ChinaCache Offered Smooth Domestic and Overseas Online Traffic, Powering up Online Broadcasting of the Grand Military Parade Globally

9.3 Grand Military Parade demonstrated Chinese arms competence to the world 

ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content application and delivery services in China in the past 17 years, has provided its CDN service for online broadcasting of major events for many times. On September 3, 2015, the 70-year anniversary grand military parade to commemorate the victory of Chinese people’s anti-Japanese invasion war and the world anti-fascist war (hereafter referred to as the Grand Military Parade or Parade) was held in Beijing. As the partner of many major news organizations and video websites at home and abroad, ChinaCache provided full-course network acceleration service, powering up successful online broadcasting of the Grand Military Parade with its high quality, high reliability, and zero packet loss services, witnessing the glorious moment in the history of China, together with the people around the world.

According to CCTV news report, more than 1 billion Internet users worldwide browsed and watched the Grand Military Parade through the Internet on September 3. Meanwhile, based on the data from several video websites, the number of concurrent Internet uses during the peak of the Parade has hit another history high for live broadcasting period.  During such high concurrent and heavy-traffic accesses, ChinaCache has offered full-course acceleration service – video live broadcasting acceleration service, static page acceleration service and Extend Internet Access (EIA) focusing on overseas acceleration- to several large global news agencies and video websites, offering clear, smooth and stable online live broadcasting experiences for domestic and overseas users.

To cope with complex network environments and satisfy the needs to support multiple video formats for various medias and platforms, and the playing demands for different terminals, ChinaCache video live broadcasting acceleration service can push live Parade contents to high-speed edge nodes close to users through selecting high quality link nodes. The service also ensures that video live broadcasting streams can be continuously played even under network fluctuations through automatic adaptation conversion of rates. Besides, through automatic recognition of user terminals, the service can convert single-format video live broadcasting streams into the format suitable for output and deliver it to multiple networks and multiple screens. In this way, stable, efficient and convenient video live broadcasting performance can be achieved.

In addition to videos, during the Grand Military Parade, several news organizations also provided users with real-time image-text live broadcasting. During the live broadcasting, in order to avoid network congestion due to sudden concurrent accesses by a large number of users, the static page acceleration service of ChinaCache had the webpage content delivered to each CDN node, enabled the users to obtain the required content from nearby nodes through global intelligent analytical system (SSR), greatly reduced the pressure on backbone networks, accelerated the response speed of live pages, and ensured the users to have faster and smoother access to webpages.

At the same time, thanks for its global resource advantage, and products and technologies to meet the demand of overseas accesses, ChinaCache has played a key role in assisting the overseas live broadcasting of the Grand Military Parade. In order to solve issues such as slow overseas access speed and unstable network and inability for access, ChinaCache used its Extend Internet Access (EIA) targeting overseas Internet acceleration, which can reduce user access delay and solve jittering and packet losses by optimizing routing and integrating networks, making the users implement rapid access to global networks in an intelligent way.

By building high quality networks, ChinaCache has made the people around the world witness the glamor of China arms. In the past ten years, with its strong technical strength and professional services, ChinaCache has been participating in the online broadcasting of many major events including 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the 60^th National Day Anniversary Military Parade in 2009 and 2014 APEC Summit. In the future, ChinaCache will continue to focus on technology and service excellences, to witness more glorious moments with the world.

ChinaCache Launches Banking Acceleration Solution, Speeding up New Internet Finance

On May 13 to15 (Beijing time), the 5^th Cloud Computing in Financial Institutions 2015 organized by Belgium Lnoppen Group was held in Haikou. During the conference, a comprehensive analysis was presented about current status and development trend of banking information construction under new situations, to clarify development directions of security-controllable strategies, and speed up security-controllable IT operational mechanism.

Internet content and application delivery services in China, was invited to attend the conference again and give a speech by Gao Junliang, CMO of ChinaCache, on Speeding up Finance Internet+. During the conference, ChinaCache launched its banking network acceleration solution specifically built for financial industry for the first time, raising broad industry attention.

