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Another photo of Liu Pingyang, the founder of Cloud: Let CDN fly into the homes of ordinary people

  

Since 2016, almost all e-commerce, social networking and other platforms have started to do live broadcast, live broadcast of fighting fish, live broadcast of YY, live broadcast of octopus, and even Internet enterprises such as Sina and Alibaba have started to do live broadcast online. When everyone is staring at the air outlet of the live broadcast industry, the technicians think of the technology behind the live broadcast - CDN.

Reviewing the development process of CDN, in the early stage of CDN development, the CDN market has been dominated by traditional CDN manufacturers such as Netsux and Lanxun. In 2010, BAT Internet giants built their own computer rooms one after another. While launching their own cloud services, they also began to open CDN services to the industry as an important service content. In the past two years, a large number of start-ups began to enter the CDN market with the price of subverting the industry by virtue of technological innovation.

Youpaiyun is such a start-up company that has entered the cloud CDN industry through technological innovation. Founded in 2014, Youpaiyun has completed two rounds of financing up to hundreds of millions of yuan. Liu Pingyang, founder and CEO of Youpaiyun, said that Youpaiyun is the first company in China to pack data storage, data processing and acceleration together to provide external services.

There are great prospects for taking another step ahead of others

Compared with traditional CDN manufacturers, Youpaiyun not only provides download acceleration services, but also provides more in-depth and necessary services based on user business needs, such as cloud storage, cloud processing, cloud security, etc. From upload acceleration, data storage, video/audio/picture processing, to data transmission and data distribution, one-stop services are provided, including file slicing, anti-theft chain, WAF protection, anti DDoS, HTTP/2 support and other value-added services, which greatly meet the immediate needs of entrepreneurial enterprises, reduce the technical threshold, and reduce the time cost of entrepreneurship.

"Youpaiyun pioneered the service model of on-demand service and traffic billing, rewriting the situation of high prices and opaque services of traditional CDN manufacturers, and democratizing CDN services that can only be used by" Gao Fu Shuai ", so that start-ups can enjoy low-cost and high-quality CDN services." Liu Pingyang is very proud of the current development of Youpaiyun.

In April 2016, Payun launched live cloud, on-demand cloud and other products for application scenarios such as events and interactions. Not only in the video industry, but also in e-commerce, online education, online education, games, mobile apps, audio and other sub sectors, but also in the video industry, it provides scenario based solutions with industry attributes to help customers save time and technology costs from product ideas to product launch operations.

At present, Yupaiyun has six data centers, more than 150 self built CDN nodes, more than 4000 servers, 1.5TB+bandwidth resources, and more than 50 billion daily requests.

As for the future of CDN, Liu Pingyang said that cloud CDN is the development direction of the future CDN market, and more and more Internet giants have begun to invest in the cloud CDN market. In contrast, Youpaiyun launched prototype products in 2010 and developed many innovative functions.

Through Yupaiyun's real-time performance monitoring platform, customers can clearly see the use of various regions, and provide real-time feedback on the thermal map. This is not only for customers to see the usage of traffic and check whether the CDN network is smooth, but also to analyze the optimization direction of services and products through real-time user data.

The development of any technology has a process of accumulation. In addition to the early start in the cloud CDN field, the innovation and iteration capability of the current Yupai Cloud cannot be underestimated. Zaiyun keeps iterating 2-3 times a week, hoping to reduce complexity, speed up innovation and make products that really meet users' needs through continuous optimization.

In the interview, Liu Pingyang mentioned the live cloud, and the live cloud that took the cloud took the whole platform to single point, and formed the architecture of multiple source stations by building source station clusters. Therefore, the network quality of the live broadcast service will be more guaranteed, and the stability and security will also be improved. At the same time, the entire platform has the ability of cross regional automatic disaster recovery.

Scenario CDN Foundation laying makes entrepreneurship easier

At the Yupai Cloud Fission Conference held in April 2016, Yupai Cloud adjusted its business strategy to "focus on CDN services", and Yupai Cloud launched a one-stop service mode with CDN as its core business and cloud storage as a value-added service for free to users. For a long time, Youpaiyun has provided one-stop cloud acceleration services, including cloud storage, cloud processing, cloud CDN, cloud security, and so on. With the reduction of storage costs, Youpaiyun provides CDN users with 1:1 free storage space.

