Dell Technologies and Orange are teaming up to explore 5G opportunities

Things are getting interesting as companies are angling to get an edge in the new digital economy and one way to do that is via combining their expertise together for mutual benefit. On that note, Dell Technologies has teamed up with Orange, one of the world’s largest mobile and internet service operators to jointly explore the opportunities that the coming 5G revolution will bring in terms of multi-access edge computing and the supporting technologies for software-defined mobility with distributed, multi-cloud and edge architectures.

It’s a bit of a mouthful but essentially what this means is that both companies will find ways to maximise the benefits that blazing fast 5G connectivity will offer by collaborating on meeting demands for new distributed architectures for 5G that blend the best of cloud and mobility together. It’s all early days for now on inking the collaboration together but several core principles have been set down.

The new software-defined infrastructure will need to be built on a trusted supply chain to deliver an ecosystem of solutions while management systems in place help to autonomously ensure efficient network operations and a superb customer experience. What is also agreed upon is that Communication Service Providers need open, industry standard architectures combined with software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualisation (NFV), cloud native applications and Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) as key recipes to drive and capitalise on the myriad business opportunities that 5G will offer.

To wit, Dell Technologies and Orange will collaborate on the definition and development of the following:

-Edge technology use cases, business models and proof of concepts

-Open source consortia and partnerships for the edge ecosystem

-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

-AI/ML-enabled software to support remote automation of a multi-technology, heterogeneous edge built on virtual machines, containers, and bare metal workloads

-Edge infrastructure platforms supporting Telco environmental, space, operational and automation requirements

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