With the rapid development of Chinese economy, global banking landscape is changing deeply and accordingly. Emerging markets, especially China, are becoming an important force in global banking industry. In the report of national new economy strategy of "Internet +", Li Keqiang, Chinese Prime Minister, mentioned "Internet finance" twice, with requirements to promote healthy development of Internet finance. Internet-enabled banking industry, as the core force for the growth of Chinese economy, can make the consumers truly experience the convenience in life brought by the integrations and innovations of Internet and financial industry.

 For the Internet-enabled development of the banking industry, user experience is the core competitive strength. At present, banking business is expanding rapidly towards PC and mobile terminals. According to the statistics in the annual reports of listed banks, it showed that the number of mobile banking users of ten listed banks had exceeded 540 million, a year-on-year growth of 33.62%. The sudden burst of user accesses has resulted in huge network challenges, including jammed webpage viewing, slow webpage viewing, system collapse, online banking plug-in updates, heavy pressure on source sites due to new version online, core data security guarantee. Facing these “obstacles” in banking Internet-enable process, ChinaCache is the first to release the banking network acceleration solution to solve clients’ difficulties, integrating high efficiency, stability and professionalism and agility, assisting the banking industry to grow in a positive way.

ChinaCache’s banking network acceleration solution works at four core levels including guaranteeing finance industry business Internet implementation, ensuring stable operating activities, ensuring security and stability of key data, and promoting focus more on business and less on operation, to effectively solve tricky network problems faced by the banking customers, and provide banking institutions with more efficient, stable and rapid Internet access support services.

At the level of guaranteeing banking business Internet implementation, ChinaCache’s banking network acceleration solution can avoid the impact on access due to Internet fluctuations through private physical lines and with broad coverage of node resources, while, on the premise of high security, prompting banks to implement financial business in a rapid and sensitive way for the whole Internet business chain started from their portals.

In terms of ensuring data security, this solution can support HTTPS trusted site services and conduct high security protection strategies such as source site health check, data center hiding, hotlink prevention, tamper proofing, DNS attack warning switch, and IPS rule squelching, to effectively and completely guarantee stable and secure operation of the banking business, and ensure users' access credibility and access speed;

In the cases of monthly and quarterly banking operations, major version updates and business promotion opportunities, short-term operations and a large number of user updates and applications will result in tremendous pressure on data center infrastructure and exit bandwidth. Therefore, ChinaCache has released its banking solution dedicated for the banking industry, to create banking-level service system, achieve short-term rapid, stable and accurate operations in terms of resource reserves and manpower cooperation, and establish complete emergency response services through on site support for operation activities;

At the level of focusing more on business and less on operations, ChinaCache’s banking network acceleration solution can unload heavy investments on data center from the banks, while utilizing existing resources in more important dynamic data transmission, to invest the saved resources into enhancing interactive experience of the portals and business pages. During the whole operation, ChinaCache’s big data analysis will offer valuable information on user behaviors without the need to plant plug-ins in pages.

The banking industry has made significant achievements on mobile payment and mobile banking, driven by Internet waves and under high attention from the state. With over 7 years experience in financial industry, the banking network acceleration solution provided by ChinaCache will further speed up the development pace of Internet-enabled and mobile Internet-enabled banking, to guarantee secure and stable operations in complex network environments, and accelerate mobile new financial reform.

ChinaCache Streaming Media Acceleration Distribution System, Perfect Partner for Video Live Broadcasting.

Recently, ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content transmission and application service in China, with independent research and development, has released smart media server (SMS) streaming media acceleration distribution system, targeting interactive live broadcasting. The SMS’ powerful live broadcast acceleration technique brings subversive live webcast quality for video live broadcast industry, providing end users with unprecedentedly smooth viewing experience.

When Twitter made it possible to connect the world by using real-time and limited words, technology pioneers have started to think whether people can watch global news immediately by opening an application and clicking a button in PC/mobile terminals. At present, there has been booming development of video live broadcast in PCs. With rapid progress of mobile Internet, video live broadcast in mobile terminals has also been penetrating into end consumer's life. Live video is standing at the Internet’s next forefront. And ChinaCache is the one behind the curtain to drive video live broadcast industry to fly higher.

