Edgenomics on TelecomTV shone a light on the plans and current economic thinking in telco edge. However, it also highlighted Telco’s fragmented edge thinking. Unsurprisingly, the event found that most participants saw a collaborative role at the edge between hyperscalers and telcos, bringing the best of IT data center scale and telco network infrastructure. This thinking was backed up in many of the presentations, including those from BT’s Neil McRae and Verizon’s Beth Cohen. Network advantage? However, there was limited sense from the presentations of what the edge network advantage really was, beyond providing more commodity connectivity and locations for other’s edge infrastructure. There was no real sense of what the new use cases were that would drive a real step change in telco’s investment in the public edge; and sorry, private deployment of customer uCPE as part of customer services does not really count. Cloud economics 101 The economics of public edge are the same as public cloud: Maximize revenue and minimize infrastructure cost with multi tenancy; Minimize operational cost with mass automation and efficient power/cooling. Get these right and the unknown use cases will use this infrastructure. Just like public cloud! Delegate building the public edge infrastructure to others, like the […]