Industry Focused Solutions

Industry Background

During the process of digitalization and cloud adoption in financial industry, concern on security risk issued has been raised. Financial industry related information security exist in the areas of data security, business continuity, and regulatory compliance.

Furthermore, following with the technological development in financial industry and the exponential growth both in data users and transmission, dependency on information systems has become mission critical. The industry is facing big challenge on data security issues.

Pain Points to be Solved

Financial enterprises need big data to support the business growth, and multi-level network architecture supporting backbone and multi-point access is formed. The network architecture is highly important and responsible to interconnect among all service points, data centers, disaster recovery center, escrow and regulatory agencies for business data .

Following with the higher level of integration in financial services, flat organization approach is adopted for business and management processes. It is becoming more and more relying on the service delivery capabilities of data centers and enterprise headquarters. Vigorous competition in the industry is also pushing market players service level to the limit. In order to meet all these requirements , financial enterprise is required to leverage on informatization to increase competitiveness by building up a reliable, secured, efficient and flexible service delivery networks.

Regulatory Requirements and Data Security/Disaster Recovery

Safety Compliance to meet Regulatory Requirements

Data Retention and Large-Capacity Storage

Data Transmission Security

Targeting Data Transmission and Network Architecture issues of Financial Industry

Create reliable, secured, efficient and flexible WAN communication solutions to help financial enterprises improve their business competitiveness

Compliance - Deploy data centers with live mirror, and hybrid cloud solution to support MPLS deployment

Assure data security and deploy three disaster recovery centers in two cities.

Directly interconnect with Aliyun/Ant Financial Cloud through high-speed channel of NOVA backbone network.

Establish a stable infrastructure network to protect core business data transmission.

NOVA provides network management services to reduce operation and maintenance costs.

Data centers are connected through the NOVA backbone network to establish disaster-recovery channel.

Efficient - Quickly deploy cross-regional interconnection, support core information systems running smoothly, and improve financial industry servicing level

Local branches use data private line (SDH/MSTP) to access MPLS backbone network nodes for data transmission among MPLS lines and IDC.

NOVA backbone network ensure an efficient communication between enterprise headquarter and branches in different regions.

Allow third-party business organizations, such as industry regulatory authorities and banking institutions, using private data line to access the network and provide client network equipment hosting services.

LianLian Pay

LianLian Pay is a professional third-party payment agency, China's leading payment solution provider, and currently the largest payment institution in Zhejiang Province. It has served nearly 10,000 merchants and more than 100 million user count with business coverages over the entire country.

In view of the high requirements for data security and business continuity of LianLian Pay, NOVA designed a fully redundant WAN communication solution. Carrier lines and routers of each node adopt a dual-line design and mutually back up each other. A robust network design can assure external real-time data exchange between LianLian Pay and banks, as well as internal interconnection among LianLian Pay headquarters, data centers, and disaster recovery data centers. Whereas NOVA network coverage in many cities has already been reached out to many merchant sites which can enhance LianLian Pay.to improve business competitiveness.

Cigna CMB

Shareholders of Cigna CMB, a sino-foreign JV, are both Fortune Global 500 companies, the China Merchants Bank and US CIGNA. In 2016, Cigna CMB's business covers more than 10 provinces in China, with annual premium income at 12 billion yuan, handling more than 410,000 claims cases.

As a financial enterprise leveraging on informatization and networking to conduct insurance business , Cigna CMB has very strict requirements for security, reliability and network availability. NOVA has designed a one-stop WAN communication solution to realize the private line interconnection among customer headquarters, branches, and data centers and satisfy the requirements of real-time data backup to the disaster recovery data centers.

NOVA also provides BGP dual-line Internet access services for Cigna CMB, to help breaking the blockage between northern and southern internet network and paving a way for high speed internet access facilitating new core business release , and boosting the rapid development of customer's innovative insurance business.