The SMS streaming media acceleration distribution system can completely solve a series of video live broadcast bottleneck issues such as image delay and voice delay, to fully enhance streaming media distribution acceleration quality. The SMS live broadcast service can be used in RTMP protocol live broadcast with interactive demand as well as ordinary RTMP protocol live broadcast. In addition, the SMS system can support SWF, Token and Refer encryption authentication, even in support of video streaming encryption processing.

The SMS service is targeted at six customer groups in video industry, including media clients such as HD video network television, gaming industry such as game live broadcast events and game portals, live shows such as anchor shows and beauty live shows, education industry, portal websites such as interviews, sport events, conference, and entertainment portals, and wireless value-added business such as mobile live broadcasting. The SMS service fully covers each segmented application in the video industry, offering strong support to the development of video live broadcast.

High quality service results from strong technical strength. The secret for ChinaCache’s SMS streaming media acceleration distribution system lies in its superior and rich technical performance. In this solution, the RTMP live broadcast streaming can support standard RTMP’s push stream, pull stream and broadcast, to realize smooth broadcasting service, with a minimum delay of 1.2 seconds (in R&D lab environment), and effectively relieve delay issue due to server overload; re-push live stream function can push live stream to the source station through edge nodes, used with domain name conversion; the system also supports Vhost (domain name conversion), to change uplink and downlink domain names during back to source process, to support different requests for uplink and downlink domain names of interactive live broadcasting anchor application, to avoid blank screens in user chains through maximum number of connections limit function and GOP buffer support; in addition, the SMS system offers more optimization functions such as time stamp return to zero, hotlink protection, IP strategy, and RTMP billing. Diversified functions of the SMS system can effectively solve various personalized needs of video live broadcast, fully meeting multi-scenario and multi-application video live broadcasting through comprehensive technical coverage.

ChinaCache have provided live broadcasting support services to Beijing Spring Festival Gala, the Two Sessions, China National Games, Asian Games and other large-scale activities for many times, having strong and profound video live broadcast technology capacity, operating and service experience. Thanks for many years’ R&D investment in the aspect of the industry's network acceleration, ChinaCache has accumulated core technologies, always leading the industry and driving fast development of the Internet in China and the world through continuous understanding and improvement of customer demands, and constant innovation of new products. The release of the SMS streaming media distribution acceleration system has brought new drives for ChinaCache in exploring and leading video live broadcast business.

ChinaCache to Accelerate your Internet +

On March 12 to 13, 2015 Huawei China Partner Conference themed as Collecting Sunlight, Undertaking New Journey, Going Beyond Dream, Creating Brilliance was held in Xi’an, to deliver 2015 newest channel policy, industry development concept and “large service” idea to Huawei partners. As Huawei’s long-term solid partner, ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, was invited to attend the conference, and Gao Junliang, CMO of ChinaCache, presented a speech on the theme of accelerating Internet. 

   Internet is experiencing fast transition from new business model to business profit model, while network service quality is a vital part of the whole business profit model, the key factor to attract end users. It has shown in researches that performance improvement of every 100ms means additional 1% income; page loading speed increase from 6s to 1.2s leads to 12% income increase; every 400ms performance improvement will increase 9% website access traffic. Therefore, network acceleration technology has become the core competitiveness for commercial gains. As the propeller for Internet progress, ChinaCache has been committed to promoting Internet and traditional enterprise Internet development. China's first CDN service provider with independent property rights, ChinaCache, thanks to its 16 years accumulation in professional field, has a CDN platform with massive carrying capacity, including daily 9.6 billion webpage displays, 960 million mobile and Internet terminal customers every day, and 970 million video and multi-media file transfers a day. As customer development and need change, ChinaCache has made rapid deployment and built a first-class research and development team, to transfer product market needs rapidly to acceleration products adaptive to customer needs, from website acceleration, mobile acceleration, enterprise Intranet/application acceleration to video live broadcasting/ video on demand acceleration, with full coverage in Internet, finance, radio and television/media, government, traditional industry, fast retailing industry, and education, to improve network speed in various business environments.

