MobiledgeX completely disappeared from view in April after its acquisition by Google. The X-factor of edge offerings from public cloud providers, and the increasing alignment of CSPs with them, seems to have put pay to MobiledgeX’s, and its original parent Deutsche Telekom’s, telco-aligned ambition for edge, beyond supporting 5G. Enter MobiledgeX in a search engine, and you now get nothing. To win at the edge requires infrastructure investment As we reported in Preparing for Edge Cloud, the winners at the edge will be those that have the critical mass and focus to proactively invest in edge infrastructure, and to optimize the operational cost of this infrastructure. An effective edge will require global scale and ubiquitous presence to be a compelling platform for developers and innovators. From the evidence this battle seems to be being led and won by the webscalers. Groundhog Day In Winning at the Edge we highlighted the failure of CSPs and NEPs in creating and monetizing data centre infrastructure, losing ultimately to the webscalers. The demise of MobiledgeX would seem to fit into this narrative, but now at the network edge. However, unlike data centres this has potentially game-changing impact on the Network Equipment Providers and CSPs. Worse […]