China Mobile accelerates IDC construction under the flow cleaning vortex
China Unicom began to rectify the national IDC business and clean up management loopholes. Due to problems left over by history, China Mobile is seriously short of Internet content resources, and is a late entrant in the IDC market, with a low market share. Therefore, most users of China Mobile must access the Internet export access of China Telecom and China Unicom, and then access the Internet content resource center of China Telecom and China Unicom. On the whole, China Mobile is very passive in the IDC business.
IDC Business Market Attraction
The data shows that the market share of telecom operators in the IDC market has exceeded 62%, of which China Telecom tops the list with 37% market share, China Unicom has 21% market share, China Mobile (including China Railcom) has 4% market share, and third-party IDC service providers have grown gradually, accounting for nearly 38% market share.
According to the interconnection management regulations of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the three major operators can only communicate through the current 10 backbone network direct connection points. IDC is the foundation of Internet development, and its importance is self-evident. In fact, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced in October 2013 to expand the direct connection of the backbone network to cities. On the basis of the original backbone network in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, it added national level Internet backbone direct connection points in seven cities, namely Chengdu, Wuhan, Xi'an, Shenyang, Nanjing, Chongqing and Zhengzhou.
Shortly after the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the expansion of the backbone network to connect the city directly, China Mobile was granted a fixed network license in December 2013. This means that China Mobile will significantly increase its investment in enterprise users' FTTH and public Internet connectivity. In fact, industry insiders generally believe that China Mobile will increase the construction of IDC business even if it cannot obtain a fixed network license. However, the time difference between the expansion of the backbone network and the issuance of the fixed network license by China Mobile was less than two months. The real intention of the regulatory authorities is worth pondering.
Li Yue, president of China Mobile, said at the president's office meeting that "IDC business is both an opportunity and a future. On the one hand, IDC business market is large at this stage, while operators have natural advantages in developing IDC business, the company faces good opportunities in developing IDC business; On the other hand, with the development of mobile Internet, the business model of "platform+terminal" has gradually matured. IDC will be an important foundation for the construction of a new highland of information sources and an important carrier for future business development. "
China Mobile accelerates the pace of IDC construction
The lack of data center resources has always been a problem faced by China Mobile, especially with the rapid development of 4G users in recent years, the demand for data centers continues to surge. The construction of data center is the development strategy of China Mobile. Only by doing a good job in the data center and putting more application content of China Mobile in the network, can traffic generate greater value and have more and better user experience.
As one of the "troika" of China Mobile Group's business, IDC has gradually attracted attention within the company. Entering the 4G era, the demand for IDC basic resources and content resources is rising exponentially, and the demand for IDC resources and products will also grow accordingly. IDC business will have great prospects in the future. In this regard, China Mobile focuses on self construction in IDC construction, supplemented by leasing, reconstruction, joint construction and other ways, and reasonably plans IDC hot spots to meet market demand.
It is reported that China Mobile (Huainan, Anhui) data center, with a total investment of about 4.5 billion yuan, is an important part of China Mobile's strategic layout in the national IDC, and is also the largest data center in East China. After the completion of China Mobile (Huainan, Anhui) Data Center, it will become a world-class information park with high-tech, informatization and green environmental protection. It has the hosting capacity of 20000 racks and more than 20000 gigabytes of Internet export broadband. It is expected that 200 Internet enterprises will be incubated, attracting more than 2000 Internet enterprises, voice recognition enterprises, animation enterprises, regional headquarters The entry of Internet of Vehicles enterprises provides platform support for the "Internet+" action plan of Anhui and even the whole country.
In addition, China Mobile has also started construction of data centers in Qingdao, Chongqing, Zhongwei, Zhuzhou, Zhengzhou, Harbin, Karamay, Haidong, Hohhot and other places, which can be described as blooming everywhere, and is planned in advance for the cities' regions and even the national IDC strategy. After all, a major change brought about by 4G is the richness of big data applications, and the construction of data centers is also seen by operators as a way to expand the "blue ocean".