With the leaping development of Chinese Internet, the Internet is rapidly penetrating into all walks of life. The combination of mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things with modern manufacturing and traditional enterprises has gradually shown a clear and definite development trend, to constantly promote healthy development of e-commerce, industrial Internet, and emerging Internet industry. And the release of “Internet+” action plan in the Two Sessions days ago has even made industry-wide Internet rise to a national strategy level. The age that anything can be interconnected is just around the corner. In the face of Internet development situation, Gao Junliang, CMO of ChinaCache, said: "ChinaCache will continue to strengthen its own R&D and operation capability, offering continuous innovations, leading Internet development trend, accelerating the process of China and even global Internet"."

CreditEase Cooperates with ChinaCache for Acceleration, Seizing Shares in Internet Finance

In recent years, Internet finance has become one of the most heated concept sectors in financial market, with each major investor to enter into this market to seize its share in the Internet finance market. Meanwhile, there are all kinds of risks hidden on the road to success in Internet business. CreditEase, as the pioneer in the Internet finance field, has started cooperation with ChinaCache - the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China – at the end of 2014 to provide real-time acceleration service for CreditEase platform, ensure access experience of Internet users, and strengthen website information security and continuous healthy service capacity.
During this cooperation, ChinaCache has provided CreditEase with mature enterprise basic page acceleration service and whole website acceleration solution, in which basic page acceleration technology has distributed  static pages and several enterprise APPs  to the edge  closest to users,  to offer end users with  quicker and smoother access and download experience. In view of the feature of mass dynamic data interaction in finance industry websites, ChinaCache has adopted industry leading dynamic-static acceleration technology, ensuring customers to safety and rapidly seize commodities, make purchase, and withdrawal money. In addition, ChinaCache has applied Intranet established EIA super express line solution, to open overseas website  dedicated tunnel for CreditEase, based on ChinaCache’s rich overseas line resources and strong resource expansion capability, making its staff browse enterprise’s overseas website without  pressure. 
With the acceleration service cooperation with ChinaCache, CreditEase has seen greatly increased response speed of its web pages, making the overseas website to reduce international network environment impacts and firewall limitations, greatly lowering the access pressure on its original website and overseas website, decreasing enterprise operating costs. According to CreditEase data, as of January 2015, under ChinaCache’s strong support, Yirendai, an App under CreditEase, had had a total of more than 3 million registered users, with accumulative loan amount exceeding 3 billion yuan. Besides, Yidingying, the intelligent investment and financing tool under Credit Yirendai, has achieved over 100 million yuan for single-month transaction size, since its launch for 5 months. 
ChinaCache, in the past 16 years of practice, has been constantly improving and innovating services dedicated to Internet financial customers, winning industry recognitions, and well received by customers. At present, ChinaCache has in-depth service experience with several large financial companies and Internet companies, to provide strong technical support and efficient network security service with constant stable service quality. 

About ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd.
ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: CCIH) is the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China. As a carrier-neutral service provider, ChinaCache's network in China is interconnected with networks operated by all telecom carriers, major non-carriers and local Internet service providers. With more than a decade of experience in developing solutions tailored to China's complex Internet infrastructure, ChinaCache is a partner of choice for businesses, government agencies and other enterprises to enhance the reliability and scalability of online services and applications and improve end-user experience. For more information on ChinaCache, please visitir.chinacache.com.

About CreditEase
CreditEase is a comprehensive modern service industry enterprise integrating wealth management, credit risk assessment and management, and credit data integration service, as the first to introduce advanced foreign credit management concept and launch P2P (Person to Person) credit loan service, combined with China’s social credit situation. CreditEase as platform manager offers complete credit management service for customers at both ends of the platform.

Under the Dome, the Green Environmental Road of ChinaCache Shouming

The last night of February 2015 was destined to belong to Chai Jing.

