ChinaCache Cooperates with Youku Router, Creating New CDN Ecosystem

On August 26, ChinaCache, the leader in China’s CDN industry, announced its cooperation with Youku Router, the game changer in routing industry, to jointly create a new ecosystem in the CDN field in China. Both sides have reached strategic cooperation for intelligent terminal content sinking program, to build together a completely new CDN acceleration ecosystem and establish a win-win strategy pattern for ChinaCache, Youku Tudou and terminal users. Li Hua, Senior VP of ChinaCache, Gao Jun, VP of ChinaCache, Fu Liang, VP of ChinaCache, Zhang Xianguo, GM of Operator Products Division, Yao Jian, CTO of Heyi Film and President of Cloud Entertainment BU, Wu Yi, Intelligent Hardware GM, and Yang Jingyu, Technology Development Director,  attended the strategic cooperation signing ceremony.

The intelligent terminal sinking program creates a new CDN business model, taking Youku Router as the carrier for network content storage to achieve network content scheduling, traffic guidance and content delivery for end users by means of built-in intelligent delivery software independently developed by ChinaCache, push CDN acceleration service to household sides, and become the “CDN acceleration nodes” closest to the end users. This acceleration model will completely improve terminal users’ online surfing experience and fully accelerate the access speed for large-traffic content such as file downloads and video watching.

The intelligent terminal sinking program establishes access and return mechanisms between equipment and ChinaCache nodes, between equipment, and between equipment and source sites, to realize comprehensive and efficient content scheduling. ChinaCache will push the content to the storage space offered by Youku Router, directly return the content sources to the end users or through node scheduling, schedule the access and request of the end users to the location closest to the users, select the optimal data return path for the users, and realize the fastest access speed. Meanwhile, the user access paths build a big data resource pool, which can help to decide in advance the user consumption mindset and access habits based on the analyses on user behaviors, geographical locations and browsing hobbies, push the Internet content in advance which the users may be interested in, and maximize network access experience.

The imbalance of China's bandwidth resources and the characteristics of north and south areas operated by different operators have led to poor experience of China broadband users. When online videos become the channel for users to obtain basic information, bandwidth resources have become the section which needs the most improvement. Although video sites and CDN service providers are trying to improve the bandwidth resources of Chinese users, in fact, due to limited user coverage of the CDN service providers and the fact that video websites won’t focus on improving user bandwidth as its operating priority, the users cannot smoothly watch big stream HD video content though the current video websites have a large number of HD videos. The cooperation of ChinaCache, the leader of Chinese CDN industry, and Youku Router, the game changer in the router field, is expected to fundamentally change the bandwidth issue of Chinese Internet users when they are watching videos.

Currently, Youku has had 250 million active users. Through the cooperation with ChinaCache, each Youku user is expected to turn to a CDN node. Once achieved, Youku users will use ChinaCache’s network acceleration technology to rebuilt a virtual CDN network owning over 100 million nodes on top of China backbone network, which will completely satisfy the hunger for bandwidth resources of Chinese Internet users.

In fact, every Youku user or Internet user mainly uses downlink channels (download) when using broadband, and their uplink channels (upload) are mainly in idle state. To make full use of the idle resources of the users (Youku has already tried to give the users subsidies) and rebuild virtual CDN network based on China backbone networks are the most economic way to improve the current bandwidth situation for Internet users. Comparing to the construction of Chinese backbone networks, this measure is fast, effective, more cost saving, and green.

ChinaCache will surely expand its node number rapidly through the CDN acceleration technology embedded in Youku Router, while Youku, by means of subsidies, can turn over 200 million users to CDN nodes quicily, which has immeasurable values in the future for the CDN industry. At present, there is no such enterprise in the world which can expand its CDN nodes rapidly to the level of millions. It can be said that the cooperation between Youku and ChinaCache will not only change Youku user’s experience, but also bring a new ecology to Chinese CDN industry.

In the future, based on ChinaCache resources in operators, and broadcasting and television industry, Youku Router will be integrated into tailor-made customer solutions in a package, to meet their content acceleration and optimization demands, while ChinaCache also conducts technical exploration and sharing with Youku Router in the fields of application download delivery and game acceleration.

ChinaCache Smart Net throughout Communities, Opening up CDN Overall Deployment

On August 14, ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, announced the release of ChinaCache Smart Net solution, which has innovatively opened up the “last kilometer” from Internet service providers (ISPs) to community side and client side, to realize CDN acceleration deployment.

