STOCKHOLM and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Ericsson and Google Cloud announced today they are partnering to jointly develop 5G and edge cloud solutions for telecommunications companies and enterprises.
The companies say their partnership is designed to provide solutions to help communication service providers (CSPs) digitally transform and to unlock new enterprise and consumer use cases for industries with edge presences, which includes not only CSPs but also retailers, manufacturers, transport businesses, healthcare, and media and entertainment providers.
These solutions are being co-developed at Ericsson’s Silicon Valley D-15 Labs, an innovation centre where advanced solutions and technologies can be developed and tested on a live, multilayer 5G platform, says Ericsson’s press release.
In Canada, Ericsson is the lead wireless tech supplier to Rogers Communications.
Ericsson and Google Cloud have already completed functional onboarding of Ericsson 5G on Google Cloud’s Anthos platform to enable telco edge and on-premise use cases for CSPs and enterprises, says the release.
As part of their partnership, Ericsson and Google Cloud are also piloting enterprise applications at the edge on a live network with Italy’s TIM. Designed to automate the functions of TIM’s core 5G network and cloud-based applications, the project will combine TIM’s telco cloud infrastructure with Google Cloud solutions and Ericsson’s 5G core network and orchestration technologies. The joint offerings expected to result from this project “will help enterprises in the automotive, transportation, manufacturing and other sectors improve efficiencies and lower latency by bringing connectivity close to companies’ physical locations,” says the release.
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