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Episode 4: Realistically Excited: Containers, Vaccines and Radio Waves
In this week’s Living on the Edge episode, Dan and Jason discuss Ericsson’s adoption of Google Anthos, Inmarsat’s 5G play, Softbank’s road to 6G and Google’s new Tensor chip.
Links:
- Ericsson puts its 5G on Google's Anthos — Ericsson and Google Cloud have already completed functional onboarding of Ericsson 5G on Anthos to enable telco edge and on-premise use cases for CSPs and enterprises.
As part of the partnership, Google Cloud and Ericsson are also piloting enterprise applications at the edge on a live network with TIM. The project, which will automate the functions of TIM's core 5G network and cloud-based applications, will use TIM's Telco Cloud infrastructure, Google Cloud solutions and Ericsson's 5G core network and orchestration technologies.Inmarsat combines satellite and 5G for new type of network — Asked if the 5G element of the network is basically a private-wireless play, French said, “We believe it is more significant than that.” In addition to bringing private wireless capabilities, Orchestra will bring a cloud-based application ecosystem, mobile VPN, and internet of Things (IoT) solutions for the maritime and aviation sectors. Microsoft and BT announce partnership to shape the future of voice calling — Omar Abbosh, Corporate Vice President of Industry Solutions at Microsoft, said: “The partnership announced today by Microsoft and BT is just the start of an exciting, shared journey of innovation and collaboration that will shape the future of telecoms. By transitioning global managed voice services to the cloud, BT can use Microsoft’s cutting-edge tools to develop new communications services that meet the needs and demands of today’s customers. By aligning our visions for communication, connectivity, security and digital technology, Microsoft and BT will support real growth for businesses across the world.” Mapping out edge computing: How dense is it? — For companies in the telecom and computing sector, edge computing represents a paradigm shift from today's Internet architecture, which primarily revolves around transmitting users' requests to massive data centers that might be hundreds or thousands of miles away from their geographic location. Thus, a widely deployed edge computing architecture could mean the establishment of hundreds or thousands of tiny computing facilities all over the globe. And the locations of such sites would be important to developers building widescale, low-latency commercial services. Is private 5G a threat or an opportunity for telcos? — “What has to be borne in mind is that even if you’re deploying a private network now and you’re leveraging some of the cloud network functionality, it’s still a relatively physical thing (as opposed to abstract and software defined) and until connectivity becomes just another component of the IT stack there is a clear telco role. They can sustain that role if they adopt the right mindset and flexibility.” Edge radio networks need government support — Keysight’s Sundhar says the fact that there are so many players entering the space creates many variables around performance and interoperability, and so test & validation centers are required so operators can understand how vendors’ components might work together in a real-world setting.
“There is now a necessity for having the certified test centers, and they cannot be driven just by network equipment vendor,” he says. “Those give you an early certification that you are able to mix and match pieces and they are able to work with the rest of these particular components, that gives the operators a verdict that yes, collectively, these four or five things can work together.”
The most important of those chips is a mobile version of a Tensor Processing Unit. Google has been making TPUs for its server farms for over five years now, dedicated to more efficiently performing AI and ML tasks. It offered an “edge” version of its TPU for enterprise solutions a few years ago, but the Pixel 6 marks the first time Google has put a mobile TPU in a phone.Japanese telco SoftBank unveils its 6G concept — SoftBank also unveiled two initiatives as specific examples of its undertakings to realize 6G services. This first one is an R&D project involving “Moving Terahertz” for smartphones. This initiative focuses on expanding frequency ranges that will enable SoftBank to provide commercial services using the terahertz band for mobile communications. Welcome to the Mobile Edge: A Look at the Edge from the Perspective of Network Providers — In these mobile edge environments, network providers will increasingly be drawn to Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets, expanded geography within Tier 1 markets and the multi-tenant data centers located in them. They are also expected to take advantage of modular data center platforms that can be “dropped” anywhere with closer proximity to fiber and cellular tower infrastructure. They will also be able to perform localized internet exchanges in facilities that are more open and neutral than past options. QCT Allies with Robin.io to Run Kubernetes at the Edge — Mehran Hadipour, vice president of business development and technology alliances for Robin.io, says the IronCloud — Robin Cloud Platform is based on the Multi-Data Center Automation Platform (MDCAP) and Cloud Native Platform (CNP) that Robin.io created. Robin.io packaged its own distribution of Kubernetes with its software-defined storage platform to run stateful containerized applications.
