"This is the best of times, this is the worst of times" in Dickens's familiar quote, a good description of the current situation of small and micro enterprises. There is confusion and confusion about the future, there are also ideals and expectations for entrepreneurship, and the business is intertwined with hope and disappointment, slowly growing in toddlers.
The best times are due to the digital economy and national policies. As an important part of China's economy, small and micro enterprises play an important role in promoting employment and driving GDP growth, and the government has been continuously increasing its support for small and micro enterprises.
The best era is because of the continuous recurrence of the epidemic and the unprecedented tension in the macroeconomic environment, which has brought about market uncertainty, which puts forward more refined requirements for the innovation and development of small and micro enterprises.
It is clear that digitalization is the key to avoiding uncertainty and improving the resilience of small and micro enterprises. The premise of digitalization is the stability and efficiency brought by the network as a connection base.
Stable and efficient network
It is a hotbed of innovation for small and micro enterprises
According to the latest statistics from the State Administration for Market Supervision, there are more than 48 million enterprises in China by the end of 2021, of which small and medium-sized enterprises account for more than 99%. In terms of the contribution ratio of the Chinese market economy, small and medium-sized enterprises are undoubtedly the most dynamic part of the economy, providing the most jobs and an important force for business model innovation.
The policy has also been supporting small and micro enterprises and continuing to grow bigger and stronger. The 2022 government work report points out that efforts should be made to cultivate "specialized, specialized and new" enterprises in the small and medium-sized enterprise group, and give strong support in terms of funds, talents, and incubation platform construction. Measures such as deepening the reform of the New Third Board and setting up the Beijing Stock Exchange point to the direction of helping small and micro enterprises to do a good job in service innovation.
Many favorable policies have ushered in new opportunities for small and micro enterprises, and iDC's previously released survey shows that by the end of 2023, more than two-thirds of small and micro enterprises will take digital transformation as a key part of their corporate strategy. We also see that more and more small and micro enterprises are integrating digital and intelligent tools into their offices and businesses, and all walks of life are actively embracing cutting-edge technologies such as the Internet, big data, and cloud computing to increase market competitiveness and improve business indicators.
In fact, small and micro enterprises are more able to adapt to new digital workflows than large enterprises, such as online office, collaborative innovation business models, which abound among small and micro enterprises. They are also more willing to access sales leads, marketing channels and business models through the Internet.
At the same time, small and micro enterprises are also the main force of enterprise cloudification, because small and micro enterprises do not have the heavy infrastructure burden of large enterprises, which allows small and micro enterprises to faster use cloud tools, and SaaS services to support business operations, and to win faster innovation speed, in the market uncertainty factor surge at the moment, only to improve efficiency, run faster, in order to be invincible in market competition.
Therefore, a stable and efficient network environment is critical for the daily digital business development of small and micro enterprises and their future growth.
Why does FTTR work for small and micro enterprises?
Perhaps many people think that small and micro enterprises are small because of their small scale, the office area is not large, and their needs may be similar to those of families. Coupled with the fact that mainland operators have accelerated the promotion of optical fiber into the home (FTTH), does this mean that small and micro enterprises can easily meet the needs of the network?
This is not the case.
We know that the optical fiber into the home (FTTH) does have the characteristics of large bandwidth and low latency, but its limitation is that after the fiber into the home, the whole house network is configured and managed through the router inside the room, which will lead to a decline in the experience of the optical network, as long as in the larger apartment, there will be a dead end of insufficient signal coverage, and there is no way to achieve a consistent network experience of the whole house.
However, many business development of small and micro enterprises needs to rely on a highly consistent network, so as to ensure that employees in each location can work efficiently and collaboratively. In addition, home-level networks cannot meet enterprise-level stability and security. Therefore, a more suitable scheme for small and micro enterprises FTTR began to surface.
Different from the traditional networking method, FTTR mainly lays optical fiber to every room through innovative all-fiber networking, providing ultra-gigabit, low latency, and highly reliable Wi-Fi 6 network for each room, ensuring network coverage in every corner of the room, and realizing the all-light gigabit experience of the whole house.
Why is FTTR particularly suitable for small and micro enterprise application scenarios?
