IBM and Bharti Airtel, a premier communications solutions provider in India with more than 358 million subscribers, have announced their intent to work together to deploy Airtel’s Edge Computing platform in India, which will include 120 network data centres across 20 cities.
Once deployed, the platform is designed to enable large enterprises across multiple industries including manufacturing and automotive to accelerate innovative solutions that deliver new value to their clients and operations – securely at the Edge.
Airtel’s Edge Computing platform, deployed as a hybrid environment based on IBM Cloud Satellite and Red Hat OpenShift, extends secured and open cloud services wherever data resides. This can help improve business performance and customer experience by reducing latency while addressing data security and sovereignty requirements – which is critical as workloads increasingly shift to the Edge.
The business value delivered by Edge Computing can be significantly enhanced when combined with 5G. In India, where 5G is expected to be rolled out later this year, it has the potential to create a cumulative economic impact of US$1 trillion by 2035.
“As India gears up to experience 5G, we see a massive opportunity to help businesses across industries transform how they deliver goods and services,” said Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, CEO – Enterprise, Airtel Business.
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