8 Working at the edge and the telco world

Giovanni Galloro

This chapter covers

  • Evolution of telco network functions toward cloud native network functions
  • Edge application use cases
  • Anthos-specific capabilities for supporting telco and edge workloads
  • Google Distributed Cloud Edge

This chapter is about using Anthos as an enabling platform for edge and telco workloads, which fall into the following two categories:

  • Cloud native network functions —An evolution of telecom network functions, either already virtualized or still deployed as physical appliances, toward containerized workloads to reach greater efficiency, performance, and ease of management. This evolution will be driven also by new 5G-related network functions.

  • New edge applications ...

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