MobiledgeX updates platform, partners up to help telecoms and service providers leverage edge

Edge-Cloud R2.0 adds key capabilities to address the emerging needs of enterprises adopting edge-enabled applications, MobiledgeX said. The platform aggregates edge processing power from different enterprise on-premise and telecom network locations and provides an interface for application design, deployment, and management. Digital operations can be managed across distributed locations from different underlying networks or systems, and the platform enables containerized or virtualized applications developed in a public cloud to deploy to different edge location environments from the Edge-Cloud R2.0 console.

The initial release was already in use by more than 100 companies creating applications in 2019.

“Unlike cloud execution, which is designed to appear infinite and ‘somewhere else,’ edge execution is location-specific, finite in terms of per location resources, and requiring a multi-vendor, multi-cloud, multi-access solution. The MobiledgeX Edge Cloud design is based on maximizing control, choice, and trust from the perspective of all participants: the application owner, the business customer and the infrastructure operator,” stated Sunay Tripathi, chief technology officer of MobiledgeX in a prepared statement.

MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud R2.0 includes the console and distributed public and private infrastructure onboarding, monitoring and management to support heterogeneous operation from a single view. The platform also supports declarative policy-driven deployments, bringing ISV applications to diverse environments with high availability or security requirements. For applications that have to take privacy regulations into account, deployments can be made based on location-specific data controls.

Taking the enterprise to the edge

MobiledgeX is also a partner in a collaboration with systems integrator World Wide Technology (WWT), VMware and several others to provide new mobile edge computing solutions intended to help applications bridge both enterprise and service provider environments. For service providers, the solutions would provide unique capabilities to customers to further monetize their 4G and 5G infrastructure.

Building new revenue streams with advanced infrastructure requires service providers to offer unique value propositions to industries such as manufacturing, retail and automotive, according to a joint announcement.

To that end, applications built on an optimized Dell Technologies and VMware Telco Cloud infrastructure stack and packaged and bundled on the MobiledgeX platform are being demonstrated at WWT’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC). QiO and Altiostar are also partners in the initiative.

Choosing partners for enterprise edge

“For us to service private edge using our newly released EC2.0, we need strong partners that know how to deal with the enterprise,” Tripathi said of its partnership with VMware and WWT in a post on LinkedIn. Of the work with WWT, he said ”They are the key player for private edge because we are primarily a [software] company dealing with distributed infrastructure but we needed a strong partner who can reach the enterprise physically. We have been working with the WWT team for more than 6 months now and they totally understand how to create industrial-grade cloudlets based on our blueprints.”

Advancing the service provider edge

MobiledgeX’s platform has been focused on enabling telcos to offer edge services. The new version of the platform is featured in an initiative recently launched by the GSMA to build an edge cloud platform for telecoms. Participants include China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, EE, KDDI, Orange, Singtel, SK Telecom, Telefonica, and TIM.

Deutsche Telekom and MobiledgeX also collaborated on a recent trial of edge infrastructure for gamers.

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5G  |  edge computing  |  enterprise  |  MobiledgeX  |  VMWare  |  WWT