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Intelligent Edge Provider​: Modernizing a Carrier-grade Edge Computing Platform, Enabling 5G Innovation

Intelligent Edge Provider​:

Modernizing a Carrier-grade Edge Computing Platform, Enabling 5G Innovation

Industry: Telecom & Media

Delivery Center: Brazil

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Modernizing a Carrier-grade Edge Computing Platform, Enabling 5G Innovation

Industry: Telecom & Media

Delivery Center: Brazil

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Industry Context

5G technology is driving a shift in telecommunications, offering faster data speeds, enhanced availability, scalability, and improved connectivity.​ There is an increasing demand for advanced edge computing platforms to process data closer to the source and facilitate real-time applications.​ Modernizing edge infrastructure with containerized workloads is essential for unlocking the full potential of 5G. The industry faces increasing pressure to optimize energy consumption aligning with sustainability and ESG goals​. 

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Client Challenge

The client provides a carrier-grade cloud-native platform for edge computing, powering 5G deployments in the USA and EU. The company needed a modern edge computing platform to support the growing demands of 5G and emerging technologies while aligning with the industry's sustainability and ESG goals. It was also expected to support an expanding range of hardware to secure contracts and fortify partnerships with a carrier-grade solution, ensuring high availability, scalability, monitoring, and alarms. 

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Approach

Encora partnered with the client to modernize and optimize their edge computing platform, addressing their needs with a comprehensive set of services that included: 

  • Consulting Services: Assessed long-term product strategy through market opportunity sizing, review of GTM strategy, benchmarking, competitive analysis, and understanding technology fit 
  • Cloud-Native Development: Built the product on a private cloud platform, powered by modern container orchestration infrastructure 
  • Product Modernization: Assembled a highly specialized team quickly, enabling an aggressive time-to-market of multiple product modernizations and enhancements 
  • Data Pipeline Engineering: Collected, aggregated, prioritized, filtered, and set alarms across complex, large-scale edge clouds with numerous nodes and sub-clouds 
  • Application & Product Maintenance: Oversaw the maintenance, administration, and improvements of the on-prem and cloud testing labs (processes and tooling) as well as L3 Incident analysis and resolution  ​ 
  • Automation & Toolchain Optimization: Established a CI pipeline focused on enabling a continuous verification pipeline and adding tools and mechanisms to optimize the building process for hundreds of developers
  • Data & Application Security: Ensured that new product releases are free of known vulnerabilities, including those in both the product itself and third-party components 
  • Test Strategy & Planning:   Conducted system and regression tests to ensure backward compatibility while enhancing test environments to increase use case coverage and enable quicker feedback loops  
  • LLM-Powered Virtual Assistants: Developed a Gen AI assistant to aid administrators that manage complex distributed networks  
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Results

  • Augmented delivery capacity and reduced time-to-market, matching the client's team velocity ​in only three months​ 
  • Deployed thousands of edge locations in the US/EU successfully, supporting thousands of network functions​​ 
  • Increased large-scale test environment capabilities by five times while keeping costs under control​ 
  • Expanded the catalog of integrated hardware and external devices​ 
  • Enabled multiple product enhancements, including important and innovative features such as power consumption visualizations, power footprint reduction, and LLM-powered assistant 
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