CypressTel Honored with “Application Innovation Case of SDN, NFV & Network AI” Award at 2025 China Cloud-Network Conference

On April 23-24, 2025, the “2025 China Cloud Network Conference” was grandly held in Beijing, hosted by the CCSA TC610 SNAI Committee under the guidance of the China Communications Standards Association, China Institute of Communications, and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).

The results of the “2024 Outstanding SDN, NFV, and Network AI Cases” were announced at the conference. CypressTel’s innovative solution, “Global Networking and Security Integration for a leading Energy Group,” stood out among hundreds of entries and won the prestigious “Application Innovation Case” award. This recognition places CypressTel alongside industry leaders such as China Mobile, China Unicom, and ZTE, further affirming CypressTel’s technological leadership in SD-WAN area.

Innovative Global Networking and Security Integration for a leading Energy Group

The energy group is a large state-owned integrated energy enterprise operating a nationwide network of power generation sites and a multi-tier management system from headquarters to provincial and branch companies. Its core business includes nuclear, wind, and solar power generation, focusing on clean and renewable energy.

Facing digital transformation challenges, the group’s legacy MPLS/VPN WAN architecture struggled with low bandwidth utilization, high operational costs, complex maintenance, insufficient multi-cloud adaptability, and difficulties connecting massive IoT devices. These bottlenecks limited transmission efficiency, scalability, and intelligent operations, hindering cross-regional collaboration and complex digital scenarios, thus slowing their strategic shift toward an energy internet model.

Key Challenges

• Zero-latency demand: Frequent, low-latency communication is required between headquarters, provincial offices, branches, and power stations.

• Network flexibility: Wide geographical distribution of sites needing remote access, dynamic scaling, and on-demand adjustments.

• Cost reduction: High costs and poor scalability of traditional MPLS/dedicated lines.

• Operational efficiency: Traditional network management cannot meet real-time monitoring, rapid fault diagnosis, and traffic optimization needs.

• Enhanced security: Stronger protection for sensitive data across multi-regional networks.

CypressTel’s Solution

CypressTel built a high-performance global backbone network with an innovative full-mesh architecture, delivering a smart SD-WAN solution that enabled nationwide branch networking for the energy group and achieved efficient full-domain interconnection.

• Local access to backbone: Each site connects to CypressTel’s SD-WAN backbone nearby, ensuring “last mile” network stability and secure, efficient transmission.

• High availability and intelligent flexibility:

• Headquarters to data centers: dual dedicated network with millisecond switching for 99.99% uptime.

• Provincial/municipal branches: A hybrid network combining a dedicated network (for core traffic) and the internet (for non-critical traffic) with SD-WAN intelligent routing improves bandwidth utilization by 65%.

• Remote power stations: flexible “Internet + 4G/5G” backup access with intelligent redundancy and SASE security for zero-trust access and compliance, certified to China’s Level 3 security standards.

• Deep integration of SD-WAN backbone and SASE security: Cloud-delivered services route traffic through nearby secure POP nodes, enabling unified internet security, networking, and centralized management, elevating branch security with one-click deployment.

• Proprietary SDN intelligent centralized control: Simplifies WAN service management and deployment across branches, data centers, and clouds with minute-level synchronization and one-click policy issuance, reducing operational complexity by 80%.

Service Value and Impact

1. Large-scale commercial deployment:

   Nationwide network transformation covering 400 power stations, 28 branches, and multiple data centers.

   
   

2. Significant cost savings:

• Replacing expensive dedicated lines with integrated internet and 5G links, cutting network connection costs by 60% and overall networking costs by 40%.

• AI-driven intelligent operations reduce manual configuration by 80% and boost operational efficiency by over 50%.

  
  

3. Enhanced network performance and business continuity:

• Intelligent traffic scheduling reduces critical business latency by 70%.

• Multi-network high availability supports MPLS + Internet + 5G hybrid networking with millisecond failover, minimizing downtime risks.

  
  

4. Flexible adaptation and rapid scaling:

• New branches deploy via zero-touch provisioning (ZTP), reducing deployment time from weeks to hours.

• Dynamic bandwidth optimization lowers reliance on dedicated lines while ensuring quality for critical services, achieving a balance of low cost and high performance.

This award-winning solution demonstrates CypressTel’s deep technical expertise and innovative capabilities in global SD-WAN networking and SASE security integration. It effectively addresses the complex networking and security challenges of large-scale energy enterprises undergoing digital transformation.