Selected cases of intelligent network | Empowering leading manufacturing companies and creating a new benchmark for intelligent network management

Intelligent Manufacturing

Dec.20.2024

In the era of globalization, efficient network management and stability are key elements for the smooth operation of high-tech manufacturing.

Oplink Century has joined hands with a global semiconductor display product manufacturer to successfully achieve unified management and optimization of the company's global network through customized SD-WAN solutions, providing strong support for the efficient operation of its global business.

Global layout challenges for manufacturing companies

As a leading semiconductor display manufacturer, the company has production bases and branches in many countries around the world, and its business covers new retail, finance, medical and other fields, with tens of thousands of employees. With the continuous expansion of global business, enterprises need a more flexible and stable network architecture to support global collaborative operations. However, the original three independent networks - local VPN, MPLS and overseas backbone network - were separated from each other and difficult to manage in a unified manner, which brought the following challenges:

l Network delay and instability: The network connection of branches around the world is unstable, affecting the efficiency of business operations.

l Invisible network resources: The lack of a unified management platform makes it difficult to monitor and optimize network resource utilization in real time.

l Slow fault response: The long cycle of network fault location and repair affects production and business operations.

Fnetlink customized SD-WAN solution

In response to the above problems, Fnetlink tailored a global SD-WAN solution for the enterprise, and successfully solved the enterprise's difficulties in global network management through the following key technologies and services.

l Visual management of the entire network

The Fnetlink SD-WAN platform provides enterprises with real-time monitoring of the global network. Customers can clearly view the network utilization, quality and key performance indicators of each branch.

l Intelligent routing optimization

Based on Fnetlink's global PoP points and intelligent routing technology, the system will automatically select the best transmission path to ensure that the key business traffic of the enterprise is transmitted first.

l Fully managed maintenance service

Fnetlink provides 7*24*365 fully managed maintenance services to ensure that the network operation center (NOC) monitors the network operation status throughout the process and proactively discovers and solves problems.

Smart network management significantly improves business efficiency

After the implementation of the SD-WAN solution, the manufacturing company's network management efficiency and business operation quality have been significantly improved:

l Improved network transparency: Three physical networks are centrally and uniformly managed, and management efficiency has increased by more than 50%.

l Reduced network latency by 30%: Through smart routing optimization, global network latency has been greatly reduced, and business collaboration between branches around the world has become more efficient.

l Shortened fault repair time to minutes: Fault response speed has been greatly improved, ensuring the stability and continuity of production and business.

The IT manager of the enterprise spoke highly of this: "Fnetlink's SD-WAN solution has brought unprecedented efficiency improvement to our global network, especially in network fault handling. Their quick response and accurate troubleshooting have prevented our business from being stalled by network problems.

Future cooperation prospects: more possibilities for smart management

In the future, Fnetlink's cooperation with the manufacturing company will be further deepened, and more cooperation will be carried out in smart network management and technological innovation. Fnetlink will continue to provide smarter and more secure network solutions to assist more manufacturing industries in global expansion and digital transformation.

