Verizon has partnered with AWS and Microsoft on delivering MEC services
Verizon is all in on both public and private MEC and has a range of partnerships in place with the likes of AWS and Microsoft Azure as well as companies focused on applications. But...
Turning MEC investments into business outcomes is an exercise in ecosystem development and solution integration
There’s an animating tension as it relates to service provider monetization of mobile edge computing (MEC) for enterprises. Businesses want to buy solutions that are easy to use, where the...
In a blog post, mobile cloud provider now.gg referenced a 2020 IDC report to claim that 60-70% of phones worldwide aren’t suited for gaming. The company uses this to support the idea that if a gamer uses the hybrid cloud to run a game,...
Cloud gaming represents a great opportunity to show off what 5G and MEC are capable of
With cloud gaming revenue predicted to come in at over $1 billion for the first time this year — about double what it was raking in last year —...
Carla Guzzetti, VP of customer experience at Extreme Networks explains what distributed networking is, why it's something you should care about and what it has to do with the concept of the infinite enterprise. She also uses her own experience as a podcast host...
Swarmio's CEO describes the "huge gap” that remains between telcos and the gaming world as the former looks for ways enter the market
With the gaming industry booming, many new players are eager to get a piece of the pie. Telcos, for instance, have been...
'When we started the 5G labs and started bringing in independent game developers,' said Verizon Lab's director, 'no one was ready for it'
Gaming is often touted as the "killer" consumer use case for 5G and for cloud computing, but is that really the case?...
“Cloud is eating the world.” At least, that’s the big takeaway from the tech industry press these days. And that’s a good thing. For consumers, cloud means being able to access digital services whenever and wherever you choose, without having to worry about how...
The 5G hype has been a beating drum growing louder over the years, and across industries, the value it can bring is clear. Retailers and grocery stores are utilizing connected robots within warehouses to move and stack supplies. The energy industry has vehicles on-site...
The telecommunication industry has undergone tremendous change over the last 30 years, starting from 1G, where the consumer had access to voice only. 5G is the fifth-generation wireless technology that brings to the table new features for consumers, such as low latency (responsiveness), wider...
