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Episode 14: BT’s Public Cloud Strategy, LEO Buddies and Edge Native
Inside Living on the Edge episode 14, Jason and Dan discuss BT’s public cloud strategy, new LEO and MNO partnerships and what’s needed for edge native services and applications.
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- Public cloud to play a major role in ‘future BT,’ says Chief Digital Officer — “Almost all of future BT is going to run on the cloud and a big part of that is going to be on the public cloud,” noted BT’s Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, Harmeen Mehta, during a new executive interview with TelecomTV. (See Executive Interview: Harmeen Mehta on BT’s Digital Strategy.) “You will see us work very closely with them. Connectivity is a big part of the services that these public clouds provide, so there is a partnership there... and of course there are some products which we can jointly take to market... our global businesses build a lot of services on top of those [cloud platforms] to help bind a multi-cloud environment seamlessly for our customers – there's a lot of value in that. So it's a very 360-degree relationship with at least the large hyperscalers,” added Mehta, who also discussed her role at BT, the importance of open APIs and more.
- Enabling the Edge: Cloud Capabilities Push Satellite Forward — Dennis Gatens, co-founder and CEO of LEOcloud, a cloud infrastructure and service provider, agreed. “Data in motion results in latency and is expensive. Edge computing will drive competitive and operational advantages by moving from a centralized architecture where data is being backhauled at high volumes at significant cost and latency.”
- Verizon chooses Amazon as its LEO satellite buddy — The new partnership will also look at new B2B services it will enable Verizon to offer, which will include things like agricultural IoT. “Smart farms, bringing technology to agriculture, and connecting the last mile of rural America will be at the forefront of helping our industry to provide food for billions around the globe,” said Betsy Huber, President of The National Grange. “Ensuring connectivity in rural areas will be key to making these endeavours a success.”
Before long every operator worth its salt will need to have an LEO-powered rural coverage strategy. There are presumably some advantages to going all-in with one LEO provider but Amazon seems like an especially big bet, given its status as the number one public cloud player. Verizon had batter make sure its relationship with Amazon, on whom it already relies for a bunch of mobile edge computing stuff, remains strong and healthy.Eclipse Foundation Launches Open Source Edge Computing Initiative — Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said the goal is to provide a common layer of abstraction platform that can be employed across a wide range of embedded systems that are typically being deployed at the network edge. That level of fragmentation surrounding platforms that don’t provide a lot of significant differentiated value only results in slowing down the deployment of applications, noted Milinkovich.
As part of that effort, a dedicated working group has been created to provide a vendor-neutral structure through which contributions to the project can be made with greater transparency. The OpenAtom Foundation was created in Beijing last year with the support of Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei, Inspur, Qihoo, Tencent and China Merchants Bank. The alliance with the Eclipse Foundation brings more traditional governance rules for building open source software to the OpenHarmony project.VMware Edge enables organizations to manage edge-native apps across multiple clouds — “A new type of workload is emerging – edge-native apps – that must run at the edge to perform as intended. AR/VR, connected vehicles, and immersive gaming are becoming mainstream. 5G has made the use of collaborative robots, drone fleets and digital twins a reality,” said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider and Edge, VMware. “VMware delivers a trusted foundation – a multi-cloud edge – to help organizations move forward in the new edge reality.” VMware Rolls RIC Into Telco Cloud — The RIC and associated xApps are gaining interest among communities supporting the development of open RAN, including the Open Networking Foundation’s SD-RAN project. xApps allow operators to design and control the most important RAN functions, providing administrative RAN sovereignty over functions that are typically implemented as proprietary features on base stations. Continuous vehicle-to-vehicle communication for automated driving — As the trials showed, all the tested systems more than adequately fulfilled the stringent standards with regard to information security. Thanks to their high transmission speed and low latency, the two direct channels of communication are very well suited for use within a radius of up to 500 meters from the vehicle – for example, to immediately prepare the assistance systems for sudden hazards like emergency braking. Within a wider radius of up to 3000 meters, indirect communication via the mobile edge cloud offers benefits. By linking the vehicle’s own data with the data from other road users or the infrastructure, it is possible to implement additional, more advanced functions in the area of automated driving using these methods. Nowadays, most new trucks already come equipped with an LTE unit. By adding the direct, secure channel of communication, parallel use of the two technologies can provide the optimal solution in terms of stable, continuous data transmission. KDDI, Deutsche Telekom, MobiledgeX, Sturfee and Mawari to Demonstrate Bloom City Next-Generation AR Mobile App Experience in Alignment with GSMA Foundry Telco Edge Cloud (TEC) Trials Initiative — Jointly-developed proof of concept will feature hyper-realistic virtual human from KDDI’s au VISION STUDIO, demonstrating development and testing of XR enablers and applications harmonized across multiple mobile network operator (MNO) edge networks and infrastructures. With the 5G roll-out underway, CSPs must not cede ground to the tech titans… again — CSPs, more than others, are well positioned to grab this “cross industry orchestrator” badge that requires very specific carrier grade assets and capabilities that only they have built progressively over the years. Meanwhile, investments in 5G, cloud and networks modernisation are now increasingly at the core of public strategy programmes globally, which also augurs well for CSPs. Content is no longer king for the US telco giants — By early part of the last decade the telco industry had convinced itself that the content businesses were walking off with the profits from online and that it, and not the OTT players, needed to take a position in content to right matters. That conviction was clearly part of the motivation for both AT&T and Verizon to look to at least having a presence in content to offer the chance of creating some powerful synergies between network and applications such as video.
