On August 19, Agora held an online product conference and officially released “Full-path Accelerator”. Full link Acceleration FPA’s software-defined real-time network sD-RTN ™ improves the performance and reliability of the entire network, including the Last Mile, through end-to-end optimization of multi-point transmission across the globe, and through efficient collaborative optimization of “cloud” and “end”. Add network QoS guarantee for enterprise application.

Sun Yurun, partner & VP of Technology at Agora, said at the press conference: “As the pioneer and leader of real-time interactive cloud services, Sonnet has provided high-quality real-time interactive cloud services to more than 337,000 applications worldwide. Thanks to the excellent network performance of SD-RTN™, sonnet’s software-defined real-time network, we found that when serving customers, not only real-time audio and video services, In online games, financial payment, cross-border e-commerce and many other fields also need reliable delay and quality, so Sonnet decided to open the capability of SD-RTN™ to all developers and enterprises, providing network transmission solutions with QoS protection for more business applications. It’s also a brand new product we’re launching today, the Full Link Accelerated FPA.”

The Internet only guarantees connectivity, not speed and quality

In today’s life, we often have bad experiences because of Internet problems. For example, slow file transfer and video conference delay affect work efficiency; Go to the vegetable market to buy food mobile payment often fail; The network quality is often behind these bad experiences. No matter how good the application experience and wonderful content is, the network can not offset the harm to user experience.

The core reason behind these network problems lies in that although the Internet provides open and free connection, any user and any data can enjoy its transmission channel, but it only provides the Best Effort service, and will not guarantee the speed and quality of network transmission. At the same time, the Last Mile network capability level is also one of the main factors affecting the quality of network transmission. On the one hand, the performance of Wi-Fi devices is uneven, and problems such as poor Wi-Fi signal, channel competition and channel switching are common. On the other hand, 3G and 4G networks have limited signal coverage and large fluctuation of transmission quality in different environments, such as subway, tunnel and station with peak flow. Therefore, when the application of enterprises is interconnected across borders, across regions and across operators, or when the whole network is congested at peak hours, the local access network quality is poor, and the signal of mobile terminals is unstable, the bad network will lead to delay, jitter, packet loss, and even disconnection, which seriously reduces our use experience.

Existing solutions to network transmission quality problems: One is dedicated line service of operators, and the other is global accelerated GA. These two schemes build high-quality dedicated channels based on dedicated lines. Although transmission quality in channels is guaranteed, including stable transmission delay and determined bandwidth, etc., However, it is faced with problems such as inability to guarantee the transmission quality of the Last Mile, difficulty in covering remote countries and regions, and high cost of resources and operation and maintenance in constructing dedicated channels. Still have a kind of scheme is CDN dynamic acceleration, the scheme based on public network scheduling building virtual channel, using a large number of edge nodes, through the scheduling algorithm, providing a relatively available path, user coverage, but also unable to guarantee the Last kilometer (Last Mile) transmission quality, there is also the backbone transmission cannot be guaranteed quality, Does not provide stable transmission delay and determined bandwidth.

In summary, the end-to-end network quality problem remains unresolved.

Full-link acceleration FPA provides network QoS guarantee to improve end-user access performance by 100%

Sd-rtn ™ has fully verified its high-speed, stable and reliable global network capability. On this basis, SD-RTN officially launched full-path Accelerator (FPA). By adding QoS to the Internet, it provides global end-to-end network transmission services with QoS guarantee for enterprise business applications.

In the aspect of backbone network transmission, full-link accelerated FPA is based on SD-RTN™, through network intelligence, route planning and scheduling, multi-path redundancy and extensive deployment of key nodes, which effectively solves the transmission quality degradation caused by network congestion and operator failure.

In the aspect of Last Mile transmission of end users, full-link accelerated FPA realizes weak network countermeasures, intelligent access and other capabilities through terminal SDK, greatly improving the quality of Last Mile.

Through the efficient collaborative optimization of “cloud” and “terminal”, the unpredictable Internet becomes predictable, manageable and schedulable. Based on this capability, full-link accelerated FPA can provide a high level of QoS guarantee for users in more than 200 countries and regions around the world.

FPA has four core advantages: QoS guarantee, full-link acceleration, high availability and global coverage.

1. QoS guarantee: the packet arrival rate of 200ms in the whole network exceeds 99.9%, improving the access performance of end users by 100% on average;

2, full link acceleration: FPA full link “end” + “cloud” collaborative acceleration, to provide better overall acceleration performance and stability.

3, high availability: through redundant resources and the whole network intelligent scheduling algorithm, does not rely on a single physical resource, to eliminate the problem of unavailability caused by physical line failure.

4, global coverage: can provide users in more than 200 countries and regions around the world, anytime, anywhere, stable high-speed network services.

In terms of data security compliance, FPA supports TLS protocol in the transmission process, and the communication between terminals and source stations is in a dedicated channel. The source side is not exposed to the Internet at all, ensuring the service security of the source station. Terminal access also provides dynamic Token authentication and user authentication. In addition, Sonnet adheres to internationally recognized information security and privacy protection standards and industry requirements, and has been committed to adopting international best practices to build a privacy and security management system. At present, Sonnet has ** passed ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC ISO27017, ISO/IEC 27018 system certification, and obtained SOC2 Type 1, SOC2 Type 2 service certification report, ** has well proved its privacy protection and security capabilities.

Who needs full link Accelerated FPA more?

“After in-depth market research, sonnet has found that it has high requirements for global network transmission quality in overseas applications, game acceleration, audio and video applications, mobile finance and other scenarios,” said Zheng Zheng, head of sonnet FPA products, at the press conference. For example, overseas applications need to provide services for users in multiple regions around the world, while the network environment in Southeast Asia, India, central Asia and other regions is very complex, posing great challenges to business development. Full link Accelerated FPA utilizes sD-RTN ™ high-speed network channels covering more than 200 countries and regions around the world to provide high-quality network coverage for all kinds of overseas applications in target countries/regions, realizing real-time audio and video interaction across regions and networks, as well as rapid synchronization of business data, and ultimately improving network performance by more than 100%. Reduce the loading time of service applications by more than 60%.

In the game scene, there are frequent problems affecting user experience, such as login difficulty, high operation delay, and mid-line drop. The quality of the game experience determines the players’ decision to stay and pay. Sound net Full link Acceleration FPA utilizes sD-RTN ™ high-speed network channel covering the world to help game operators provide full link game acceleration services for players in all regions of the world. It can not only achieve global and regional user side game acceleration, but also greatly improve the weak network resistance ability of mobile players. Finally, it can reduce the game disconnection rate by more than 90% and the delay of 95% players by more than 50%.

In this press conference, Zhao Guibin, CTO of Huanxin, also shared the business improvement brought by full-link accelerated FPA to Huanxin based on his own actual business. He said: “the ring letter is a instant messaging based global cloud and the cloud service provider of the service, in the process of global business development found that uneven global network infrastructure, poor quality of the network in remote areas, make it difficult for business expansion, the existing solution is global coverage, does not provide the last kilometer of quality assurance, there is no guarantee that the end-to-end network quality and other issues. After being connected to FPA, relying on its high-speed, stable and reliable global network capability, Huanxin.com supports more than 3 million concurrent connections at peak value worldwide, improves coverage performance in remote areas by 112%, reduces message arrival delay by 55% on average, and improves connection stability by 10 times. Huanxin has also helped Litmatch, Haya and other overseas apps successfully open markets in Southeast Asia and The Arab World, providing local users with rich social gameplay such as voice live broadcasting, game link and IM chat.”