Great Wall Life Insurance

Great Wall Life Insurance is a stated-owned enterprise with registered capital exceeding 5.532 billion yuan. Till now, Great Wall Life Insurance has set up nationwide branches in Beijing, Shandong, Sichuan, Hubei, Qingdao, Henan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other places.

Demand for informatization for insurance businesses is increasing. For business processes including marketing, insurance policy upload and inquiry, accounting and finance, it is necessary to transmit business data in real time. Based on the business needs of Great Wall Life Insurance, NOVA uses its fully redundant WAN communication design solution to build a secure, reliable and highly available network for the customer, realize network interconnection and business interoperability among the headquarters data center, branches, and disaster redundant data center, support efficient operation and high-speed data transmission of business systems, and achieve stable operation of insurance businesses, so as to enhance service competitiveness.

Sun Life Everbright Life

Sun Life Everbright Life was jointly established by China Everbright Group and Sun Life Financial Services with a registered capital of more than 5.4 billion yuan. At present, Sun Life Everbright Life has established 22 provincial branches across the country, covering 80% of the country's population.

In order to adjust and optimize the original point-to-point networking, NOVA has tailored the WAN communication solution for Sun Life Everbright Life. Based on the network architecture capabilities of NOVA, it helped customer reducing leased lines cost, realized full-process professional management of the entire network, and greatly reduced the customer's investment in network maintenance. The solution also assures QoS throughout the network and provides a sound guarantee for the performance requirements of audio and video systems, mail systems, and core business systems. Network expansion becoming simple and fast, and the network availability is higher, which effectively guarantee stable operation of the businesses.

Generali China

Generali China, as a joint-venture between Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. (Generali) and China National Petroleum Corporation, is one of the largest joint-ventured insurers in China. Headquartered in Beijing, Generali China has 14 provincial branches and 99 institutions in China, with a total capital of more than 50 billion yuan.

Generali China's basic network facilities need to carry unified data communication tasks with high carrying capacity, which integrates business, management, office and insurance services. Based on NOVA WAN communication solution, Generali China has realized the private line interconnection among branches across the country. Branches can be interconnected in real time to better carry nationwide business data, audio and video conferencing data, IP-based call center data, office automation data, ERP data, CRM and financial system management data, as well as remote backup data for disaster redundancy. The solution provides a solid foundation for business analysis, business promotion, and business supervision for branches across the country.

Industry Background

The Oxford Economic Research Institute believes that the labor cost of China's manufacturing industry is now approaching that of the United States. The productivity of the unit labor force in the two countries is very different. China's unit labor cost is only 4% lower than that of the United States. McKinsey believes that China will have five major opportunities to increase productivity by 2030, and it is mentioned to use digitization to promote new business models.

Industry 4.0 will enter into a new era of “decentralized” production, and realize intelligent manufacturing and real-time management by means of network technologies to control and determine the manufacturing processes. Intelligent manufacturing, based on cyber-physical system to achieve new manufacturing methods, improves enterprise production efficiency by means of integration of advanced manufacturing technology and information technology.

Pain Points to be Solved

The key technology of Industry 4.0 is information technology, including the networking of production equipment, network retrieval and application of big data , and synergization between business management system and actual production process. Due to the shortcomings of automation and informatization in traditional manufacturing enterprises, driving force of enterprise development become insufficient and the development pace is relatively slow.

As manufacturing enterprises move toward intelligent production, continuous high demand on data transmission and network access directly impact the operation efficiency of related business systems. Due to the impacts of network bandwidth constraint and delay, application systems are becoming slow to respond to service requests., Network congestion at peak hours is affecting the improvement of enterprise production efficiency.

Network Demands of Manufacturing Industry

1.Deployment of multiple applications relying heavily on IT systems and make it more difficult to ensure a continuous, stable, and reliable operation

2.Increasing traffic from more and more branches causing congestion on headquarter Internet gateway and resulting possible network disruption

3.Difficulties in designing hybrid network, interconnection problems with partners, suppliers, and mobile office users are difficult to resolve.

