- Google Cloud and
Ericsson come together to help communications service providers deliver
capabilities to the edge, unlocking new possibilities for enterprises and
consumers
- Partnership
brings together Google Cloud’s compute platform with Ericsson’s
market-leading 5G portfolio
- Ericsson, Google
Cloud and TIM are currently piloting 5G cloud solutions in Italy for
telco edge enterprise use cases in automotive, transportation and
other sectors
Google Cloud and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced a partnership to jointly develop 5G and edge cloud solutions to help communications service providers (CSPs) digitally transform and to unlock new enterprise and consumer use cases.
Globally, industries with edge
presences - including communication service providers, retailers,
manufacturers, transport businesses, healthcare and media/entertainment
providers - face pressures to build more digitized businesses and new digital
experiences for their customers.
To help businesses address this
shift, Google Cloud and Ericsson are working together to develop new solutions
at Ericsson’s Silicon Valley D-15 Labs,
a state-of-the-art innovation center where advanced solutions and technologies
can be developed and tested on a live, multi-layers 5G platform.
Ericsson and Google Cloud have
already completed functional onboarding of Ericsson 5G on Anthos to enable
telco edge and on-premise use cases for CSPs and enterprises.
As part of the partnership, Google
Cloud and Ericsson are also piloting enterprise
applications at the edge on a live network with TIM.
The project, which will automate the functions of TIM’s core 5G network and
cloud-based applications, will use TIM’s Telco Cloud infrastructure, Google
Cloud solutions and Ericsson’s 5G core network and orchestration
technologies.
The joint offerings will help
enterprises in the automotive, transportation, manufacturing and other
sectors improve efficiencies and lower latency by bringing connectivity close
to companies’ physical locations.
Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud,
says: “Organizations have a tremendous opportunity to digitally transform their
businesses with 5G and cloud capabilities like artificial intelligence and
machine learning at the edge. We are proud to partner with Ericsson to help
build a foundation for communications service providers and enterprises alike
to take advantage of cloud technology and cloud-native services, from telecom network
core to the edge and enterprise premises.”
Niklas Heuveldop, President and
Head of Ericsson North America, says: “5G is a powerful innovation platform.
Combined with edge cloud capabilities, 5G has the potential to accelerate the
digital transformation of virtually any sector of industry or society. We are
excited about our partnership with Google Cloud as we engage with our customers
to leverage our combined capabilities to solve real-world business challenges
for the benefit of consumers, enterprises and society at large.”
Ericsson and Google previously
formed a services partnership to enable the digital transformation of operator
networks and application migration through cloud-native, container-based
solutions.
To learn more about Google Cloud’s
telecom strategy, click here.
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