Since introducing Azure backstage multi-access borderline compute (MEC) successful nationalist preview (June 2021), we person continued to further our ngo of empowering enterprises and governments to execute much with modern connected applications. Azure backstage MEC simplifies adoption of these applications by enterprises with cloud-managed borderline infrastructure and services combined with borderline networking. Private 5G is paving the mode to unlock innovative Industry 4.0 services for enterprises worldwide. As portion of our ongoing efforts, we are besides introducing caller capabilities to supply wider connectivity choices, accrued reliability, unified management, and broader level options to service planetary enterprises astatine scale.

Azure backstage MEC is continually being built and delivered by an expanding acceptable of operators, SIs, and ISV partners. Our partners service a wide scope of industries, including manufacturing, transportation, logistics, energy, retail, and defense. Enterprises present person a prime to prime the close application, deploy quickly, and standard astatine their ain pace. Click the logos to ticker these integer translation stories from our partners and their customers:

 

Enterprises customers successful their ain words

“NEXCOM understands that collaborating with partners is important to success. Inventec’s implicit 5G end-to-end connectivity and Smart Factory solutions utilizing Azure Private 5G Core perfectly complement our ain offerings and capable the Communications Technology gap. What impressed america astir is Inventec’s pioneering efforts to follow the solutions successful its ain factory, with proven ROI. And with the precocious velocity and ultra-low latency of a secured, backstage 5G web vs. Wi-Fi, the AMR tin beryllium deployed successful our mill much efficiently, portion improving productivity and wide operations.”—Clement Lin, CEO NEXCOM.

“Q-tainer is simply a rugged instrumentality that tin withstand the harsh situation of operation sites. Rhomberg Sersa brings the know-how of operation to the table, and Datwyler helps lick our IT challenges, and enables america to enactment and standard the strategy globally. We person a long-standing narration with Microsoft for their hardware and bundle solutions. We are utilizing Azure Stack Edge and Azure Private 5G Core to integrate the Q-tainer) with our operation sites.”—Hubert Rhomberg, Co-Owner Rhomberg Sersa Rail.

Azure Private 5G Core is present mostly available

Last twelvemonth astatine MWC Barcelona, we introduced the nationalist preview of Azure Private 5G Core—a simple, scalable, and unafraid deployment of a 5G standalone halfway web deployed connected the Azure Stack Edge platform. Azure Private 5G Core enables deployment and absorption of 5G halfway web functions connected a tiny footprint borderline compute for a backstage mobile web connected endeavor premises. It connects with 4G and 5G vigor entree networks, devices, SIM, and applications supplied by a increasing database of solution partners.

We are pleased to denote that it is present mostly disposable to deploy and negociate halfway web deployments astatine immoderate endeavor tract astir the world. This merchandise includes a scope of caller and enhanced features: enactment for 4G LTE and 5G standalone radios, accelerated deployment connected Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) connected Azure Stack Edge Pro with GPU, and multi-site deployment.

This merchandise introduces a built-in metrics dashboard, enhanced availability (including a disconnected mode for accrued resilience), precocious SIM security, customized argumentation with QoS support, and enactment for prime Azure Stack Edge and HCI hardware platforms. Multi-slicing and multi-DNN capableness provides granular integration with due endeavor LAN oregon WAN information networks.

If you are acceptable to deploy a backstage 4G oregon 5G network, get started contiguous with Azure Private 5G Core from Azure Marketplace.

Introducing Azure Edge Network Fabric

Operational exertion (OT) devices necessitate an endeavor to take from a assortment of entree methods and carnal web devices for web capabilities. However, a deficiency of unified lifecycle management, argumentation configuration, and troubleshooting marque it analyzable for the endeavor to tally specified multi-access networks successful enactment of their Industry 4.0 initiatives.

To lick these analyzable issues, Azure Edge Network Fabric provides secure, policy-based routing betwixt multi-access devices astatine a customer’s premises to section applications, cloud, and borderline networking similar firewall oregon SD WAN, hosted connected Azure backstage MEC. It is simply a high-performance, tiny footprint instrumentality web function, managed from the cloud, that simplifies backstage MEC deployments. At backstage preview, Azure Edge Network Fabric volition converge postulation from IoT devices crossed some Wi-Fi and 5G connectivity into a communal endeavor web environment.

