MobiledgeX edge cloud now spans 25 mobile networks, streamlines deployment for developers
California-based edge computing solution provider, MobiledgeX, has an updated version of the MobiledgeX edge cloud platform that delivers several new features designed to improve the user experience and capabilities for developers. A key highlight: the ability to integrate to any standards-based mobile edge computing platform.
The company calls it an important advancement for developers looking to deploy edge computing applications across mobile network environments without geographical restriction. MobiledgeX said it has partnered and deployed its technology with 25 mobile operators across Europe, APAC and North America, giving the flexibility to interface with edge infrastructure providers around the globe.
“The capabilities to make it easier to connect our expanding number of edge clouds within 25 mobile network operator footprints to other standards-based edge platforms, instantly growing the number of edge sites we can expose to developers, and bringing the industry another big step closer to edge monetization,” says Michael Lochead, SVP of product for MobiledgeX.
After working with over 200 software developers delivering edge computing use cases across various industries from entertainment to healthcare and automotive, MobiledgeX realized the importance of cloud-like deployment on a mobile network, and the way it could revolutionize the adoption for edge computing.
Another key feature introduced in MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud v3.1 is the edge cloud federation that the company said “introduces an ‘east-west’ interface to supports automated migration of edge application ‘backend’ workloads between the edge clouds of different operators.” More benefits in this version of the platform is a 5G Quality of Experience (QoS) API that reduces the manual configuration of QoS policies and refines the process for developers to define a 5G QoS policy for edge applications.
Support for bare metal Kubernetes deployments, including Google Anthos, increases the operational control over edge applications that developers want to run on bare metal.
“Multi-tenancy is now supported, making it possible for different developer organizations to share the same bare-metal cluster,” MobiledgeX explains.
Analysis
Allowing edge deployments of latency-sensitive and high-performance applications close to the end-user regardless of which mobile network is in use is a long-held promise of MobiledgeX. Having demonstrated an ability to deliver on the technology, the next big leap for the company (and for telcos) is to turn that technology into a sustainable revenue stream.
Article Topics
5G | application development | DevOps | edge PaaS | MEC | mobile network | MobiledgeX
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