4.Unable to deploy network QoS in order to allow priority-based bandwidth allocaton between mission critical and non-mission critical applications.

5.No restrictions on employees accessing the Internet making internal LAN more vulnerable for security risks imposed to headquarters and branches.

Targeting the WAN Communication Demands of the Manufacturing Industry

Creating a one-stop WAN communication solution to help manufacturing enterprises move toward intelligent production

Smooth - Improve data transmission efficiency, ensure business systems to run smoothly, and reduce O&M and
equipment investments

MPLS private line interconnection, efficient data intercommunication between R&D, production base, and headquarters data center

Intelligent QoS distribution of business traffic QoS, dynamic adjustment, and ensuring an efficient and high-quality transmission for critical applications

Low latency and high reliability to meet the network needs of mission critical application systems in manufacturing enterprises

CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) will be provided by NOVA and responsible for management, maintenance and round the clock active network monitoring

Reliable – The mesh network architecture is simple and flexible to deploy with higher network availability

The network adopts mature MPLS technology with end-to-end fully redundant network structure to ensure fast and smooth data transmission and help the manufacturing industry to achieve higher production value.

Large coverage area for NOVA MPLS private line access nodes and able to set up fast, secure, reliable and flexible WANs for manufacturing enterprises.

Small branch offices can use cost-effective IPSec solution for network access, saving cost on private line charges; temporary and mobile office can use SSL VPN or wireless NOVAnet® for network access, no restriction by physical network lines, improve working efficiency.

Perfect network cutover solution provide smooth cutover migration for networks and services, making the manufacturing enterprise's infrastructure network and business highly integrated.

Nippon Pain

Nippon Pain is a world-renowned Pain manufacturer. Since its entry to China market in 1992, it has been a leader in domestic Pain industry. For more than 20 years, Nippon has set up its own offices throughout the country, and its local service centers have linked consumers, Painers, Nippon, and thousands of families together.

Nippon's branches are spread all over the country, and MPLS private lines are used to establish WAN networking. Since many new businesses are being launched under a prosperous market environment, and customized requirement for Pain production, Nippon China must have real-time control on information related to order execution, inventory, and cost control in order to cope with the vivid changing market by formulating the right strategy to seize market share. The construction of High-Definition video conferencing system meets the communication needs of Nippon China's Shanghai headquarters and branches in terms of daily meetings and real-time exchange of sales information, making information transmission more rapid and accurate.

EVOC Group

EVOC is the only listed company in the same industry that has established large-scale R&D and production bases in China. EVOC has numerous R&D centers in China, dozens of wholly-owned subsidiaries, and established the “EVOC” special computer industry alliance covering major cities in China, forming a huge sales and service network.

The products of EVOC Group are diversified, including core components of industrial automation, intelligent, information, and digital products. While the product and business development is moving rapidly, demands for informational data transmission of the businesses is growing. NOVA MPLS dedicated line connects the Shenzhen headquarters of EVOC Group with countrywide branches to support efficient operation and business innovation with a robust network. The MPLS dedicated line enables fast, safe and reliable transmission of high-definition video conferencing data, voice data, ERP system data, and other key system business data, thereby improving the efficiency of business collaboration and operation management.

RR Donnelley

RR Donnelley is a Fortune 500 company and a global leader in the printing industry. Headquartered in Chicago, it has more than 150 years of history. RR Donnelley has more than 20 years of successful experience in China's market and established production and service organizations in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Dongguan, Chengdu and Suzhou.

Being affected by geographical distribution and resource allocation, RR Donnelley requires cross-regional data intercommunication to achieve resource allocation optimization. Its network system needs to transmit large amount of application data such as real-time monitoring data, and voice & video multimedia data. NOVA MPLS dedicated line helps RR Donnelley to achieve effective and efficient communications among data centers, factories, and offices. NOVA MPLS dedicated line is used to support various internal business application systems, and to achieve information sharing and cross control among different departments according to variation in products, customer needs, materials, and processes, to avoid data errors and timing problem and to better arrange production, scheduling, and progress management.

