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China Unicom
Presented By Kirk Topits
Director AsiaPac Strategic Projects
[email protected]
Who is China Unicom?
About China Unicom
China Unicom was established in July 1994 and listed on the Hong Kong and New York stock
markets in June 2000. China Unicom is China's second largest mobile communication
operator with over 70 million mobile subscribers for its CDMA and GSM networks. Presently
it has over 300 branches and subsidiaries in the country's 30 provinces, autonomous regions
and municipalities directly under the central government. China Unicom is now the only fully
licensed service provider in the country, providing a full range of telecom services such as
domestic and international long-distance call service, mobile phone and data/IP network
communications.
The Company has completed the construction of the second largest broadband optical fibre
transmission network in China, which serves as the common platform supporting the various
networks of cellular communications, domestic and international long distance, data, Internet
and paging services.
For more details regarding China Unicom Ltd., please visit our website:
www.chinaunicom.com.hk
What do they want?
China Unicom wants to leverage its nation-wide fiber
optic network by launching the world’s largest video
conferencing network.
China Unicom Networks (Simplified!)
GSM / CDMA
“13x” Network
“193”
ISDN
Network
Custome
r
/ VPN
ATM/FR
Fiberoptic
BACKBONE
International
Partner “0xx”
Video VPNs
IP Backbone
Network
(Cisco/AsiaInfo)
“165”
Internet
VPN
Local PSTN
“Last Mile”
Custome
r
/ VPN
Province
Video VPN
National
“100” Video
VPN
Province
Video VPN
Province
Video VPN
Custome
r
/ VPN
Required Components
MCU’s - standards based, Carrier Grade, DC Power
Full Audio and Video Transcoding, CP with Lecture Mode
Audio/Video Error correction and concealment
Gatekeepers (Multi-Hierarchy with PSTN style dialing using E.164)
Virtual MCU Servers (with automatic cascading)
Customer Interface Portal
Real-time Conference CDR/Billing/Banking Servers
Operator Assisted AND Self-serve conferencing
Web based Conference Control/Scheduling
Integrated in HP Openview with SNMP - Component Level
End Points AND support for ALL China Endpoints
Industry Leader - On Standards Committee - Service Providers
Overall Design Objectives
Firewall / Proxy between VPN’s and Networks
Gateway Access to other Networks
Any device To Any device Connectivity
Unified Dialplan and directory
Common Portal for all scheduling and control
Real-time Authorization
Common Billing / Details
High Availability 99.99%
The Project
Challenges to Polycom
All software developed by Chinese system integrator
It’s ALL Chinese Language - No English
China Based Competition (favored)
System must be REAL at Demonstration
100% “IP” mentality
Heavy usage by Unicom upper management
Designed for Enterprise Video VPN Services
Largest VIDEO IP network in the world!
Over 30 Data Centers throughout all of China
Time Line
Q1/2001 Start Phase 1 (Polycom purchases Accord Networks)
Q2/2001 Discussions and Design
Q3/2001 RFP and demonstrations –Created Polycom Project Team
Q4/2001 Evaluation and Project Award
Q1/2002 Equipment Build, Test, Ship, Install
Q2/2002 Network Install, Integration Test
Q3/2002 Cross Functional team for certification testing
Q3/2002 Launch for Internal Usage
Q4/2002 Phase 1.5 started – Unified Service
Q1/2003 Customers On-Line with “UniVideo” Service
Q2/2003 Accelerated Sign-up (SARS hits China!)
Q3/2003 Phase 2 started – 60% expansion
Physical Demonstration Layout
Polycom/Atlanta
Unicom/Beijing
ISDN
Network
Lab/Beijing
Public
Internet
ADSL
Polycom/Atlanta
Polycom/London
Polycom/HongKong
The Final Demonstration Results…
CHINA UNICOM SELECTS POLYCOM AS A MAJOR SYSTEMS PROVIDER
OF BUSINESS VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS FOR THE
WORLD’S LARGEST IP VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
China Unicom selects Polycom’s MGC-100, PathNavigator and ViewStation to bring
business quality video communication services to the People’s Republic of China.
