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Episode 15: FedEx talks Edge Value, Google and the Distributed Cloud
Inside Living on the Edge episode 15, Jason and Dan discuss FedEx’s agnostic multi-cloud strategy, Google’s distributed cloud and the status of ORAN’s arrival to the global marketplace.
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- FedEx, S&P Global discuss cloud edge use cases — Robotics require low latency and real-time data processing, and they can't backhaul data to a central data center whenever they need to make decisions. To support its autonomous initiatives, FedEx uses an agnostic multi-cloud edge strategy that doesn't lock the company into a single provider, Vijayakumar said. "We don't want to be tied to any particular carrier and their MEC offerings," she said. "Our sites can't go down, so we need carrier diversity and path diversity." Additionally, FedEx locations rely mainly on compute stacks. So, if the network goes down at a site, that location can still sort packages, she added.
- Google: Our new distributed cloud can run from your datacenter to the network edge — "Google Distributed Cloud Hosted does not require connectivity to Google Cloud at any time to manage infrastructure, services, APIs, or tooling, and uses a local control plane provided by Anthos for operations. Google Distributed Cloud Hosted will be available in preview in the first half of 2022," Google notes.
- Open RAN nowhere near ready for prime time – report — "Open RAN presents an opportunity to evolve and disrupt the vendor ecosystem, bringing fresh choice for operators and supporting the emergence of a host of new companies," said Mann in prepared remarks. "Yet the path ahead will not be entirely smooth; the technology is unproven at scale and there are questions over interoperability, pricing and security. Momentum is undeniable, but it may be several years before we see a tangible impact on the market."
- Orange announces strategic initiatives to enhance mobile technology capabilities across Europe — 5GCroCo (Fifth Generation Cross-Border Control) is a €17-million European innovation action officially launched on November 1, 2018, with the objective to perform 5G connectivity tests and trials for the road environment in real-life scenarios. On October 21, 2021, 5GCroCo demonstrated three use cases in the corridor areas that connect the cities of Metz-Merzig-Luxembourg in France, Germany and Luxembourg, traversing three countries, two borders.
The objective of 5GCroCo is to validate key 5G technologies in challenging cross-border, cross-mobile-network-operator, cross-car-original-equipment-manufacturer and cross-telco-vendor scenarios. The project concentrates in particular on cutting-edge technologies such as 5G New Radio, service continuity, mobile Edge Computing/cloud, end-to-end and predictive Quality-of-Service, network slicing, virtualisation, network support for precise positioning, and security.
Furthermore, 5GCroCo is exploring innovative business models. It will contribute to the definition of the necessary policy and spectrum regulation to guarantee the success of 5G for connected and automated mobility (CAM) services. The impact of 5GCroCo is also present at the standardisation level for both the telecom and the automotive industries (3GPP, ISO, etc.). 5GCroCo is thus contributing to the consolidation of Europe’s leading role in 5G technology, paving the way for the commercial deployment of 5G for CAM in Europe and worldwide.Vertical Bridge brings the edge closer to the data — "We don't believe, in the 5G architecture, that the edge will be at a tower site," explained Bernard Borghei, executive VP of operations and co-founder of Vertical Bridge. "The edge location will be as close to where the data is generated." Borghei said that Vertical Bridge is currently working with a few wireless operators and those operators dictate where they would like their edge location to be. Vertical Bridge then uses its real estate and infrastructure expertise to develop the site and make sure it has fiber connectivity and security. It then enlists the help of its partner, EdgePresence, which builds and operates multi-tenant edge computing centers. EdgePresence then looks for additional tenants for that edge site, and manages the rack space and power consumption for each tenant. Vertical Bridge and EdgePresence are both DigitalBridge portfolio companies. Kyndryl has spun off from IBM as a $19B managed service firm — Part of that effort is helping large firms add new technologies to their enterprises. “It’s difficult to imagine moving forward on digitalization and cloud computing without rearchitecting the network--it is a foundational component,” Milton said. “Using 5G at the edge to run the vast amount of data being unlocked in the cloud is just one of the transformational areas we know are important to customers.” Researchers develop AI-based network platform recognizing face and environmen — ETRI used KOREN to test the situation recognition ability of the system's AI and its distributed data transfer capabilities. In a simulated environment, the system's AI monitored its environment near a local server to selectively detect and record emergency situations using a camera. Collected data was sent to the main server. Researchers said the smart edge network can be used with facial recognition technology to detect a missing person among a crowd of people or detect a person smoking inside a no-smoking zone.
