2020 Showcase
2020 Edge and Beyond Report
The 2020 Edge and Beyond Report provides an overview and analysis of the reality on the ground as well as recommendations on how cloud providers, enterprises, carriers, and other ecosystem members should position themselves to take advantage of the cloud’s next evolution.
Sponsor Spotlight Accedian
Performance Assurance and QoE at the Edge and Beyond
The opportunity that lives at the edge is not just about speed and performance, but the consistent, unwavering delivery of that performance. Kaela Loffler, VP of Marketing at Accedian, talks about the demands next-gen edge applications will place on the network. She highlights the importance of visibility into performance across complex, multi-vendor, multi-operator, and multi-cloud environments. With the USD 190B gaming industry as a backdrop, she discusses the importance of achieving speed, low latency, and consistent, guaranteed performance at the edge.
Sponsor Spotlight Arm
Portability is Key to the Edge
As we think about moving computing from the core data centers to the edge, portability will be key to building out edge infrastructure. In this video, Chris Bergey, SVP/GM Infrastructure Line of Business at Arm, talks about the concept of portability as illustrated in Arm’s Project Cassini which brings cloud-native technologies to the edge to enable a secure and portable computing environment.
Sponsor Spotlight Infinera
Four Key Things to Know about Open, Disaggregated Transport for 5G
Architectural changes are needed in optical transport networks to accommodate 5G. In this video, Tim Doiron, Senior Director of Solution Marketing at Infinera, discusses four key attributes of open, disaggregated transport networks. Operators will not tolerate Open RAN and closed transport.
Sponsor Spotlight Juniper Networks
The Role Operators can play at the Edge
Over 50 billion devices are expected to come online next year, driving the need for edge-located control points to manage these devices in real-time and near real-time. For service providers, this makes edge compute a critical and strategic area of focus. Sally Bament, VP of Marketing at Juniper Networks, discusses the role operators can play in the edge value chain.
Sponsor Spotlight Kaloom
It takes a Village to Build the Edge
The forces of cloud-native containerization are liberating today’s workloads, moving them closer to end-users. As service providers and enterprises contemplate what this means for the infrastructure, it’s clear it will take a village to build and deliver enhanced applications over optimized networks. Hitendra Sonny Soni, SVP Worldwide Sales at Kaloom, shares key market drivers and requirements to build the edge. He explains how Kaloom, in concert with Red Hat and Intel, delivers innovative disruption through its Unified Edge Solution.
Sponsor Spotlight Lenovo
Enabling Digital Transformation with Optimized Edge Computing
Edge computing helps businesses further their digital transformation journey. However, getting from pilot to production at scale can come with many pain points. In this video, Jean-Marius Antonica, Software Product Line Manager at Lenovo, talks about the challenges customers are facing when trying to productize edge deployments and how Lenovo’s edge devices and automation tools help address these challenges.
Sponsor Spotlight LF Edge
Automation is Key to the Edge
LF Edge now has multiple open source projects underway to redefine the capabilities and efficiencies of the next-gen intelligent network edge. One of the key foundational capabilities that unlocks the full value of the edge is automation. Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and Co-founder of RackN, and LF Edge Board Member, discusses the importance of automation and how it enables for scaling edge deployments.
Sponsor Spotlight Open Networking Foundation (ONF)
SD-RAN at the Edge
With the open, disaggregated RAN as a potential key use case for the edge, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is taking the next step to develop open source software to plug into the new O-RAN Alliance architecture. Timon Sloane, VP of Marketing and Ecosystem at the Open Networking Foundation, provides a 3-minute introduction to the ONF's new SD-RAN project (Software Defined Radio Access Network) and describes how it will bring excitement to the edge.
Sponsor Spotlight Pluribus Networks
Four Key Things to Know about Edge Data Center Networking
The buildout of edge data centers will be one of the big investment trends for 2021. In this 3-minute clip, Mike Capuano, Chief Marketing Officer of Pluribus Networks, outlines 4 key things to know about edge data center networking.
Sponsor Spotlight Red Hat
Edge and Beyond: Use Cases Drive Innovation
Edge applications for industrial customers involve the movement of workloads close to customers, while enhancing these workloads with the ability to perform near-real-time data computation. These applications, composed of microservices, will sit on open cloud-native platforms. These are some of the key insights that Ian Hood, Chief Technologist, Global Service Provider Business at Red Hat, share in this exclusive video.
