
SIs in trouble, hyperscalers indifferent – the case for carrier-led private 5G
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Software AG, StarHub and the blueprint for carrier-led industrial private 5G’, available here. Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software …

AWS debuts on 5G-MEC in the UK with Vodafone; Germany to follow
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of its AWS Wavelength multi-access edge compute (MEC) service in the UK, on Vodafone’s 5G network. The setup embeds AWS compute …

Anritsu and InterDigital team up on 5G and MEC slicing demo for smart factories
Anritsu and InterDigital have combined on a new smart factory demo to showcase the “feasibility and readiness” of carrier-led 5G and multi-access edge compute (MEC) for Industry 4.0 use cases. …

‘Peanut butter and jelly’ – Verizon on private 5G and MEC, as the jam in digital enterprise
Verizon Business CRO describes private 5G and MEC as like “peanut butter and jelly” Today Verizon Business announced its new private 5G network offering, On Site 5G, which is being …

O2 UK, Microsoft ink partnership to test MEC on private 5G network
U.K. operator O2, owned by Spanish telco Telefonica, has announced a new partnership with Microsoft in the Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) field, the former said in a release. …

Verizon agrees deal for industrial robotics firm to bolster Industry 4.0 edge-5G portfolio
US carrier Verizon has signed a deal to acquire Austrian industrial robotics software company Incubed IT (stylized as incubed IT) for an undisclosed fee. Its rationale is to complement its …

Dell, VMWare, SK Telecom bundle private 5G and MEC to help carriers sell Industry 4.0
Dell Technologies and VMware are working with South Korean operator SK Telecom to bundle together private 5G and multi-access edge compute (MEC) to help carriers sell Industry 4.0 to enterprises, …

Vodafone on 2021: IoT, 5G, MEC – and the move to performant industrial networking
Technologies have always tended to converge. Smartphones are an example of this: a phone merged with a media player and a camera to create something unique, which performs multiple tasks …

Verizon on 2021: 5G and MEC to deliver ‘untold breakthroughs for business’
While the Covid-19 global pandemic upended the world’s expectations in 2020, fortunately, the technology industry has weathered the challenges as an essential component of daily life. Innovations in 5G and …

Verizon partners with Deloitte on 5G, edge computing
Verizon, Deloitte partnerships targets manufacturing and retail verticals Verizon Business is teaming with Deloitte to carry out joint innovation activities in the 5G and mobile edge computing (MEC) fields. The …