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Inside Living on the Edge episode 15, Jason and Dan discuss FedEx’s agnostic multi-cloud strategy, Google’s distributed cloud and the status of ORAN’s arrival to the global marketplace.
Links:
- FedEx, S&P Global discuss cloud edge use cases — Robotics require low latency and real-time data processing, and they can't backhaul data to a central data center whenever they need to make decisions. To support its autonomous initiatives, FedEx uses an agnostic multi-cloud edge strategy that doesn't lock the company into a single provider, Vijayakumar said. "We don't want to be tied to any particular carrier and their MEC offerings," she said. "Our sites can't go down, so we need carrier diversity and path diversity." Additionally, FedEx locations rely mainly on compute stacks. So, if the network goes down at a site, that location can still sort packages, she added.
- Google: Our new distributed cloud can run from your datacenter to the network edge — "Google Distributed Cloud Hosted does not require connectivity to Google Cloud at any time to manage infrastructure, services, APIs, or tooling, and uses a local control plane provided by Anthos for operations. Google Distributed Cloud Hosted will be available in preview in the first half of 2022," Google notes.
- Open RAN nowhere near ready for prime time – report — "Open RAN presents an opportunity to evolve and disrupt the vendor ecosystem, bringing fresh choice for operators and supporting the emergence of a host of new companies," said Mann in prepared remarks. "Yet the path ahead will not be entirely smooth; the technology is unproven at scale and there are questions over interoperability, pricing and security. Momentum is undeniable, but it may be several years before we see a tangible impact on the market."
- Orange announces strategic initiatives to enhance mobile technology capabilities across Europe — 5GCroCo (Fifth Generation Cross-Border Control) is a €17-million European innovation action officially launched on November 1, 2018, with the objective to perform 5G connectivity tests and trials for the road environment in real-life scenarios. On October 21, 2021, 5GCroCo demonstrated three use cases in the corridor areas that connect the cities of Metz-Merzig-Luxembourg in France, Germany and Luxembourg, traversing three countries, two borders.
The objective of 5GCroCo is to validate key 5G technologies in challenging cross-border, cross-mobile-network-operator, cross-car-original-equipment-manufacturer and cross-telco-vendor scenarios. The project concentrates in particular on cutting-edge technologies such as 5G New Radio, service continuity, mobile Edge Computing/cloud, end-to-end and predictive Quality-of-Service, network slicing, virtualisation, network support for precise positioning, and security.
Furthermore, 5GCroCo is exploring innovative business models. It will contribute to the definition of the necessary policy and spectrum regulation to guarantee the success of 5G for connected and automated mobility (CAM) services. The impact of 5GCroCo is also present at the standardisation level for both the telecom and the automotive industries (3GPP, ISO, etc.). 5GCroCo is thus contributing to the consolidation of Europe’s leading role in 5G technology, paving the way for the commercial deployment of 5G for CAM in Europe and worldwide.Vertical Bridge brings the edge closer to the data — "We don't believe, in the 5G architecture, that the edge will be at a tower site," explained Bernard Borghei, executive VP of operations and co-founder of Vertical Bridge. "The edge location will be as close to where the data is generated." Borghei said that Vertical Bridge is currently working with a few wireless operators and those operators dictate where they would like their edge location to be. Vertical Bridge then uses its real estate and infrastructure expertise to develop the site and make sure it has fiber connectivity and security. It then enlists the help of its partner, EdgePresence, which builds and operates multi-tenant edge computing centers. EdgePresence then looks for additional tenants for that edge site, and manages the rack space and power consumption for each tenant. Vertical Bridge and EdgePresence are both DigitalBridge portfolio companies. Kyndryl has spun off from IBM as a $19B managed service firm — Part of that effort is helping large firms add new technologies to their enterprises. “It’s difficult to imagine moving forward on digitalization and cloud computing without rearchitecting the network--it is a foundational component,” Milton said. “Using 5G at the edge to run the vast amount of data being unlocked in the cloud is just one of the transformational areas we know are important to customers.” Researchers develop AI-based network platform recognizing face and environmen — ETRI used KOREN to test the situation recognition ability of the system's AI and its distributed data transfer capabilities. In a simulated environment, the system's AI monitored its environment near a local server to selectively detect and record emergency situations using a camera. Collected data was sent to the main server. Researchers said the smart edge network can be used with facial recognition technology to detect a missing person among a crowd of people or detect a person smoking inside a no-smoking zone.