Category: Telecommunications

Amid Europe’s digital transformation, here’s how the cloud is propelling telcos to optimize networks, reduce costs, boost sustainability and resiliency, and power innovative services. The Digital Decade, the European Commission’s vision for Europe’s digital transformation by 2030, gives Europe the opportunity to gain leadership in the global digital economy, but achieving it requires collaboration across […]

Over the last decade, telecom operators and network vendors have transformed communications networks from vertically integrated hardware and software systems to software Network Functions (NF) capable of operating on Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware. We now stand at the cusp of the next phase of their evolution to cloud-native functions capable of taking advantage of the […]

With the introduction of AWS Hybrid Cloud and Edge Computing services, we are rapidly expanding our global footprint of AWS infrastructure to provide developers with lower latency access for compute and storage services. Just within the United States alone, 19 AWS Wavelength Zones are now generally available. With more choices than ever for where to […]

Vodafone Group Plc [VOD] is a global communications company offering a combination of mobile, fixed, TV, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and cloud & security services to consumers and enterprises. With network presence in many countries worldwide, Vodafone serves more than 330M mobile subscribers and over 28M fixed broadband users in Europe. Like many other Telcos, Vodafone has […]

This blog was written in collaboration with OpenSesame and the 5GFF Technical teams from Vodafone, Rogers and Verizon. On March 1, 2023, at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, the 5G Future Forum (5GFF) and Open Sesame Media, Inc. (Open Sesame) demonstrated a first-of-a-kind cross-operator music jam session using AWS multi-access edge compute (MEC) technologies […]

When Communication Service Providers (CSP) deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) or 5G network functions on AWS, they are presented with different options for user plane data network breakout through the SGi (for LTE) or N6 (for 5G) interface. 3GPP defines SGi Interface as the reference point between the Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway – S-GW […]

Visit our booth The world’s largest industrial conference, Hannover Messe begins on April 17th, 2023 in Hannover Germany. Once again, look for Amazon Web Services to have a large presence at the event, but in a different location than previous years, in Hall 15 booth D74 right by the main entryway. To get your free […]

It’s taken a few days to digest another whirlwind MWC, and here’s a summary of my personal highlights, plus my picks of the key trends and announcements. First and foremost, what was really apparent to me at MWC23 was the move from focusing on individual technologies and services to real live use cases and solutions. […]

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 […]

Reliability and high availability are key design principles for an application deployment. Even though an Availability Zone (AZ) is comprised of one or more data centers, you should design your applications to handle AZ failure in rare circumstances. Some applications, such as telco and networking applications, rely on highly-available floating/virtual static IP addresses to provide […]