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Episode 9: Future’s So Bright: Cloud Native Desire, Security and Lasers
Inside Living on the Edge episode nine, Jason and Dan discuss how mobile operators view cloud native prioritization, 5G security, Google’s long distance lasers and shuffling strategies at AWS and Microsoft. What's new on the edge lightning round includes new edge pilots at the U.S. Department of Defense, Napa’s BottleRock and Sinclair Broadcasting Group.
Links:
- Cloud native to be a telco mainstay: Poll — A majority of respondents (52%) voted for ‘Yes, all telcos will embrace Cloud Native, it’s already becoming the norm’, while a further 32% voted for ‘The desire is there, and Cloud Native will play a major role, but it won’t be dominant,” as the chart above shows.
Only 13% of respondents believe ‘Cloud Native will only be used in silos within telcos’ and will not be adopted widely, while just 3% believe Cloud Native will be adopted only sparingly or not at all. Edge computing has a bright future, even if nobody's sure quite what that looks like — In a review [PDF] of the technological, economic and industrial future of edge computing across the European Union, it's noted that Google claims its admins monitor 10,000 servers each, compared to one admin per hundred servers in standard enterprise-class data centres, and Amazon's data centres as three-and-a-half times more energy efficient in a similar comparison. If your edge deployment is to take a lot of data processing away from the cloud, these are economies of scale it may have to fight. These are the raw economics that make clouds so dominant, and they're not changing. The Software Security Stack (Part I) — Layer 1 software is the foundation that everything else is built on. In the old software stack, it was the VMware virtualization platform, Microsoft operating system, etc. In the new stack, it’s containers, software-defined networking, and IaaS (AWS, Azure, and GCP). How cloud-native tech will impact 5G mobile networks — The 5G network must be designed to support multiple security policies, segregated by slice on individual network components. The more slices, the more microservices and interface points in the network that are in turn exposed to the Internet.
Traditional security methods with predefined rules, thresholds and manual setup will not work in a 5G environment. Service providers need to automate operations and have a scalable infrastructure to manage policies, which requires DevOps capabilities. All security tools need to be automated for onboarding and deployment.
5G networks introduce new traffic patterns that run east/west towards applications. Therefore, there is a need to inspect egress traffic. The number of inspection points increases dramatically not only from peering points, but also from traffic at Edge Computing points.Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Alphabet — About 700TB of data was exchanged over 20 days at speeds of up to 20 Gbps, with 99.9 per cent availability, with the help of Econet – the multinational telecoms giant, not the old Acorn networking system. The aim of the setup was to relay broadband internet traffic between the cities more as a test of the equipment than anything else. Microsoft Lifts Amazon, AT&T Telco Talent — “Azure’s telco strategy is broader than AWS or Google at this stage, with more touch points across the value chain. Bell could potentially help refine the current strategy, which could include sharpening the focus on communications service providers (CSP) as both customers and channel partners, or extending the strategy further into the enterprise as well,” he added. AT&T partners with military for maritime 5G, edge compute experiments — MEC servers will be located in an NPS datacenter and NPS will determine who or what devices can utilize the MEC services and features, according to an AT&T spokesperson. So the MEC service is private to NPS, but it’s not a fully private 5G network specific to the facility.
“The functionality of MEC allows the Navy to determine what of their traffic stays locally, within their NPS facility or the beach area,” the spokesperson noted, adding that the MEC does have certain mechanisms to limit the ability of other users to access the antennas.Autonomous ‘Express Shop’ pop-up comes to music festivals — Verizon’s mobile edge computing (MEC) platform is the foundation of temporary “tap and go” stores being offered at musical events including BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival.
Known as Express Shop, the frictionless pop-up store runs on the Verizon MEC platform and 5G network, along with the AiFi computer vision- and artificial intelligence (AI)- based autonomous shopping solution. Customers enter by tapping a credit card at the entrance. Once inside the store, AiFi’s computer vision-powered cameras track what items are taken and customers can exit, with receipts delivered to their email in minutes.SK Telecom, Sinclair Advance 5G-based UHD Broadcasting — The Aju Business Daily is now reporting that as part of the “commercialization of the next-generation broadcasting services involving KBS, a state broadcaster, SKT will upgrade the resolution of broadcast videos from full high-definition (FHD) to UHD using an AI-based high-definition upscaler solution and create high-quality videos in real-time. An upscaler solution uses AI technology to enhance the quality of the video. Using 5G's ultra-low-latency technology the next-gen broadcasting service will also help over-the-top service operators reduce the delay of about nine seconds when customers watch real-time TV channels through smartphone OTT apps.”
