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In India, there is fast-emerging demand for a distributed cloud approach – referred to as Edge Cloud<\/a> – and an opportunity for telecommunication service providers to work with enterprises to monetize it. However, to capture customers and maximize ROI, new approaches to network architecture are needed. Ultimately, service providers will need to build networks that are disaggregated and dense at the edge, to not only evolve from 4G to 5G, but to serve all the latency-sensitive use cases emerging even today.
Starting with where the demand for Edge Cloud<\/a> has originated in India, for years, enterprise IT has adopted and moved critical workloads to the public cloud, due to its operational and management advantages over on-premise infrastructure. This has accelerated recently, according to IDC<\/a>. However, this has also increased the computational and network overheads on cloud locations, creating latency problems.
Additionally, an increasing number of applications depend on real-time latency. The business drivers for these are not only consumer behavior, such as adopting ride-sharing in India, but enterprises improving their operations or monetizing improved customer experiences as well. Emerging use cases in these areas that are bandwidth and low-latency dependent include the following examples:
- In retail, during online and mobile shopping, augmented reality – leveraging Edge Cloud processing – can help shoppers virtually try on clothing or test how a piece of furniture might fit into their home. Such an innovation in customer experience creates a competitive advantage for the retailer, meaning the retailer can pass their Edge Cloud costs onto the end consumer in the form of pricing.<\/li>
- Remote industrial operations such as mining, logging, and oil and gas use Edge Cloud to handle basic asset tracking and analytics functions. This is because remote connectivity to conventional cloud data centers would be too spotty and bandwidth-limited for monitoring and managing their assets. <\/li>
- Manufacturing companies want low latency for rapid real-time robotic automation, and are accordingly implementing Edge Cloud for real-time analytics and robot control. As a result, instead of huge investments to implement automation in a very specific task, a general edge cloud platform will dramatically reduce the effort and customization involved with automation.<\/li><\/ul>
India’s service providers are well positioned to build out and monetize the Edge Clouds for these demands. A strategic requirement for Edge Cloud is the real estate closer to consumers and enterprises, which already exists with service providers’ network point of presence (POP), and attractive beach-front real estate locations that were built out originally to offer 2G and 3G<\/a> services across India. As 4G coverage has proliferated in India, service providers increasingly virtualized their network functions. These locations close to the end user, with virtualized architecture, form a solid starting point for becoming preferred Edge Cloud providers.
However, service providers will not be alone in trying to build out and sell Edge Cloud services. Much like the earlier days of public cloud saw entrants from a selection of industries due to its long-term monetization potential, service providers in India will face competition from hyperscale cloud providers and data center operators.
Therefore, despite their advantages, service providers must make it easy and profitable for other business types to buy from or collaborate instead of compete with them, through both business decisions and network design.
For instance, service providers should leverage Edge Cloud to deploy future telco network functions to make network operation more profitable through cloud-native applications that mean transforming their network to become sliceable, elastic, dynamic & programmable. They can also use the same Edge Cloud to create new service offerings for both consumers and enterprise customers. A single Edge Cloud that fills both these network function and customer needs takes the form of a multi-access edge compute (MEC) cloud.
With MEC, service providers can provide near-real-time cloud computing<\/a> capability closer to the consumer and enterprise, coupled with a strong IT environment at the network edge. This offers a platform to launch consumer and enterprise use cases with access to real-time data, leveraging high bandwidth combined with reduced latency benefits provided by edge clouds. All these benefits combine to solve the centralized cloud deployment challenges seen by enterprises today.
For example, in a Ciena MEC demo at Mobile World Congress 2019<\/a>, we demonstrated how mobile virtual network functions (VNF), virtualized content delivery network (vCDN), public\/private cloud, and purpose-built network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) software could be brought together to deliver on-demand automated low-latency video services (such as those in AR\/VR) over a combination of distributed edge and cloud infrastructure.
Converged transport architecture across the telco’s customer spectrum is another key pillar for successful Edge Cloud deployment, reinforcing the need for an end-to-end packet infrastructure, from the access layer through the telco cloud. This provides an underlying xHaul transport network enabling scalable, flexible and reliable application placement with reduced costs. Many of the edge applications could be delivered over 5G – for example, automated manufacturing where manufacturing robots are connected via 5G. Therefore, the same Edge Cloud infrastructure used to deliver 5G could be used to deliver edge applications.
Finally, going back to the competition for Edge Cloud, to prevent encroachment from hyperscalers, service providers should enhance their software development capabilities, offering software compatible with existing multi-access edge and central cloud offerings to ensure optimal processing capability and seamless application migration from private or public clouds to their Edge Clouds.
