Manufacturing Magazine August 2018 | Page 51

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MOBILE EDGE – THE 5G FRONTIER Central to the firm ’ s shift in business model has been the emergence of mobile edge computing .
The premise of mobile edge is simple – to bring processes closer to the end consumer , thereby reducing congestion on networks and boosting performance of applications .
“ This is all about the computing and the support services closer to the cell towers and at the actual cell tower itself ,” explains Robert .
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“ Mobile edge computing is about using a lot of new virtualisation software technologies and mixing that with a cloud data centre type of environment .
“ As a hardware vendor who is also getting increasingly involved with open source software , edge computing represents a tremendous opportunity for us to provide
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Benoit Robert is Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Kontron ’ s Communications Business Unit and responsible for product strategy , planning and implementation of market and consumer penetration strategies . Benoit specializes in cloud infrastructure and communications technologies and has spent the last 25 years managing product lifecycles , gathering and prioritizing customer requirements and defining product vision . www . manufacturingglobal . com