Sponsor Spotlight Telecom Infra Project (TIP)
Building an Open Edge
David Hutton, Chief Engineer at Telecom Infra Project (TIP), discusses edge computing benefits as well as the ongoing efforts of TIP project groups such as Open Core Network and OpenRAN. He shares how there's a real opportunity for operators to unite on a platform-based approach for edge computing and discusses how an open ecosystem can evolve to serve new use cases.
Sponsor Spotlight The Linux Foundation
LF Edge Progress Report
LF Edge now has multiple open source projects underway to redefine the capabilities and efficiencies of the next-gen intelligent network edge. Arpit Joshipura, GM Networking + Edge IoT at the Linux Foundation, provides an update on the latest across the key LF edge projects and charts their progress.
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What the 2020 Edge and Beyond report finds
These interviews frame the edge as the cloud's next evolution, where workloads move closer to users and devices. The common thread is that realizing edge value depends on open, disaggregated infrastructure, cloud-native portability, automation, and assured performance across complex multi-vendor environments.
Open and disaggregated wins
Infinera argues operators will not tolerate Open RAN with closed transport, pushing open disaggregated optical transport for 5G. ONF and TIP advance open source and open-ecosystem approaches like SD-RAN and Open Core Network for the edge.
Portability underpins edge buildout
Arm's Project Cassini brings cloud-native technologies to the edge for a secure, portable computing environment, while Kaloom's Unified Edge Solution, with Red Hat and Intel, rides cloud-native containerization moving workloads to users.
Automation makes edge scale
LF Edge's Rob Hirschfeld calls automation the foundational capability that unlocks edge value and scaling, and Lenovo's automation tools help customers move edge deployments from pilot to production.
Performance assurance is non-negotiable
Accedian stresses consistent, guaranteed performance and visibility across multi-vendor, multi-operator, multi-cloud environments, using the USD 190B gaming industry to illustrate demands for speed and low latency.
Devices and use cases drive the edge
Juniper cites over 50 billion devices coming online, requiring edge control points, while Red Hat highlights industrial microservices workloads performing near-real-time computation on open cloud-native platforms.
Edge data centers are the investment trend
Pluribus Networks outlines key considerations for edge data center networking, calling the buildout of edge data centers one of the big investment trends for 2021.
Highlights from industry thought leaders
Video interviews
Performance Assurance and QoE at the Edge and Beyond
- Accedian's Kaela Loffler stresses consistent, guaranteed performance, not just speed, at the edge.
- Visibility across multi-vendor, multi-operator, multi-cloud environments matters, illustrated by the USD 190B gaming industry.
Abstract
The opportunity that lives at the edge is not just about speed and performance, but the consistent, unwavering delivery of that performance. Kaela Loffler, VP of Marketing at Accedian, talks about the demands next-gen edge applications will place on the network. She highlights the importance of visibility into performance across complex, multi-vendor, multi-operator, and multi-cloud environments. With the USD 190B gaming industry as a backdrop, she discusses the importance of achieving speed, low latency, and consistent, guaranteed performance at the edge.
Portability is Key to the Edge
- Arm's Chris Bergey says portability is key to building out edge infrastructure.
- Arm's Project Cassini brings cloud-native technologies to the edge for a secure, portable computing environment.
Abstract
As we think about moving computing from the core data centers to the edge, portability will be key to building out edge infrastructure. In this video, Chris Bergey, SVP/GM Infrastructure Line of Business at Arm, talks about the concept of portability as illustrated in Arm’s Project Cassini which brings cloud-native technologies to the edge to enable a secure and portable computing environment.
Four Key Things to Know about Open, Disaggregated Transport for 5G
- Infinera's Tim Doiron outlines four attributes of open, disaggregated optical transport networks for 5G.
- Operators will not tolerate Open RAN paired with closed transport.
Abstract
Architectural changes are needed in optical transport networks to accommodate 5G. In this video, Tim Doiron, Senior Director of Solution Marketing at Infinera, discusses four key attributes of open, disaggregated transport networks. Operators will not tolerate Open RAN and closed transport.
The Role Operators can play at the Edge
- Juniper's Sally Bament notes over 50 billion devices coming online, driving demand for edge control points.
- Edge compute is a critical, strategic focus area for service providers in the value chain.
Abstract
Over 50 billion devices are expected to come online next year, driving the need for edge-located control points to manage these devices in real-time and near real-time. For service providers, this makes edge compute a critical and strategic area of focus. Sally Bament, VP of Marketing at Juniper Networks, discusses the role operators can play in the edge value chain.
