{"id":16528,"date":"2019-10-07T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/10\/07\/news-10267\/"},"modified":"2019-10-07T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:00:05","slug":"news-10267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/10\/07\/news-10267\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New at The Telco Edge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Joseph Reele| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:23:22 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

I described Telco edge<\/a> (see my previous blog<\/a>) as, \u201c\u2026an emerging, consumer-driven space with content providers standing to be the first to benefit.\u201d Is that still true today or is there something new at the telco edge?<\/p>\n

Content Will Not Be King<\/h2>\n

18 months later, much of what we talked about then is still on point, with an exception or two. At the same time, momentum is building. To start, content providers (Netflix, Amazon, etc) will not be flocking to the telco edge first. In theory, the telco edge \u2014 i.e. the cell tower \u2014 matches its needs to cache content and offer better user experiences. In practice, however, the model doesn\u2019t quite work.<\/p>\n

This is primarily because, on average<\/em> US cell towers have two of eight providers on them. So, content providers would have limited market presence given they\u2019re carrier neutral and need to reach all end users. Even if all eight providers were at one cell tower, you can\u2019t cross-connect at the base because it\u2019s a wireless network, not a core network.<\/p>\n

Cloud is Losing Weight<\/h2>\n

Another way of looking at telco edge is that it\u2019s a transition from a fat cloud\/thin client<\/a> to thin cloud\/fat client model. Let me explain.<\/p>\n

Take for instance airplane mode on the smartphone in your pocket \u2013 it untethers from the cloud and pretty much turns it into a fancy calculator. The majority of its functionality went away the minute you disconnected. Thus, to this point, we\u2019ve been \u201cfat\u201d \u2014 built on cloud and hyperscale, giant data centers \u2014 and dependent on the core. We have to \u201cthin\u201d out in the future world. \u00a0Or take the autonomous car. As a thin client, an untethered car would stop. For it to keep going, the car is the computer \u2014 a fat client.<\/p>\n

What about the cell tower edge? Let\u2019s for a moment forget the edge part of the cell tower and just affirm: Cell towers will<\/em> have a mission-critical component at the base of them in the future. Rather than content, as we originally thought, enterprise will be the driver.<\/p>\n

Right now, companies are still investing in cloud and hyperscale data centers. Over the next decade, those dollars will go downstream to the edge. Downstream from mainstream edge is the telco edge at the cell tower.
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What\u2019s Here \u2013 and What\u2019s Coming \u2013 for the Telco Edge<\/h2>\n

Edge data centers will eventually be components at the base of cell towers. The market is young, but a few pilot deployments are beginning; we\u2019re seeing a handful of companies moving beyond the proof-of-concept stage. More so, experimentation with business model and use case is increasing. The towers will become more populated as companies further define the possibilities.<\/p>\n

Notably, however, the telco edge \u2014 and edge in general \u2014 will play an important role in the expansion of 5G<\/a>. We have 250,000 cell towers, but in reality, we need 2.5 million bases for 5G to become prolific. This new network will leverage distributed IT platforms to provide lower latency, increased bandwidth and expand the IoT \u2014 connecting to more than 2.5 million sensors per deployment.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, telco providers\u2019 venture into edge is via central office transformation<\/a>. They\u2019re also creating new revenue streams with services<\/a>. So clearly, there\u2019s more to come with telco edge in the industry – hear more about it in my next blog coming soon!<\/p>\n

The post What\u2019s New at The Telco Edge?<\/a> appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Joseph Reele| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:23:22 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

I described Telco edge (see my previous blog) as, \u201c\u2026an emerging, consumer-driven space with content providers standing to be the first to benefit.\u201d Is that still true today or is… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n

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