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In this week’s Living on the Edge episode, Dan and Jason discuss Ericsson’s adoption of Google Anthos, Inmarsat’s 5G play, Softbank’s road to 6G and Google’s new Tensor chip.
Links:
- Ericsson puts its 5G on Google's Anthos — Ericsson and Google Cloud have already completed functional onboarding of Ericsson 5G on Anthos to enable telco edge and on-premise use cases for CSPs and enterprises.
As part of the partnership, Google Cloud and Ericsson are also piloting enterprise applications at the edge on a live network with TIM. The project, which will automate the functions of TIM's core 5G network and cloud-based applications, will use TIM's Telco Cloud infrastructure, Google Cloud solutions and Ericsson's 5G core network and orchestration technologies.Inmarsat combines satellite and 5G for new type of network — Asked if the 5G element of the network is basically a private-wireless play, French said, “We believe it is more significant than that.” In addition to bringing private wireless capabilities, Orchestra will bring a cloud-based application ecosystem, mobile VPN, and internet of Things (IoT) solutions for the maritime and aviation sectors. Microsoft and BT announce partnership to shape the future of voice calling — Omar Abbosh, Corporate Vice President of Industry Solutions at Microsoft, said: “The partnership announced today by Microsoft and BT is just the start of an exciting, shared journey of innovation and collaboration that will shape the future of telecoms. By transitioning global managed voice services to the cloud, BT can use Microsoft’s cutting-edge tools to develop new communications services that meet the needs and demands of today’s customers. By aligning our visions for communication, connectivity, security and digital technology, Microsoft and BT will support real growth for businesses across the world.” Mapping out edge computing: How dense is it? — For companies in the telecom and computing sector, edge computing represents a paradigm shift from today's Internet architecture, which primarily revolves around transmitting users' requests to massive data centers that might be hundreds or thousands of miles away from their geographic location. Thus, a widely deployed edge computing architecture could mean the establishment of hundreds or thousands of tiny computing facilities all over the globe. And the locations of such sites would be important to developers building widescale, low-latency commercial services. Is private 5G a threat or an opportunity for telcos? — “What has to be borne in mind is that even if you’re deploying a private network now and you’re leveraging some of the cloud network functionality, it’s still a relatively physical thing (as opposed to abstract and software defined) and until connectivity becomes just another component of the IT stack there is a clear telco role. They can sustain that role if they adopt the right mindset and flexibility.” Edge radio networks need government support — Keysight’s Sundhar says the fact that there are so many players entering the space creates many variables around performance and interoperability, and so test & validation centers are required so operators can understand how vendors’ components might work together in a real-world setting.
“There is now a necessity for having the certified test centers, and they cannot be driven just by network equipment vendor,” he says. “Those give you an early certification that you are able to mix and match pieces and they are able to work with the rest of these particular components, that gives the operators a verdict that yes, collectively, these four or five things can work together.”
The most important of those chips is a mobile version of a Tensor Processing Unit. Google has been making TPUs for its server farms for over five years now, dedicated to more efficiently performing AI and ML tasks. It offered an “edge” version of its TPU for enterprise solutions a few years ago, but the Pixel 6 marks the first time Google has put a mobile TPU in a phone.Japanese telco SoftBank unveils its 6G concept — SoftBank also unveiled two initiatives as specific examples of its undertakings to realize 6G services. This first one is an R&D project involving “Moving Terahertz” for smartphones. This initiative focuses on expanding frequency ranges that will enable SoftBank to provide commercial services using the terahertz band for mobile communications. Welcome to the Mobile Edge: A Look at the Edge from the Perspective of Network Providers — In these mobile edge environments, network providers will increasingly be drawn to Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets, expanded geography within Tier 1 markets and the multi-tenant data centers located in them. They are also expected to take advantage of modular data center platforms that can be “dropped” anywhere with closer proximity to fiber and cellular tower infrastructure. They will also be able to perform localized internet exchanges in facilities that are more open and neutral than past options. QCT Allies with Robin.io to Run Kubernetes at the Edge — Mehran Hadipour, vice president of business development and technology alliances for Robin.io, says the IronCloud — Robin Cloud Platform is based on the Multi-Data Center Automation Platform (MDCAP) and Cloud Native Platform (CNP) that Robin.io created. Robin.io packaged its own distribution of Kubernetes with its software-defined storage platform to run stateful containerized applications.