Holograms replaced more commonly used avatars as Bell Canada, Verizon, Vodafone and Matsuko conducted what they called “the first live transatlantic collaborative meeting connecting multiple holographic people in Canada, the US and the UK using 5G and multi-access edge computing…
Vapor IO and Comcast partnering on a pilot to enable third-party edge service providers to host data and applications in local Comcast markets. The pilot will kick off with projects in Chicago and Atlanta. “By enabling edge service providers to…
AT&T touted a range of network technology initiatives in a new blog post. Among the topics touched on were 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), mobile edge computing (MEC), and software defined networking (SDN). “While people keep asking what the killer app…
Verizon has announced a wide range of upgrades to its San Francisco network and the opening of its third Innovation Lab in the city. The carrier says that 80% of the city’s population now is covered by its Ultra Wideband…
T-Mobile’s 5G Advanced Network Solutions will offer Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) compute solutions and the companies will work together to create customizable use cases within the new Integrated Private Wireless on AWS program, the carrier says. Examples of the use…
An edge computing forecast from IDC calls for worldwide spending on edge computing hardware, software and services this year to reach $208 billion, a 13.1% increase over 2022. The firm says that the category will continue to grow at that…
AT&T and Frontier have signed a deal that will enable AT&T to deploy wireless infrastructure in Frontier central offices. The deal also calls for AT&T to purchase fiber connectivity to connect with cell towers that are in Frontier’s network. Asked…
Verizon provided results from the first cohort of developers involved in the 5G Development Hub, a non-profit business incubator in Montreal where the carrier is partnering with Centech and Bell Canada. Seven startup and “scaleup” companies participated in developing applications…
Verizon Public Sector has provided an update on its collaboration with two parts of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) that aim to enhance the functionality of drones via use of the carrier’s 5G mobile edge compute (MEC) technology. The two…
AT&T plans to have 12 edge zones operational by year-end, said Jeremy Legg, the company’s chief technology officer, in a blog post yesterday. The goal is to work in combination with the company’s 5G network to support new applications requiring…
Zayo announced a broad portfolio of edge services today aimed at capitalizing on what the company sees as a major shift on the part of business customers toward a multi-cloud environment. The term “multi-cloud” refers to a strategy that relies…
In recent years, the data center business has emphasized a hyperscale approach in which a handful of enormous locations cover the U.S. But more recently, the business has gone in the opposite direction and has begun to emphasize edge computing,…
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