Hyundai AutoEver Accelerates Growth as Mobility Software Leader with Cisco SD-WAN
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As the mobility technology branch of the Hyundai Motor Group, Hyundai AutoEver leads research and development for vehicle software. As technology evolves, Hyundai AutoEver selected a Cisco SD-WAN infrastructure to support these innovations.
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| Customer Name: Hyundai AutoEver Industry: Mobility Technology Provider Location: Seoul, South Korea Number of Employees: 5000+ |
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Rapid increase of vehicle-linked traffic from connected cars, and open data platforms
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Increase in big data transmission from smart factories, robotics, and AI
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Need for infrastructure to support hybrid cloud environment and SaaS applications
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Streamline WAN traffic among headquarters, factories, logistics, and branches
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Lack of visibility into network infrastructure and rising costs
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Optimized infrastructure for hybrid cloud application work environments
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Efficient line utilization enabled rapid data transmission and reduced costs
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Central management of network resulting in security, visibility, and stability
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Opportunity for future enhancements to support innovative vehicle software
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Hyundai AutoEver, which takes the lead in implementing the Hyundai Motor Group’s future vehicle software goals, is focusing on positioning itself as a mobility tech company by expanding its business areas to mobility software and service platforms.
Hyundai AutoEver is supplying “mobilgene,” an optimal embedded automotive software solution for future mobility. At the same time, it is preparing a software development platform that facilitates the entire process end-to-end from mobility software R&D to evaluation and verification.
In addition, the company is providing a connected car service platform with the latest information and communication technology (ICT) developments, such as cloud- and location-based technologies. It recently applied and commercialized over-the-air (OTA) technology, which is essential for wirelessly updating automobile software. Using Hyundai Motor Group’s open data platform, driving data collected from customers’ vehicles, such as accumulated mileage, remaining fuel, and driving habits can be processed and then provided in the form of an externally usable API to enrich the driving experience.
All these changes gave rise to new challenges for Hyundai Motor Group. The existing WAN was insufficient to handle the increasing vehicle-linked traffic from autonomous driving, connected cars, and open data platforms. Furthermore, as big data analysis became commonplace with smart factories, robotics, and artificial intelligence, the growing volume of traffic required to manage it has become a burden. The cloud-based work environment in which services such as SaaS are commonplace has led to an increasing need for flexible communication infrastructure. In addition, the company has had to deal with rising WAN line costs resulting from growing data traffic among factories, logistic centers, and global branches.
Hyundai AutoEver made many attempts to keep pace with the paradigm shift taking place in the MECA (Mobility, Electrification, Connected Cars, and Autonomous Driving) field and address group-wide concerns. It even increased the number of its dedicated lines, but line costs began to soar. After many deliberations and numerous trials and errors, the company decided to replace its existing WAN environment with SD-WAN.
“Hyundai AutoEver, the mobility tech branch of the Hyundai Motor Group, has been conducting vehicle software R&D for many years, producing robust results. As part of this process, Hyundai realized that vehicle-linked traffic has been increasing and new connectivity extensions are needed to keep up with changes, both in terms of the business environment and technology. Through Cisco SD-WAN, we are now able to connect over 2000 bases more efficiently and at a more economical cost. It has equipped us with the network infrastructure we need for advanced future vehicle software.”
Dong Kun Kim
Leader of Cloud & Network Infrastructure Team, Hyundai AutoEver
Hyundai AutoEver needed to identify the right partner since it needed to support more than 2000 WAN connections, and the network had to become the core infrastructure for supporting advanced future car software. Cisco has led the development of SD-WAN technology and has built a proven track record in terms of technology and performance through a long string of domestic and global success. In addition, Cisco SD-WAN has successfully supported the remote driving of race cars, demonstrating its understanding of and experience in the forward-looking mobility tech field in which Hyundai AutoEver is a leader.
Hyundai AutoEver introduced Cisco SD-WAN in order to improve connectivity among its headquarters, data centers, connected companies, and remote offices, and to lay a foundation for actively working within the constantly shifting cloud environment. By supporting dedicated lines and overall internet use within a single fabric, the company is now able to ensure rapid data transmission while substantially reducing line costs.
When installing WAN devices in the past, engineers had to personally visit each branch to complete the configuration and then begin the installation process. In contrast, Cisco SD-WAN supports automatic configuration of each device through a zero-touch provisioning function. This means that simply connecting the power and network cables on-site immediately starts the deployment, even without any IT staff on site. This functionality accelerates the installation by drastically reducing the amount of time and resources required to install and connect new equipment to the more than 2000 locations used by Hyundai Motor Group.
As most business applications now run in a cloud environment, it has become necessary to overhaul security policies. Cisco SD-WAN enables automatic implementation of security functions to ensure the safety of thousands of sites based on a consistent security policy. In addition, it reduces the downtime required in the process of updating a security policy. By introducing Cisco SD-WAN, Hyundai AutoEver is able to further strengthen the safety of the company-wide network infrastructure in accordance with modern-day high-level security policy requirements.
Through Cisco SD-WAN, Hyundai AutoEver has been able to secure the visibility of the overall network status across all its sites, in addition to monitoring application quality and communication infrastructure through advanced features that leverage machine learning. Furthermore, with the application-aware routing function identifying the characteristics of each application and ensuring an optimal communication route, the performance of each application can be optimized. Thus, Hyundai AutoEver can now reduce the latency that occurs during the operation of business applications, to deliver an optimized experience in the most critical applications in the event of an unexpected network failure. In other words, the company is now able to focus on research and development of cutting-edge future vehicle software with the performance and stability required for faster business processing and the operation and control of a wide range of mobility software services.
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