Vodafone is among the first telcos globally to partner with Amazon Web Services for Wavelengths, an AWS edge computing service that puts an AWS node in a telco edge facility.
AWS Wavelength will be available first in the UK and Germany on the Vodafone 5G network, expanding to other Vodafone markets across Europe, Vodafone says. Though there is no particular reason why Wavelengths must be the only Vodafone initiative in edge computing, Wavelengths is described as “multi-access edge computing” by Vodafone.
Multi-access edge computing has been viewed as a way for mobile operators and possibly others to participate in the edge computing market. Originally known as mobile edge computing, the concept now includes Wi-Fi or fixed network edge, not just mobile edge.
Multi-access edge is meant to delineate edge computing owned and operated by enterprises or consumers, on devices or on the premises, from service provider facilities and services, from offerings by other third parties, including content delivery networks, data centers or others operating at the metro edge.
Wavelengths essentially is a low-risk, lower investment, but also lower upside way of participaing in edge computing, as it is AWS that actually provides the edge computing. Vodafone and other telco partners really only supply racks and hosting.
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