Today, digital and intelligent transformation has become the core engine for the high-quality development of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the State Council has explicitly required SOEs to accelerate the construction of new digital infrastructure and upgrade the foundation for office and campus operations. Concurrently, the country is advancing the large-scale deployment of IPv6, requiring the network transformation and upgrade of large SOE campuses to reserve evolution space for innovative businesses such as AI office applications, IoT (Internet of Things), and smart security.
Driven by both policy guidance and business development, Xiamen ITG Holding Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xiamen ITG Holding"), a leading municipal SOE in Xiamen and a Fortune Global 500 company, is actively responding to the national, provincial, and municipal work plans for the digital transformation of SOEs. The company is accelerating the implementation of its overall digital and intelligent transformation strategy, establishing a construction direction focused on digitalization, intelligence, and convenience, and advancing digital and intelligent construction around three dimensions: technology evolution, independent innovation, and secure experience.
Since 2023, Xiamen ITG Holding has partnered with Huawei to upgrade the network infrastructure of its headquarters office building, the Xiamen ITG Center. Through the construction of three major capabilities—Wi-Fi 7 high-performance wireless access, 10G optical-electrical hybrid cable backhaul, and AI platform intelligent management and control—a new generation of ultra-high-speed, highly stable, and intelligently operated digital foundation has been built. Covering the backbone lines, data center, and office areas of the Xiamen ITG Center, it effectively supports the stable operation of various digital and intelligent office scenarios such as computing power retrieval, knowledge sharing, comprehensive office work, video conferencing, and big data transmission, laying a solid foundation for the group's overall digital and intelligent transformation.
Triple Challenges Faced by Campus Networks in the Context of New-Generation Information Technology Evolution
In recent years, the digital and intelligent level of Xiamen ITG Holding's overall business has been steadily deepening. The digital and intelligent office scenarios carried by the Xiamen ITG Center network are becoming increasingly complex. The original traditional network architecture has gradually exposed its shortcomings, with issues such as insufficient bandwidth limits, poor transmission stability, and primitive operation and maintenance (O&M) methods becoming increasingly prominent.
Challenge 1: High-density concurrent data transmission during peak office hours and insufficient bandwidth limits directly affect the conduct of the group's key businesses. The Xiamen ITG Center daily hosts the office work of various functional departments of the headquarters and core invested enterprises, aggregates and analyzes the business situations of these invested enterprises, and simultaneously undertakes the reception and meeting work for important clients and businessmen. During peak commuting and centralized meeting periods, a large number of terminals such as laptops, mobile phones, and tablets access the wireless network simultaneously. Multiple data flows, including AI agents retrieving computing power, knowledge review and sharing, OA online official document approval, 4K high-definition cross-regional video consultation, big data platforms aggregating various business data, and disaster recovery backup data transmission, superimpose on each other. The network bandwidth is under significant pressure, frequently experiencing high latency and packet loss, which severely restricts office efficiency and user experience.
Challenge 2: Traditional copper cables have a transmission distance limit, resulting in poor communication quality for long-distance access points and weak anti-interference capabilities. The Xiamen ITG Center features a glass curtain wall design, comprising the North and South Towers with a horizontal span of over 100 meters, and weak-current network access points are scattered. Traditional copper Ethernet cables are constrained by transmission distance, leading to severe bandwidth attenuation during long-distance cabling. Meanwhile, power distribution cabinets, server room equipment, and various office appliances inside the building generate electromagnetic interference, further deteriorating transmission quality. This leads to insufficient bandwidth for APs (Access Points) at some remote access points, significantly degrading the wireless experience. In particular, network access points such as executive offices located in corner areas frequently experience network speed drops and fluctuations, failing to provide a consistent business experience.
Challenge 3: Traditional O&M methods are relatively primitive and cannot meet the standards of 7x24-hour management and control and fault traceability. The Xiamen ITG Center has scattered wireless AP access points, numerous wired network access points, and a large number of terminals distributed across various floors, server rooms, and inside suspended ceilings, lacking a visualized and AI-intelligent O&M system. After a network fault occurs, O&M personnel can only conduct on-site inspections floor by floor and point by point. Fault localization often takes several hours, requiring significant manpower investment. When facing occasional soft faults such as slow local network speeds and business latency jitter, it is also difficult to complete fault tracing and risk prediction in a timely manner, failing to meet the rigid requirements for the 24/7 stable operation and full-process traceability of operational events in large SOE networks.
Xiamen ITG Holding Partners with Huawei to Consolidate the Network Foundation Across Three Dimensions
Addressing the existing multiple pain points, Xiamen ITG Holding has joined forces with Huawei. Combining the multi-dimensional synergy of the group's overall business digital and intelligent transformation, the company has introduced the Galaxy AI high-quality 10G campus office network solution. Starting from the three dimensions of high-speed and high-density access, long-distance lossless transmission, and AI-intelligent O&M, it has created a new-generation campus network solution tailored to the digital and intelligent development of ITG, systematically solving practical problems.