Industry Background

The McKinsey research report pointed out that in recent years, the growth rate of retail e-commerce in China has been slowed down, online retail platform is approaching the top, and competition is becoming more vigorous. There are indications that consumers has not changed from offline to online channels for certain product category, and consumer-oriented retailers are regressing on meeting consumer demands.

Omni-channel shopping, which integrates online and offline modes, will become the mainstream consumer spending method. Omni-channel is an important point for customer experience and sales transformation. The physical stores can fully display the brand images. The advantages of the offline stores are to provide better after-sales services, actual service experience, and instant purchase satisfaction.

Pain Points to be Solved

The retail industry is paying more attention on data analysis in order to provide consumers with personalized services, but it is a challenge for data acquisition, real-time transmission, and sharing of data values. New stores in retail industry is opening at accelerated pace, system scalability and stability under big data must be taken into consideration. To cope with people development cycle, application system and network must be easy to use.

As retail industry's product lifecycle is getting shorter, managing product differentiation and creating real time unified demand forecast is crucial for retailers. Network availability and response time become critical to help retailers to prepare predictive analytic through customer interaction process in order to provide personalized products, experiences, and services.

Network Demands of the Retail Industry

1.High dependence on network for inventory management, logistics distribution system, and POS

2.Store number is large, scattered locations, fast deployment, complicated configuration, high target to achieve

3.IT service team needs to support stores in all regions, which is complicated to manage and maintain. It is also costly to provide third-party spare parts service

4.Network-based applications are running slow or freeze

Targeting the WAN Communication Demands of Retail Industry

Deploying SD-WAN Solutions to help Retail Industry to improve Consumer Experience

Smart - Advanced and powerful one-stop network connection solution and excellent choice for cross-regional connectivity for retail industry

Adopt the SD-WAN-based WAN optimization solution to rapidly deploy enterprise managed networks.

Implement automated network deployment and management on virtualized resources to improve performance, accelerate service delivery, and increase availability.

Establish a stable infrastructure network to protect supply-chain related data transmission

Assist in managing in-store IT facilities in all regions and reduce O&M costs.

Flexible - Combination of any available network access services, faster installation and deployment, and more flexible bandwidth options

Any combination of MPLS, Internet, Ethernet, and mobile network services and multiple types service ready WAN.

SD-WAN supports zero-touch deployment and dynamic path switching, therefore reducing deployment and troubleshooting costs.

Flexible bandwidth adjustment, free from on-site deployment, support existing business development and meet the needs of future business growth.

SD-WAN can direct traffic according to application type and line status to ensure stable transmission of application system data.

Red Star Macalline

Red Star Macalline is a well-known Chinese company operating home decoration and furniture stores. In the past few years, it is among the top 30 of the Top 100 Chinese private enterprises. The company operates a total of 214 shopping malls across the country, covering 150 cities in 28 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Total mall area exceeds 13.3 million square meters.

In order to strengthen the management of each chain home furnishing stores across the country, it is necessary to use business application systems such as ERP, strengthening interconnection between headquarters and stores to realize real-time data transmission. NOVA MPLS private line service meets the requirements for fast, secure and reliable network transmission, realizes order maintenance and management, and sales planning, so that sales activities of all brands carried are in an orderly, smooth and efficient fashion. Safe transmission of sales data can assure consumer rights by comprehensive management.

Industry Background

In the era of “Everywhere” information technology, logistics industry is inevitably moving in the direction of informatization, intelligentization, and standardization. Informatized logistics can link up different departments to achieve rapid information transfer and interaction, while the logistics distribution system will become more efficient and share information with other related enterprises.

Logistics business system is an open and convenient system. In the context of informatization, logistics industry can fully utilize network to realize information sharing and improve efficiency without any limit in time-and-space. resources in different geographical locations will be optimized to reduce logistics costs.

