ABLOOMY: Decoding the “Air, Sea and Land” Strategy for Wi-Fi Operations

The commercial Wi-Fi market is booming, which is tantamount to a "beachhead landing" battle. Without exception, most commercial Wi-Fi operators face local merchants (small B) and adopt the 2-b-2-C model. They struggle with the paths of products and business models. They either invest heavily in research and development, from wireless hardware to operation platforms, and build an "atomic bomb" at all costs. As a result, they may win the product but lose the opportunity. When the "atomic bomb" is completed, the Wi-Fi beachhead battle has been over for a long time; or they piece together products and platforms and rush into the market in the form of "Xiaomi + rifle", occupying the land while adjusting the solution and losing customers. In the end, they may find that they may have only grabbed a small hill... At this time, ABLOOMY (Yunshengfa Technology) has accumulated a lot of experience and has uniquely provided an innovative and open Wi-Fi operation service platform for various teams (big B: Wi-Fi operators) that are trying to seize the Wi-Fi entrance with the 2-B-2-b-2-C model, giving Wi-Fi operators hope of changing the situation.

On July 18, at a media communication meeting titled "The Road Builder for Wi-Fi Operations", the startup ABLOOMY demonstrated its innovative Wi-Fi operations cloud platform, allowing operators who were struggling to seize Wi-Fi entrances on their own to find their own foothold.

ABLOOMY founder and CEO Bill.Yang opened the media communication meeting with a precise insight into the commercial Wi-Fi market. He compared the development history of enterprise Wi-Fi and commercial Wi-Fi in China and the United States, and described the magnificent prospects of commercial Wi-Fi under the current domestic mobile Internet trend. "This is the best of times, this is the worst of times", Bill said frankly, the commercial Wi-Fi market has huge opportunities, but there are also a lot of bubbles. How to grasp the market trend and continue to develop is a question that the majority of commercial Wi-Fi practitioners need to think about.

Bill used a picture to introduce ABLOOMY's original two-layer cloud architecture (CSP+VSM), which provides an operation platform in the form of SaaS and PaaS. CSP (Cloud Service Platform) is the brain, with the BOSS (Business Operation Support System) and Wi-Fi operation system of the entire cloud platform. VSM (Virtual Sharing Manager) mirrors the regional functions of CSP and is responsible for realizing virtualized local resource sharing and policy execution. At the same time, it is also a CDN node. While providing virtual operations, it also guarantees the user experience of local Wi-Fi.

[Figure 1: ABLOOMY cloud platform architecture]

Bill believes that the commercial Wi-Fi market has entered a critical period of beachhead landing. Participating companies are like teams. Success or failure depends on weapons and equipment and tactical plans. ABLOOMY aims to build a super aircraft carrier to provide Wi-Fi operators with an integrated "air, sea and land" operation platform, lowering the operation threshold, connecting all aspects of operation, and realizing a closed loop, so that they can achieve rapid expansion and complete victory in the commercial Wi-Fi beachhead enclosure.

[Figure 2: ABLOOMY Wi-Fi operation business model]

Upstream advertising operators, Internet content application providers, and various entities that provide services such as O2O, membership, and big data are equivalent to bombers and fighter jets parked on aircraft carriers. Relying on the ABLOOMY cloud platform, the aircraft carrier, and combining with the Marine Corps (downstream Wi-Fi virtual operators) to achieve radiation and strikes on land, they achieve various operational purposes for commercial entities.

ABLOOMY cloud platform is the core of the battle formation - the aircraft carrier. It provides a powerful arsenal for upstream service and content entities and downstream user and traffic entities (virtual operators): business support system, advertising management, content management, community operation, industry application, five in one. ABLOOMY wireless access point VAP series products appear in the entire combat plan as an "ammunition depot". As an "ammunition depot" in battle, diversity, reliability, flexibility, and ease of use are rigid requirements. VAP series products provide full-rate, full-standard, full-specification products to meet all-weather scenarios such as low-speed/high-speed, indoor/outdoor, portable/wall-mounted, ceiling/mounted, civil/industrial specifications, etc., and adapt to all requirements of Wi-Fi operators for wireless access points, comparable to internationally renowned wireless equipment providers. The innovative two-layer cloud architecture of the ABLOOMY Wi-Fi operating platform undoubtedly equips this aircraft carrier with "nuclear power", making it more maneuverable (flexible customization capability, ensuring exclusive use of sensitive data of large B, and building a virtual private cloud) and larger displacement (supporting massive wireless access points, and building a private operating network beyond regions and network media);

The virtual operators distributed in various places and fields are the Marines. They are the owners and operators of the Wi-Fi basic network. At the same time, they can also serve as both Marines and fighter groups. Through the ABLOOMY cloud platform, which is an aircraft carrier, and in cooperation with upstream service and content entities, these fighter groups form an integrated air, sea and land attack group, and ultimately win the landing battle.

[Figure 2: ABLOOMY founder and CEO Bill introduces the Wi-Fi operation cloud platform strategy]

Although commercial Wi-Fi operation is a battlefield without gun smoke, the degree of cruelty is no exaggeration. The business opportunities of mobile Internet have spawned thousands of large, medium and small operation service providers, who need a one-stop operation platform like ABLOOMY to arm themselves and remain invincible.

At the meeting, ABLOOMY's technical director Wan Xiang gave a real-life demonstration. Every guest at the meeting was invited to connect to the Wi-Fi network set up at the venue. Interestingly, the Portal page that popped up for each person was different, reflecting that everyone was receiving virtual private network services from different operators on a shared platform.

Wan Xiang then demonstrated the login and management interfaces of several operators' virtual private clouds. For each operator, the corresponding domain name and login page are different, all virtualized on the cloud platform, simple to operate, data independent, and completely transparent to the operator. This shows that different virtual operators can operate their own Wi-Fi networks on a shared platform.

[Figure 3: ABLOOMY Technical Director Wan Xiang demonstrates the cloud platform]

As a unique cross-border manufacturer, ABLOOMY is becoming the industry's unique one-stop Wi-Fi operating platform provider. Wi-Fi operators can use this invincible Wi-Fi "aircraft carrier formation" to land and occupy land...

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.