It takes a Village to Build the Edge
- Kaloom's Hitendra Sonny Soni says cloud-native containerization is moving workloads closer to end-users.
- Kaloom delivers its Unified Edge Solution in concert with Red Hat and Intel.
Abstract
The forces of cloud-native containerization are liberating today’s workloads, moving them closer to end-users. As service providers and enterprises contemplate what this means for the infrastructure, it’s clear it will take a village to build and deliver enhanced applications over optimized networks. Hitendra Sonny Soni, SVP Worldwide Sales at Kaloom, shares key market drivers and requirements to build the edge. He explains how Kaloom, in concert with Red Hat and Intel, delivers innovative disruption through its Unified Edge Solution.
Enabling Digital Transformation with Optimized Edge Computing
- Lenovo's Jean-Marius Antonica addresses pain points in moving edge from pilot to production at scale.
- Lenovo's edge devices and automation tools help productize edge deployments.
Abstract
Edge computing helps businesses further their digital transformation journey. However, getting from pilot to production at scale can come with many pain points. In this video, Jean-Marius Antonica, Software Product Line Manager at Lenovo, talks about the challenges customers are facing when trying to productize edge deployments and how Lenovo’s edge devices and automation tools help address these challenges.
Automation is Key to the Edge
- RackN's Rob Hirschfeld calls automation the foundational capability that unlocks the full value of the edge.
- Automation enables scaling of edge deployments across LF Edge's open source projects.
Abstract
LF Edge now has multiple open source projects underway to redefine the capabilities and efficiencies of the next-gen intelligent network edge. One of the key foundational capabilities that unlocks the full value of the edge is automation. Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and Co-founder of RackN, and LF Edge Board Member, discusses the importance of automation and how it enables for scaling edge deployments.
SD-RAN at the Edge
- ONF's Timon Sloane develops open source software to plug into the O-RAN Alliance architecture.
- The new SD-RAN project targets the open, disaggregated RAN as a key edge use case.
Abstract
With the open, disaggregated RAN as a potential key use case for the edge, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is taking the next step to develop open source software to plug into the new O-RAN Alliance architecture. Timon Sloane, VP of Marketing and Ecosystem at the Open Networking Foundation, provides a 3-minute introduction to the ONF's new SD-RAN project (Software Defined Radio Access Network) and describes how it will bring excitement to the edge.
Four Key Things to Know about Edge Data Center Networking
- Pluribus Networks' Mike Capuano calls edge data center buildout a big investment trend for 2021.
- He outlines four key things to know about edge data center networking.
Abstract
The buildout of edge data centers will be one of the big investment trends for 2021. In this 3-minute clip, Mike Capuano, Chief Marketing Officer of Pluribus Networks, outlines 4 key things to know about edge data center networking.
Edge and Beyond: Use Cases Drive Innovation
- Red Hat's Ian Hood describes industrial edge workloads doing near-real-time data computation close to customers.
- These microservices-based applications sit on open cloud-native platforms.
Abstract
Edge applications for industrial customers involve the movement of workloads close to customers, while enhancing these workloads with the ability to perform near-real-time data computation. These applications, composed of microservices, will sit on open cloud-native platforms. These are some of the key insights that Ian Hood, Chief Technologist, Global Service Provider Business at Red Hat, share in this exclusive video.
Building an Open Edge
- TIP's David Hutton discusses edge computing benefits and project groups like Open Core Network and OpenRAN.
- He sees an opportunity for operators to unite on a platform-based, open-ecosystem approach to edge computing.
Abstract
David Hutton, Chief Engineer at Telecom Infra Project (TIP), discusses edge computing benefits as well as the ongoing efforts of TIP project groups such as Open Core Network and OpenRAN. He shares how there's a real opportunity for operators to unite on a platform-based approach for edge computing and discusses how an open ecosystem can evolve to serve new use cases.
LF Edge Progress Report
- The Linux Foundation's Arpit Joshipura updates progress across the key LF Edge open source projects.
- These projects aim to redefine the capabilities and efficiencies of the intelligent network edge.
Abstract
LF Edge now has multiple open source projects underway to redefine the capabilities and efficiencies of the next-gen intelligent network edge. Arpit Joshipura, GM Networking + Edge IoT at the Linux Foundation, provides an update on the latest across the key LF edge projects and charts their progress.
Extending cloud applications to take into account edge locations will take a significant effort and will be a multi-phased project, focusing on addressing the most pressing needs first.
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