Telco Cloud and Edge Computing

In the 8 years since I published my first report on the edge computing market, it has evolved from an obscure niche to a trendy buzzword. What originally started as a mobile-only technology, has evolved into a complex field, with applications in IT, telco, industry and clouds. While I have been working on the subject for 9 years, first as an analyst, then as a developer and network operator at Telefonica and Bell Canada, I have noticed that the industry’s perception of the space has polarized drastically with each passing year.

The idea that telecom operators could deploy and use a decentralized computing fabric throughout their radio access has gained ground with open RAN, Service Based Architecture, Slicing and disaggregated packet core. Will service providers be successful and embrace a capacity to abstract decentralized computing capacity into a coherent, easy to program and consume data center as a service model?

This workshop examines the growth of the edge computing market as it transitions from pure telco to hybrid cloud model with the entrance of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other webscalers.

Workshop description:

• 3 to 5 hours interactive content
• Edge computing definition
• Where are the edges?
• Telco vs hyperscaler
• Benefits 
• Use cases review (Internal telco, B2C, B2B, B2B2x)
• Business models
• Technology and standards
• Vendors, operators, hyperscalers and platformers strategies
• The 4 strategic questions (what to deploy, where, when, how to monetize)
• Some of the companies reviewed: Akamai, American Towers, AWS, Ericsson, ETSI, Facebook, Google, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Netflix, Nokia, Nvidia, ONF, Red Hat, Telefonica, TIP, Vapor.io, VMWare, Vodafone...

Details, terms and conditions upon request.