ChinaCache has been committed to CDN network acceleration technology breakthroughs and innovations, to improve end user experiences through continuous optimization of network resources deployment, create “the first kilometer” at any where from the nodes deployed all over the world, optimize “the middle one-kilometer delivery” from content sinking to base stations, and push the content to the community nodes closest to terminal users through ChinaCache Smart Net by means of its unique inter-network acceleration technology, and achieve closest possible access to break “the last kilometer” transmission bottleneck.

According to the statistics, in 2014, the number of the community broadband households has exceeded more than 200 million, including about 37-million small and medium-sized operators ISP subscribing households accounting for about 18.5% of the total market share. As Chinese broadband access market is gradually opening to private owned capitals, this proportion is expected to increase again. The ISPs will play more and more important role in China's broadband market.

Upon the approaching of the market opportunities, however, the ISPs are facing many challenges. One challenge is that the users have high broadband expectations with unlimited expansion, which exceeds the speed of ISP infrastructure construction. The second is that the application and HD video business are developing very rapidly, but stable quality can not be ensured due to inter-networks, leading to potential user loss. The third is big pressure of regional bandwidth exit, resulting in growing inter-network settlement bandwidth costs for ISPs.

As a long term partner for operators, ChinaCache, targeting at the problem hindering the development of the ISPs, has launched the industry’s iconic and innovative solution – ChinaCache Smart Net solution. By increasing exchange centers within the ISP network, ChinaCache will push video contents to the community node closest to the online users, to enable them access to the nearest video content. One of the benefits to the small and medium-sized operators is to greatly save the ISP inter-network settlement expenses, solve connectivity problems and insufficient bandwidth, provide end users with more stable and higher quality video service, improve user access experience, and ultimately help the ISPs and content providers to establish good brand image in the market.

In addition to providing targeted solutions, ChinaCache Portal statistic platform provides small and medium-sized operators with many types of data statistics and analyses, such as, save bandwidth (out) and back to the source bandwidth (in), online traffic usage according to website/user/ terminal, to provider the operators with better support.

In terms of service, ChinaCache Smart Net can offer customized solutions, 7*24 hours real-time monitoring and 5*8 hours senior operational support service, ensuring timely response to diversified needs of the ISPS to offer better support, properly deal with emergencies and solve troubles.

Relying on the advantageous resources of ChinaCache’s backbone networks, ChinaCache Smart Net features seamless connection with the ISPs, offering compatibility with all the core services provided by ChinaCache intelligent routing scheduling SSR system.

At present, ChinaCache has implemented cooperation with more than a dozen of ISPs such as Great Wall Broadband Network, Aipu Broadband, and Gehua Cable. In the future, ChinaCache will continue its commitment to improving and optimizing network transmission quality, proactively establishing comprehensive cooperation with middle stream and downstream companies in the industrial chain, integrating resources and advantages, creating maximum network transmission value, and promoting healthy development and prosperity of the broadband market in China.

ChinaCache Attended the Trusted Cloud Services Conference, Sharing Online Game Acceleration Experience

On July 30, 2015, the 2^nd Trusted Cloud Services Conference (TRUCS2015) was held in Beijing International Conference Center. ChinaCache International Holding Co., Ltd (hereafter referred to as ChinaCache (Nasdaq: CCIH), the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, was invited to attend the conference as the Data Centre Union Directing Member, and won the Cloud Delivery Service Certificate issued by the Data Center Union. During the conference, Xu Huiquan, VP of ChinaCache, gave a speech themed as Easy Game and Credible Service, sharing the cutting-edge solutions in online game industry with over 100 industry participants.

The Trusted Cloud Services Conference is the only conference focusing on accreditation to cloud computing trust systems. With one year’s precipitation and accumulation, the conference of this year has caught the attention of the industry and become a major event in China's cloud computing industry. ChinaCache, thanks to its 17 years of leading technical research and development strength, combined with rich practical experience in CDN field, has launched a range of trusted cloud services solutions, which have been widely recognized by industry associations and customers. During the Trusted Cloud Service Conference in 2014, ChinaCache’s cloud hosting and EBS cloud storage service successfully passed strict inspections, according to 13 evaluation indexes such as data storage durability, migration, privacy, availability, resource allocation capacity and fault recovery capacity. In this way, ChinaCache became among the first group of Trusted Cloud Service Providers. In this year’s conference, ChinaCache’s cloud delivery service also won the trusted cloud certification. Hence, ChinaCache has become one of very few enterprises among China's cloud service providers which have won three product certificates.