Yupaiyun focuses on creating scenario based CDN services, refining and optimizing around the needs of customers, further adding new nodes, expanding overseas nodes, constantly improving the bandwidth of edge acceleration nodes, bringing users more stable and faster acceleration services, and creating general solutions such as e-commerce, interactive entertainment, online education, on-demand cloud and live cloud, Meet customer needs in different use scenarios.

Scenario CDN is a kind of user thinking, user oriented, and problem solving from the user's perspective. It is equivalent to extracting certain user scenarios, integrating different needs of users with industry characteristics, and packaging them into a universal and universal one-stop solution under specific scenarios, so as to reduce the complexity of user development and accelerate innovation.

For different scenarios, we launched CDN services for different scenarios, such as live cloud, on-demand cloud, and converged cloud. The biggest difference between scenario CDN and traditional CDN is that it not only helps customers solve the basic problem of data download acceleration, but also goes deep into the customer's industry and actual business to provide services and solutions for more problems faced by feature users.

Spring Rain Plan helps make entrepreneurship easier

Adhering to the enterprise concept of "making entrepreneurship easier", in 2015, we invested tens of millions of yuan in cloud photography to provide a series of entrepreneurial services for entrepreneurs, including the Spring Rain Plan. Also, Paiyun launched the "Spring Rain Plan" with dozens of well-known domestic investment institutions and incubators. The Spring Rain Plan is aimed at seed angel start-ups, providing them with free unlimited cloud services for a year, including full network acceleration, data processing and cloud storage.

The Spring Rain Plan not only provides free cloud service resources, but also provides technical assistance and technical advice to deepen the multi-dimensional services at the beginning of the establishment of the start-up company, help the entrepreneurial team overcome the difficulties at the beginning of the start-up, and grow together.

Liu Pingyang said that, in the view of taking cloud pictures again, for start-ups that have received Angel Wheel, a year of cloud services can help them reduce many costs.

Make technology no longer an obstacle to the development of live video

Because of its authenticity and interactivity, the live video can interact with the host and his fans quickly. The popularity of live broadcasting is inseparable from technical support. 3G and 4G networks break the limits of time and space, and can be broadcast and watched anytime and anywhere. On the other hand, the live broadcast support platform such as Paiyun greatly shortens the delay, ensures the stability of the live broadcast, and makes the user experience of the live broadcast better.

In live video, the most important thing is to reduce the delay. Delay is the main factor affecting the live experience. Through the layer by layer optimization from pushing stream to pulling stream, the shortest delay is within 1 second, and the average delay is not more than 2 seconds, greatly optimizing the live broadcast experience. The source station cluster mentioned above uses private optical fiber networks to connect the six data centers to form a state similar to the internal network, to achieve high availability and efficiency, to reduce stuck and avoid interruptions.

Take the live cloud service as an example. For live broadcast, the stability of the video source station is very important. Live broadcast is uninterrupted and does not get stuck, which is directly related to the source station and has a great impact on the live broadcast effect. The traditional live broadcast service mostly uses a single source station, and the cloud live broadcast cloud de unifies the entire platform, and forms the architecture of multiple source stations by building source station clusters. Therefore, the network quality of the live broadcast service will be more guaranteed, and the stability and security will also be improved. At the same time, the entire platform has the ability of cross regional automatic disaster recovery.

Conclusion

The entrepreneurial philosophy of Youpaiyun is to "make entrepreneurship easier". Over the years, Youpaiyun has also been working in this direction. They hope to provide entrepreneurs with products that better meet their needs, reduce the technical barriers of start-ups, and enable CDN to fly into ordinary people's homes to help entrepreneurship.

In the future, Youpaiyun hopes to become a trusted partner of entrepreneurs, help more Internet start-ups grow rapidly, medium-sized enterprises accelerate their development, and large enterprises move forward steadily to jointly make the world a better place.