Industrial IoT solutions provider Wind River has partnered with British multinational telecom company BT to demonstrate edge cloud computing applications.
Announced at the SDN NFV World Congress in the Netherlands, the demonstration highlights Wind River’s Titanium Cloud, a deployment-ready virtualization software platform designed for edge and telecom environments.
As 5G adoption grows, compute power must move closer to where traffic originates. Traditionally, application logic has been centralized in data centers, but future use cases such as autonomous driving and industrial IoT require distributed processing at diverse network locations. Wind River and BT argue that these scenarios demand compute capabilities much closer to end devices to meet latency, reliability, and bandwidth requirements.
The proof-of-concept platform, deployed on a BT cellular base station, includes an edge cloud compute node running Titanium Cloud and a local traffic offload feature provided by Italian software-based mobile core vendor Athonet. The demonstration illustrates several 5G edge computing use cases, including remote vehicle control for traffic and route management, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications for collision avoidance, and other low-latency applications.
Wind River’s Titanium Cloud portfolio delivers a fully integrated, reliable, and deployment-ready virtualization foundation that helps service providers roll out virtualized services faster, with higher uptime and lower cost. The platform is engineered to meet the stringent demands of critical infrastructure workloads found in industrial control systems and telecommunications networks.
Also present at the event was Centina, a provider of network performance management and strategic assurance solutions. Centina showcased its vSure product and explored topics around network automation. “The road to virtual network transformation is challenging, and the most critical concern for today’s operators is the ability to maintain and exceed service levels during this migration,” said Centina CEO Anand Gonuguntla. “Our solution offers this guarantee to service providers and assures them that their SLAs around customer experience will be met.”
If you want to hear industry leaders discuss these topics and share real-world use cases, consider attending co-located events such as IoT Tech Expo, Blockchain Expo, AI & Big Data Expo and Cyber Security & Cloud Expo. These series host events in key tech hubs like Silicon Valley, London and Amsterdam, and focus on the future of enterprise technology, edge computing, security and emerging digital infrastructure.