First of all, from the perspective of the office scene of small and micro enterprises. Take an Office Area for Internet Small and Micro Enterprises with about 100 people as an example, which usually requires an office space of 500 to 1,000 square meters, including offices, conference rooms, managers' rooms, leisure areas, reception areas, and so on.
On the one hand, this brings about 200 devices to access the enterprise network, requiring higher bandwidth and no decay, on the other hand, different functional location settings require the network to have no dead ends. The traditional wireless networking method is not easy to meet these needs.
Second, from the perspective of the business characteristics of small and micro enterprises. With the improvement of the degree of service cloudification, its important business and key services are realized through cloud computing, and the production and operation data are stored on the cloud, and the requirements of enterprises for network bandwidth will be greatly increased. Due to the backward network lines and equipment of enterprises, the network bandwidth is limited to less than 100Mbps, resulting in slow and inefficient access to cloud resources by employees, which runs counter to the flexibility and convenience of enterprise cloud access.
Third, from the perspective of the innovation needs of small and micro enterprises, if the business development speed is to outperform its peers, it is necessary to achieve the highest synergy efficiency. When the management, marketing and innovation of enterprises need to be supported by data, they also need a stable and efficient network environment.
Based on these background reasons, we have reason to believe that FTTR can become a small and micro enterprise, "safe, stable and high-speed integrated light base".
The "Diamond Diamond" of Huawei FTTR Solution
We know that small and micro enterprises are usually composed of young people, who have long been accustomed to the application experience brought by Internet applications, they can no longer tolerate products and services with poor experiences, and are more inclined to quickly find alternatives to better experiences.
This is also one of the driving forces for Huawei to jointly launch ftTR all-optical small and micro enterprise networking solutions, for the needs and pain points of small and micro enterprises, Huawei's FTTR solutions, what are the "diamond diamonds"?
The first is efficiency. FTTR uses optical fiber as an access method to achieve gigabit lossless transmission, and supports dual-band Wi-Fi 6 wireless coverage through FTTR devices, with a large bandwidth of 160MHz and a rate of 1.2Gbps. When enterprises choose to upgrade to Gigabit Business Broadband, ftTR ultra-high-speed Wi-Fi networks can cover gigabit broadband in every corner of the enterprise, giving employees more efficient access to enterprise cloud resources.
The second is stability. For the problem of a large number of small and micro enterprises accessing the network. The FTTR solution can support 300 terminals to connect to the Internet concurrently, and it is stable and does not drop the line. At the same time, the main FTTR device has high-performance NAT forwarding, which can greatly reduce the phenomenon of user stuttering and dropping down compared with the traditional solutions in the industry. On the Wi-Fi side, FTTR adopts an innovative dynamic bandwidth control algorithm, which greatly reduces the latency and packet loss problems caused by users competing for Wi-Fi air interface resources, ensuring that all users get a good user experience.
The third is seamless connectivity. All slave FTTR devices in the scheme are managed by the master FTTR device to form a seamless Wi-Fi network. When the user moves from one Wi-Fi coverage area to another area, the FTTR network can perceive the user's roaming behavior in real time, and is uniformly dispatched by the main FTTR device, enabling the user to quickly switch to the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot, realizing millisecond-level roaming switching, so that users can get a seamless connection experience when moving office.
The fourth is intelligent O&M. We know that small and micro enterprises often don't have their own IT teams, so the ability to operate intelligently is critical to their choice. The FTTR network supports the ability of dual-end intelligent O&M management. On the user side, business owners or IT personnel can achieve rapid network management through mobile APP, and on the operator side, the intelligent management platform can quickly diagnose and locate various types of network fault problems, and realize one-click automatic repair, or inform the installation and maintenance engineers to provide on-site service. FTTR's intelligent management model continues to help small and micro enterprises reduce investment in IT maintenance and reduce the operational pressure in the process of digital transformation.
For small and micro enterprises, going through from 0 to 1 is the most difficult process, without digital efficiency, and business innovation, it is difficult for small and micro enterprises to grow. As the "seed" of China's digital economy innovation, FTTR serves as a safe, stable and high-speed integrated optical base, escorting its business efficient collaboration and helping growth.