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From: Paul H. Christiansen3/9/2018 3:17:13 PM
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Vapor IO and Packet Plan AWS-Style Edge Computing Cloud for 5G



In many ways, large telcos today are looking to answer similar questions web giants looked to answer years ago. They need a lot of data center footprint to make the next generation of applications on their networks happen, and they’re figuring out the best ways to go about it.

What’s different is the nature of the data center footprint they need. Instead of enormous campuses the likes of Facebook and Google have been building for themselves, carriers (and others, including the likes of Facebook and Google) now need a large, highly distributed network of small-capacity data centers that will put compute infrastructure as close as possible to as many wireless users as possible.

These so-called edge data centers will help deliver content and applications of the future – applications that are expected to become possible with the arrival of 5G wireless networks – but also ease congestion that already exists on carrier networks thanks to all the content people are consuming on their smartphones.

Building out such a network of data centers is far from trivial, both in terms of cost and complexity. A new partnership between edge data center builder Vapor IO and bare-metal cloud provider Packet aims to build a new business by solving those cost and complexity problems so that network operators don’t have to. They want to do at the edge the same thing Amazon Web Services did when it lowered the barrier to entry infrastructure costs used to present for software startups.

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