A million pounds will be invested in technology by the Warner Bros.-owned British (United Kingdom and Ireland) television pay-sports channel, specifically to bring 5G and 4G mobile edge computing services to its UK business customers in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and their market-leading 5G and 4G expertise.
With the help of BT's industry-leading 5G and 4G expertise, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Wavelengths, and Everything Everywhere Limited (EE), the UK's second-largest national mobile network operator and internet service provider with over 26.1 million subscribers as of September 2021, more companies will expand throughout the public sector customers in the UK, resulting in faster, secure, and high-bandwidth connectivity on the go for use cases like policing, security, and healthcare.
This investment was made as part of a larger strategy to roll out AWS to business customers across the UK in the upcoming years as well as to immediately upgrade the current mobile networking system. As a result, businesses and public organizations in a 100-kilometer radius around Manchester, including Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, and Blackpool, that are 5G-eligible, will be able to connect their devices via Amazon Web Services (AWS) when a new AWS wavelength is turned on.
What exactly is an AWS wavelength?
AWS Wavelengths are software tools that allow developers to create apps with ultra-low latencies for mobile devices and end users. They typically offer standard AWS computing and storage services appropriate for communication service providers' (5G) networks. Overall, you can extend a virtual private cloud (VPC) to one or more wavelength zones by utilizing AWS resources such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to run applications that require ultra-low latency and access to AWS services in the region.
When integrating AWS compute and storage services into the 5G and 4G networks to provide applications with extremely low latency using AWS wavelength, traffic can reach AWS Wavelength Zone application servers without leaving BT's network. Consequently, reducing lag will be accomplished by the UK's EE network directly delivering mobile edge computing infrastructure and hosting services at the edge. Because of this, companies can securely develop, roll out, and scale mobile Internet of Things (IoT) applications on BT's current 5G network.
Aside from advantages like high bandwidth, speed, sensitivity to latency, and extensive 5G connectivity, customers, companies, and other public services enjoy benefits in community healthcare, vehicle tracking, live media production for outside broadcast, industrial robotics, and policing.
Alex Tempest, the managing director for BT Wholesale, also confirmed the initiative in a public statement, noting that the goal of the multi-million-pound investment is to provide a reliable network and open up use cases such as IoT cameras to assist first responders in keeping communities safe for UK citizens and businesses.
“By integrating cloud-edge services into our 5G and 4G EE networks, we can accelerate innovation across industries and bring quick, secure data processing closer to where our customers need it most.” “We also want to give businesses and government agencies full access to edge computing no matter where they are,” he said.
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