Rongyun CTO Yang Pan: Grasp the core technology and promote the development of industry-university-research-application integration

Facing the era of the Internet of Everything in the future, Internet communication will become an indispensable technical base and capability for scene-based empowerment. Driven by 5G technology, Internet communication cloud services will also play an indispensable connection value in diversified application scenarios.

On July 24, the third Global Internet Communication Cloud Conference (WICC 2021) hosted by Rongyun, a global Internet communication cloud manufacturer, successfully concluded. This year's WICC gathered experts and scholars from all walks of life in the industry chain, which not only built an in-depth communication platform for the production, education, research and application of the communication cloud, but also provided a new perspective for building a developer ecosystem.

After the meeting, Yang Pan, co-founder & CTO of Rongyun, shared with 51CTO further thoughts on the establishment of a production-university-research exchange platform and developer ecological construction as a highlight to 51CTO from the dual perspectives of service providers and developers.

Figure 1: Rongyun co-founder & CTO Yang Pan accepted an interview with 51CTO

Build a communication platform to promote in-depth integration of industry, university, research and application

This year's WICC has not only gathered technical leaders from many industries, but also experts and scholars from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Tianjin University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and other universities and scientific research institutes. It is a highlight.

Regarding the strengthening of academia, Yang Pan explained that the fields of instant messaging and real-time audio and video have great depth and breadth. Many industrial technology practices are inseparable from academic support, such as algorithms and AI involved in the communication process. , Signals, Coding, Mathematics, etc., are all scientific researches that began in academia.

From another point of view, co-creating with scientific research groups on various technical subdivisions in the field, and applying academics to industrial practice, not only allows manufacturers to absorb advanced academic research results, but also enhances the technological impact in the field. It can also follow the general direction of development advocated by the country and promote the deep integration of industry, university, research and application.

See requirements from a new perspective, and do a good job in developer services

The first WICC focused on communication cloud capabilities, and the second WICC focused on communication cloud practice scenarios. However, the perspective of this WICC is different. It discards the previous vendor's perspective on capabilities and replaces it with a developer. Talking about demand from the perspective of "Developer ecology".

Figure 2: Rongyun co-founder & CTO Yang Pan

In this regard, Pan Yang said that in the process of serving developers, Rongyun has collected and accumulated a lot of question answers and practical guides. Through the output of the transformation perspective, it can let everyone truly understand the needs and thinking of the developer's dimension. For example, the details of the six major themes of globalization, compliance, full stack, scenario, modularization, and integration need to be considered from the perspective of developers in order to avoid business risks.

In addition, Rongyun’s customers are developers, and it is Rongyun’s duty to provide developer services well. Therefore, Rongyun helps developers solve efficiency problems by letting professionals do professional things, allowing developers to achieve faster, faster integration, and focus more on the innovation of the scene that they are good at. This is also To The core logic of B developer service industry.

Deeply cultivate technology and service, grasp core competitiveness

In the communications cloud service market, to win the trust of customers, companies must not only have strong technology, but also have the ability to understand customer and business needs. Yang Pan said that Rongyun has built its core competitiveness from the two dimensions of technology and developer services from the beginning of its communication cloud service.

In terms of technology, the Rongyun team is deeply involved in a single vertical field, and has a deeper technical accumulation in the field and has more technical advantages. In terms of developer services, Rongyun has been on the same front with developers for many years, can fully understand the needs and business logic of developers, and provide developers with scenario-based services.

For example, the first Yuchaofang SDK & Demo solution. The language chat room scene requires both IM and audio and video capabilities, which is the best case to test the integration of IM and RTC technologies. Providing Rongyun's stable communication cloud capabilities to customers through the Yuchaofang SDK & Demo solution is not only the expression of Rongyun's advantages and strength, but also the best proof of understanding the needs of the scene from the developer's perspective.

Rongyun hopes that this move can play a leading role in the industry, allowing more manufacturers to increase their investment in scenarios and maintain high-speed iterations, and ultimately provide convenience for developers.

Keeping up with industry demand scenarios and constantly iterating the underlying technology

In July 2021, ten ministries including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the "5G Application "Sailing" Action Plan (2021-2023)", clarifying that by 2023, my country's 5G application development level will be significantly improved and comprehensive strength will continue to increase. Create a new ecosystem of in-depth integration of IT (information technology), CT (communication technology), and OT (operation technology), achieve breakthroughs in the depth and breadth of 5G applications in key areas, and build a dual pillar of technology industry and standard system, network, platform, security and other foundations Capabilities are further improved, and the situation of 5G applications "setting sails" has gradually taken shape.

Yang Pan said that the 3G era gave birth to instant messaging, the 4G era gave birth to short videos and online live broadcasts, and the phenomenon-level applications in the 5G era are still unknown. However, from the perspective of industrial development, it must be technology first to find the scene of explosive applications. When operators deploy 5G networks, and when hardware manufacturers prepare terminal equipment, software manufacturers can open up more scenarios and carry out more innovations.

In Yang Pan's view, the popular scenes spawned in the 5G era will occur in the audio and video fields. After the epidemic, audio and video technologies have greatly promoted the orderly development of various industries, and online communications such as online meetings, online education, and online medical services have also become common phenomena at present. The technical characteristics of 5G's high bandwidth, low latency, and high concurrency create innate conditions for a more real-time, more high-definition, and more immersive communication experience.

On the other hand, adding social and communication-related capabilities to the business has become a development trend in all walks of life. Even in the field of the Internet of Things, the underlying hardware such as cameras, display screens, microphones, speakers, etc., with intelligent capabilities, also need to rely on communication technology to transmit information.

As a technical service provider of underlying communication capabilities, Rongyun must closely follow the industry demand scenarios to develop related functions, such as basic IM messaging capabilities, signaling capabilities, audio and video call capabilities. In terms of the underlying technology, it should also continue to iterate to provide a higher noise reduction effect, higher resolution, and higher quality HD audio and video scene experience.

In the future, Rongyun will firmly follow the development direction of the industry, continue to iterate the underlying technology of Internet communications, and be an explorer and contributor of the basic capabilities of Internet communications.

At the same time, Rongyun will continue to cultivate the developer ecology and be a provider and service provider for developers' needs. In the end, let developers innovate the field applications and business scenarios that they are good at in Rongyun's technology and services, and promote the progress and development of Internet communications.