Vapor IO, creators of the Kinetic Edge and
also the leading provider of tower-connected edge colocation services,
has won the Telecom Council's 2018 Zephyr Award for Best Mobile
Opportunity. The Telecom Council identifies and recognizes companies who
represent a broad range of cutting-edge telecom products and services.
Vapor IO has been recognized for its Kinetic Edge platform, delivering a
new category of colocation for edge computing, and moving the
intersection of the wireless and wireline networks much closer to the
end user.
"We're
happy to accept the Telecom Council's Zephyr Award for Best Mobile
Opportunity and appreciate the acknowledgment as we continue to build
the largest footprint of interconnected edge data centers," said Cole
Crawford, founder and CEO of Vapor IO. "Our unique blend of colocation,
interconnection and automation will drive the market forward."
Vapor
IO's Kinetic Edge enables carriers, cloud providers, CDNs, web scale
companies and other innovative enterprises to place IT equipment
(compute, storage, and networking) in Kinetic Edge locations-one hop
from the existing 4G LTE and emerging 5G wireless networks. Its
architecture creates city-sized logical data centers using high-speed
fiber and both open and proprietary software. By interconnecting a ring
of micro data centers, the Kinetic Edge provides highly-distributed
resilience while also allowing compute and storage to span a wide
geographic region while also allowing workloads and data to be placed
extremely close to users.
With
the first Kinetic Edge city, Chicago, online now, Vapor IO is
first-to-market with a comprehensive package of edge colocation,
interconnection and networking services to support the next generation
of applications, including IoT, driverless cars, autonomous robots,
augmented reality and services for the emerging smart city. Vapor IO
plans to have 13 sites underway by the end of 2018, nearly 50 by the end
of 2019 and over 100 by the end of 2020, providing coast-to-coast
coverage.
For more about Vapor IO and their solutions, please visit www.vapor.io