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IBM, Nokia Siemens Networks Announce World’s First Mobile Edge Computing Platform

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2/26/2013 2 comments
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I'm not in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, which kicked off there today, but it seems like just about everyone else is.

Please, give my regards to Gaudi, have a few tapas and sangria, and I'll aspire to visit the fair city another day.

Of course, when I say everybody else, I'm including some of my IBM colleagues, all of whom will be front-benching IBM's recently-introduced "MobileFirst" strategy at MWC.

As I indicated in a prior post, IBM is putting some big bucks in mobile, and rightly so. And one announcement from earlier today in Barcelona demonstrates the ramping up of that commitment.

In partnership with Nokia Siemens Networks, IBM announced a collaboration to deliver the world's first mobile edge computing platform that can run applications directly within a mobile base station.

This new platform allows mobile operators to create a truly unique mobile experience, relieve the ever-increasing strain on network infrastructure, and bring completely new solutions to market.

The new platform can accelerate the delivery of media-rich services by delivering content directly from the base station, ensuring enhanced quality of experience for consumers in the face of ever-increasing data traffic growth.

The platform also enables a new generation of low-latency services with device presence to be delivered to consumers, creating new possibilities for mobile gaming, augmented reality, smarter traffic and public safety offerings, and more.

Improved latency can enable high-value vertical solutions that rely on big data-driven analytics to work on very large amounts of information in real time.

For example, IBM's City in Motion solution can analyze radio information to estimate how people are moving through a city, identify their mode of transport, and configure a cities transport network in real time to ensure optimum performance.

If you're in Barcelona for MWC, to see a demonstration at Mobile World Congress, visit IBM (Hall 3, booth 3B86), or Nokia Siemens Networks (Hall 3, booth 3B14) at the show.

For more information on Nokia Siemens Networks' mobile broadband capabilities, including a video overview, follow this link.

And go here to learn more about IBM's communications industry solutions.

To share your thoughts on the topic, join the discussion on Twitter using #MWC13 and #ibmmobile.
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DHagar
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Tuesday February 26, 2013 9:18:42 PM
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Agree, Mr. Roques, this is amazing.

The mobile structure is opening entire new configurations.  IBM is really smart to be building total solution platforms that will serve the user with an applications development base.  That advances the use, the markets, and the business value.

Clearly, IBM's wheels are turning!

DHagar

Mr. Roques
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Tuesday February 26, 2013 5:05:26 PM
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i remember when we concentrated all processing in a main server, then we moved to processing with smart phones but at the same time we have thin clients which are changing the PC industry with the seerver-client approach. IBM and Nokia Siemens is something in the middle? Amazing ideas!
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