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Inside Living on the Edge episode nine, Jason and Dan discuss how mobile operators view cloud native prioritization, 5G security, Google’s long distance lasers and shuffling strategies at AWS and Microsoft. What's new on the edge lightning round includes new edge pilots at the U.S. Department of Defense, Napa’s BottleRock and Sinclair Broadcasting Group.
Links:
- Cloud native to be a telco mainstay: Poll — A majority of respondents (52%) voted for ‘Yes, all telcos will embrace Cloud Native, it’s already becoming the norm’, while a further 32% voted for ‘The desire is there, and Cloud Native will play a major role, but it won’t be dominant,” as the chart above shows.
Only 13% of respondents believe ‘Cloud Native will only be used in silos within telcos’ and will not be adopted widely, while just 3% believe Cloud Native will be adopted only sparingly or not at all. Edge computing has a bright future, even if nobody's sure quite what that looks like — In a review [PDF] of the technological, economic and industrial future of edge computing across the European Union, it's noted that Google claims its admins monitor 10,000 servers each, compared to one admin per hundred servers in standard enterprise-class data centres, and Amazon's data centres as three-and-a-half times more energy efficient in a similar comparison. If your edge deployment is to take a lot of data processing away from the cloud, these are economies of scale it may have to fight. These are the raw economics that make clouds so dominant, and they're not changing. The Software Security Stack (Part I) — Layer 1 software is the foundation that everything else is built on. In the old software stack, it was the VMware virtualization platform, Microsoft operating system, etc. In the new stack, it’s containers, software-defined networking, and IaaS (AWS, Azure, and GCP). How cloud-native tech will impact 5G mobile networks — The 5G network must be designed to support multiple security policies, segregated by slice on individual network components. The more slices, the more microservices and interface points in the network that are in turn exposed to the Internet.
Traditional security methods with predefined rules, thresholds and manual setup will not work in a 5G environment. Service providers need to automate operations and have a scalable infrastructure to manage policies, which requires DevOps capabilities. All security tools need to be automated for onboarding and deployment.
5G networks introduce new traffic patterns that run east/west towards applications. Therefore, there is a need to inspect egress traffic. The number of inspection points increases dramatically not only from peering points, but also from traffic at Edge Computing points.Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Alphabet — About 700TB of data was exchanged over 20 days at speeds of up to 20 Gbps, with 99.9 per cent availability, with the help of Econet – the multinational telecoms giant, not the old Acorn networking system. The aim of the setup was to relay broadband internet traffic between the cities more as a test of the equipment than anything else. Microsoft Lifts Amazon, AT&T Telco Talent — “Azure’s telco strategy is broader than AWS or Google at this stage, with more touch points across the value chain. Bell could potentially help refine the current strategy, which could include sharpening the focus on communications service providers (CSP) as both customers and channel partners, or extending the strategy further into the enterprise as well,” he added. AT&T partners with military for maritime 5G, edge compute experiments — MEC servers will be located in an NPS datacenter and NPS will determine who or what devices can utilize the MEC services and features, according to an AT&T spokesperson. So the MEC service is private to NPS, but it’s not a fully private 5G network specific to the facility.
“The functionality of MEC allows the Navy to determine what of their traffic stays locally, within their NPS facility or the beach area,” the spokesperson noted, adding that the MEC does have certain mechanisms to limit the ability of other users to access the antennas.Autonomous ‘Express Shop’ pop-up comes to music festivals — Verizon’s mobile edge computing (MEC) platform is the foundation of temporary “tap and go” stores being offered at musical events including BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival.
Known as Express Shop, the frictionless pop-up store runs on the Verizon MEC platform and 5G network, along with the AiFi computer vision- and artificial intelligence (AI)- based autonomous shopping solution. Customers enter by tapping a credit card at the entrance. Once inside the store, AiFi’s computer vision-powered cameras track what items are taken and customers can exit, with receipts delivered to their email in minutes.SK Telecom, Sinclair Advance 5G-based UHD Broadcasting — The Aju Business Daily is now reporting that as part of the “commercialization of the next-generation broadcasting services involving KBS, a state broadcaster, SKT will upgrade the resolution of broadcast videos from full high-definition (FHD) to UHD using an AI-based high-definition upscaler solution and create high-quality videos in real-time. An upscaler solution uses AI technology to enhance the quality of the video. Using 5G's ultra-low-latency technology the next-gen broadcasting service will also help over-the-top service operators reduce the delay of about nine seconds when customers watch real-time TV channels through smartphone OTT apps.”