Pain Points to be Solved

Logistics industry needs information collection, transmission and sharing to provide ultimate support for enterprises decision making process. Optimize business and management processes to allow effectively collaboration within the organization. Traditional logistics model makes it difficult to balance diversified and personalized customer needs and affects the efficient operation of logistics businesses.

In addition, informatization level in logistics enterprises is relatively low, and not focusing on business and management process optimization. Poor internal collaboration and high disperibility make it difficult to deliver goods to customers on time.

Network Demands of Logistics Industry

1.Imminent need for IT informatization development, centralized applications construction, and WAN construction of logistics enterprise branch network

2.Reliance on informatization has gradually increased, making it difficult to transmit real time data among the headquarters, branch offices, representative offices and sales offices

3.Diversified branch terminals in logistics enterprises require high reliability, security and compatibility with different access methods.

4.Difficult to build a high-speed, stable, secured and reliable connection to ensure high availability of IT information systems

Targeting the WAN Communication Demands of Logistics Industry

Creating a high-availability WAN communication network to help logistics enterprises build an efficient and intelligent platform

Smart - Use SD-WAN intelligent solution to create an efficient, simple and secured connection with high availability

SD-WAN access enables rapid deployment of WAN and speedy access and provides diversified network access services.

SD-WAN can realize intelligent network resources scheduling and improve data transmission efficiency between headquarters and branches.

Bandwidth of branches can be automatically adjusted without manual intervention. Fully meet the business development needs of the branches.

Access to cloud system for using their intelligent architecture to improve AI efficiency and facilitating business operations.

Reliable – MPLS private line networking guarantees reliable data transmission of logistics business information systems.

MPLS private lines adopted in core sites can continuously optimize transportation costs and increase business processes transparency

High business security and stability, cross-region deployment of distributed architecture, support uninterrupted business operation.

High-level security system ensures business security and stability

Intelligent optimization of transmission routing, more reliable business system running, optimization of inventory costs, and improving order processing efficiency.

Kintetsu International Logistics

Kintetsu International Logistics (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Kintetsu International") is a comprehensive logistics company. Founded in 1910, Kintetsu Group employs 84,000 people worldwide and has been listed among Fortune 500 companies with $31 billion sales revenue since 2000.

The logistics IT system is critical for the circulation of goods. Operated on the dedicated network, Kintetsu International's logistics management system includes CSS (cargo tracking system), UFS (air freight operating system), UWS (warehouse operating system), and UAS (financial system). It can efficiently manage goods handling and convey the latest goods delivery information to customers in a timely manner. Kintetsu International's warehouses spread all over the country. It has own container trailers and customs supervision vehicles. It requires fast and accurate transportation, warehousing, destination distribution, and operation scheduling. In addition, the robust MPLS dedicated network provides reliable support for customers' disaster recovery data centers.

Industry Background

New technologies such as sensors, Internet of Things, 3D printing, virtual reality, augmented reality, and robotics are constantly pushing the world moving foward. Also breaking a lot of traditional business models and working methods. Through the convergence of digital technologies, the future of construction and real estate industries is also being reshaped.

Arup, a world-renowned engineering consultancy based in London, UK, published a report, Restructuring Real Estate in the Digital World, describing the digital technology applications and trends in the real estate industry. The report points out that enterprises fully embrace digital strategies will create more sustainable buildings and help increase the value of their assets; at the same time, these enterprises have better development prospects and bring positive influence to people's work and life

Pain Points to be Solved

Under the rapid development of real estate industry, the capability of providing high-quality network services directly affects the development speed of real estate enterprises. More and more applications need to be established on a stable and reliable network. In the process of informatization, real estate developers, property management companies, and second-hand property agencies usually use different sales management or property management software. In order to improve work efficiency and shorten the entire decision-making cycle, enterprise's headquarters needs to expand relevant business systems to remote branches, representative offices, local sales offices, property management offices or stores. With the use of a variety of applications (real-time monitoring, voice, video, etc.), the requirements for bandwidth and data security are getting higher, making real estate enterprises urgently find a safe and fast way for interconnection.

