MWC 2018: Italtel unveils updated 5G video application
New features of vTU application, including Context- and Location-Aware mechanisms, support 5G networking speeds to enable HD video caching, real-time video streaming and Augmented Reality
Milan, Italy, February 21, 2018 – Italtel – a leading telecommunications company in IT system integration, managed services and Internet of Things solutions – today revealed its latest 5G video application, delivering improved upload performances, reducing latency, and increasing the battery life of connected devices.
Italtel’s i-EVS (Enhanced Video Services) – the latest advancement of its virtual Transcoding Unit (vTU) application – runs over a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) platform and has been updated with new features, including Context-Aware and Location-Aware mechanisms, enabling Service Providers to launch new value-added services.
Due to specific data caching at the edge of the mobile network, end-users can enjoy fast access to dedicated content based on their position in busy environments such as shopping malls, airports and concerts.
“The MEC platform provides a virtualized layer which allows the high processing of content at the network edge and is a fundamental step towards the creation of an experimental network infrastructure that anticipates 5G,” said Giulio Gaetani, Head of Software Business Unit at Italtel. “The application highlights the crucial role of the Network Functions Virtualization paradigm in managing parameters of the new 5G network architecture.”
Mobile World Congress will see the first global demonstration of i-EVS following its initial testing within the Horizon 2020 5G ESSENCE project (Grant Agreement No. 761592). 5G ESSENCE addresses the paradigms of Edge Cloud computing and “Small Cell as a Service”, moving towards a highly flexible and scalable 5G-ready platform.
In particular, the i-EVS demo in Barcelona has been designed jointly with Athonet, a research and commercial partner of Italtel for mobile solutions. Italtel and Athonet have built a complete Mobile 4.5G LTE solution (ready to connect forthcoming 5G New Radio) that includes both an LTE RAN and a MEC platform, which hosts i-EVS. The goal is to simulate a real mobile environment and enable a set of services related to Augmented Reality.
The demonstration utilizes Athonet’s MEC solution, which allows traffic to be broken-out selectively based on policy and steered locally to support both content caching and management, and other applications that require low latency or local offload, including Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality, smart city, autonomous cars, etc.
“To create the richest service environment that simultaneously supports new services such as HD video and Augmented Reality, we are not just addressing the evolution of services, but the evolution of the network infrastructure which will support the high traffic posed by 5G,” said Gaetani.
Italtel and Exprivia will exhibit their comprehensive portfolio of solutions for 5G services, smart cities, smart energy, smart healthcare and Industry 4.0, at Mobile World Congress – Stand 2G10, Hall 2 – in Barcelona from Monday, February 26 to Thursday, March 1.
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Italtel is a multinational company that operates in the ICT sector. The offer is based on solutions for networks, data centers, business collaboration, digital security, the Internet of things. The solutions are composed of proprietary and third-party products, managed services, engineering and consultancy services. Together with Exprivia, which recently acquired Italtel’s controlling shareholding, it constitutes a new large Italian ICT group that intends to be a leader in digital transformation through the development of innovative solutions and services both in Italy and abroad. The target market consists of service providers, public and private enterprises, with a specific focus on vertical markets such as Energy, Health, Industry, Defense, Finance and Smart Cities. www.italtel.com
Athonet’s mobile “edge-cloud” core network software makes it dramatically simple and highly affordable for network operators, enterprises and other non-telco users to deploy and manage 5G-Ready wireless networks. Such networks are critical enablers for vast new markets such as the Industrial Internet, Public Safety, Connected and Autonomous Cars, Smart Grids and Cities as well as bridging the Digital Divide. Athonet is a winner of the GSMA Global Mobile Awards in 2016. www.athonet.com
Laura Borlenghi
Tel.: +39 3357694240
laura.borlenghi@italtel.com
Source: RealWire