01 Petro company chose Algoblu Network-as-a-Service to replace IPSec VPN

Company profile

Customer is a super-large petroleum and petrochemical enterprise group. Its main businesses include petroleum and natural gas exploration, production, storage and transportation (including pipeline transportation), sales and comprehensive utilization; coal production, sales, storage and transportation; oil refining; storage, transportation, wholesale and retail of oil products; production, sales, storage, transportation of petrochemical products, etc.

Challenges

Thousands of gas station across the country use IPSec VPN over Internet to access headquarter data center to transmit daily transaction data, internal ERA and OA application run over the IPSec VPN. Complex network architecture, unstable connections affect normal operation and sales performance; no centralized visual network management platform, later network management and maintenance costs are high and require the support of a large IT operation and maintenance team; the network cannot keep up with the rapid expansion of new business and the opening of new station demand.

Solution

Deploy Network-as-a-service to replace IPSec VPN. At each gas station, a CPE device creates two NEV tunnels over existing access line to connect to two POPs nearby, this two POPs are in different geographical locations, this gives redundancy connections for each gas station; Private NEV backbone provide highly secured, end to end QoS guaranteed service from gas station to headquarter; ZTP feature allows a central IT support team to remotely config/provision service for any gas station; visualized network management platform gives customer the ability to obtain real-time network conditions of all gas stations, including physical port, tunnel status, traffic, alarms, etc., and SLA statistical reports at the end of each month.

Result

Network availability and security of the new NEV based private network are much better than old IPSec VPN. Overall downtime of the gas stations decreases by 90%. The centralized visual network management platform simplifies the operation and maintenance operations without expanding the IT support team. The deployment is agile; the operating cost of the whole network is reduced by 30%. Customer has better visibility of its network operation.

Networking Solutions	Link Method	Construction Cycle	SLA guarantee	Redundant Link	Visualized Management	Elastic Bandwidth	Downtime	Opex
IPSec VPN	Internet tunnel	30 days	No	No	Not support	No	Often	High
NEV network	NEV L2 tunnel	1-2days	Yes	Yes	Support	Yes	Decreases by 90%	Reduced by 30%

02 Top IT consulting firm deploys Algoblu cloud connection

Company profile

A world-renowned multinational technology and consulting company headquartered in the United States, whose main clients are governments and enterprises, with operations in more than 160 countries and regions. It has dozens branches in more than 30 cities, and several joint ventures and wholly-owned companies in country.

Challenges

Due to the company's global business, business data exchange and video communication are very frequent and data traffic is huge in offices and departments around the world. Collaboration applications like Webex, Slack are mission critical for customer’s daily operation. Customer access Webex and Slack over the public internet suffers long latency and packet loss during the peak hours, which heavily impact user experience. Customer purchased separate access lines to support its premium services like Webex and ordinary Internet service. The burst traffic of the videoconferencing application is almost 5 times than the daily average traffic, which add significant cost of the bandwidth.

Solution

Deploy EPL to replace existing access lines. 2 CPE devices at each site and provide redundant access to nearest POP. The private NEV backbone has direct connection to Webex cloud platform. BGP peer is established between Webex and customer side which update the route in real-time and steer the Webex traffic to NEV backbone. Webex traffic and other traffic are transmitted over same EPL line. Webex is marked as high priority service which can preempt bandwidth over low priority traffic. This ensure Webex application has always been allocated sufficient bandwidth even during peak hours.

Result

Significantly improve the Webex user experience at all time no matter it’s peak hours or there’re large number of users join the Webex call simultaneously. Latency decreases 3 times and packet loss ratio decreases 10+ times. Overcall bandwidth cost decreases 40%.

	Internet Solution	Cloud Connection Solution
Number of hop from customer premise to Webax platform	> 10	< 5
Latency	180~270ms	< 90ms
Packet loss rate	0.5­2% ，occassionally 10-15%	< 0.1%
Service Bandwidth	Shared with other services	Dedicated bandwidth
Steering	Adjust manually	Adjust automatically
Elastic Billing	pricing	95/5 percentile billing
Visualization network management	No	Web-based centralized visual management platform
Bandwidth Utilization	60%	90%
TCO	100%	40% reduction

03 Algoblu App broadband service facilitates top streaming game

Company profile

A multinational technology company. It’s one of the world's largest video game vendor. Its subsidiaries globally market various Internet-related services and products, including in entertainment, artificial intelligence, and other technology.

Challenges

Unlike local games, online games and streaming games are highly dependent on the quality of the network. Referring to Google Stadia's guidelines for streaming games, the "end-to-end" network indicators from the player's terminal device to the game server need to meet: minimum network speed of 10Mbps for 720p, 35 Mbps or greater of 4K resolution, need maintain low latency and stable connection during the entire game period. Today game players play games over public internet which has no service guarantee at all, which result in game lag, frame loss, blurred image, and non-adjustable screen ratio. The bad user experience prevent to grow the business.

Solution

Deploy Algoblu App broadband service over the carrier's home broadband line without the need to run a new last-mile access fiber to users’ homes, establishing an end-to-end Layer 2 connection from the player’s home across the NEV backbone network to connect to the streaming game platform. This connection is served solely for game and isolated from public internet. It guarantees the end-to-end ultra-low latency, jitter and zero packet loss.

Result

Game players obtains a connection-oriented Layer 2 Ethernet service over its home broadband line. The service offers very stable and reliable connection with full end-to-end quality assurance of less than 20ms latency, 0.1ms jitter and zero packet loss. It significantly improves players’ gaming experience.

04 Top cloud service provider choose Algoblu EPN service to lower TCO

Company profile

The company offers cloud computing services to businesses to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with business. It provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 100+ countries around the world with data center locations in the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia.

Challenges

Customer has multiple data centers deployed in country. Customer uses L2 private lines to form a star network with multiple backup lines between multiple regional data centers and the headquarters, which was costly and had a large operation and maintenance workload, while the fixed-bandwidth private lines could not meet the changes in business traffic in real time, and the bandwidth utilization of each regional data center was very low.

Solution

Deploy Algoblu EPN service which supports bandwidth pool and burst traffic intelligent steering. Different from traditional point2point circuit service which has fixed bandwidth, EPN use the total amount of the bandwidth of each site as a bandwidth pool, the traffic of each regional data center will be dynamically allocated the bandwidth according to the service demand and priority. The regional data center with large load can share the free bandwidth of other regional data center lines through EPN's central scheduling system and its redundant network architecture. The bandwidth of each regional data center can be dynamically adjusted from 0 to the maximum bandwidth of the headquarter. The solution can improve the bandwidth efficiency significantly.

Result

Algoblu EPN service enables the user's heavily loaded regional data center to significantly increase bandwidth utilization across the network through network-wide bandwidth pooling and central traffic scheduling by priority, increasing utilization from 55% to 85%, reduce TCO by 40% compared to the user's original point-to-point star network solution. It also significantly increases availability through EPN redundant architecture and reduces the difficulty and cost of operation and maintenance, and provides better service experience.

	Traditional Solution	Elastic Private Network
TCO	1:1 redundant link, high cost	Reduced by 50%
Burst traffic	Not support	Support, access bandwidth from 0 to the total bandwidth of the whole network, dynamically adjustable
Expansion	from weeks to months	Same day
Billing	Fixed Bandwidth Billing	95/5 percentile billing
Bandwidth Utilization	55%	85%