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Microsoft introduces Azure Operator Distributed Services, expanding its 5G services for carriers

microsoft has submitted his hybrid cloud platform for telecom operators, Azure Operator Distributed Services. It is focused on making it easier for operators to take advantage of 5G, bringing the cloud and the edge closer to enable low latency applications, with a lower cost and greater range.

All the innovations included in the platforms are designed to make it easier for operators to carry out their own digital transformation, with the creation of new services that will allow them to monetize their network. In addition, it makes it easy for them to obtain solid information about their customers and their infrastructure. In this way they have more facilities for proactive decision making.

Azure Operator Distributed Services has been built from the ground up, and is ready for running network-intensive workloads and mission-critical applications. It also meets the security, resilience, monitoring and performance requirements required by operators and necessary to advance in their digital transformation. Apart from this, it offers them the opportunity to run all their workloads on a single hybrid platform, which is also tailored to their specific needs as operators.

It supports 5G mobile and voice networks, and will combine the security of Azure with the management of Azure Arc with monitoring, analytics, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and other Azure services. Customers of the service can run the platform in the Azure public cloud or on facilities of various carriers, such as AT&T. Azure Operator Distributed Services was designed to support AT&T’s mobile core network, which includes more than 60 cloud-native network functions, as well as virtual network functions from 15 different providers, which are already available through the Network Cloud platform. from AT&T.

It is about the evolution of Azure for Operators, which today announces its next generation, and which was born in 2020 to help operators and companies deploy their networks effectively, operate efficiently and accelerate the pace of launching new 5G products and services. Also to take advantage of the investments made by the operators to be able to reposition the operators in the value chain.

Last June, Microsoft introduced a new category, which it called Azure Private MECwith which telecommunications operators and system integrators can take advantage of 5G in the business market.

It is not the only novelty of the company within the framework of the MWC, because it has also announced the start of the private test phase of Azure Operator 5G Core, which is deployed on the Azure Operator Distributed Services platform. It is also launching a public test version of Azure Private 5G Core, which is designed to give carriers and system integrators a means to deploy private 4G and 5G networks at the edge in products like Azure Stack Edge.

Those of Redmond have also announced Azure public MEC, which officials describe as a high-performance, low-latency app support tool at the operator’s edge, using public 5G network connectivity. With Azure public MEC, customers can analyze data closer to where it is captured from users and devices at the edge, such as industrial IoT devices, cars, and smartphones. Microsoft is collaborating with various carriers and ISVs to offer Azure public MEC. Among them AT&T, Sintel, Checkpoint, Couchbase and VMware.

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