Vapor IO/Open Grid Alliance on leveraging edge compute to digitally transform Las Vegas
Internet of Things (IoT) devices using cellular networks reached 2.7 billion connections in 2021, according to the November 2022 Ericsson Mobility Report, and by 2028 that figure is projected to increase to...
Data centre company ITRenew and ‘edge-to-edge networking’ provider Vapor IO have devised a way for enterprises to run on-premise computing without the need for on-site data centres or IT equipment. The solution replaces enterprise-based IT equipment with a “near-premise” equivalent, delivered as a service.
The...
Up to $800 billion will be spent on new and replacement server equipment and edge computing facilities in the period to 2028, driven by the deployment of 5G in industry, alongside the commoditization of edge hardware and the rise of open source networking software....
With $90 million in newly raised funding, start-up Vapor IO plans to bring edge computing to 20 U.S. cities this year. It is already operating multiple edge sites in four cities: Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The company has another 16...
Edge computing sites will be pre-integrated to support CBRS
There's broad consensus in the telecom industry that building out edge infrastructure will be key to delivering latency-sensitive 5G use cases, as well as enabling enterprise and industrial initiatives that fit under the umbrella of digital...
CEO says edge infrastructure rollout will be 'customer-driven'
Crown Castle continued its investment in edge specialist Vapor IO with its participation in a Series C funding round led by private equity firm Berkshire Partners, itself an investor in Crown. In an interview with RCR Wireless...
Vapor IO working with Crown Castle to deploy edge data centers
Large, centralized data centers house the racks, servers and other hardware needed to support cloud services, content delivery networks, customized enterprise workloads and other functionality. With the emergence of 5G and the latency reductions...
American Tower and Crown Castle both exploring colocation of edge computing appliances at cell tower sites
Latency-dependent services command not just network densification, but also distribution of data center-type compute and storage functionality to the network edge. In the telecom industry, edge computing is certainly...
A Crown Castle distributed antenna system in Chicago is the site of a new data center architecture that could change the economics of centralized radio access networks. Vapor IO, a startup funded by Crown Castle and supported by Intel, says its Kinectic Edge architecture...