Chai Jing’s documentary of Under the Dome has exploded the whole Chinese network, causing people to think what we can do for the environment and ecology we are living in while making comments in Weibo and WeChat. We, as the general public, can try our best to choose a green transportation means such as bus, subway, and bicycle, choose high-quality oil to reduce poisonous gas emission, have dust filtering devices equipped, file complaints to the Environmental Protection Bureau for improvement in case of environmental pollution.

For the data center industry of high energy consumption, what can we do to protect our environment and ecology?

In recent years, data center construction has shown a large-scale development trend, while the power consumption in a large data center is quite striking. For example, for a data center with the construction scale of 2,000 racks, based on the calculation of average power per rack of 3kW, the 2,000 racks will consume 6000-degree electricity, with yearly electricity consumption of 52,560,000 kWh, in addition to other energy consumptions from air conditioning, fresh air, electricity, and lighting in the data center. Huge energy consumption has brought great pressure on the data center in terms of operating cost and environmental protection. Therefore, data center construction is focusing more and more to energy saving, with Green, Environmental Protection, Energy Saving, and High Efficiency as the concept and direction for the construction of next generation of data centers.

How to measure the energy consumption of a data center?

PUE, short for Power Usage Effectiveness, is the indicator for data center energy efficiency evaluation, and the ratio of all the energy consumed in the data center and the energy consumed by IT loads. PUE is a ratio, with 2 as its benchmark. The closer the ratio is towards 1, the better energy efficiency level is. The PUE value has become internationally acknowledged measurement index for data center power usage effectiveness. At present, the advanced data center computer room PUE value in foreign countries is usually less than 2. According to MIIT statistics, at present, China's average data center PUE value is between 2.2 and 3.0. While ChinaCache’s Shouming Cloud Data Center in Shunyi Tianzhu Free Trade Zone is super large, with an area of 80,000 square meters, containing about 7,500 racks, its PUE design value from 1.44 to 1.50, with average PUE value of 1.46, fully in compliance with international leading Green Data Center Energy Efficiency Standard.

The energy consumption in a typical data center includes:

The first part is IT equipment, accounting for about 50% of the total energy consumption of the data center, including servers, storage equipment and network communication equipment, etc.;

The second part is air conditioning system, accounting for about 37% of the total energy consumption of the data center, with air conditioning cooling system accounting for about 25% of the total power consumption, and air conditioning air supply and return system accounting for about 12% of the total power consumption;

The third part is UPS power supply and distribution system, covering about 10% of the total energy consumption of the data center;

The last part is auxiliary lighting system.

The Green Data Center refers to maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact that IT, cooling, lighting and electrical systems in the data center can achieve. The green concept is shown in the overall planning and computer room air conditioning, UPS, servers and other IT equipment, and management software application, with energy saving and environmental protection, high reliability and availability, and rationality. Since PUE = total data center equipment energy consumption/IT equipment energy consumption, a lowered PUE value can be obtained by adopting energy-saving measures to reduce equipment power consumption in the data center. Green and energy saving concept has been deeply considered at the beginning of design and construction of ChinaCache’s Shouming Cloud Data Center, and in strict accordance with the national data center construction standards and regulations.

ChinaCache Shouming Cloud Data Center, the domestic green data center model

For IT equipment energy consumption, hardware vendors at present have been constantly improving chip manufacturing technologies to reduce energy consumption. Therefore, under the condition of same performance, ChinaCache Shouming center chooses the equipment with strong heat dissipation capacity, small size, light weight, low noise and easy for standard rack installation. With the maturation and launching of virtualized cloud computing technologies, efficient power supplies, dynamic cooling, power intelligent management and "dynamic sleeping" equipment can also help to improve the data center’s IT utilization rate.

In terms of data center cooling, reasonable air conditioning configuration and the selection can save energy consumption to a certain level. For example, ChinaCache Shouming Center uses dual water-cooling system, through strict calculation to get optimum air conditioning allocation, integrate natural cooling technology and magnetic suspension centrifugal water-cooling system to greatly reduce the system’s energy consumption, with reasonable design for air supply and return system. In addition, independent temperature and humidity control system can reduce energy consumption too.

