[February 22, 2017] |
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Vapor IO Launches Vapor Edge for Telecom
Vapor
IO, the next generation platform for hybrid and edge clouds, today
announced Vapor
Edge for Telecom, an end-to-end platform for edge computing, now
5G-ready and designed to operate as a self-contained microdatacenter at
the base of cell-enabled radio towers.
"Mobile operators and landowners are in an ideal position to capitalize
on the emerging need for low-latency edge-computing," said Cole
Crawford, CEO and founder of Vapor IO. "They own the key infrastructure,
including tens of thousands of remote tower and base station locations
with power and high bandwidth backhaul. These locations are ideal for
Vapor Edge technology, and Vapor Edge can help carriers upgrade their
infrastructure and business models as they move to a fully virtualized
infrastructure with edge computing and 5G capabilities."
Vapor Edge is an end-to-end platform for edge computing that provides
wireless telecom companies with a simple way to deploy and manage cloud
servers that are co-located with their base station equipment. This
makes it easy for carriers and wireless base-station landowners to offer
cloud compute capabilities in close proximity to the Radio Access
Network (RAN), enabling new low-latency applications and creating new
business models for these players as they forge partnerships with public
cloud providers, web-scale companies and other OTT providers to deliver
edge capabilities.
Vapor Edge for Telecom can also help carriers upgrade and virtualize
their networks by providing a way to house and manage their standard
rack-mountable equipment, including rack-mountable cloud servers as well
as C-RAN, NFV, MEC and other specialized telecom equipment.
Vapor Edge for Telecom offers the following key benefits to wireless
operators:
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Available for 5G or 5th Generation Wireless: Vapor Edge for
Telecom supports today's 2G, 3G and 4G technologies, and is currently
available today for the coming 5G technologies that will provide
extremely high-bandwidth, highly-reliable and very low latency
wireless services.
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Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC): Vapor Edge for Telecom
supports the concept of edge computing with or without MEC. Users can
add server equipment to Vapor Edge without requiring any changes to
base station equipment, but also as base station equipment receies
MEC upgrades. Vapor Edge for Telecom interfaces with MEC APIs to
coordinate work as well as expose real time status of the RF network
to cloud applications. Equipment providers can also use Vapor Edge for
Telecom to extend their MEC capabilities by housing MEC servers in the
Vapor Chamber, which will allow for much more expansion capability
than exists in standard base station equipment.
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Network Function Virtualization (NFV): As operators virtualize
their networks and move their networking logic onto commodity
off-the-shelf servers, those servers can be incorporated into Vapor
Edge for Telecom. NFV servers can be housed in the Vapor Chamber
located in a base station and can be instrumented with OpenDCRE for
remote management with Vapor Edge software.
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Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN): Vapor Edge help operators
move their Radio Access Network logic onto off-the-shelf servers.
Vapor Edge also allows the operator to incorporate their own private
cloud for operating C-RAN at the base station.
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Cloud and OTT Services. Vapor Edge allows public and private
cloud providers, as well as OTT providers (such as media companies) to
have a presence in the base station and run workloads on servers in
the Vapor Edge environment, which can be used to offload work from
centralized data centers.
Vapor Edge for Telecom components
Vapor Edge for Telecom consists of patented hardware designs optimized
for edge environments and specialized software for remote operation and
workload management. Included are:
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Vapor Chamber: An extremely dense, highly-efficient,
self-contained and ruggedized server enclosure ideally suited for
harsh environments like at the base of cellular towers. The Vapor
Chamber can house up to 150Kw of equipment in six racks, making it
perfect for building out microdatacenters. Vapor Chamber now has
enhanced telecom-specific options, including seismic and RF shielding
options to accommodate the fact that base stations can be uniquely
harsh environments.
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OpenDCRE: Stands for Open Data Center Runtime Environment. This
is an open source protocol and markup language for organizing and
transmitting server and environmental sensor information. OpenDCRE
provides insight into Vapor Edge microdatacenters for remote and
lights-out operations. The new OpenDCRE interfaces to the base station
hardware / RAN can provide RESTful interface to real-time RF network
state; this allows application providers to make real-time placement
and throughput decisions based on actual congestion on the RF network.
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Vapor Edge Software: Vapor Edge includes Vapor CORE and Vapor
Compass (News - Alert) software that operators use to monitor their equipment and
environment, and control and schedule workloads, in Vapor Edge
deployments. Vapor CORE provides for real-time visualization and
monitoring of all equipment in a Vapor Edge environment. Vapor Compass
works with modern scheduling systems, including Kubernetes, Mesos,
Docker and DC/OS to optimize and control workload placement using
dynamic rules and policies.
Product Information and Availability
Vapor Edge for Telecom is available today for deployments in 2017. For
more product information, as well as to learn more about how Vapor IO is
providing the next generation platform for hybrid and edge clouds,
please visit http://www.vapor.io
or email [email protected].
Supporting Resources
About Vapor IO
Vapor IO is building the cloud of the future. Working with cloud
operators, telcos, real estate holding companies and the world's most
innovative enterprises, Vapor is enabling the next generation hybrid and
edge cloud. For additional information, please visit www.vapor.io.
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