Inside Living on the Edge episode 11, Jason and Dan discuss Singtel’s opening day for commercial edge, Open Networking Foundation goes commercial with open source private 5G, Equinix expanding bare metal offerings, Amazon’s Graviton2, role of APIs in mainframe modernization and AWS OSS white paper.

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• Singtel’s Multi-Access Edge Compute Welcomes Commercial Customers — Enterprises looking to roll out business critical use cases that requires low latency now have an option in Singtel’s hybrid Multi-Access Edge Compute (MEC). Singtel’s MEC infrastructure supports low latency use cases such as mixed reality for gaming, training with simulation and remote collaboration; video analytics for advanced security and manufacturing applications, robotics as well as autonomous guided machines, vehicles and drones.
• Open Networking Foundation conceives Ananki as Red Hat of open source private 5G — Ananki is a software-defined service integrated with hyperscaler and edge frameworks that supports multi-cloud platforms. The public benefit corporation is funded with investments from unnamed business partners and venture capitalists, according to Sloane, and the $30 million DARPA grant continues to fund development of the technology.
• Equinix Makes it Easy for Companies to Run Kubernetes on Bare Metal Everywhere — "Kubernetes is the go-to deployment substrate for new and evolving applications," said Mark Coleman, Senior Director of Developer Relations at Equinix Metal. "While Kubernetes initially matured in the public cloud with developer-first companies, leaders across all industries are increasingly utilizing it to accelerate their move toward the edge and operate complex hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. Offering first-class support for Kubernetes on Equinix Metal through a wide variety of partners helps our global customers move faster while maintaining flexibility."
• AWS Lambda was already serverless, now it can be x86-less too — Serverless functions are not always lightweights that can get away with modest compute resources. Indeed, in December 2020 AWS tripled the memory it was willing to put behind Lambda functions, lifting the ceiling to 10GB of RAM and allowing half a dozen vCPUs. That spec remains an option with Graviton2, so it's not as if AWS is suggesting you run functions on just one of the Graviton2's 64 cores...Amazon.com's side hustle is not alone in using Arm-powered servers to offer cheaper cloud services – Oracle has done the same. Among hyperscalers, Microsoft has also shown signs of being Arm-curious.
• The Role of APIs in Mainframe Modernization — Orchestration: Software ecosystems often need to make multiple calls to different applications to collect and transform data. Yet, mainframe environments are very complex and challenging to integrate with. More usable integration fabric for mainframe systems could enable better orchestration of workflows in a developer-friendly manner. By using a REST interface, all apps could be calling the same interface, thus greatly simplifying orchestration between disparate services.
• AWS White Paper: Cloud native next gen OSS powered activity — An Operations Support System (OSS) is key to enabling Communication Service Providers’ digital transformation journey. Building OSS applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables operational efficiency, cost reduction, elasticity, and innovation. This whitepaper outlines the best practices for developing OSS applications on the AWS Cloud platform, and offers reference architectures to guide organizations in the delivery of OSS solutions spanning domain management, service assurance, service fulfillment, service orchestration, and network analytics.