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MEC is an idea for network architectures that brings what are normally described as cloud computing services to the “edge” of a mobile network – generally at the base station, or at a point of aggregation of several base stations.

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We’re a company from Dublin, Ireland, that holds events across the world: Web Summit in Lisbon, Web Summit Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Web Summit Qatar in Doha, Collision in Toronto, and RISE in Hong Kong.

Capacity Europe is the continent’s largest meeting for telecoms and ICT infrastructure with over 3,000 attendees from 1,000 companies. 

Join us and some 200 operator attendees in Central London on 6th-7th June 2023 for two days of invaluable, in-person networking and knowledge-sharing.

As telco operators are on the cusp of major network and business transformation choices, we seek to provide a meeting place for the telco community to come together to discuss the short to mid-term challenges impacting the industry, and the opportunities to monetize networks and offer service differentiation.

Written by Mike Dano for LightReading.com

Verizon's financial outlook for 2023 is today much lower than what the company's executives outlined during Verizon's analyst day almost exactly a year ago.

According to Verified Market Research, the telecom cloud market is expected to generate a revenue of US$258.99 billion by 2032, in part due to high hybrid cloud adoption, continued demand for AI-driven network automation and edge computing.

Smartphone makers could be in for a bumpy ride next year, as surging memory prices make devices more costly to produce.

Hello, I’m Andy Bates, a Chief Product Officer and co-founder of StonesThro, which is a UK-based micro-edge cloud start-up.

BT announced the launch of a sovereign platform which will deliver a pioneering suite of new digital sovereignty services for the UK private and public sector.

Cloud-Delivered Security Continues to Outperform while Hardware-centric Segments Normalize

• Softbank and Yaskawa Electric are collaborating on the social implementation of a new type of AI by exploiting AI-RAN
• They will carry out integration analysis of different types of data in real time to offer robots capable of multiskilled functionality in multiple roles
• Data from sen

The future of the network slicing market is so bright as to be incandescent, if ABI Research's latest forecast is anything to go by.

By 2030, More Than 75% of All Enterprises Outside of the U.S.

• Up to 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs will power a 0.5-EFLOPS supercomputer, delivering around 50 percent more AI computing power for Germany 
• Sovereign Deutschland-Stack: SAP solutions will provide the technology platform for easy integration of AI solutions
• From idea to launch in six months 
• Strengthens sove

Global spending on telco network cloud infrastructure and software is projected to grow from $17.4 billion in 2025 to $24.8 billion by 2030, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.3%, according to Omdia’s new Telco Network Cloud Market Tracker – 2025 Annual Forecast Report.