The private 5G edge is clearly here to stay
on April 6, 2021, 9:38
Editor's take: If you’ve been following the big trends in the tech industry, you’ve undoubtedly heard a lot about both private 5G networks and edge computing. As exciting as these technologies may be, the truth is that most of the discussion about them has been more theoretical than practical. Despite all the chatter, there simply aren’t that many real-world implementations of either of them, and even fewer that use the two together. That’s why this announcement is a big deal.
Verizon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have a real-world customer, in the form of Corning’s fiber optic cable factory, for their Private 5G Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) service with AWS Outposts. The combination of the two technologies brings the security, reliability, and speed of a private 5G network together with the increased performance and reduced latency that edge computing applications enable.