Focusing on the theme of field based technologies, I took opportunity to attend a comprehensive event hosted by IET London Network where Dr Tasos Dagiuklas a leading researcher as LSBU spoke about how cloud based offerings are today maturing as commercial solutions specifically to support the needs of field based users. In addition, how future cloud offerings would provide commodity services these users. Cloudlets, Fog and Edge – These 3 words sound too abstractive to describe technology , however, when considered with 5G services as the end goal, these 3 cloud offerings discussed by Dr Tasos Dagiuklas make clear on how cloud solutions will help deliver on the phenomenon of 5G services.
All cloud offerings typically had field users categorised as Machine-to-Machine, Machine-to-Person or Person-to-Person. The requirements of each category had its own specific use-case and its the particulars of these use-cases that define which cloud offering would be suited to each field-user base. For example, vehicles that need to process video data in the cloud need immediate millisecond response times as would augmented reality applications. Even, smart cities, logistic hubs or connected airports/vehicles would also need efficient methods to process all the smart sensor data with particular focus on quality of service – at a macro and micro ecosystem level.
To achieve these real time field-user requirements, cloud offerings now provide the ability to create localised 'mini edge datacenters' that can be customised to each user scenario giving the field-user the exact dedicated computing resources required within a contained environment (similar concept to access points ). These high computing capable mini datacenters therefore accommodate any horizontal and vertical data aggregation efforts needed to provide the user with seamless quality services, including intelligent data analystics, something I touched on in my Oct 2015 Blog.
More excitingly, these mini datacenters are designed with radio access network (RAN) technologies making the full switch into pure 5G services an instant reality – very similar to the game-changing integration of how carrier grade telephone PBX gateways integrated into TCP/IP VoIP gateways in the early 2000’s – but this is on a 5G level !
Until now, cloud solutions were often only described as ‘ servers grouped together ‘ i.e. mainframes. However, with the need to integrate radio based services, cloud solutions are finally introducing themselves into satellite architectures making them much more than traditional mainframe technologies. Who would have thought phones would ever have cpu-computational power ? similarly, this current maturity of cloud might perhaps see phone-technology augment into actual satellites themselves !
To satisfy 5G needs, standardisation efforts will help non functional requirements for almost any use-case, including security needed for different field functions, unpredictable data growth, strong cloud network experience and reduction of TCO per GB. Perhaps the augmented reality version of pokemon-go is not too far away, where wearing glasses that look like swimming goggles can provide the augmented reality medium for the game, or for business users to have their phones with built in projectors to provide virtual cloud based collaboration environments.
This was a very comprehensive event that discussed how modern cloud edge networks are gearing up to provide amazing field user experiences, whether it’s for business or pleasure.
Photo's of the Q&A session held by Dr Tasos Dagiuklas can be seen on the IET London Network link here.
All cloud offerings typically had field users categorised as Machine-to-Machine, Machine-to-Person or Person-to-Person. The requirements of each category had its own specific use-case and its the particulars of these use-cases that define which cloud offering would be suited to each field-user base. For example, vehicles that need to process video data in the cloud need immediate millisecond response times as would augmented reality applications. Even, smart cities, logistic hubs or connected airports/vehicles would also need efficient methods to process all the smart sensor data with particular focus on quality of service – at a macro and micro ecosystem level.
To achieve these real time field-user requirements, cloud offerings now provide the ability to create localised 'mini edge datacenters' that can be customised to each user scenario giving the field-user the exact dedicated computing resources required within a contained environment (similar concept to access points ). These high computing capable mini datacenters therefore accommodate any horizontal and vertical data aggregation efforts needed to provide the user with seamless quality services, including intelligent data analystics, something I touched on in my Oct 2015 Blog.
More excitingly, these mini datacenters are designed with radio access network (RAN) technologies making the full switch into pure 5G services an instant reality – very similar to the game-changing integration of how carrier grade telephone PBX gateways integrated into TCP/IP VoIP gateways in the early 2000’s – but this is on a 5G level !
Until now, cloud solutions were often only described as ‘ servers grouped together ‘ i.e. mainframes. However, with the need to integrate radio based services, cloud solutions are finally introducing themselves into satellite architectures making them much more than traditional mainframe technologies. Who would have thought phones would ever have cpu-computational power ? similarly, this current maturity of cloud might perhaps see phone-technology augment into actual satellites themselves !
To satisfy 5G needs, standardisation efforts will help non functional requirements for almost any use-case, including security needed for different field functions, unpredictable data growth, strong cloud network experience and reduction of TCO per GB. Perhaps the augmented reality version of pokemon-go is not too far away, where wearing glasses that look like swimming goggles can provide the augmented reality medium for the game, or for business users to have their phones with built in projectors to provide virtual cloud based collaboration environments.
This was a very comprehensive event that discussed how modern cloud edge networks are gearing up to provide amazing field user experiences, whether it’s for business or pleasure.
Photo's of the Q&A session held by Dr Tasos Dagiuklas can be seen on the IET London Network link here.