MobiledgeX Joins the Telecom Infra Project’s EDGE APPLICATION DEVELOPER Project GROUP
October 16 2018 - 5:00AM
MobiledgeX, Deutsche Telekom and Intel Taking
Leading Roles in Launch of New TIP Project Group Focused on
Enabling Developers to Build the Next Generation of Mobile
Applications on Operators’ Edge Infrastructure
Telecom Infra Project (TIP), a collaborative telecom community
aimed at accelerating the pace of innovation in the telecom
industry, announced today a new project group, led by Deutsche
Telekom, MobiledgeX and Intel, focused on developing publicly
available, vendor neutral APIs and software tools to enable
mobility-centric functions, powered by mobile operator edge
infrastructure.
“MobiledgeX is excited to be a founding member and leader of the
Edge Application Developer Project group within TIP,” said Sunay
Tripathi, CTO and EVP of Engineering at MobiledgeX. “Open APIs and
SDKs that provide access to edge infrastructure resources are what
will empower developers to build the apps and devices of tomorrow,
bringing pervasive and immersive experiences to end users.”
The vision of the Edge Application Developer Project group is to
maintain the current cloud experience by leaving the backend of an
existing application in the central cloud but automating and auto
scaling out of the web tier (application front end) to the edge
locations nearest to the client in a way that is device, operating
system, and language agnostic.
Mobility-centric functions such as identity and trusted
location, predictive quality of experience, dynamic grouping for
multiplayer or multi-device applications (e.g. drones) are key
outputs of the open APIs and SDKs referenced by Sunay. Developer
demand for such functionality is already apparent in the market
with companies like Niantic, creator of leading Augmented Reality
games like Pokémon GO, announcing last week their intentions to
partner with Deutsche Telekom and MobiledgeX to revolutionize user
experiences with the power of edge infrastructure and services.
MobiledgeX plans to use a permissive open source software
license, Apache 2.0, so a developer can release a modified version
of the licensed product under any license of the developer's
choice.
“The investment of $1.7 trillion in mobile infrastructure over
the last 10 years led to the creation of roughly $20 trillion in
industry revenues and in the post cloud era in telecom, we expect
similar levels of investment in the next decade but the potential
value created will grow 2-3x compared to the last decade,” says
Chetan Sharma, CEO of Chetan Sharma Consulting.
Until now, the application developer world had largely been
isolated from the mobile telecom world. This initiative is focused
on ensuring accessibility to the massive existing and future
investments and subsequent capabilities. Bringing developers,
global mobile operators, and technology ecosystem partners together
in a new way is what leaders of the Edge Application Developer
Project group believe makes this endeavor so important and
pivotal.
“We see edge computing as a great business opportunity. Telcos
have a unique advantage in this space - the tight integration with
the network. This enables, for example, next generation augmented
reality applications. We are very excited to support MobiledgeX in
building the Edge Application Developer community in TIP to help
developers take advantage of the global edge,” said Axel Clauberg,
VP of IP End to End & Infrastructure Cloud at Deutsche
Telekom.
For more information on this and other TIP project groups,
visit: https://telecominfraproject.com/project-groups/.
About Deutsche Telekom AG: Deutsche Telekom is
one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies,
which provides fixed-network/broadband, mobile communications,
Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers, and
information and communication technology solutions for business and
corporate customers. DTAG owns several affiliate companies such as
its telecommunication entity in Germany Telekom Deutschland GmbH
(TDG), and various others across middle and eastern Europe in
countries like Poland (T-Mobile Poland), Austria (T-Mobile
Austria), etc About Deutsche Telekom: Deutsche Telekom Company
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About MobiledgeX: MobiledgeX is building a
marketplace of edge resources and services that will connect
developers with the world's largest mobile networks to power the
next generation of applications and devices. MobiledgeX is an edge
computing company founded by Deutsche Telekom and headquartered in
Menlo Park, California. More information on MobiledgeX can be found
in our newsroom.
About Intel: Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) expands the
boundaries of technology to make the most amazing experiences
possible. Information about Intel can be found at
newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
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