei's high-performance computing network solution, the digital media company significantly boosted the computing power and data processing capabilities of its data center in São Paulo.
Utilizing a high-efficiency, lossless three-tier Ethernet network architecture, the network maintained packet loss-free and low-latency performance even during peak loads, effectively resolving issues with frequent interruptions in video streaming services and markedly enhancing the user viewing experience.
Moreover, Huawei's solution reduces network construction costs by over 50% compared to traditional InfiniBand networks and further lowers operational complexity and expenses through unified Ethernet management.
This upgrade not only meets the company's current business needs but also provides ample scalability and reliability for future growth. As a result, the company gained a competitive edge in the market, significantly improved customer satisfaction, and achieved steady business growth.
Throughout the implementation process, Huawei's professional technical team worked closely with the client, offering comprehensive technical support and services. From network planning and design to deployment and maintenance, every step was executed with high quality, ensuring customer satisfaction.
"Huawei provided an excellent solution that met our needs and helped us improve our operations. Their team is professional and responsive, and their attention to detail impressed us. Overall, our experience working with Huawei has been outstanding, and we highly recommend their services."
- Carlos Oliveira
Technical Director, Digital Media Solutions, São Paulo, Brazil