More significant movement at the edge

In his latest Ecosystem column, Antony Savvas charts recent developments at the edge and new ownership for IoT corporate verticals.

Partnerships have become a key focus for Vodafone Business’ strategy in recent times, and we have previously covered the company’s partnership with IBM and there is a newer partnership with Google – where Vodafone is moving data processing and storage from its own premises to Google Cloud, and using Google’s real time analysis tools to develop new services for business clients.

Partnerships have become a key focus for Vodafone Business

In the latest move at the edge, there is now a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to “bring edge computing closer to customers”. Vodafone is the first telco to make AWS Wavelength available in Europe. The first regions to benefit will be the UK and Germany, with further expansion to come in other European markets.

On the same wavelength

AWS Wavelength supports ultra-low latency data links by enabling compute and storage services at the edge of telecoms providers’ 5G networks, expected to be a key honeypot in the developing edge communications market to support applications around artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, robotics and drone control.

And in another edge development around the same AWS technology, North American player Verizon Communications has announced a partnership that will bring the power of the world’s biggest cloud provider closer to mobile and connected devices at the edge of Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network.

Verizon will offer 5G network edge computing, using AWS Wavelength, to give developers the ability to deploy applications that require ultra-low latency to mobile devices using 5G. The companies are currently piloting AWS Wavelength on Verizon’s edge compute platform, 5G Edge, in Chicago for a select group of customers – worldwide video game publisher Bethesda Softworks and the National Football League (NFL) to enable the easier sharing of football action.

Verizon Communications announced a partnership

Bethesda Softworks is best known for iconic franchises like The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and DOOM, and the tie-in with Verizon will greatly reduce latency when streaming games from any location with mobile devices and not using consoles. Additional deployments around the partnership are planned in other locations across the US in 2020.

“We are first in the world to launch Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) technology – deeply integrating Verizon’s 5G Edge platform with Wavelength to allow developers to build new categories of applications and network cloud experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet,” said Hans Vestberg, CEO and chairman of Verizon.

Shrunk development

In another partnership, Gemalto and Eseye have launched ‘Intelligent Cloud Connect’, an AWS Qualified IoT solution that “vastly simplifies IoT device design, connectivity management, security and billing,” said the partners.

They say the new offering will transform global IoT deployment by delivering “out-of-the-box, zero-touch global IoT connectivity” directly into AWS IoT Core, reducing time to market by “more than 75%”.

“With the new Intelligent Cloud Connect solution, Eseye and Gemalto are fundamentally disrupting the IoT ecosystem with […]

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