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To meet these challenges, customers chose to cooperate with Fnetlink and use Fnetlink's customized SD-WAN solution to comprehensively upgrade the global network and achieve intelligent management and interconnection. Unique Challenges of Global Collaboration The company's global presence brings with it complex network management challenges. Its more than 30 factory parks, more than 1,000 sales outlets and multiple supply chain nodes are distributed around the world. These nodes operate independently, increasing the complexity of overall network management. The company's original traditional LAN/WAN architecture is outdated, lacks flexible expansion capabilities, and cannot meet the needs of new businesses for network stability and security. In addition, as core R&D centers such as Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing continue to increase their requirements for large bandwidth, low latency, and high-availability networks, the company's existing network architecture is unlikely to provide sufficient bandwidth and flexibility to support global business growth and collaboration. Therefore, enterprises urgently need a network solution that can achieve global interconnection and ensure efficient connection between their domestic and foreign R&D centers, production bases, sales networks and supply chains. At the same time, as business continues to expand, enterprises hope to use intelligent network management systems to achieve intelligent traffic scheduling, improve network management efficiency, and ensure network security to cope with increasingly complex network security threats. Fnetlink SD-WAN Solution In response to the network management and performance bottlenecks faced by the new energy vehicle manufacturer, Flink provided a comprehensive SD-WAN solution to accurately address customer pain points: Global low-latency, high-reliability connections In the face of the global R&D centers, production bases and supply chain networks, intelligent traffic scheduling technology is adopted to dynamically select routes through application priority to ensure that key businesses (such as MES, ERP, video conferencing, etc.) are given priority to highly reliable MPLS dedicated lines. At the same time, relying on Oplink's 219 POP points around the world to provide a low-latency, highly reliable global fiber optic backbone network, ensure the company's efficient collaboration in the global R&D, production and sales networks. Intelligent network management In terms of network management complexity, through centralized export management, centralized export core nodes are set up in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and other places to optimize Internet traffic management in various regions and ensure the secure transmission of core enterprise data. Huawei's iMaster NCE-WAN intelligent central control platform is used to provide unified management and full network topology visualization functions. Real-time grasp of global network status, automatic adjustment of traffic strategies, and reduction of human intervention can greatly improve management efficiency and response speed. High reliability and redundant design In view of the need for highly reliable network support at key nodes such as customer core R&D centers, factory parks and sales outlets, Fnetlink has deployed dual CPE devices at these key nodes and designed redundant links. The CPE devices support plug-and-play and are configured through a unified central control platform, which greatly shortens the implementation cycle and ensures high reliability of equipment and links, avoiding business interruptions caused by single point failures. Implementation and maintenance services The SD-WAN solution provided by Fnetlink for the enterprise adopts a phased deployment strategy as a whole, first deploying the networking solution in the enterprise's R&D center and core factories, and then gradually covering the global sales network and supply chain nodes. Flexibly adjust networking strategies based on the business needs and characteristics of each region to ensure accurate and efficient implementation. With the support of Fnetlink's global POP resources and regional engineering teams, the project was delivered quickly, ensuring that each node was quickly put online. At the same time, it provides 7×24 hours of real-time monitoring to detect and handle network failures in a timely manner, ensuring that corporate business always runs uninterruptedly. Implementation effect: Network performance improved and business progressed steadily Through the Fnetlink SD-WAN solution, the new energy vehicle manufacturer successfully achieved efficient and unified network management, integrated the originally scattered network systems, achieved the goal of integrated centralized control, and improved overall efficiency by more than 50%. Along with this transformation, the company's network operation performance has also been comprehensively optimized, with network latency reduced by 30% and bandwidth utilization significantly improved, ensuring the stable operation of key businesses. At the same time, agile operation and maintenance guarantees have significantly shortened fault handling time, reduced the risk of network interruption by 60%, and ensured the continuity of production and business. In the rapidly developing new energy vehicle industry, flexible deployment brings stronger network expansion capabilities to enterprises, and multi-level security strategies provide reliable support for global business growth. Working together to promote industry innovation and global network transformation Fnetlink's customized SD-WAN solution helps customers successfully realize the intelligent transformation of network interconnection of multiple branches at home and abroad during the period of global strategic layout. Through the deployment of SD-WAN solutions, it not only optimizes network operation efficiency, but also helps implement its digital strategy. In the future, Fnetlink will continue to help companies deepen global collaboration, provide stronger support for the global expansion and digital transformation of new energy vehicle companies through innovative network technologies, and jointly promote the sustainable development and technological innovation of the industry.