To summarize, service providers could have an advantage in offering and monetizing Edge Cloud services, as they own existing real estate, networks, and both consumer and enterprise connectivity. However, it is critical for service providers to accelerate the launch of these new use cases with innovative business models, establish early market leadership, and protect and increase wallet share. If they can accomplish all these, they stand to survive and thrive in the battle for the edge.
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在印度,有快速崛起的分布式云计算需求的方法,称为边云和电信服务供应商与企业合作的机会赚钱。然而,捕捉客户和ROI最大化,需要网络体系结构的新方法。最终,服务提供者将需要建立网络分类和密集的优势,不仅从4 g 5 g,但服务所有的新兴即使在今天对延迟敏感的用例。
从需求的地方边云起源于印度,多年来,企业采用,关键工作负载转移到公共云,由于其操作和管理本地优势的基础设施。这加速了最近,根据IDC。然而,这也增加了对云计算和网络开销位置,造成了延迟问题。
此外,越来越多的应用程序依赖于实时延迟。这些不仅是消费者行为的业务驱动因素,如在印度采用的拥有权,但企业改善经营或货币化改善客户体验。在这些领域新兴的用例,带宽和低延迟依赖包括下面的例子:
- 在零售、在线和移动购物、增强现实技术——利用边缘云处理——几乎可以帮助顾客试穿衣服或测试一件家具如何融入他们的家。这样的客户体验的创新创造了一个零售商的竞争优势,这意味着零售商可以通过边缘云成本到终端消费者的形式定价。
- 远程工业操作,如采矿、伐木、石油和天然气的使用云边缘处理基本资产跟踪和分析功能。这是因为远程连接传统的云数据中心将过于参差不齐的和带宽有限的监测和管理他们的资产。
- 制造企业需要低延迟快速实时机器人自动化,并相应地实现边缘云实时分析和机器人控制。结果,而不是巨大的投资在一个非常具体的任务,实现自动化一般边缘云平台将极大地减少与自动化相关工作和定制。
印度服务提供商已做好准备,来构建和货币化边缘云对这些要求。战略要求边缘云是房地产更接近消费者和企业,与服务提供者已经存在的网络的存在(流行),和有吸引力的房地产中介商位置建立最初提供2 g和3 g服务在印度。随着4 g覆盖在印度发展迅速,服务提供者越来越虚拟化的网络功能。这些位置接近最终用户,与虚拟化架构,形成一个坚实的起点成为首选的边缘云提供商。
然而,服务提供者将不会独自在试图构建云服务和销售优势。就像公共云看到进入者的早期选择的行业由于其长期盈利潜力,印度服务提供商将面临来自云提供商和超大型数据中心运营商的竞争。
因此,尽管他们的优势,服务提供者必须使它容易为其他业务类型和有利可图的购买或合作,而不是与他们竞争,通过业务决策和网络设计。
例如,云服务提供商应该利用边缘部署未来电信网络功能使网络操作更有利可图的通过原生云应用程序意味着改变其网络成为切割,弹性、动态和可编程。他们还可以使用相同的边缘云创建新的服务对于消费者和企业客户。单个云边缘填充这两个网络功能和客户需求的云计算(MEC)多路存取的优势。
通过MEC,服务提供商可以提供近实时云计算能力接近消费者和企业,加上强大的IT环境在网络边缘。这提供了一个平台,推出消费者和企业用例提供实时数据,利用高带宽结合减少延迟边缘云提供的好处。所有这些好处相结合来解决集中云部署被企业今天的挑战。
例如,在Ciena MEC演示在2019年移动世界大会,我们演示了如何移动虚拟网络功能(VNF),虚拟化的内容分发网络(vCDN),公共/私有云,专用网络功能虚拟化基础设施(NFVI)软件可以一起提供按需自动低延迟视频服务(比如在AR / VR)分布的边缘和云基础设施的组合。
聚合传输架构在电信的客户范围是成功的另一个关键支柱边云部署,加强对端到端的包基础设施的需求,从通过电信的访问层云。这提供了一个潜在的xHaul交通网络使可伸缩、灵活和可靠的应用程序位置与降低成本。许多边缘的应用程序可以交付/ 5 g -例如,自动化的生产制造机器人通过5 g连接的地方。因此,同样的边缘云基础设施用于交付5 g可以用来提供优势的应用程序。
最后,回到云竞争优势,防止侵犯hyperscalers,服务提供商应加强自己的软件开发能力,提供软件兼容现有的多路存取的边缘和中心云产品,以确保最佳的处理能力和无缝应用程序迁移从私人或公共云边缘云。
总而言之,服务提供者可以在提供有优势和货币化边缘云服务,因为他们自己的现有房地产、网络和消费者和企业连接。然而,它对服务提供者至关重要加快推出这些新用例与创新的商业模式,建立早期的市场领导地位,保护和增加钱包份额。如果他们能做到这些,他们站在战斗中生存和发展的优势。
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