ChinaCache HPCC Platform Assisting Cloud Service Transformation

The development of Internet and mobile Internet has given rise to heavyweight Internet companies one by one and a large number of mobile Internet applications. The extended diversified applications, a variety of terminals, across-network access, complex network environment, and the increase of user expectation in network quality all set higher requirements on CDN service. In the face of the next wave Blue Ocean in the CDN market, how to realize scale operations and how to assist customers to make fast distribution with rapid delivery service system in rapidly changing Internet age are huge challenges in the development of the CDN industry.

ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, has taken technology research and development as its first competitive strength, constantly leading the industry’s technology improvements with proactive innovations, optimized services, and superior R&D team. In 2015, ChinaCache has officially launched its next generation of CDN basis core platform based on efficient cloud computing technology – HPCC (High Performance Cloud Cache) platform. The HPCC platform, thanks for its core functions such as distributed system, separated business storage, node resource pooling, content intelligent awareness, can increase its stability and availability by about 3%, improve response delay by 5% to 10%, greatly optimize the overall operating management efficiency, and improve delivery capacity.

The HPCC platform offers service for ChinaCache’s core business such as page viewing acceleration, file distribution and download, video streaming media, and mobile Internet, reducing customer resource costs, greatly improving user experience. Due to its more flexible caching mode and faster adaptability to changes, the HPCC platform can fully increase various performance indicators.

Cache clustering, saving customer cost

The HPCC platform features cache clustering, using personalized service of hierarchical caching. This can not only achieve sharing of all channel resources to ensure the balance of equipment flow by having each node resource utilization rate fluctuate by 10% at most, but also enable the number of single node file storage to exceed 1 billion, which means increasing access hit ratio by 20% and reducing back-to-source rate by over 10%. In this way, customer costs can be saved significantly.

High availability, fault tolerance against super faults

The HPCC platform offers high availability and high performance service. Its comprehensive time delay function and superior fault tolerance capacity, in the case of sudden burst of mass customer traffic, can respond quickly and with ease, to minimize negative effects on users due to some operations such as equipment downtime. At the same time, it can also make real-time tracking and analysis of user access hotspots and establish memory databases, to better analyze customer’s network demand, provide technical support for more diverse differentiated services of customers, and achieve great service and high quality.

Resource allocation optimization, achieving efficient management

    The HPCC platform carries out major node deployment through resource integration of original fragmented nodes, thus effectively improving major node input and output capability, and reducing network transmission pressure due to minor node congestion. At the same time, the HPCC platform integrates internal resources to achieve automation platform operation management and enhance output efficiency of each link. With comprehensive optimization deployment and resource allocation, the HPCC platform has greatly improved customer delivery capacity and service response speed.

The official launch of the HPCC platform is a significant step for ChinaCache to step into the CDN cloud era, also indicating that ChinaCache has thoroughly completed the transformation of its CDN cloud distribution platform, a successful turn around in the cloud era. ChinaCache will start its strategic cooperation with many enterprises in the cloud field through the HPCC platform, to have the complete solution applied in client side and provide more stable and efficient network operation service with its more flexible caching mode and faster adaptability to changes.

ChinaCache HPCC Runs, Leading CDN Industry Cloud Age

Recently, ChinaCache, the CDN industry leader in China, has announced its fully online running of the efficient cloud distribution platform HPPC (high performance cloud cache), the next generation of cloud computing technology based CDN foundation core platform independently developed by ChinaCache, on its entire network. This marks ChinaCache’s success in transformation from traditional file distribution mode CDN to cloud distribution platform, opening a new chapter of the CDN cloud age.

CDN has moved to the CDN cloud age of cloud-enabled node resource, Internet traffic intelligent scheduling, content hierarchical caching, and multi-IDC management support, from its early natural growth period relying on manual scheduling experience, followed by offering edge cache service and rich peripheral support system through traffic scheduling service.

ChinaCache’s efficient cloud distribution platform HPCC is a new generation of platform technology based on this evolution. A new generation of CDN platform, built by the high-performance proxy server and cloud storage system on the HPCC platform, is designed to reduce resource cost and improve user experience, with its core features of distributed systems, business storage separation, node resource pooling, and content intelligent aware function. ChinaCache’s single node cloud platform is many times faster compared with similar products in terms of performance, making Internet applications even faster, significantly boosting user experiences.

With the launching of ChinaCache’s efficient cloud distribution platform HPCC, the CDN market in China will gradually enter into the cloud computing era, helping to better solve China's current Internet congestion issues, greatly improving user access response speed, and making content transmission faster and more stable.

The efficient cloud distribution platform HPCC will provide services to ChinaCache’s core business such as page acceleration, file distributed download, video streaming media, and mobile Internet, to substantially increase many indicators in terms of resource utilization, back to the source bandwidth, operational cost, and customer cost, while offering customers with more variety of differentiated value-added services.

A large domestic microblogging website has been operated stably in ChinaCache’s efficient cloud distribution platform HPCC for more than 4 months, with remarkable results:

Ø  More balanced Internet flow scheduling, with each node resource utilization rate floating by not higher than 10%;

Ø  The number of single node file storage exceeding 1 billion, with access hitting ratio increased by 20%;

Ø  With improved hitting rates, back to the source rate lowers by over 10%;

At present, ChinaCache’s CDN network has been carrying out page display of 9.6 billion times a day, video content browsing and downloading of more than 1 billion times, producing system and user logs of more than 130 TB magnitude every day. The online running of the efficient cloud distribution platform HPCC will surely greatly improve ChinaCache’s service platform in terms of overall technology level, business delivery capacity, and service quality, also bringing new development momentum for the CDN industry.