The 5G Studio allows innovators to leverage Verizon’s 5G mmWave network and MEC to develop tech across various industries
Verizon first established a 5G Studio with Newlab in 2020 in New York City’s Brooklyn Navy Yard. The two companies then selected seven startups from a...
Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband is available in parts of more than 70 U.S. cities and 60 stadiums and arenas
This week, Verizon has made further headway in the sports world, partnering with the National Hockey League (NHL) and with more National Basketball Association (NBA) teams. Verizon...
The dedicated MEC platform is fully integrated with AWS cloud services and Verizon's 5G private network
Enterprise customers interested in a dedicated, on-premises edge compute infrastructure can now look to Verizon Business and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The companies are expanding their 5G collaboration in...
Verizon's MEC platform moves AWS compute and storage services to the edge of the network
Days before this year’s Super Bowl at Miami’s Raymond James Stadium, Verizon Vice President of Device Technology Brian Mecum told RCR Wireless News that fans will have access to a...
Verizon has outfitted the Super Bowl stadium with 5G and Mobile Edge Computing
Last year’s Super Bowl, which took place at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, was pretty different than what’s in store for this year’s event. On February 7th, the Kansas City Chiefs...
The Verizon, AWS 5G MEC platform first launched in Boston and the Bay Area in August
As 2020 wrapped up, Verizon announced the extension of Verizon 5G Edge with AWS Wavelength in Denver and Seattle, bringing the total number of locations that can access the...
New IBM hybrid cloud offering geared toward enterprise adoption of 5G and edge computing
For operators investing billions in building 5G networks, the real revenue opportunity is not in selling enhanced services to consumers but, rather, in standing up differentiated service offerings geared toward the...
Today in the United States, the three Tier 1 service providers are all offering “nationwide” 5G coverage. T-Mobile is using its 600 MHz and AT&T and Verizon are delivering with Dynamic Spectrum Sharing. And with the recent release of the iPhone 12 lineup, which...
Potential product partnership with Dell Technologies and VMware?
South Korea has been and still is a leading mobile market. In the context of 5G, the country's Ministry of Science and ICT said there were 7.86 million 5G users at the end of July with SK...
To say cloud services are pervasive would be an understatement. From individuals binge-watching content from OTT video platforms to enterprises deploying SaaS solutions, cloud services have numerous touch points throughout our home and working lives. For years, large, centralized data center and cloud architectures...
Three new cities — Atlanta, New York and Washington, DC — have been added to the list of locations where businesses and developers can build and deploy applications with AWS Wavelength at Verizon’s 5G Edge. Verizon and AWS launched the mobile edge computing (MEC)...
MEC node as a representation of the standalone 5G core
Latency reduction is a big selling point for standalone 5G networks. Single millisecond latency, combined with ultra high capacity and speeds, opens up real-time use cases--things involving autonomous assets, precision robotics and integration of augmented...
Initial focus on MEC experience management and deployment
Theres a line of thinking that 5G service revenues are inextricably linked to mobile edge computing (MEC); to take advantage of the latency benefits baked in to 5G, compute has to be decentralized and located closer to...
A new initiative aimed at bringing cloud-based edge computing capabilities to far-flung rural locations is gaining steam, having gathered more than three dozen network providers and application partners in support of an edge ecosystem to serve rural industrial and smart agriculture use cases.
The Rural...
Dell Technologies, IBM and Microsoft are developing cloud, edge, 5G strategies
Operators have, across the board, acknowledged the importance of edge computing in delivering a differentiated, revenue-generating 5G service. There have also been a number of trials in key mobile markets. But, given the trajectory...
The size of the Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) Market depends on the goals trying to be achieved. Several factors need to be considered, such as the part of the edge and edge compute applications included in the definition, whether the market being described is...
Six of the largest telecom operators in the world have put together a new group, the 5G Future Forum, which is focused on interoperability and adoption of 5G and mobile edge computing.
The founding members of the 5G Future Forum are América Móvil, KT, Rogers,...
$3 million. That staggering figure is how much a teenager recently won at the Fortnite World Cup. Astoundingly, that’s almost as much as this year’s Wimbledon champion won in prize money! Some estimates indicate that there will be more than 270 million global eSports...
With 5G edge computing, latency can be further reduced
Yesterday at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services and Verizon announced a 5G edge computing partnership that will bring the power of the cloud closer to mobile and connected devices at the edge of Verizon’s 5G Ultra...
5G network slicing, edge computing and cloud robotics will enable growth of enterprise and industrial automation
A new report from analyst firm Mind Commerce revealed that the key to substantial growth for enterprise and industrial automation is a combination of 5G network slicing, edge computing...
Edge computing dominated MWC 2019 along with 5G and all the robots at the show. In fact, according to some analysts, edge computing could be worth almost $7 billion within the next three years. Much of the new architecture’s advantages stem from the capacity...
One of the primary 5G use cases is ultra reliable low latency communications, which delivers real-time connectivity for emerging applications such as drone-based services, manufacturing or automotive automation and mobile AR/VR. But, to truly deliver a whole new level of responsiveness, the compute and...
One of the primary 5G use cases is ultra reliable low latency communications, which delivers real-time connectivity for emerging applications such as drone-based services, manufacturing or automotive automation and mobile AR/VR. But, to truly deliver a whole new level of responsiveness, the compute and...
Today’s IT landscape is all about moving towards the microdata centers, as the demand for edge computing pushes through the need for quick and instant access to data. Edge computing is localized computing for systems that operate away from the primary data center. Typically,...