By using high frequency energy-saving UPS units, ChinaCache Shouming Center has improved power factors and efficiencies, thus providing high quality power supply for the IT equipment. IGBT uncontrolled rectifier link is used for rectifier part, improving AC current output waveform recovery rate, reducing total harmonic distortion rate, significantly improving conversion efficiency and reducing output loss, compared with ordinary equipment.

In the aspect of data center lighting, ChinaCache Shouming Center, with adherence to the principle of green environmental protection, has reasonably arranged lighting sources, chosen LED low-loss lighting tools and intelligent control methods to reduce the energy consumption of lighting.

At present, there are some good data center construction experiences in the world. Facebook's data center has achieved solar power, to solve power supply in part, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion. Apple's data center in North Carolina has been fully implementing energy self-sufficiency with solar and biogas fuel power generation. The foreign data center pioneers have begun to explore new types of energy supply, and also become a reference for domestic data center construction.

Nowadays, with gradual transparency of information, enhancement of environmental protection awareness, continuous exploration of green energy-saving methods has become important for ChinaCache Shouming data center construction. What we are doing here is for IT development and ecological environment balance, for future’s sustainable development, and for our every breath. We hope the environment we are looking forward to can be realized by everyone’s small efforts.

"In spring, doors are open, with wind blowing in and color everywhere. Sometimes, you run into a rain, or touch a fog. You are tempted to have a deep breath. You can feel the taste of the rain, cold and fresh."

Refreshing Barrages and Snatching Red Envelops While Watching Spring Festival Gala, with ChinaCache to Assist Beijing TV in Building a "New Media" Spring Festival Gala

The Beijing TV Spring Festival Gala this year has innovatively presented a brilliant “new media” gala by breaking through traditions, such as releasing real-time barrages about comment on gala programs, snatching red envelops by shaking mobile phones, giving interdisciplinary performances,  and performance by popular idol stars. Fresh and direct interactions together with wonderful performances have made 2015 Beijing TV Spring Festival Gala, themed as Harmonious and Beautiful Beijing’s Chinese Dream, outstanding among various satellite TV stations.

It won’t work without smooth network to make timely comment barrages to like or dislike the singing of Fan Ming, the actor, or snatch red envelopes from Beijing TV Gala. ChinaCache has offered full-course technical services for this year’s BRTN spring festival gala webcasting, achieving an amazingly zero claim and zero fault result, making audience to snatch red envelopes in time, to comment on the gala constantly, and to enjoy this Spring Festival Gala presented by Beijing TV.

During this cooperation, ChinaCache provided comprehensive content-aware one-stop solution of Cloud plus CDN for the live broadcasting of the BRTN gala, offering super-large bandwidth service and independent resource pool service. The average online population for this year’s BRTN gala is three times the peak number in the previous spring festival galas. In addition, audience interaction such as snatching red envelopes caused big challenges to the stability of video program playing. In the face of these difficulties, ChinaCache has made large-capacity files transmit in high-speed and stable links through cloud hosting and cloud storage, leading to smooth flowing even in the case of steep rise in user numbers. Under the situation of a vast number of audiences, people could still watch the gala programs smoothly and obtain the signals for snatching red envelopes. Besides, ChinaCache offered complete monitoring service to monitor website service quality and customer source site pressure for timely troubleshooting in case of abnormities, thus boosting the viewing experience of BRTN gala, and ensuring safety and controllability of the live broadcasting.

Facing the issues that traditional network radio and television stations have, such as, non-diversified website business, high operating costs and limited website extension capability, the Information Network Management Department of Beijing TV has chosen to take the initiatives for change. Since October 2012, they have started strategic cooperation with ChinaCache thanks to its good reputation and excellent professional CDN service. Since then, Beijing TV has effectively saved operating costs, reduced resource inputs, shortened service deployment time, and ensured premium experience of multiple end users.

ChinaCache has been committed to providing customers with comprehensive network content distribution solutions, with rich technical application experience in media industry. In addition to Beijing TV, ChinaCache has provided services for domestic well-known radio and television broadcasting customers, offering strong technical supports for big campaigns and events such as CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the Two Sessions, the China National Games, the Asian Games, and Xiaomi Online Panic Purchase.