Dell Technologies has partnered with telecommunications provider Orange to work jointly on everything that falls under the edge computing and acceleration technologies umbrella in a bid to give consumers what they expect from the promise of 5G.
Announcing that the pair of companies had entered into an agreement on day three of Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, the tech giant explained that as 5G will require a “new breed” of platforms to support near real-time edge computing and IoT services, they will work together to develop new distributed architectures for 5G, combining cloud and mobility.
Specifically, Dell Technologies and Orange will work together on the definition and development of: Edge technology use cases, business models, and proof of concepts; open source consortia and partnerships for the edge ecosystem; the definition and validation of infrastructure accelerators, such as FPGAs, GPUs, and SmartNICs, for edge workloads, including Cloud/Virtual RAN (CRAN/vRAN), MEC, and real-time, interactive, latency-sensitive applications; artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled software to support remote automation of a multi-technology, heterogeneous edge built on virtual machines, containers, and bare metal workloads; and edge infrastructure platforms supporting telco environmental, space, operational, and automation requirements.
Dell Technologies, along with VMware, and the broader set of companies, is absolutely engaged in helping the telecom service providers around the world benefit from this aggregation and accelerate their journey into telco cloud computing and 5G in general.
