FusionLayer
announced today that it will unveil a patented concept for managing
multi-tenant networks at the Mobile World Congress to be held in
Barcelona between February 24th and 27th, 2020. The new design is
targeted at service providers and carriers looking for cloud-native ways
to manage multi-tenant networking at the edge cloud. The technology
developed by FusionLayer is the only solution in the market that
addresses multi-tenant network management at the edge clouds that
leverage 5G mobility, Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial
Intelligence (AI).
The
telecommunications industry is forced to reinvent itself in the 2020s
as the business model of functioning as the bit pipe for the popular
over-the-top (OTT) media services such as Netflix, Google and Apple is
broken. While the users of these streaming services are consuming an
ever-increasing amount of data over telecom service providers' networks,
the monthly plans with practically an unlimited amount of data are
making it impossible for the telecoms industry to invest in the
next-generation capacity needed to ensure the Quality-of-Service (QoS)
in the mobile Internet services offered to consumers around the world.
"The
2010s will be remembered as the decade during which public cloud
services and over-the-top media services took over the Internet, " said Juha Holkkola,
the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of FusionLayer. "The business
problem that telecom companies are now facing is that their role is
largely restricted to transferring an increasing amount of data packets
at a flat price. Like any commodity business, this is a race to the
bottom that leaves very little financial leeway to invest in new telecom
infrastructure required to keep up with the ever-increasing amount of
data."
To
overcome this business challenge, network equipment vendors such as
Nokia and Ericsson have developed the next generation of mobile
technologies - known as the fifth generation or 5G in short - designed
to provide low levels of latency and large amounts of bandwidth in
densely populated metropolitan areas. To monetize these new
technologies, the telecom industry is now moving its sights to a new
technology called the edge cloud that allows telecom companies to host
local cloud services in their data centers close to the users of
connected devices.
The
new 5G technology is especially suited for these rollouts because it
allows telecom companies to provide blazingly fast network services and
local computing capacity to enterprise customers that cannot afford the
latency between the connected devices and
centralized cloud services such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft
Azure. Typical use cases for this new breed of infrastructure involve
various Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
applications.
"The operational challenge that most telecom companies will face in this area is networking" continued Holkkola.
"The edge clouds are inherently multi-tenant because each one of them
will be used to host the computing needs of hundreds or even thousands
of enterprise customers. While this has been the norm in cloud computing
for nearly a decade, the traditional telecom companies are not
cloud-native and therefore have no operational processes or solutions in
place to manage tens or even hundreds of thousands of private networks
overlapping each other."
The
patented technology developed by FusionLayer allows telecom companies
to manage multi-tenant network environments at the cloud edge. Through a
unified management overlay that facilitates thousands of overlapping
network spaces and more than a hundred thousand networks, FusionLayer is
the only carrier-grade solution designed to manage networks at this
scale. By adding an extremely high-performing virtualized DHCP (vDHCP)
service to the mix, FusionLayer is also able to take care of the IP
addressing for the individual mobile network devices that access the 5G
network through the Points of Presence (POPs) that are the foundation of
the edge cloud.