 Xu Huiquan, VP of ChinaCache, is giving a speech on Easy Game and Credible Service

During the conference, Xu Huiquan, VP of ChinaCache, in his speech on Easy Game and Credible Service, analyzed the IT challenges facing the gaming industry, introduced ChinaCache’s game solutions, and stressed on supporting game providers from developing, public testing, promotion to consistent high-speed development by means of one-stop cloud service. In terms of data security and service quality due to rapid growth of cloud computing industry, Xu Huiquan mentioned that for the cloud service’s availability index, ChinaCache promises 99.9% as its availability level, which is a strict standard to ensure ChinaCache to provide users with higher quality, more trusted and more secure cloud services.

As one of the first group of certified trusted cloud service providers, ChinaCache will speed up its cloud technology R&D, continuously enhance its trusted cloud service capacity, provide Internet enterprises with higher efficiency, lower cost and more reliable cloud services, and drive China's cloud service market to develop in a healthy and orderly way.

To Share Your Photos in In, ChinaCache MPlus Offers Strong Guarantee

It has been shown in a survey that 74% of Internet users in China were willing to use their fragmented time to share their life, which is a major reason for the rapid popularity of photo social communities. In, as the biggest photo social application platform in China, in less than a year since its going online on June 6, 2014, has had over 32 million users, growing far more rapidly than Instagram, the mobile social photo originator in the world, showing an amazing growth rate with 92% of its users as female. Since its very beginning, In has demonstrated its commercialization trend.

Perceiving the market development trend at an early stage, In is good at opening up the relationship among its platform, application and users, capturing the pursuing characteristics and active segment of its users, letting the users to dig up their own highlights with the guidance of In, connecting the users’ own circle with famous brands and fashion worlds by means of path improvement, based on which female users’ consumption, recreation, entertainment and life circle are linked together. Designed to multiple elements of consumption characteristics and photo taking requirements by the vast number of women users, In also has had a growing number of users with usage popularity, very hard to be copied and surpassed.

With the increasing demand in Internet image market, especially the wide usage of mobile photo social applications, how to improve the experience of Internet users and enhance the ease of use has become a major issue for App developers to focus on. In view of domestic extremely complex network environments, it is self evident how hard it is to guarantee the nation-wide Internet users can smoothly experience the visual impact by viewing photos during peak time. ChinaCache has launched its mobile Internet-aware service, MPlus, fighting against data load issue under complex network facing the App, offering strong support for the App.

As the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, ChinaCache, based on its advanced technical research strength in CDN industry for 17 years, combined with its rich experience in cooperation with communications operator platforms, has successfully launched the industry’s first authentic optimization product MPlus dedicated for wireless communication network traffic. This is a solution integrated and designed for mobile Internet terminal users, content providers B2B2C business mode and access acceleration technology, helping enterprises to obtain a communication rate 60% higher than the regular basis, offering features of reducing and eliminating terminal user’s wireless traffic expense in a pioneer way, supplemented by a traffic flow integrated solution, realizing perfect combination of physical acceleration and marketing power, offering richer imagination space for mobile Internet content providers to improve business promotion and terminal user experience, opening up a new era of user experience optimization for the mobile Internet industry. MPlus has the power to fully enhance App performance in terms of network speed, user experience and user viscosity.

In the photo social sharing age, it is speed and quality that each App competes on. An App with high-speed access and smooth experience can attract more users than the App with jammed access, while the app with clear photos and minimum traffic flow can even win more customers. Being the leader in photo sharing industry, In has acutely captured the user's pain points and constantly improved its own network service quality. After MPlus acceleration service is used, HD photos in In can still be viewed at a high speed even in cellular network environment. Besides, in today's society, “network traffic is money”. Photo social sharing App needs the support of MPlus to let their users no longer worry about Internet traffic flow expense.

MPlus’s applicability at the whole mobile App level will make a large number of Apps like in to step forward in the field of mobile acceleration and user experience. In the future, social sharing products will pay more attention to user needs and experience, which is what In has been focusing on. This is an age for photo social sharing, also an age for ChinaCache’s MPlus to offer full support to these mobile Apps.