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Huawei has successfully built intelligent OpenLabs worldwide to focus on the with a huge number of educational
campuses for more than 300 customers. enterprise market. At these OpenLabs, authorities, universities, and other
Through innovative ICT technologies, partners receive support on the joint ecosystem players from around the world
Huawei helps various sectors including innovation of solutions, marketing, talent to build an open and favorable ecosystem
manufacturing and energy reshape their cultivation, finance, supply chains, and to cultivate ICT talents and drive industry
manufacturing and value chains while IT systems to continuously improve their digitization. All financial statements in the
boosting upgrade of their intelligent capabilities and drive their transformation 2019 Annual Report were independently
systems. As part of powering enterprise for shared success. Committed to sharing audited by KPMG, an international Big Four
partners and building a prosperous its experience, technology, and talent accounting firm.
ecosystem, Huawei has established 13 cultivation standards, Huawei has worked

Microsoft, AT&T Create Edge Compute Zones

Microsoft is working with AT&T to bring partnering with carriers, Microsoft will announcing its partnership with Microsoft
ultra-low-latency edge compute to also deliver standalone Azure Edge Zones in July 2019, AT&T also announced an
joint customers. Its Azure Edge Zones in select cities over the next 12 months. expanded two-way relationship with
are local extensions of the Microsoft Azure Edge Zones will deliver consistent IBM at around that same time. IBM will
Azure cloud. They’ll bring compute, Azure services across cloud, on-premises, continue to provide AT&T Business with
storage and networking closer to end and edge using the same Azure Portal, open source systems, which IBM mostly
users. And Microsoft is planning to work APIs, development, and security tools. inherited from its acquisition of Red Hat.
with other operators soon, including Microsoft says it will deliver a variety of And for its part, AT&T said it would provide
Rogers, Telefonica, Vodafone Business, virtual network functions (VNFs), including IBM with software-defined networking
SK Telecom, Telstra, Etisalat and NTT 5G software, SD-WAN and firewalls from (SDN) expertise. In addition, AT&T
Communications. Microsoft is also some of its partners including Mavenir, Business will move more of its applications
stressing a 5G angle with the edge Nuage Networks from Nokia, Metaswitch, to the IBM Cloud. In May 2018, Verizon
compute announcement. It said that the Palo Alto Networks, and VeloCloud from named Amazon Web Services (AWS) as
Azure Edge Zones will connect Azure VMware. Telcos and cloud providers have its preferred public cloud provider. Verizon
services directly to 5G networks in the been creating symbiotic relationships said it planned to move 1,000 business
carriers’ data centers. “We were the first for a while now. Carriers, including telco applications and database systems over
public cloud to announce 5G integration and cable, have thousands of last mile to AWS. And in December 2019 at AWS
with AT&T in Dallas in 2019, and now endpoints that the cloud providers lack. By reinvent, Verizon and AWS announced
we're announcing a close collaboration partnering with telcos, the cloud providers a partnership for Verizon to bring cloud
with AT&T on a new Edge Zone targeted can get their services closer to end users. compute closer to its 5G network edge by
to become available in Los Angeles in late From the service provider perspective, teaming with AWS. Verizon will use AWS
spring,” wrote Corporate Vice President they can bring big cloud compute and Wavelength, Amazon’s new cloud platform
for Azure Networking Yousef Khalidi, in applications to the edge, for the benefit designed for edge computing, to make it
a blog post. In July 2019, AT&T named of their enterprise customers. Recently, easier for developers to create and deploy
Microsoft as its preferred cloud provider AT&T and Google said they were working low latency applications. At least one
for non-network applications with a plan together to blend AT&T's edge network, European operator has also announced a
to move those applications to Microsoft including 5G edge computing solutions for cloud partnership. In November 2019, the
Azure. Microsoft, in turn, threw its support enterprises, with Google Cloud's expertise Vodafone Group said it had partnered with
behind AT&T's efforts to consolidate its in Kubernetes, artificial intelligence, Google Cloud to host its big-data analytics
data center infrastructure and operations. machine learning, and data analytics. The platform. The Vodafone Neuron big-data
For its Azure Edge Zones, some of the first two companies intend to jointly-develop analytics platform serves as a data lake for
use cases that Microsoft plans are remote a portfolio of 5G edge compute solutions Vodafone’s AI and business intelligence.
meetings and events, online gaming that can be delivered on a global scale, both
and the internet of things. In addition to on the edge and in the cloud. In addition to

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