Vodafone's strategic partnership with LF Edge
extends community's reach to address instant data exchange at the
far edge
SAN
JOSE, Calif., May 1, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Open Networking & Edge (ONE) Summit — LF
Edge, an umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation
dedicated to fostering an open, interoperable framework for edge
computing, announces that Vodafone has joined the project as a
Premier member. This new partnership is highlighted by Vodafone's
initiation of a pivotal project for LF Edge, designed to exchange
and distribute data in real-time between users in a certain
geography through "far-edge" computing power.
Vodafone, a leader in global telecommunications, joins other
existing LF Edge Premier members: AMD, American Tower, Arm,
AT&T, AVEVA, Baidu, Charter Communications, Dell Technologies,
Dianomic, Equinix, F5, Fujitsu, Futurewei, HP, Huawei, Intel, IBM,
NTT, Radisys, RedHat, Samsung, Tencent, VMware, Western Digital, ZEDEDA. This
membership empowers Vodafone to leverage the collective
capabilities of open source edge computing to develop advanced
networks designed for applications that require low latency and
high reliability, such as 5G, IoT, augmented and virtual reality,
and autonomous vehicles.
As a Premier member, Vodafone will participate actively in the
governance of LF Edge, with Sampada Basarkar, Product &
Platform Engineering Director at Vodafone, gaining a seat on the
project's Governing Board, Technical Advisory Council, and other
committees. This position enables Vodafone to shape the strategic
direction of LF Edge projects and the development of industry
standards
The newly introduced project, named InstantX ( Instant
Exchange), is a cloud and edge cloud platform to exchange and
distribute data in real-time between users in a certain geography
through "far-edge" computing power. It solves the problem of
asynchronous and instant data exchange across clients in the same
region while offering that data for off-line processing and
self-learning to derive further added-values.
"We are thrilled to welcome Vodafone and their innovative
project into our community," said Arpit
Joshipura, General Manager, Networking, Edge, and IoT at the
Linux Foundation. "Vodafone's active participation will propel our
efforts to develop more robust and interoperable edge computing
frameworks, particularly enhancing 5G and Mobile Private Network
connectivity. Their involvement ensures these technologies are
tailored to meet the evolving demands of diverse industries."
Justin Shields, CTO at Vodafone
Business, said, "I'm delighted that Sampada has been invited to
join the board of LF Edge. As a premier member of LF Edge, Vodafone
can bring its own source coding credentials in edge computing to a
leading developer community so that it can benefit many more
organisations and individuals. Partnering with other companies and
developers is the key to unlocking opportunities in edge computing
to support ultra-low latency applications that will drive forward
the industrial internet."
As an event co-host, LF Edge is onsite at Open Networking &
Edge (ONE) Summit this week in San Jose,
Calif. Anyone onsite should stop by the booth from project
demonstrations and check out LF Edge breakout sessions. Session
recordings will be available in the coming weeks.
To learn more about LF Edge and its impact across the open edge
commuting ecosystem, please visit www.lfedge.org.
About the Linux Foundation
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world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that
accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption.
Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving
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Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any
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Media Contact
Jill
Lovato
The Linux Foundation
jlovato@linuxfoundation.org
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