HONG KONG and MILPITAS, Calif., Feb. 28, 2002 – China Unicom (HKSE: 0762; NYSE: CHU)
and Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), today announced that China Unicom has selected
Polycom as one of its major system providers for the world’s largest Internet Protocol (IP) video
communications network. According to the contract, China Unicom is purchasing US$(multi)
million worth of video communications systems from Polycom beginning in the fourth quarter of
2001 and continuing during the first quarter of 2002, in addition to the contractual purchase of
other equipment and software, resulting in the world’s largest IP video communications network
covering over 300 cities in China including Hong Kong. Through the cooperation with operators
outside China, China Unicom will extend its business to other countries.
The Deliverables (Phase I)
Polycom
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34 MGC’s in 30 Provinces
8 PathNavigators (1 master and 7 regional)
GK Support 20,000 registered / 2,000 on-line endpoints
800 Polycom Endpoints (Equipment)
Installation
China System Integrator
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Network Design
Internet Portal interface for customers
Directory Services
Integrated accounting, billing, banking
Complete network management package (HP Openview)
Virtual MCU
Interoperability Lab
The Design
Video Conference Backbone
MCU组网示意图
乌鲁木齐
兰州
石家庄
呼和浩特
太原
长春 哈尔滨
天津
济南
西
安
南京
北
京
沈
阳
合肥
郑州
上
海
武
汉
长沙
广
州
成
都
银川
杭州
福州
重庆
深圳
昆明
贵阳
南 宁
南昌
海 口
香 港
Applications Created
Account management
End-Point Registration
Scheduling
Virtual MCU (cascading, failover)
Conference Control
Operator Services
“CDR” Collection and Conversion
Billing
WEB Portal
Time Synchronization
HP Openview Traps/Alarms
HP Openview Analysis
Management Architecture
C/C++ API
Master PathNav
Scheduling
Server
PathNavigators
Virtual
MCU
MCUs
C/C++ API
Database
Server
Provinces
WEB Portal
Conference
Control
Server
SNMP
PN API
C/C++ API
PN API
C/C++ API
HP
Openview
WEB Portal
Server
CDR
User
Interface,
Banking
Collection
Credit Card
Servers
Registration
System
SNMP
Server
Primary Data Center
UserName
Login
Video Conference Operation Center
Registration Center
(Operator Assisted)
Conference Reservations
(Login Required)
Conference Control
(Login Required)
(WEB Site Home Page)
Password
Forgot Password
Video Conference Operation Center
Create
Conference
Conference
Control
Account
Contact
Inquiry
Us
Logout
(Logged In User - Main Menu)
Video Conference Operation Center
Conf Control
Account
Contact Us
Logout
Conf Name
Password
Password Confirm
Conference
Available Endpoints
Meeting Room
Selected Endpoints
Chair Site
Participant Site
(New Conference)
Video Conference Management System
New Conf
Contact Us
Account
Logout
Currrent Time
Name
Requestor
Start Time
End Time
Extended
Available EP
Dial In/Out
Add EP
Terminate
Delete Party
Master Site
Lock
Status/Reconnect Dial In/Out
Audio Mute
Speaker
Name
Refresh
(Conference Control)
Conclusion…
34 on-line MGC’s!
The Polycom MGC has been declared as THE standard
for IP Conferencing. H.323 compliance is defined as
compliance with the Polycom MGC-100.
Over 6,000 registered endpoints. Target 10,000.
25 conferences/day, 150 / week, 1.5M minutes/month
Average duration 3-4 hours
Over 20M minutes since launch
Phase II is Starting...
22+ Additional MGC-100
8 Additional PathNavigators
Additional Capacity to existing MGC-100
2004 Futures?
Target to Provide 50000 EndPoints
Residential/SOHO EndPoints and 3G