Telecos are still trying to figure out what to do with the cloud
This week as the mobile world has its eyes on Barcelona, Ericsson – a major supplier of equipment for telecommunication providers – has announced a broad-ranging, and slightly vague, partnership with Amazon Web Services.
The pact announced at Mobile World Congress marks the latest effort by a teleco provider to figure out how to deal with cloud computing services. Other telecos are struggling with the same question.
Swedish-based Ericsson says it is training up its workforce of consulting engineers to help its telecommunications clients use AWS’s cloud. Here’s what Ericsson said when announcing the agreement:
As part of this announcement, Ericsson is creating a global team of experts focused on the AWS Cloud and opening cloud innovation centers with customers, and AWS is supporting Ericsson in this effort. Ericsson will contribute expertise from its 25,000 R&D engineers and 66,000-person service workforce – more than 17,000 of whom are consultants and systems integrators, delivering 1,500 projects per year around the world.
What can telecos use the cloud for? It’s still somewhat vague at this point, but basically Ericsson officials say that anything that requires compute, network or storage infrastructure can be done in Amazon’s cloud. It lists a couple of examples such as: End-to-end security and data traffic management services hosted in AWS; workload management from the cloud; or telecos could act as a gateway for customers to access data stored in AWS’s cloud.
More broadly, the move represents the continually shifting strategies telecommunication providers have with regards to cloud services.
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SOURCE: Network World
Brandon Butler
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