Dell and Google have both detailed new offerings for mobile operators looking to roll out new 5G services, in further evidence of the growing convergence between the technology and telecoms sectors.
Google has taken the wraps off Google Distributed Cloud, a portfolio of hardware and software services that bring Google’s infrastructure to the network edge or local data centre.
The most revolutionary of 5G applications – such as Industry 4.0, virtual reality and some AI workloads that rely on real time data – will require ultra-low latency that is simply impossible to achieve using a traditional cloud structure and a centralised data centre.
