BitBox USA, LLC, providers of the BitBox IoT platform for
multi-site, distributed facilities' operational intelligence, and EdgeMicro, a leading edge colocation company, continue their partnership to meet the global surge in internet connectivity
needs. Integrating the BitBox IoT Platform as the unified solution to monitor and manage distributed
infrastructure, enables EdgeMicro's micro data centers' (MDCs) rollout to
hundreds of sites in North America and thousands of locations globally.
EdgeMicro's integration
of the BitBox
IoT platform-the market's simplest to deploy, hardware
agnostic and secure IoT platform-allows users to collect, organize and monitor
data sets from distributed critical infrastructure such as EdgeMicro's remote,
lights out facilities. The platform's BitBox Edge Appliance easily installs in any facility, telecommunications
shelter, or edge location. Its intuitive and secure BitEngine cloud portal sorts and
stores all the collected data from globally deployed edge sites, while the BitAPI offers authorization-based access to the enterprise data
collection in a single documented API for web-based,
micro-services analytics and third-party applications.
"The innovative design of the BitBox
IoT platform allows EdgeMicro to simplify distributed infrastructure management
for providers and address latency and backhaul challenges for mobile network
operators and content providers serving mobile internet users," said Michael
Skurla, CTO, BitBox USA, LCC. "Furthermore, our IoT platform allows EdgeMicro
to scale and manage thousands of globally distributed facilities with ease,
while limiting on-site truck-rolls for diagnostic purposes."
As the premier platform-of-choice for innovative companies,
EdgeMicro's colocation solutions deliver the speed, consistency, and
reliability needed to cache and compute at the edge by eliminating complexity
and mitigating risk. Its prefabricated MDC facility design
accommodates eight IT cabinets supported by two network racks. EdgeMicro provides 72kW of protected power in each MDC.
"BitBox IoT Platform's
high reliability, simple deployment, and multiple physical plant systems
monitoring ability was critical in expediting the scaling deployment and
management of our micro data centers anywhere," said Loren Zweig,
EdgeMicro VP of Operations. "The integration allows
us to seamlessly make simple or complex physical plant changes and updates to
our micro data centers concurrently as we scale, or through a change
management process activity, such as adding more UPS equipment, a generator, or
additional rack PDUs, whatever it takes to satisfy our customers' needs."
The internet's
centralized content and peering model (both wired and wireless) is falling
short of solving the performance needs of intelligent devices, high-frame-rate
video, pattern/people recognition and mixed reality environments. EdgeMicro is
creating a distributed carrier-neutral colocation platform and ecosystem
positioned to resolve latency, capacity and security shortfalls present in
today's internet.