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Inside Living on the Edge episode 14, Jason and Dan discuss BT’s public cloud strategy, new LEO and MNO partnerships and what’s needed for edge native services and applications.
Links:
- Public cloud to play a major role in ‘future BT,’ says Chief Digital Officer — “Almost all of future BT is going to run on the cloud and a big part of that is going to be on the public cloud,” noted BT’s Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, Harmeen Mehta, during a new executive interview with TelecomTV. (See Executive Interview: Harmeen Mehta on BT’s Digital Strategy.) “You will see us work very closely with them. Connectivity is a big part of the services that these public clouds provide, so there is a partnership there... and of course there are some products which we can jointly take to market... our global businesses build a lot of services on top of those [cloud platforms] to help bind a multi-cloud environment seamlessly for our customers – there's a lot of value in that. So it's a very 360-degree relationship with at least the large hyperscalers,” added Mehta, who also discussed her role at BT, the importance of open APIs and more.
- Enabling the Edge: Cloud Capabilities Push Satellite Forward — Dennis Gatens, co-founder and CEO of LEOcloud, a cloud infrastructure and service provider, agreed. “Data in motion results in latency and is expensive. Edge computing will drive competitive and operational advantages by moving from a centralized architecture where data is being backhauled at high volumes at significant cost and latency.”
- Verizon chooses Amazon as its LEO satellite buddy — The new partnership will also look at new B2B services it will enable Verizon to offer, which will include things like agricultural IoT. “Smart farms, bringing technology to agriculture, and connecting the last mile of rural America will be at the forefront of helping our industry to provide food for billions around the globe,” said Betsy Huber, President of The National Grange. “Ensuring connectivity in rural areas will be key to making these endeavours a success.”
Before long every operator worth its salt will need to have an LEO-powered rural coverage strategy. There are presumably some advantages to going all-in with one LEO provider but Amazon seems like an especially big bet, given its status as the number one public cloud player. Verizon had batter make sure its relationship with Amazon, on whom it already relies for a bunch of mobile edge computing stuff, remains strong and healthy.Eclipse Foundation Launches Open Source Edge Computing Initiative — Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said the goal is to provide a common layer of abstraction platform that can be employed across a wide range of embedded systems that are typically being deployed at the network edge. That level of fragmentation surrounding platforms that don’t provide a lot of significant differentiated value only results in slowing down the deployment of applications, noted Milinkovich.
As part of that effort, a dedicated working group has been created to provide a vendor-neutral structure through which contributions to the project can be made with greater transparency. The OpenAtom Foundation was created in Beijing last year with the support of Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei, Inspur, Qihoo, Tencent and China Merchants Bank. The alliance with the Eclipse Foundation brings more traditional governance rules for building open source software to the OpenHarmony project.VMware Edge enables organizations to manage edge-native apps across multiple clouds — “A new type of workload is emerging – edge-native apps – that must run at the edge to perform as intended. AR/VR, connected vehicles, and immersive gaming are becoming mainstream. 5G has made the use of collaborative robots, drone fleets and digital twins a reality,” said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider and Edge, VMware. “VMware delivers a trusted foundation – a multi-cloud edge – to help organizations move forward in the new edge reality.” VMware Rolls RIC Into Telco Cloud — The RIC and associated xApps are gaining interest among communities supporting the development of open RAN, including the Open Networking Foundation’s SD-RAN project. xApps allow operators to design and control the most important RAN functions, providing administrative RAN sovereignty over functions that are typically implemented as proprietary features on base stations. Continuous vehicle-to-vehicle communication for automated driving — As the trials showed, all the tested systems more than adequately fulfilled the stringent standards with regard to information security. Thanks to their high transmission speed and low latency, the two direct channels of communication are very well suited for use within a radius of up to 500 meters from the vehicle – for example, to immediately prepare the assistance systems for sudden hazards like emergency braking. Within a wider radius of up to 3000 meters, indirect communication via the mobile edge cloud offers benefits. By linking the vehicle’s own data with the data from other road users or the infrastructure, it is possible to implement additional, more advanced functions in the area of automated driving using these methods. Nowadays, most new trucks already come equipped with an LTE unit. By adding the direct, secure channel of communication, parallel use of the two technologies can provide the optimal solution in terms of stable, continuous data transmission. KDDI, Deutsche Telekom, MobiledgeX, Sturfee and Mawari to Demonstrate Bloom City Next-Generation AR Mobile App Experience in Alignment with GSMA Foundry Telco Edge Cloud (TEC) Trials Initiative — Jointly-developed proof of concept will feature hyper-realistic virtual human from KDDI’s au VISION STUDIO, demonstrating development and testing of XR enablers and applications harmonized across multiple mobile network operator (MNO) edge networks and infrastructures. With the 5G roll-out underway, CSPs must not cede ground to the tech titans… again — CSPs, more than others, are well positioned to grab this “cross industry orchestrator” badge that requires very specific carrier grade assets and capabilities that only they have built progressively over the years. Meanwhile, investments in 5G, cloud and networks modernisation are now increasingly at the core of public strategy programmes globally, which also augurs well for CSPs. Content is no longer king for the US telco giants — By early part of the last decade the telco industry had convinced itself that the content businesses were walking off with the profits from online and that it, and not the OTT players, needed to take a position in content to right matters. That conviction was clearly part of the motivation for both AT&T and Verizon to look to at least having a presence in content to offer the chance of creating some powerful synergies between network and applications such as video.