EdgAIR brings edge computing to the factory floor with low latency applications. Its Kubernetes and OpenStack APIs enable to reuse existing solutions, integrate several workloads on a single platform, and iterate as fast as in public clouds. Deutsche Telekom demonstrates EdgAIR with a high-performance quality assurance application. Deutsche Telekom has built this application on the OpenVINO machine learning framework and an augmented reality app running on NREAL augmented reality glasses to help understand and interact with the process.

EDGAIR ENTERPRISE EDGE COMPUTING

KEY FACTS:

• Enterprise edge computing platform with Kubernetes and OpenStack APIs

• Supporting high-performance, latency critical applications

• A great companion to 5G campus networks

• Augmented reality improves human–computer interaction

• Machine learning solution integration

• Security and data sovereignty

Emerging Use Cases Require Low-Latency and High Performance Edge Computing on Campus

Virtualized Network Functions

IntelligentDevices

ImmersiveExperiences

IoT &Analytics

On-Demand, Self-Service Resources

Artificial Intelligence

WiredTime Sensitive Networking

AutonomousVehicles

AugmentedReality

Smart BuildingDevices

WirelessvRAN, vEPC

Drones

VirtualReality

IndustrialSensors

HardwareAcceleration

Reusable Microservices

WANSD-WAN

IndustrialRobots

360Video

Tags in RetailAnd Logistics

Enterprise IP ServicesThreat Protection

MedicalEquipment

WearableCognitive Assistance

IoT & Analytics Applications in Healthcare

With EdgAIR, Deutsche Telekom offers a platform with extremely low latency for secure and powerful edge computing. EdgAIR allows companies to use innovative real-time applications in pro-duction and logistics. This includes applications for auto mated guided vehicles and solutions for augmented and full virtual reality. The EdgAIR platform works directly on site. This means that the data is not sent via a central computer center.

EdgAIR is designed to be like a private cloud of things. This makes it highly secure. Customers can link it up to a campus network. EdgAIR can then wirelessly transfer data between devices and the platform in near real time. Experts consider “near edge” to be less than ten milliseconds. The so-called “far edge” allows latency times between ten and 40 milliseconds. In combination with time sensitive networks (TSNs) and a very good service level agreement, Deutsche Telekom’s managed platform EdgAIR can meet require-ments such as real-time control of machines in a production hall. Deutsche Telekom delivers each EdgAIR platform with Edge Analytics. This tool enables data scientists and software developers to evaluate information on site. This allows them to quickly adapt processes and models (code to data).

Deutsche Telekom offers the EdgAIR platform tailored to various sectors. These include production, logistics, building automation, automotive, and energy. For enhanced security, the solution runs on a closed company network and is completely self-sufficient. Customers can also create a hybrid cloud if they combine EdgAIR with a public cloud. This allows to access the platform via the internet.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

EdgAIR is based on Kubernetes and OpenStack. The open source software avoids vendor lock-in. Customers can connect their IoT applications via ready-made connectors. The applications themselves run as virtual machines or in Docker containers as microservices. This makes them independent of the underlying infrastructure and allows administrators to control the microservices individually in the event of problems or anomalies. The entire system does not have to be shut down. Deutsche Telekom offers the managed platform in various sizes and designs (pole mount, ruggedized rack, standard rack) with a very high service level agreement (SLA).

ContaCt Person:

Mitja Martini E-mail: mitja.martini@t-systems.comwww.telekom.com

aDDress:

Deutsche Telekom AGFriedrich-Ebert-Allee 14053113 Bonn, Germany