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To meet these challenges, customers chose to cooperate with Fnetlink and use Fnetlink's customized SD-WAN solution to comprehensively upgrade the global network and achieve intelligent management and interconnection. Unique Challenges of Global Collaboration The company's global presence brings with it complex network management challenges. Its more than 30 factory parks, more than 1,000 sales outlets and multiple supply chain nodes are distributed around the world. These nodes operate independently, increasing the complexity of overall network management. The company's original traditional LAN/WAN architecture is outdated, lacks flexible expansion capabilities, and cannot meet the needs of new businesses for network stability and security. In addition, as core R&D centers such as Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing continue to increase their requirements for large bandwidth, low latency, and high-availability networks, the company's existing network architecture is unlikely to provide sufficient bandwidth and flexibility to support global business growth and collaboration. Therefore, enterprises urgently need a network solution that can achieve global interconnection and ensure efficient connection between their domestic and foreign R&D centers, production bases, sales networks and supply chains. At the same time, as business continues to expand, enterprises hope to use intelligent network management systems to achieve intelligent traffic scheduling, improve network management efficiency, and ensure network security to cope with increasingly complex network security threats. Fnetlink SD-WAN Solution In response to the network management and performance bottlenecks faced by the new energy vehicle manufacturer, Flink provided a comprehensive SD-WAN solution to accurately address customer pain points: Global low-latency, high-reliability connections In the face of the global R&D centers, production bases and supply chain networks, intelligent traffic scheduling technology is adopted to dynamically select routes through application priority to ensure that key businesses (such as MES, ERP, video conferencing, etc.) are given priority to highly reliable MPLS dedicated lines. At the same time, relying on Oplink's 219 POP points around the world to provide a low-latency, highly reliable global fiber optic backbone network, ensure the company's efficient collaboration in the global R&D, production and sales networks. Intelligent network management In terms of network management complexity, through centralized export management, centralized export core nodes are set up in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and other places to optimize Internet traffic management in various regions and ensure the secure transmission of core enterprise data. Huawei's iMaster NCE-WAN intelligent central control platform is used to provide unified management and full network topology visualization functions. Real-time grasp of global network status, automatic adjustment of traffic strategies, and reduction of human intervention can greatly improve management efficiency and response speed. High reliability and redundant design In view of the need for highly reliable network support at key nodes such as customer core R&D centers, factory parks and sales outlets, Fnetlink has deployed dual CPE devices at these key nodes and designed redundant links. The CPE devices support plug-and-play and are configured through a unified central control platform, which greatly shortens the implementation cycle and ensures high reliability of equipment and links, avoiding business interruptions caused by single point failures. Implementation and maintenance services The SD-WAN solution provided by Fnetlink for the enterprise adopts a phased deployment strategy as a whole, first deploying the networking solution in the enterprise's R&D center and core factories, and then gradually covering the global sales network and supply chain nodes. Flexibly adjust networking strategies based on the business needs and characteristics of each region to ensure accurate and efficient implementation. With the support of Fnetlink's global POP resources and regional engineering teams, the project was delivered quickly, ensuring that each node was quickly put online. At the same time, it provides 7×24 hours of real-time monitoring to detect and handle network failures in a timely manner, ensuring that corporate business always runs uninterruptedly. Implementation effect: Network performance improved and business progressed steadily Through the Fnetlink SD-WAN solution, the new energy vehicle manufacturer successfully achieved efficient and unified network management, integrated the originally scattered network systems, achieved the goal of integrated centralized control, and improved overall efficiency by more than 50%. Along with this transformation, the company's network operation performance has also been comprehensively optimized, with network latency reduced by 30% and bandwidth utilization significantly improved, ensuring the stable operation of key businesses. At the same time, agile operation and maintenance guarantees have significantly shortened fault handling time, reduced the risk of network interruption by 60%, and ensured the continuity of production and business. In the rapidly developing new energy vehicle industry, flexible deployment brings stronger network expansion capabilities to enterprises, and multi-level security strategies provide reliable support for global business growth. Working together to promote industry innovation and global network transformation Fnetlink's customized SD-WAN solution helps customers successfully realize the intelligent transformation of network interconnection of multiple branches at home and abroad during the period of global strategic layout. Through the deployment of SD-WAN solutions, it not only optimizes network operation efficiency, but also helps implement its digital strategy. In the future, Fnetlink will continue to help companies deepen global collaboration, provide stronger support for the global expansion and digital transformation of new energy vehicle companies through innovative network technologies, and jointly promote the sustainable development and technological innovation of the industry.