A unified, fast, reliable and secure upgraded one-stop platform incorporating Tencent’s years of experience in network performance and security
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Along with the rapid development of enterprise digitalization, new edge computing scenarios and applications have now begun to emerge in various industries. Drawing from more than 20 years of experience in technology solutions, Tencent Cloud today announced the launch of Tencent Cloud EdgeOne – an upgraded one-stop platform that integrates Tencent’s experience in network performance and security with high efficiency and stability for global enterprises.
In 2021, due to an unprecedented influx of short-video and live steaming businesses around the world, Tencent Cloud launched the RT-ONE™ network[1] to build the foundation of the most comprehensive audio and video communication network to meet market needs. To further enhance the cyber-security of corporate customers, Tencent Cloud applies its security technology to RT-ONE™ network by introducing an upgraded, highly integrated one-stop platform. The new platform offers innovative security capabilities, creating integrated services to fulfill businesses’ requirements for network speed and security features.
Benefiting Tencent More than 2,800 Cloud global acceleration nodes in more than 70 countries and regions, Tencent Cloud EdgeOne enables users to enjoy high-quality network performance without compromising their security. It also features the following advantages:
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Moves services to edge nodes closer to end-users and provides layer-3 (Network), layer-4 (Transport), layer-7 (Application) protection as well as acceleration services to global market. It also features a unified dashboard that greatly reduces the configuration burden and saves time for customers.
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Provides a set of dedicated interconnections to speed traffic between Tencent Cloud EdgeOne and Origin Server. Additionally, it integrates the domain name system (DNS), which ensures stable and high-performance DNS resolution, and greatly reduces latency for static and dynamic data.
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Integrates security features and technologies based on Tencent’s security experience of over two decades, including but not limited to DDoS protection (Anti-DDoS), web protection (Web Application Firewall), bot management and analysis of behavior (Tencent Cloud bot program management), and adaptive rate-limiting, among others. It deploys security functions on edge nodes closer to users, detecting and mitigating malicious requests before they reach application services.
Poshu Yeung, Senior Vice President, Tencent Cloud Internationalsaid, “With the emergence of technologies such as cloud computing, big data, AI, blockchain, Web3 and the Internet of Things, the digital transformation of enterprises is now considered important. Relying on Tencent’s own security operational experience of a business serving 1 billion users, we’re excited to see how Tencent Cloud EdgeOne provides users with an unprecedented, high-quality and highly reliable network experience while protecting their security at the same time.”
Tommy LiVice President of Tencent Cloudsaid, “Tencent Cloud EdgeOne can be summed up by an acronym using one word: BESIDE. It stands for Aadvanced technology; exclusively Cbeing active; Real-time service; Ordata optimization; Smart application; and Ssecurity protection. Businesses adapting to the growing digitalization trend are experiencing common problems such as network latency, congestion, and security threats. By applying our sophisticated security technology to our RT-ONE™ network, the new Tencent Cloud EdgeOne platform provides lower latency and built-in security features with outstanding performance, providing businesses and organizations with reliable services to meet their concerns.”
Applications of Tencent Cloud EdgeOne across industries
Global businesses, from commerce, retail, financial services, content and news to the gaming, media, audio and video sectors, can now enjoy the benefits of using Tencent Cloud EdgeOne. One of the recent major clients of the integrated solution is a famous online video-on-demand platform at Chinato address its issues including bad user experience, malicious SEO, fraud/bot fraud and content piracy using Tencent Cloud EdgeOne. The platform is successful reduced video loading time by 40 percentand resource response delay by 50 percent.
Cyberattacks in the e-commerce industry cause business disruption and affect the user experience. To avoid the risk of damage due to cyberattacks, a online e-commerce platform – which has to perform hundreds of billions of daily operations including user account management, activity, billing analysis and other modules – used Tencent Cloud EdgeOne on successfully defend against Challenge Collapsar (CC) attacks with peak traffic for more than 9 million QPS (queries per second).
During a new game release one of the largest game publisher in the worldsecurity and network capabilities were tested as it attracted more than a million users. Tencent Cloud EdgeOne adopts a distributed preloading strategy and provides DDoS attack protection, web protection, rate limiting, and robot behavior blocking capabilities, ultimately helping the new game achieve 100% success in downloads without business interruption.
Eric ChengGeneral Manager of Tencent Securitysaid, “Sa Tencent Cloud, we aim to make user access more efficient, and business more secure as they continue their digitalization journey. With the launch of Tencent Cloud EdgeOne, we now have a unified, fast, reliable and secure platform that can detect and defend against attacks earlier, mitigating malicious traffic at the edges before they reach our data center .”
Baal Feng, General Manager of Global DevOps at Tencent Gamessaid, “The global gaming market enjoys enormous potential, and it is expanding rapidly. As opportunities increase, so do challenges, such as meeting the extremely high demand for download speed and latency. Determined of network quality download speed and user experience , and Tencent Cloud EdgeOne is now here to provide an integrated service that ensures these demands are met, without compromising security.”
With the rapid development of the global digital economy, digital innovation and transformation have expanded from the internet to traditional industries, and fully developed into the development and investment of cross-border e-commerce, games and other independent application. Meanwhile, high requirements for business performance and security protection are significant factors for the digital transformation of businesses. Tencent Cloud aims to continue exporting high-level security capabilities, providing global partners with secure, stable, ultra-fast, and professional edge-integrated security services, and reliably helping businesses on their digital journey.
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1. RT-ONE™ network, launched by Tencent Cloud in 2021, is an all-in-one service for audio and video communication network. It combines Tencent Cloud’s real-time communication network (TRTC), instant messaging network (IM) and content distribution network (CDN) into a one-stop solution. |
SOURCE Tencent Cloud