MobiledgeX, Inc., which is
making edge computing widely accessible and easy to access, today reported that
it now counts 30 category-defining developer applications and 13 top-tier
mobile operators as part of its fast-growing global edge network initiative.
The company first announced its
Edge-Cloud R1.0 and initial deployment with Deutsche
Telekom earlier this year and it has been steadily adding new
operator partners seeking to innovate with new edge availability and advanced
capabilities leading into and through their 5G rollouts.
"The next generation of
experiences and devices is taking shape before us, powered by real-time
immersion, immediacy and insight," said Eric Braun, CCO of MobiledgeX. "With
this next generation of augmented experiences, autonomous machines and
AI-driven decision making appearing now, edge computing becomes a prerequisite
for adequate performance, scale and security. MobiledgeX and participating
operators are making this adoption and extension of the cloud to the operator
edge and beyond as easy as possible."
Edge drives a need for a
management layer that seamlessly integrates into current cloud development
toolchains while supporting the unique requirements that edge presents to the
market. MobiledgeX has identified the following as key features to successfully
enable the edge ecosystem while benefiting from the unique aspects of telecom:
- A self service console for
developers to autonomously manage their software deployment across all
operators' distributed edge infrastructure - one agreement, one management
plane, one operational standard;
- Support for standalone
containers, Docker compose, Kubernetes and VMs along with the use of
specialized hardware like GPUs;
- The Distributed Matching Engine
automatically matches users to the nearest available edge location while taking
into account specified developer policies and operator policies;
- Orchestration and application
deployment independent from underlying infrastructure for
multi-cloud, multi-vendor and multi-access homogeneity;
- Declarative autonomous
deployment of application containers and VMs, zero-touch management
of configuration, security, load balancing and scale based on demand-side
client load. Also, support for policy driven multi-site rolling upgrade; and
- Trust proxy for non-cellular
devices like AR glasses, robots and drones, for example, using a smartphone
and the cellular control plane.
In June of this year, MobiledgeX
announced its "Edge Experience" initiative to simplify how
application developers and device makers develop, integrate and test innovation
in live edge networks. Select members of MobiledgeX's inaugural Early Access
Program in Central Europe were onboarded. These companies are focused on edge
benefits ranging from compute offload, latency, privacy, and predictive quality
of experience (QOE) to mobile data thinning and dynamic grouping. The Early
Access Program expands into Asia this month, with North America following in
October.
In addition, MobiledgeX is now
driving market adoption by engaging the entire edge ecosystem with hackathons
and structured use case exploration. MobiledgeX recently co-sponsored an application developer hackathon
with SK Telecom in Korea that highlighted the demand for edge use
case discovery, innovation and support. The next MobiledgeX sponsored developer
hackathon will be held next week in Krakow
with T-Mobile Poland, Hubraum and Samsung.
"Momentum around edge computing trials and
experimentation is starting to gain steam as more mobile operators safely open
their trusted networks to pilots and production use cases and take steps toward
creating global edge availability while we aggregate, normalize and simplify
access to these resources for application developers and device makers," said
Sunay Tripathi, CTO of MobiledgeX. "With over a dozen top mobile operators now
part of our expanding edge network and more to be announced in the coming
months, we are focused on building the winning edge ecosystem through the
implementation of the key required features and technology."