Hyperscalers, 5G and the edge

• Edge+Central Cloud

• Tiered applications

• Deep Telco Integration

• Towards Ultraedge

The Edge Ingredients

4

Pre-5G Data Plane Granularity5G Data Plane Granularity

• Low latency mandates core closer to RAN• District aggregation vs national aggregation• Explosion in granularity• 1ms latency means 50km distance

Network Granularity

Azure hybrid Innovation anywhere with Azure

Bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure

Azure Arc Customer use cases

Get Kubernetes clusters and servers

that are sprawling across clouds,

datacenters and edge under control

by centrally organizing and

governing from a single place.

Organize and govern

across environments

Deploy and manage Kubernetes

applications at scale across environments

using DevOps techniques. Ensure that

applications are deployed and configured

consistently from source control, at scale.

At-scale Kubernetes

app management

Deploy and manage data services where you

need it for latency or compliance reasons.

Always use the most current technology and

seamlessly manage and secure your data

assets across on-premises, clouds and edge.

Run data services

anywhere

Datacenter & hosted

Multi-cloud

IoT Edge gives access to a suite of services

The Azure Stack Portfolio

Azure Stack Hub : a complete autonomous cloud

Azure Stack Edge : an Azure Managed Edge Appliance

An Azure-managed, edge appliance that brings

the compute, storage, and intelligence of

Azure right to where you need it

Hardware-accelerated machine learning

Accelerate ML inferencing usingon-board GPU or FPGA to get resultsclose to the data source

Edge compute

Run VMs, containers, and Azureservices at the edge locations

Cloud storage gateway

Transfer data to Azure over the network while retaining local access to blobs and files

Azure-managed appliance

Order and manage your appliance and workloads through the Azure portal

Azure Stack Edge evolution

While enabling private mobile networks

Devices SIM Azure Stack EdgeRAN

Kubernetes VMs IoT Edge

Internet

Intelligent Edge Use cases

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