Kinetic Edge Allianceが30の市場をターゲットにしてEdge Critical Massを実現

この新しいグループは、ソフトウェア定義の相互接続と高速ネットワーキングを使用して複数のマイクロデータセンターを単一の仮想施設に統合するVapor IOのKinetic Edgeアーキテクチャを推進しています。There’s a new edge alliance in town — or rather, coming soon to 30 metropolitan markets across the U.S. Vapor IO today launched the Kinetic Edge Alliance (KEA) with a slew of software, hardware, networking, and integration company partners. Deployment partners include Federated Wireless, Linode, MobiledgeX, Packet, and StackPath. Technical partners include Alef Mobitech, Detecon International, Hitachi Vantara, New Continuum Data Centers, Pluribus Networks, and Seagate Technology. The group  is looking to establish critical mass for edge computing in the U.S. by targeting the top 30 metro markets, which cover about half of the population. It will focus on six markets this year: Chicago, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Chicago, which was Vapor IO’s first Kinetic Edge city, already has two sites online and will add a third in the next couple of months. The KEA builds on Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge architecture, which uses software-defined interconnection and high-speed networking to combine multiple micro-data centers into a single, virtual facility. “We built Kinetic Edge for edge-native applications, which are more mobile and far more localized in their latency sensitivities,” said Cole Crawford, CEO and founder of Vapor IO. “There’s also bandwidth sensitivities to a lot of these use cases, and we wanted to create these hyper-local availability zones. Our intent with the KEA in part is to go create this hyper-local availability, and we do that with multi-tenant shared infrastructure, and a software-defined mesh network, and by aggregating 10s, 30s, 100s of micro cells into these PoPs [points of presence], which allows you to create a much more resilient, highly available architecture than if you were trying to create all of this in one building.” Vapor IO is also a founding member of the Linux Foundation’s new edge computing initiative called LF Edge. Here’s how the Kinetic Edge Alliance plans to build this highly-distributed edge infrastructure. Deployment partner companies will jointly roll out equipment and services, beginning with the first six markets this year. Federated Wireless, for example, will integrate its Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) controller with the Kinetic Edge. Iyad Tarazi, president and CEO of Federated Wireless, said this will ensure last-mile connectivity in all of KEA’s locations. The aim is to deploy all of the hardware and software infrastructure components in lockstep, which will help ensure a uniform infrastructure platform and make it easy to build and deploy edge applications. Specifically, here’s what each deployment partner will contribute: Technical partners, meanwhile, will make their enabling technologies available to Kinetic Edge deployments. This includes: