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Episode 13: Open for Business: Hyperscalers Sell the Telco Edge
Inside Living on the Edge episode 13, Verizon and AWS launch private edge, Telefonica uses blockchain for tower management, Google makes it easy to shop clouds, Microsoft gets into the telco wholesale biz, non-cellular 5G is approved by the ITU and Google opens Anthos to VMs.
Links:
- Verizon launches private mobile edge computing for enterprise with AWS Outposts — Verizon’s private mobile edge compute solution with AWS Outposts is available for enterprise customers in the U.S. Announced earlier this year, Verizon 5G Edge with AWS Outposts is a cloud computing platform that brings compute and storage services to the edge of the network on the customer premises. It enables the massive bandwidth and low latency needed to support real-time enterprise applications like intelligent logistics, factory automation and robotics. With Verizon’s On Site 5G and private edge platform, enterprises also gain operational efficiencies, higher levels of security and reliability, and improved productivity.
- Telefónica Tech blockchain platform bolstering telecom tower management — Telefónica plans to extend TrustOS across its entire Atrebo-managed infrastructure inventory platform by 2022. From the operational point of view, the platform will record incidences and issues, service levels, traffic data statistics, and all information relevant to changes to the infrastructure while in service. All related processes will be transparent, including maintenance operations, additions or removal of radio equipment, and leasing updates.
Telefónica has broader aspirations in blockchain, including ‘tokenization’ of towers via non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that can be used to sell tower rights or enable new tower investment vehicles; while the NFT opportunity has yet to be defined, it potentially provides the ability to buy and sell tower interests in a way that allows network operators and tower companies to maximize the value of their assets.The cost of cloud at the edge of reason — Google, which after all was the inventor of Kubernetes, also appears to be moving towards encouraging ‘proper’ multi-cloud capabilities - presumably because that’s what its customers are demanding. At its annual cloud conference this month, Google Cloud made a general release of a data warehousing service that lets its users tap into data held on a different cloud, presumably where the cost of storage is lower. So the future may not be so much about users being assisted in making a cloud jailbreak to get to lower prices, but being given the ability to shop around their multi-clouds - without penalties and performance issues - to buy specific disaggregated services, just the way God intended. Azure edges closer to the telco model — So the most important announcement, to my mind with the whole transformation process, was that Microsoft is going to take up a wholesale position on network services for 5G operators by selling advanced, high quality transmission and routing services on a global basis. That pretty much escaped notice where once it would have created a major stir. The hybrid cloud tug-of-war gets real — How does this relate to the edge? Well, we’re not going to talk much about the “internet of things” today, but suffice it to say, developers will win the edge and right now, they’re coding in the cloud. Of course, they’re often coding in the cloud and moving work on-prem with containers, but watch how sticky that model is for the respective players. We believe those with the strongest developer ecosystems will be in a much better position to thrive in the edge thanks to its diversity and fragmentation. World’s first non-cellular 5G technology, ETSI DECT-2020, gets ITU-R approval, setting example of new era connectivity — echnology-wise the non-cellular 5G is built on completely different principles from cellular 5G. One of the biggest differences – and advantages – is the decentralized network. In a non-cellular 5G network, every device is a node, every device can be a router – as if every device was a base station. The devices automatically find the best route; adding a new device into the network routing works autonomously as well and if one device is down, the devices will re-route by themselves. It means reliable communication eliminating single point of failures. Google and Dell offer new tools to help operators manage 5G and the edge — Dell’s new Bare Metal Orchestrator makes it possible to manage hundreds of thousands of servers across the globe and saves days and weeks of configuration and provisioning. For a carrier looking to bring a new service to market as quickly as possible and react to changing market trends, that’s a lot of time being served. Google opens Anthos to VMs, streamlines Azure, AWS container management — Anthos, the company’s hybrid cloud platform, uses Google’s own Kubernetes container system. This now enables Google customers to standardize on Kubernetes, while continuing to run some VM workloads which can’t be easily containerized.
“While we have seen many customers make the leap to containerization, some are not quite ready to move completely off of virtual machines (VMs). They want a unified development platform where developers can build, modify, and deploy applications residing in both containers and VMs in a common, shared environment,” said Google VPs Jeff Reed and Chen Goldberg in a blog post.
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Inside Living on the Edge episode 13, Verizon and AWS launch private edge, Telefonica uses blockchain for tower management, Google makes it easy to shop clouds, Microsoft gets into the telco wholesale biz, non-cellular 5G is approved by the ITU and Google opens Anthos to VMs.
Links:
- Verizon launches private mobile edge computing for enterprise with AWS Outposts — Verizon’s private mobile edge compute solution with AWS Outposts is available for enterprise customers in the U.S. Announced earlier this year, Verizon 5G Edge with AWS Outposts is a cloud computing platform that brings compute and storage services to the edge of the network on the customer premises. It enables the massive bandwidth and low latency needed to support real-time enterprise applications like intelligent logistics, factory automation and robotics. With Verizon’s On Site 5G and private edge platform, enterprises also gain operational efficiencies, higher levels of security and reliability, and improved productivity.
- Telefónica Tech blockchain platform bolstering telecom tower management — Telefónica plans to extend TrustOS across its entire Atrebo-managed infrastructure inventory platform by 2022. From the operational point of view, the platform will record incidences and issues, service levels, traffic data statistics, and all information relevant to changes to the infrastructure while in service. All related processes will be transparent, including maintenance operations, additions or removal of radio equipment, and leasing updates.
Telefónica has broader aspirations in blockchain, including ‘tokenization’ of towers via non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that can be used to sell tower rights or enable new tower investment vehicles; while the NFT opportunity has yet to be defined, it potentially provides the ability to buy and sell tower interests in a way that allows network operators and tower companies to maximize the value of their assets.The cost of cloud at the edge of reason — Google, which after all was the inventor of Kubernetes, also appears to be moving towards encouraging ‘proper’ multi-cloud capabilities - presumably because that’s what its customers are demanding. At its annual cloud conference this month, Google Cloud made a general release of a data warehousing service that lets its users tap into data held on a different cloud, presumably where the cost of storage is lower. So the future may not be so much about users being assisted in making a cloud jailbreak to get to lower prices, but being given the ability to shop around their multi-clouds - without penalties and performance issues - to buy specific disaggregated services, just the way God intended. Azure edges closer to the telco model — So the most important announcement, to my mind with the whole transformation process, was that Microsoft is going to take up a wholesale position on network services for 5G operators by selling advanced, high quality transmission and routing services on a global basis. That pretty much escaped notice where once it would have created a major stir. The hybrid cloud tug-of-war gets real — How does this relate to the edge? Well, we’re not going to talk much about the “internet of things” today, but suffice it to say, developers will win the edge and right now, they’re coding in the cloud. Of course, they’re often coding in the cloud and moving work on-prem with containers, but watch how sticky that model is for the respective players. We believe those with the strongest developer ecosystems will be in a much better position to thrive in the edge thanks to its diversity and fragmentation. World’s first non-cellular 5G technology, ETSI DECT-2020, gets ITU-R approval, setting example of new era connectivity — echnology-wise the non-cellular 5G is built on completely different principles from cellular 5G. One of the biggest differences – and advantages – is the decentralized network. In a non-cellular 5G network, every device is a node, every device can be a router – as if every device was a base station. The devices automatically find the best route; adding a new device into the network routing works autonomously as well and if one device is down, the devices will re-route by themselves. It means reliable communication eliminating single point of failures. Google and Dell offer new tools to help operators manage 5G and the edge — Dell’s new Bare Metal Orchestrator makes it possible to manage hundreds of thousands of servers across the globe and saves days and weeks of configuration and provisioning. For a carrier looking to bring a new service to market as quickly as possible and react to changing market trends, that’s a lot of time being served. Google opens Anthos to VMs, streamlines Azure, AWS container management — Anthos, the company’s hybrid cloud platform, uses Google’s own Kubernetes container system. This now enables Google customers to standardize on Kubernetes, while continuing to run some VM workloads which can’t be easily containerized.
“While we have seen many customers make the leap to containerization, some are not quite ready to move completely off of virtual machines (VMs). They want a unified development platform where developers can build, modify, and deploy applications residing in both containers and VMs in a common, shared environment,” said Google VPs Jeff Reed and Chen Goldberg in a blog post.