Another day, another new lab, as Vodafone seeks an edge
Vodafone UK wants to show the people of Manchester what can be done with multi-access edge computing (MEC).
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Bell launches AWS-powered edge services
Bell’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) partnership reached a new milestone this week with the commercial launch of multi-access edge computing (MEC) services.
Nokia kicks off MWC with commercial 5G edge slicing trials
Finnish kit vendor Nokia has hit the ground running at this year’s Mobile World Congress, announcing commercial 5G edge slicing trials with Cellcom and Telia.
Nokia’s Kyndryl partnership could leave telcos out in the cold
Finnish kit maker Nokia and IBM’s former IT infrastructure arm Kyndryl have teamed up to go after the private networking and edge computing markets.
Edge spending on track to hit $176 billion this year
Enterprises and service providers alike are preparing to spend big to unlock the benefits of edge computing.
Google launches a more flexible iteration of its cloud portfolio
Google Distributed Cloud is a collection of hardware, software and services that aren’t restricted to the public cloud.
Vodafone talks up intersectional 5G
Speaking at the 5G World event in London Andrea Dona, Chief Network Officer of Vodafone UK, stressed the importance of a holistic approach to 5G.
Ericsson backs Google to give it an edge in the cloud market
Swedish kit vendor Ericsson and US internet giant Google have decided to help each other out when it comes to flogging mobile edge stuff.
Intel creates a business unit dedicated to networking and edge
US chip giant Intel is on a bit of a roll in the telecoms sector thanks in part to the growth of OpenRAN, so it has decided to create a new silo dedicated to it.
Deutsche Telekom and Mavenir demo 5G MEC in novel network environments
German telco Deutsche Telekom wants to position itself as an edge services powerhouse, and to that end the telco and its partners this week shared their latest developments.
Dish continues to buy American with Dell OpenRAN edge deal
Having sold much of its soul to AWS, nascent US MNO Dish once more opted for local help when in building its OpenRAN 5G edge network.
AWS takes Vodafone to the edge
The trend of operators outsourcing as much of their infrastructure as possible to public cloud giants continued with the launch of Vodafone’s first European multi-access Edge computing services.
Public cloud scores another PR win with Fastly outage
A bunch of media and government sites were offline earlier today following an issue with the Fastly edge cloud platform.
Vodafone starts field trials of connected car platform
A new system designed to improve road safety is being tried out on actual roads in the UK.
Liberty Global announces European edge computing business
Communications group Liberty Global has joined forces with digital infrastructure investment firm Digital Colony to launch Atlas Edge Data Centres.
O2 UK and Microsoft team up over private 5G networks
The world’s second largest public cloud provider has shown it doesn’t think ‘private’ is a dirty word in its MEC collaboration with O2 UK.
If you’re not living on the edge you’re probably not a major international telco
Nascent Multi-access Edge Computing industry body the 5G Future Forum is recruiting at a time when most telcos are already affiliated to a MEC grouping of some sort.
Nokia launches an OpenRAN platform
Finnish kit vendor Nokia has unveiled a new service enablement platform that’s designed to enable innovation across the OpenRAN ecosystem.
Verizon, Deloitte to co-develop edge computing apps
US telco Verizon Business has partnered with Deloitte in an effort to drive the rollout and adoption of mobile edge computing (MEC) services for enterprises.
Ericsson bags 5G SA deal with Singtel
Singapore is closer to getting proper, next stage 5G services after Singtel picked Ericsson for its standalone 5G deployment.
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