Shandong Unicom Integrated Monitoring Construction Project — Building Intelligent Network Management for Enhanced Comprehensive Analysis

After ten years of continuous construction and development, Shandong Unicom's network management support system has evolved into a multi-dimensional network operations platform centered on five major system categories—professional network management, signaling monitoring, electronic operations and maintenance, and others. As mobile subscribers and service types increase, network scale expands, resource types and quantities grow, and end users demand higher network quality, network O&M faces unprecedented pressure and challenges. To adapt to the increasingly competitive market, comprehensively enhance O&M support and service capabilities, improve customer satisfaction, and strengthen core competitiveness, an integrated analysis system is essential. By leveraging the massive data from existing business systems, extracting and integrating information from professional network management, integrated network management, business management, O&M management, and market support, the system applies advanced technologies to enable deep data processing and intelligent analytics. This delivers complete, timely, accurate, and science-based information support for operational decision-making and maintenance optimization.

• Enhance data analysis capabilities to identify issues and analyze causes across customer, business, and network dimensions, delivering actionable insights for evaluation and decision-making.

• Address critical challenges through collaborative network analysis spanning 2G, 3G, broadband, fixed-line, and WLAN—resolving data traffic imbalances and optimizing 2G/3G traffic load distribution.

• Support marketing initiatives by mining network-side operational data to empower marketing teams with data-driven campaign execution.

• Automate routine analysis to unlock frontline productivity.

The GBase 8a MPP Cluster uses a Shared-Nothing architecture and MPP technology. It consists of 8 nodes, each functioning as both a compute and management node, eliminating the need for a dedicated master node. Three loader servers mount shared storage that currently holds 65 TB of source data files. Each server has two 10GbE NICs bonded for high availability. High availability is built into every part of the solution, from the loader servers and the cluster to the switches.

• Comprehensive Analytics: Integrate massive data sets to bridge data silos and enable end-to-end business process analysis.

• High Performance: Leverage GBase 8a MPP Cluster's columnar storage, high compression ratios, and intelligent indexing to deliver query responses in seconds.

• Easy Scalability: The system scales out elastically — simply add more server nodes as your data grows, with no disruption.

• Lower TCO: Built on a cloud-inspired architecture, GBase runs on commodity hardware (PC servers with Linux and SAS drives), drastically reducing total cost of ownership.