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Verizon Cloud up and running. Q4 to the Edge

Quietly, CFO Matt Ellis told Morgan Stanley, “The company’s Mobile Edge Computing platform, which will enable real-time enterprise applications, is expected to launch in fourth-quarter 2019.” As previously reported, Verizon has been showing off an Edge Network designed for 15-25 milliseconds on 5G and 25-40 ms on LTE. Verizon is not just building 5G; it … Read moreVerizon Cloud up and running. Q4 to the Edge

Verizon 2019: 15 ms Edge with Fortnite, Red Dead Redemption, & gaming service

“Fortnite, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, Battlefield V, and Destiny 2 are all running on the Nvidia Shield. … Our library will consist of most or all of the top games,” Chris Welch at The Verge reports. It is moving into beta on a Netflix-like service.

Adam Koeppe, senior VP for network planning, told Mike Dano, “The latency speeds obtained through the company’s edge computing test in Houston were 15 ms.” That more than the 10 ms Koeppe expected in 2016 or the 5 ms CEO Vestberg discussed in January, but about the best practical today. The 5G air latency is at about 10 ms.

“We’ll launch the first mobile edge compute platform later this year.

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