First, Wi-Fi 7 high-performance wireless access solves the problem of high-density concurrency. Xiamen ITG Holding has deployed Huawei's AirEngine 8771-X1T in the Xiamen ITG Center as the wireless access hub for various terminals, building Wi-Fi 7 high-performance wireless access capabilities. This flagship AP is equipped with dynamic zoom smart antennas, features 12 spatial streams, and achieves an air interface throughput of up to 18.67 Gbps, easily supporting the stable operation of businesses in high-density concurrent office scenarios.
After deployment, the Xiamen ITG Center no longer experiences lag during peak office hours when facing concurrent access from a large number of laptops, mobile phones, and tablets. Whether it is 4K high-definition remote transnational meetings, high-speed business data retrieval from big data platforms, or rapid retrieval of TB-level knowledge bases, users can obtain a smooth network experience. This comprehensively improves daily office collaboration efficiency while reserving sufficient bandwidth space for subsequent expansion of intelligent computing nodes and access of more edge computing.
Second, 10G optical-electrical hybrid cable backhaul eliminates long-distance transmission attenuation. The Xiamen ITG Center uses Huawei's optical-electrical hybrid cables to replace traditional copper Ethernet cables, achieving 10G optical-electrical hybrid cable backhaul and solving the problems of transmission attenuation and cabling for long-distance access points. The optical-electrical hybrid cables are lightweight and highly flexible, adapting to complex cabling environments such as suspended ceiling pipelines, weak-current shafts, server room mezzanines, and narrow aisles. They support ultra-long-distance 10G lossless transmission and possess ample potential for business expansion.
After the transformation, the Xiamen ITG Center has avoided bandwidth attenuation caused by long-distance copper cable transmission and electromagnetic interference generated by various powered equipment inside the building. It can provide users with a consistent high-speed wireless experience at various office access points on remote floors, while supplying sufficient uplink high-speed bandwidth for more edge wireless access devices.
Third, AI platform intelligent management and control shifts passive maintenance to proactive O&M. By implementing the iMaster NCE-Campus network management platform and the iMaster NCE-CampusInsight intelligent analyzer, combined with Huawei's digital map and the observability capabilities of user and application experience, an AI platform intelligent management and control system is constructed, breaking away from the traditional O&M model of pure manual inspection. Addressing the complex situation of scattered AP access points and parallel multi-type businesses in the Xiamen ITG Center, the digital map is relied upon to achieve the integrated presentation of physical floors, equipment access points, and network topology, realizing unified visualized management and control of network-wide equipment, transmission links, access terminals, and upper-level office businesses. Additionally, the iPCA in-situ flow detection technology is enabled, allowing O&M personnel to view users' business latency and packet loss rates in real time, while also being able to review users' historical network states to quickly determine the root cause of problems, achieving observability of the full link and full user experience.
Based on AI-intelligent O&M, when abnormal situations such as local bandwidth congestion, slow terminal internet access, business latency jitter, and degraded user application experience occur on the network, the platform can locate the faulty link in seconds. Xiamen ITG Holding no longer requires O&M personnel to conduct on-site inspections floor by floor, thereby significantly compressing the time for fault localization and handling and reducing manpower investment in O&M. Relying on the digital map's faulty access point marking and the data traceability capabilities of user and application experience, it meets the management requirements of SOEs for 7x24-hour network management and control and event traceability, shifting network O&M from passive maintenance to risk prediction and proactive O&M.
Deepening the Digital and Intelligent Transformation of SOEs to Safeguard High-Quality Business Development
This time, Xiamen ITG Holding and Huawei have joined hands to complete the network upgrade of the headquarters campus, breaking through the network infrastructure bottleneck for the group's digital and intelligent transformation. This not only solves the current digital and intelligent office needs but also paves the way for the implementation of more digital and intelligent applications in the future.
Looking to the future, Xiamen ITG Holding stated that it will continue to promote network technology innovation and the replication and promotion of solutions, while driving the upgrade of the entire IT infrastructure.
On the one hand, the group will continue to implement IPv6+ technological innovation and deeply explore the business value of cutting-edge technologies such as SRv6, network slicing, and in-situ flow detection. Adhering to the principle of "headquarters first, implemented in batches," it will gradually output mature networking solutions to subordinate invested enterprises and industrial parks, promoting the iterative upgrade of the network to an IPv6 single-stack architecture.
On the other hand, the group will also continue to advance the independent innovation and construction of IT infrastructure. Relying on SD-WAN technology, it will complete the unified interconnection and security convergence of multi-branch campus networks. Relying on a solid high-speed network foundation, it will safeguard the long-term high-quality development of the group's major business sectors.