5G Internet of everything is flowing down the tide of the era, communication cloud technology and ecological development are moving forward. The third Global Internet Communication Cloud Conference (WICC 2021), an important technology and ecological summit in the communication cloud field, was held in Beijing recently. Regarding the current focus of communication cloud, communication cloud technology and the future development trend of ecology and other topics, CSDN interviewed Ren Jie, the producer of WICC Conference and CTO of Rongyun, to listen to his practice and views as a front-line industry practitioner leader.
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The new topic of WICC this year is building full capability of communication cloud
WICC has held its third conference. After discussing rich and easy to use communication cloud capabilities in the previous two conferences, Ren Jie pointed out the key topics of this year’s conference, that is: 1. How to provide developers with complete communication peripheral capabilities, so that developers can one-stop integration of all communication, audio and video related functions; 2. 2. Based on the communication cloud capability, scenario-based solutions are explored to make developers more focused and reduce unnecessary preparatory work for early development and access; Third, under the trend of globalization, the communication cloud provides developers with the ability of data sovereignty and information compliance.
Specifically, previous communication-related peripheral functions, such as beautification, voice processing, auditing, translation, speech recognition, etc., require more third-party capabilities. Rongyun wants to integrate all of this into the full SDK to help developers complete integration in a one-stop shop. Similarly, scenario-based interfaces, SDKS and demos will also simplify the heavy access work of developers. The topic of global data sovereignty has been mentioned in the first conference as early as the lecturer, with the change of the international situation, information compliance will be more specific and strict, through the communication cloud to help developers to do the work of information compliance, is the key topic discussed in this WICC, and the next important direction of rongyun force.
According to CSDN’s earlier interview with Rongyun, the initial goal of Rongyun was to provide customers with IP-based communication capabilities. At the beginning, Rongyun started from the more universal IM instant messaging. At the end of 2016, with the complete bandwidth infrastructure and the outbreak of downstream demand, Rongyun began to carry out RTC audio and video research and formally incorporated RTC technology into its product line. Form “IM instant messaging + RTC real-time audio and video + Push” one-stop communication cloud service. At WICC 2021, Rongyun takes another step to integrate more communication-related peripheral functions, and it can also see the determination and strength of Rongyun to move toward the strategic direction of “communication cloud full capability”.
, ren explained from the aspects of customer service: melting to B enterprise services, cloud do need to continue to dig the needs of customers, products and services, customers will have different requirements, the scope of the demand is more and more widely, technology and product chain longer and longer, to melt cloud both breadth and depth of products, also continues to strengthen the relevant ability.
Cloud computing has been established as a new type of infrastructure, and the communications cloud will also be an infrastructure-type service. For the future development trend of communication cloud, Ren Jie believes that:
First of all, communication cloud will be globalized in the future, providing developers with low latency and stable experience at the access layer of all nodes in the world;
2. The communication cloud will generate more epitaxy capabilities as required, such as integrating all kinds of related capabilities such as AI;
3. With the integration of epitaxy capabilities, the communication cloud will also generate new capabilities, such as data services, content audit, and so on. In this respect, Rongyun will gradually realize it through self-research or cooperation with a third party in the future.
The next step of Rongyun, developer services and ecology
Unlike the IaaS layer, which provides standardized products, and the SaaS layer, which provides software ease of use, the PaaS layer has a wide range of functions and services, let alone uniform standards. As a PaaS communication capability service provider serving a large number of developers, Rongyun has accumulated a lot of experience of service developers.
Ren Jie said that in addition to the function completeness, reliability and data accuracy of PaaS products, which are the “quality” that Rongyun has been adhering to, Rongyun is also gradually exploring the connotation of developer services. Context-focused SDK, clear and understandable comments and documents for developers, strong service team to respond to developers’ personalized problems, automated troubleshooting tools and community, etc. — these are the sincere efforts of Rong Yun to make developer services better.
Ren Jie further shared his observations and analysis of the development ecology. He said that from all self-built (earlier to self-built machine room, server deployment) to professional division of labor, development ecology gradually produced. On top of the underlying capabilities provided by IaaS vendors, communication tracks and PaaS vendors are located at the operational layer directly related to the developer’s App functionality. Rongyun now focuses on services directly and indirectly related to communications, while other PaaS/SaaS vendors provide operational services such as e-commerce, advertising, marketing, etc. However, these services do not solve the problem of developers’ own skills, but solve the ability modules needed in the construction of the operating system. Rongyun will try its best to provide them to developers.
The interesting thing about ecology is the interpenetration. Ren Jie said that the market is changing, the ecology is also constantly evolving, rongyun will not rule out the possibility of exploring from scenario-based SDK to SaaS products. At present, Rongyun has launched two products close to SaaS — Essence (used for internal communication of enterprises, similar to enterprise wechat or Pin) and Rongyun Conference (used for office meetings of enterprises). These are the attempts of Rongyun in the ecological chain, and have obtained very good market feedback.
In the future, Rong Yun will continue to jointly develop the developer ecosystem with IaaS vendors such as AWS (overseas) and Ali, etc., and integrate and cross-sell with other PaaS vendors, such as CDN, content audit (such as cooperation with Yitu) and AI (such as cooperation with Sensetime), so as to make it easier for customers in each other’s developer market to obtain capabilities and reduce costs. In the private cloud market, Rongyun will also cooperate with SI and ISV to provide end-customers with solutions for different industries.