It’s the most wonderful time of the year, for Telco

Yes, we are talking about Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain.

This year, as in years past, Wind River will be at MWC in force to support our partners and customers as it shows its latest offerings designed to evolve the world of mobile communications.

The team of experts will be hosting meetings in the Intel booth (Hall 3, Stand 3E31), and products will be featured in over a dozen demonstrations throughout the event. A big theme for Wind River this year is the network edge, which is reflected in the demonstrations involving products.

As momentum is gained with the Internet of Things (IoT) and pave the road to 5G, getting compute power to the edge of the network becomes more and more important. This approach is known as Mobile Edge Computing (MEC).

By placing cloud computing capabilities at the edge, you effectively create a ‘fog’ which enables mobile operators, service and content providers, Over-The-Top content (OTT) players and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to capture value from the proximity, context, agility and speed that an edge compute solution can provide.

With MEC, it’s as though there will be the installing lots of ‘mini data centres’ located closer to the applications that need the compute power. The importance of high reliability and low latency in an actual Telco data centre goes without saying. 

To be able to achieve that same level of Telco reliability and performance in a small form-factor on the edge is a challenge that partners and customers overcome with Titanium Cloud.

Below is a selection of locations where you can see Titanium Cloud in action. Wind River are helping to power Virtual Basestations, virtual CPE, Cloud RAN, network appliances and more.

Courtesy of Wind River.