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How Red Hat and Verizon are building the hybrid mobile edge together

March 1, 2022

Last year, we announced how Verizon and Red Hat are teaming up to deliver a hybrid mobile edge computing (MEC) solution using Verizon 5G Edge and Red Hat OpenShift – a novel approach to converge both public 5G networks with AWS Wavelength and private 5G networks with AWS Outposts under a single compute mesh using Kubernetes. 

Today, we wanted to introduce an additional layer of abstraction in multi-cloud hybrid MEC. While we primarily focused on the architecture of Red Hat OpenShift during re:Invent itself, we wanted to take the time to highlight the theory behind "why hybrid MEC."

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Keynote: State of the Industry with Bharti Airtel

Hear from Bharti Airtel’s Chief Technology Officer, Randeep Sekhon, on their vision for the future of telecom and their network initiatives to prepare the way forward. To set the foundation for a future-ready network, Randeep talks to Darrell Jordan Smith, Red Hat, about Airtel’s journey to open source and how the move has helped them mitigate challenges created by the realities of today.

Red Hat welcomes you to MWC22!

Gino Grano, Red Hat's Vice President of Americas TME Sales, shares his thoughts on the industry trends that will have the strongest impact on the telecom, media and entertainment industry in 2022, especially in North America and Latin America.

Technically Speaking: A vested interest in 5G

Network upgrades come and go, so why is 5G a big deal? Srini Kalapala, Vice President of Technology and Supplier Strategy at Verizon, joins Red Hat CTO Chris Wright to talk about what makes 5G different from previous networks and explains the role open source has played in the development of the network and its potential for the future of the telco ecosystem.

Service Provider Transformation: Enabled by an Open Ecosystem

The Red Hat network ecosystem brings together industry-leading partners and trusted open source communities to deliver innovative, validated, integrated solutions to the telecommunications industry.

Technically Speaking: Edge IT: A space odyssey

How do you manage IT Ops at the edge? Open the pod bay doors, Chris. Stefanie Chiras, Senior VP and General Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, drops in to chat about how edge computing is changing how businesses operate IT infrastructure and services.

Technically Speaking: Edge computing covered and diced

What is edge computing, and what does it mean for data workloads, latency, and our precious, precious bandwidth? Red Hat CTO Chris Wright reboots Technically Speaking in this first episode where we explore edge computing.