Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?
It’s the frequency and the knowledge to configure the software and equipment that is still prohibitively expensive in many cases. And frankly, if you are only providing fixed access to 500 users, I’m not sure even the AWS solution is necessary. Because if you can configure the transport and the software you can probably run a handful of KVM servers. Shane
On Jan 25, 2022, at 6:21 AM, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
On 1/25/22 12:50, Bjørn Mork wrote: I don't know what that article says, but cloudification of the mobile core has been a thing for a while. We have this: https://wgtwo.com/ Disclaimer: I'm working for Telenor and spouse is working for Cisco. WG2 is a joint venture between Cisco, Telenor and Digital Alpha.
I don't think the model is, in and of itself, new.
What's new is that it is available from an "everyday", mainstream cloud provider. In essence, democratizing it and making it more accessible to a variety of markets and scales of operation.
Mark.
On 1/25/22 14:33, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
It’s the frequency and the knowledge to configure the software and equipment that is still prohibitively expensive in many cases.
And I think this is where the AWS solution would be able to come into its own, just like they did with enterprise compute. If they can abstract all of that and price it reasonably, the barrier to entry is significantly lowered.
And frankly, if you are only providing fixed access to 500 users, I’m not sure even the AWS solution is necessary. Because if you can configure the transport and the software you can probably run a handful of KVM servers.
Well, considering that this service is built both for private and public 5G use-cases, I imagine the product is elastic enough to support whichever business model a non-traditional operator may want fulfilled. For AWS, the infrastructure is already there. Whether you are looking to service 500 or 500,000 customers, it'd all be an extension for them. Mark.
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