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Author: Amir Rao
Amir Rao is Director of Telco Product Management for EC2 Edge Services at AWS. His global team focuses on building AWS EC2 Edge Services for telco customers, including AWS services and infrastructure required for OSS/BSS, 5G Core and IMS, 5G RAN (CU/DU), and other fixed/mobile network application domains across both public and private networks. His team also focuses on 5G network monetization leading to digital transformation for enterprises by managing AWS products like Wavelength and Integrated Private Wireless. Prior to his current role, he was GM of solutions portfolio at AWS for the telecommunications industry business unit. His led AWS cloud adoption by Telco customers for multiple solutions across the value chain of Telco businesses and topology of Telco network. Amir has over 20 years of global work experience with Tier 1 technology providers such as AWS, Motorola Solutions, Huawei, Nokia, and Microsoft. Throughout his career he has been involved in new technology introduction in global markets, such as CDMA in 2005, WIMAX in 2006, LTE in 2012, 5G MEC (Wavelength Zones) in 2019, AWS Outposts as NFVi in 2019, and 5G Network on AWS cloud with Dish in 2021 and 5G Core on AWS cloud with Swisscom. He is a Stanford Graduate School of Business and London Business School alumni.
AWS announces new Wavelength Zones in Morocco and Senegal
Today, AWS and Orange Middle East & Africa announced plans to bring AWS Wavelength to Morocco and Senegal later this year. In addition to the first AWS Wavelength Zones in Africa, this announcement will mark the first Wavelength Zones in countries without an existing AWS Region or AWS Local Zone. This will enable AWS customers to […]
O2 Telefonica Moves its 5G core network to the Cloud with AWS and Nokia
Today, O2 Telefónica announced its 5G Cloud Core – a new 5G cloud network built entirely in the cloud, using technologies from European network equipment provider Nokia and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’re increasingly seeing more telecom operators recognize the value of moving network workloads to the cloud. Earlier this year, NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO), […]
Samsung and AWS Power Innovation in Virtualized RAN Networks on Public Cloud
As a leader in software-centric network transformation, Samsung keeps pushing the boundaries of mobile network technologies with its long-term R&D vision. Samsung has been at the forefront of evolving telecom networks from traditional hardware-based to flexible software-based architecture, by embracing a virtual and open approach. Collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring end-to-end virtualized […]
AWS and Nokia Collaborate to Drive Operational Simplicity with Carrier-Grade Performance in Cloud RAN
Today at Mobile World Congress, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nokia will showcase a Cloud RAN solution that combines AWS’s reliable and secure infrastructure and cloud services with Nokia’s new In-Line Cloud RAN SmartNIC and Cloud Native RAN Software. The joint solution aims to solve three key challenges. First, it will reduce the complexity to […]
Ericsson and AWS Partner to Support CSPs on Their Journey to Cloud BSS
Communication service providers (CSPs) are looking more and more into the cloud as a source of innovation to increase agility and efficiency at the same time. Ericsson and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are joining forces to deliver on such demand by offering the Ericsson business support systems (BSS) portfolio on AWS. There’s never been a […]