Introduction: On September 8, the award ceremony of the fourth "Blooming Cup" 5G Application Solicitation Competition in Fujian Region was successfully concluded in Xiamen. Guanglian Group won the award of Excellence in the competition for its project solution of "5G SD-WAN Building a New cornerstone of Smart Business", and this is the second time that Guanglian has won the award of the "Blooming Cup" 5G Application Collection Competition.

In order to speed up the implementation of 5G applications in Fujian province, the fourth "Bloom Cup" 5G Application Collection Competition was set up in Fujian Regional Competition, which was jointly sponsored by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and Fujian Provincial Communications Administration Bureau, Fujian Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Fujian Provincial Digital Fujian Construction Leading Group Office, and Xiamen Municipal People's Government.
This "Blooming Cup" Fujian Regional competition, through the careful planning and organization of the event organizing committee, after more than 20 industry experts conducted the preliminary, semi-final and final review, and finally selected the winning project. As a leading SD-WAN service provider, Guanglian Group won the excellence Award of this competition with the advantages of the practical, commercial and application benefits of the "5G SD-WAN to create a new cornerstone of Smart business" project solution in the retail industry. This is also the second time that Guanglian has won the award of the "Blooming Cup" 5G application solicitation competition.

With the in-depth development of new retail, the consumption scene continues to rise and replace, which puts forward higher requirements for the management efficiency and innovation ability of chain brands. In the process of strengthening digital construction, with the expansion and diversified development of business, the traditional internal network architecture has been difficult to adapt to changes. At the same time, the traditional underlying network deployment cycle is long, the security stability is poor, the fault location is difficult, not only reduce the operating efficiency of enterprises, but also increase the cost of enterprise IT. With the advent of the intelligent era, the network ecology of intelligent business has evolved into more complex and flexible, and different business nodes also need more flexible and efficient access methods.
Under the wide application of a new generation of information technology, based on 5G technology, zero wiring, large bandwidth, low latency and other characteristics, the integration of 5G and SD-WAN can better meet the retail business contactless shopping, cashier-free stores, immersive shopping experience and other personalized consumption scenarios, has become the best choice for new retail enterprises to achieve new network upgrades and accelerate digital construction.
This time, according to the current network status of the new retail industry, the "5G+SD-WAN smart business network solution" is proposed to further firmly build the cornerstone of the retail industry's underlying network and empower industry innovation. SD-WAN multi-link access mode, flexible networking, rapid deployment, improve the retail enterprise branch online rate, reduce line costs; Fnet cloud control can realize global network overview, control the dynamic of commercial network links, and ensure the stability of the network; The 5G+MSTP primary/secondary link can improve network reliability, ensure critical application experience, and meet the needs of new retail diversified consumption scenarios. Optical link operation and maintenance team provides active monitoring services, timely fault alarms, for retail enterprises to solve various problems in the operation of network systems.

Under the current digital development trend, retail stores have gradually realized SD-WAN branch intelligent network, and in the future, with the promotion of new technologies, retail stores will also have a more diversified network connection. In the future, Light Link will continue to play its own experience in the field of WAN, in-depth research and exploration in 5G network, new technology research, solution application, etc., continue to popularize 5G+SD-WAN services to more different industries, and accelerate the digital construction of enterprises.