In collaboration with CommScope, with their enterprise-grade Wi-Fi solution, and Azure Edge Network Fabric, backstage MEC present supports Wi-Fi and 5G entree arsenic 1 unified network, simplifying cognition and absorption of backstage networks.

Introducing Radio Access Network (RAN) Observability

The flexibility to take from pre-validated RAN vendors introduces complexity for monitoring multi-vendor networks. Today, this is solved either by vendor-specific implementations that make lock-ins, oregon with analyzable and non-standard implementations.

Now, we are introducing RAN Observability to collect, adapt, monitor, and analyse RAN Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) from the RAN elements with Azure Private 5G Core online dashboards. This provides our solution partners and endeavor customers with combined observability, web insights, and analytics capableness for the implicit backstage 4G/5G web from a azygous portal, simplifying multi-vendor, multi-site deployments.

We invitation RAN vendors to the Azure backstage MEC ecosystem to behaviour 3GPP functional inter-operability, to onboard web absorption bundle connected Azure, and to integrate metrics to simplify the deployment and absorption of backstage networks by enterprises.

ISV programme for Azure backstage MEC

The motorboat of the ISV Program for Azure backstage MEC gives enterprises entree to a robust ecosystem of validated full-stack solutions, to unlock the worth of their backstage 5G investments, and accelerate time-to-value. With this access, enterprises tin rapidly deploy validated low-latency and high-reliability ISV solutions that leverage 4G/5G networks and borderline compute.

The programme helps ISVs to accelerate the improvement of modern connected applications, arsenic good arsenic time-to-market. ISVs get method guidance connected champion practices for integrating solutions with Azure backstage MEC, including investigating and validation successful the Azure backstage MEC ISV Lab.

Several innovative ISV solutions with a wide scope of usage cases that see robotics, Video AI, and IoT serving successful antithetic industries, person adopted Azure backstage MEC. Their solutions are disposable contiguous connected Azure Marketplace.

Watch this video to learn much astir the ISV program.

Private MEC spouse solution offers

Our telco partners—including AT&T, British Telcom, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, STC, Tampnet, and Telefonica—offer backstage MEC solutions for their endeavor customers. The pursuing SI and ISV partners are creating innovative Azure backstage MEC solutions, published connected Azure Marketplace, to service enterprises crossed aggregate industries:

Manufacturing solutions

• Accenture’s Manufacturing Quality Inspection connected 5G Cloud Box delivers high-speed, flexible connectivity to high-definition wireless cameras, detecting successful real-time immoderate merchandise defect connected the accumulation line.
• Capgemini’s Computer Vision uses entity recognition, assemblage mobility analysis, and facial designation to process real-time, mission-critical information indispensable for operational insights.
• Cognitiwe’s Health and Safety Monitoring provides in-line prime control, banal monitoring, and wellness and information monitoring for manufacturers with real-time and predictive analysis.
• Cognizant’s Vision AI for Worker Health & Safety enhances workforce information by identifying erstwhile workers participate a hazardous work-zone and whereby taking proactive actions to support workers from injury.
• ILink Digital's built MIDAS, is simply a imaginativeness level utilizing AI and instrumentality learning to execute real-time video processing and analytics for speedy actions/triggers for entity classification, entity detection, oregon signifier matching connected a real-time video that tin beryllium utilized for a wide assortment of usage cases to present gross growth, operational efficiency, and process insights.
• Inventec‘s factories with latency-sensitive borderline AI and IoT applications specified arsenic Automated Optical Inspection, distant collaboration, representation recognition, Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR), and Digital Twins.
• RedViking’s Argonaut Industry 4.0 solution enables hazard simplification and resilient operations done machine-to-machine communications, automated information traceability, and real-time decision-making features with 5G connected AGV systems.
• Tech Mahindra’s backstage 5G solutions includes an AI-based video analytics solution to deduce insights into factors causing variations successful measurement and rhythm times, arsenic good arsenic AR headsets to alteration remote adept assist and grooming to enactment workers connected a real-time basis.
• TCS’s Cognitive Plant Operations Adviser helps to marque works operations much predictive, prescriptive, and self-aware with heavy causal reasoning that reduces operations and attraction costs, improves merchandise quality, reduces emissions, increases throughput, and makes accumulation lines much agile and safe.
• weavix, the Internet of Workers platform, is simply a azygous root of information that allows installation owners, manufacturers, and wide contractors to recognize the aboriginal of work.

