Tencent has a five-year budget of 500 billion yuan for the new infrastructure.
On May 26th, Tang Daosheng, President of Tencent Cloud and Smart Industry Group, announced that Tencent will invest 500 billion in the next five years for the further layout of new infrastructure, Cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, servers, large data centers, supercomputing centers, IoT operating systems, 5G networks, audio and video communications, network security, quantum computing, etc. will all be key areas for Tencent.
For netizens, what benefits does Tencent mentioned in the construction of audio and video communications, cloud computing, servers, data centers, etc.? More intuitively, this will help promote the development of online education and other fields.
Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent, mentioned in a recent article that during the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, Internet demand for online offices, online education and other industries rose sharply. In terms of network, computing power, algorithms and security, higher requirements have been put forward, and there is an urgent need to further accelerate the “new infrastructure”.
In February of this year, under the guidance of “Suspend Non-stop”, primary and middle school students flooded into the online class live broadcast room, huge traffic hit, and many platforms appeared “Broken”, the server “down”.
In an interview with a surging news reporter on May 26, Li Yutao, general manager of Tencent ’s video cloud business, analyzed that the problem may be caused by two types of reasons. One is on the upstream end of the anchor, such as the local network card, and the upstream card to the cloud platform. This will cause the entire live broadcast to freeze, affecting the experience of all viewers. The other type is that the nodes of the CDN (Content Delivery Network) are not good enough, which may cause some viewers to freeze when watching.
Li Yutao said that Tencent Cloud has more than 1,000 nodes across the country, and has been able to support a sufficiently large coverage. In the future, Tencent will make further efforts in the construction of basic resources.
In addition, online education is favored by all parties because it provides the possibility of narrowing urban and rural teacher resources and achieving educational equity. However, judging from the actual situation, the gap in the hardware facilities between urban and rural areas still affects the achievement of educational equity goals.
Li Yutao observed that in more remote areas, fixed network (home broadband) conditions may be poor. In addition, the devices used in these areas are mobile terminals, such as China Low-end smartphones dominate, while in citiesUse computers and tablets more.
Therefore, Li Yutao believes that the accumulation of technology in the field of audio and video is very important: how to optimize coding efficiency under weak network conditions and achieve the best possible sound quality and bandwidth Picture quality, how to perceive the situation of the weak network more sensitively, and adjust network transmission and scheduling strategies in a timely manner, all need to invest a lot of engineers and researchers to explore.
is not just an online class, the live streaming on the tuyere also highlights the requirements for extremely low latency of audio and video and smooth picture. Li Yutao introduced that e-commerce live broadcasting is more sensitive to delay than game live broadcasting. When the anchor recommends products, if the audience news such as the barrage appears late, the interactive experience will be greatly reduced. The amount of concurrent Chinese text consultation for e-commerce live broadcast is very large, which tests the stability of the IM service (instant messaging) guarantee after e-commerce live broadcast.
Tencent Cloud has been supporting “live streaming” since 2016. The earliest batch of customers include Mushroom Street, Jumeiyoupin, Xiaohongshu, etc. In February of this year, with the cooperation of Tencent Video Cloud and the WeChat team, WeChat mini-programs also launched a live broadcast function, and small-program live broadcasts have become a position for many companies to operate “private domain traffic”.
Tencent Video Cloud is one of Tencent Cloud ’s main teams and is regarded as the most advantageous field of Tencent Cloud. The past landing scenes were mainly in the fields of game live broadcast, social live broadcast, etc. . With the rapid development of online education, live broadcast e-commerce, and online meetings this year, the demand for video cloud has once again jumped.
Smashing 500 billion to participate in new infrastructure, in addition to participating in the construction of the digital economy, Tencent ’s drunkard’s intention is to seize cloud computing through infrastructure construction and technology accumulation Market share in the field further promotes its own “to B” development strategy.
Among them, the technical advantages in the field of video cloud and audio and video communication have already given Tencent Cloud a large order from many customers.
Tencent Cloud recently announced that Tencent Education has served the education authorities of more than 30 provinces and cities across the country, providing teachers and students with online products through Tencent Smart Campus, Tencent Classroom and other products Teaching services, serving more than 100 million students. While serving Tencent’s internal business, Tencent Cloud also used Tencent Cloud Audio and Video technology solutions for many education industry customers, including Xueersi, VIPKID and other companies, to cope with the sudden demand and high concurrent access during the outbreak.
E-commerce live broadcast, Li YuTao disclosed that during the epidemic, Tencent Cloud e-commerce live broadcast traffic increased by more than 400% month-on-month, of which the small program live broadcast became the first choice for SMEs, and Tencent Video Cloud supported more than 3 million live broadcasts.
In the first quarter report of 2020, Tencent stated that it expects that the cloud industry will still face challenges in the short term and will continue to increase investment in this area in the long term Services and enterprise software will accelerate their popularity offline and in the public sector.
To this end, Tencent Cloud continues to add “new infrastructure” and will build multiple large-scale data centers with millions of servers in the country in the future. The first batch will be implemented in three provinces, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Hebei, to further meet the strong demand for cloud computing resources for the digital transformation and upgrading of regional industries in South China, East China and North China.
On April 23, the international research organization Gartner released the latest cloud computing market data. The report shows that in 2019 Tencent Cloud’s global market share ranked fifth with a growth rate of 111%, and the Asia-Pacific region’s market share ranked fourth with a growth rate of 107.3%.