Network Demands of Real Estate Industry

1.Diversified business forms: project site, project property, and commercial real estate

2.Diversified business systems: OA system, engineering quality system, process management system, file management system, property management system, and customer management system

3.Centralized management requirements: video surveillance module, personnel tracking, outbound management, and real estate data

Targeting Data Transmission and Network Architecture Issues of Real Estate Industry

Create reliable, secure, efficient and flexible WAN communication solutions to help real estate enterprises achieve rapid development

Efficient - Quickly achieve interconnection among branches, support efficient running of core systems and software, and improve office efficiency

Infrastructure network services and network management services provide good network support for multiple types of services and application.

Support data flow optimization for different business systems (property query, customer data, personnel management, video conferencing, etc.).

High-speed network platform supports fast response of business and application data transmission

Network QoS mechanism supports image and voice service processing and real-time video surveillance.

Flexible - MPLS private line networking ensures flexible expansion of real estate business

MPLS, SD-WAN, and SSL access modes can meet the network requirements of different application scenarios.

The network structure is flexible. Business branches can access the network in different ways, reducing the costs.

Flattened network structure supports rapid expansion to ensure business development.

The network is stable and reliable. Management is delivered as services. Users do not need to invest more management costs.

Gemdale Group

Gemdale (Group) Co., Ltd. was founded in 1988 and officially started its real estate business in 1993. After ten years of exploration and practices, it has developed into a listed company mainly engaged in real estate development. It is also an AAA credit unit of China Construction System and a national first-class qualification unit for real estate development enterprises.

NOVA deploys Gemdale's dedicated network based on NOVA MPLS backbone platform, which realizes the internal network interconnection between the Shenzhen headquarters and the national wide branches. NOVA provides full-scope professional management on the entire network, including CPE equipment of the clients, which greatly reduces the investments of the Gemdale Group in network maintenance, and realizes the QoS of the entire network, thereby greatly satisfying performance requirements for the video system, sales system and core business system. Simple and fast network expansion enhances security, improves anti-virus capabilities, and enables efficient operation of services.

Excellence Group

Founded in 1996 in Shenzhen, Excellence Group has become a powerful enterprise group after more than 20 years of development. Its business has been deployed in 18 core first-tier and second-tier cities across the country. The company set foot in real estate development, financial investment, and asset management and it achieves leading positions in all these industries. It has been ranked as Top 100 real estate enterprises in China by the China Index Academy for eight consecutive years.

In conjunction with the network quality requirements of different application systems, NOVA provides a "one-stop" integrated solution that uses multiple technologies to ensure the quality of service (QoS) and class of service (CoS). This solution differentiates the dependency of data, voice, video, and other applications on the network, so that multiple business applications can be converged. Dual-line backup mode is adopted for key data center nodes to improve network reliability. NOVA has completed the smooth transition between the old and new networks for Excellence Group within a short period of time, and met the current and ever-changing business needs of Excellence Group, laying a good foundation for future expansion.

China Overseas Property Group

“China Overseas Property Group” is a brand name of China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd. With 39 years of experience in real estate development and real estate operation management, the company operates its businesses in more than 60 cities in China and other countries. It has developed more than 500 real estate projects. By the end of 2017, the company's total assets reached HK$ 645.4 billion and the net assets reached HK$ 265.7 billion.

The direct demands of China Overseas Property Group are to improve the network architecture and deploy a dedicated WAN for the company's information system. Based on the network quality requirements of different application systems, NOVA adopts advanced MPLS technologies to improve the company's internal network structure, so as to increase the bandwidth, control network traffic, and improve network quality. This informatization transformation has greatly enhanced the informatization level of China Overseas Property Group and provided efficient and reliable network assurance for future business development and application of different businesses.