Transportation and captious infrastructure

• Amdocs’ Smart Lighting for Smart Cities delivers not lone smart, businesslike lighting services but besides public/private net entree capabilities and real-time biology and question information for municipal analytical insights.
• Avanade’s Private 5G-Enabled Utilities - Worker Safety Solution delivers connectivity, push-to-talk, and determination tracking of inferior workers crossed tract sites.
• Datwyler and Rhomberg Sersa Group person joined forces to make the Q-tainer, a mobile information halfway that provides casual plug and play, state-of-the-art connectivity for borderline computing wrong the operation industry.
• HARMAN’s Real Time Cargo Tracking Solution is deployed astatine airports for tracking cargo movements from planes to warehouses to alteration faster level turnaround times and simplification successful mislaid cargo
• HCL’s 5G-Enabled Airports delivers innovative solution similar Airport Ambulance Tracking to automate aesculapian assistance and Water Uplifting to trim airplane turnaround times that are impacted by transportation of high-quality h2o for roaming portable h2o trucks.
• Ipsotek’s VI Suite of products provides edge-based AI and instrumentality learning video analytics solutions for applications from intrusion detection, high-accuracy radical counting, postulation analysis, and concern quality for entity tracking.
• NTT AG’s Smart Airport solution is helping airports to digitally alteration their operations, including baggage handling, rider screening, and information transfer.
• Tech Mahindra’s ContainerSight and DockSight video analytics solutions supply real-time visibility with data-driven determination making to trim shipping instrumentality transport costs and optimize the usage of trucking containers.
• Sensing Feeling’s SensorMAXTM Edge helps owners and operators of real-world spaces amended negociate the risks, safety, and well-being of radical who enactment successful them and the assets they enactment with.

Retail and Entertainment

• Cognitiwe’s Fresh Food Monitoring enables retailers to summation real-time insights and data-driven predictions to assistance retailers go much sustainable and ensures that products are ever caller and of the highest quality, portion reducing the hazard of fraud and shrinkage.
• HCL 5G-Enabled Theme Park delivers an immersive impermanent acquisition comprising of a multi-drone airy amusement performance; 5G-Enabled Casino uses existent clip video analytics to place malicious behaviour successful bid to support a harmless situation for its players.
• Neal Analytics, a Fractal company, accelerates retailers’ data-driven concern translation with proven edge-to-cloud, engineering, and AI expertise, showcased successful their StockView solutions.

Private 5G connectivity

• Accenture: 5G Cloud Box
• British Telecom: Private 5G Networks
• Capgemini: 5G Private Networks
• Cognizant: Private 5G Network Solution
• Compal: Private 5G sub6 and mmWave
• HCL: Private 5G Consultancy Service
• Infosys: Enterprise Private 5G-as-a-Service
• Inventec: 5G Private Network Solution
• NTT: P5G Private Wireless for Enterprise
• Pegatron: 5G Private Network
• Tech Mahindra: Private 5G Wireless Network

Learn much astir Azure backstage MEC

It’s casual to get started with Azure backstage MEC.

As innovative usage cases for backstage wireless networks proceed to make and integer translation accelerates crossed galore industries, we invited ISVs, level partners, operators, and SIs to learn much astir Azure backstage MEC.

Enterprises funny successful immoderate of the solutions listed supra tin interaction our partners via the Azure Marketplace listings, oregon by contacting the Azure backstage MEC team.

Operators, SIs, and networking and exertion ISVs funny successful partnering with Microsoft to physique solutions with backstage MEC tin get started by registering here.

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