- New integrated Edge AI solutions bring customized AI applications to the global telecommunications industry, delivering powerful and efficient AI computing at scale and powering AI for all.
- Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefonica are part of a growing ecosystem of customers and partners that help businesses effectively deploy new AI use cases and transform data into insights faster with Lenovo infrastructure AI-ready.
- Collaborations enable telcos to build and deliver a broad range of AI workloads for their customers with automated deployment of infrastructure, networking, software, orchestration and managing AI from edge to cloud.
Barcelona – February 26, 2024 – At MWC 2024, Lenovo unveiled the new generation Integrated Edge AI Solutions for Telecommunications that help businesses move beyond the data center to harness vast amounts of data at the edge for transformative AI applications at scale while reducing energy consumption. These innovations are part of a comprehensive portfolio of hybrid pocket-to-cloud AI solutions from Lenovo, designed to simplify the path to intelligent transformation for all industries. The solutions attract new customer collaborations with industry leaders, like Telefonica, to unleash the power of AI wherever data is created and deliver it to businesses farthest away in real time.
As the telecommunications industry continues its dramatic evolution to enable 5G deployment and an AI-powered future, Innovations in computer networks, cloud infrastructure and edge computing are essential to connecting today’s digital economy. Edge computing allows businesses to analyze data in real-time, providing actionable insights faster for more efficient operations and services.
Bringing AI to the edge at scale
To support the massive amount of computing moving to the edge, a powerful portfolio of new Lenovo Integrated Edge AI Solutions for Telecommunications is on display at MWC Barcelona with Lenovo’s partner ecosystem. Highlights include:
- New multi-cloud Edge Computing architecture with Telephone tackles critical applications for smart cities, making it easier to leverage data on city streets across a wide range of AI use cases, including the use of video analytics and computer vision to identify smoke and fires, support public safety, and improve emergency response times. Leveraging its own Telco Cloud with the Lenovo ThinkEdge server line and Motorola push-to-talk technology, Telefonica manifesto via proof of concept the capabilities of multi-cloud at the edge, AI and computer vision to alert public safety officials of danger. New solution orchestrates entire Edge-to-Cloud ecosystem, seamlessly combining infrastructure, connectivity and applications to reliably support public safety and improve emergency response using AI in real time.
- Expanded joint innovation partnership for telecommunications and cloud services helps the Orange group bring high performance, availability and energy efficiency to its telecoms customers around the world. To support the continued progress of telecommunications, Orange and Lenovo are also extending their partnership for three more years and have launched a partnership Sylva project validation center, addressing telecommunications and edge use cases. The program will cover areas critical to the future-proofing of telecommunications infrastructure, including supporting operational efficiency, new open radio access and automation. Together, the companies will help telecommunications providers around the world achieve their sustainability goals and improve their services.
- Jointly validated end-to-end deployment and orchestration for Open RAN with the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3 demonstrates the proven implementation of a cloud-based, software-defined networking approach that accelerates modern telecommunications and will contribute to a reduction in time to market (TTM) for the introduction of new features in telecommunications networks. As the industry invests in Open RAN to reduce costs and improve innovation, the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3 server demonstrates lower total cost of ownership at the edge, achieving new advancements in energy efficiency with the doubles socket-orchestrated workloads and over 50% cost reduction. overall electricity consumption of ORAN based on third-party testing.
- Infrastructure solutions support cloud services with speed and simplicity. Based on rigorous testing by Orange Business, Lenovo infrastructure solutions reduce power consumption of cloud service deployments for Orange Business up to 25%helping to bring high performance, availability and energy efficiency to Orange Business customers.
- Transformation to cloud-based voice telephony for Deutsche TelekomThe next generation NIMS project leverages Lenovo and a broad ecosystem of industry partners. With cloudification and automation, new voice network features can be introduced with a single click. The transformation supports more than seventeen million customer connections.
- Intel Edge Platform with Lenovo ThinkEdge enables businesses to develop, deploy, run and manage edge applications at scale with the simplicity of a cloud. Leveraging the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE350 V2, SE360 V2 and SE450, the platform helps remove key barriers to large-scale adoption of AI across vertical markets and incorporates Intel’s learnings from more than 90,000 edge deployments to help businesses create and scale vertical-specific AI workloads. Intel’s Edge Platform provides built-in specific optimizations for easy training of AI models and rapid inference to proliferate new AI workloads in any industry. Leveraging Lenovo’s Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) software, developers can deploy AI applications globally at the edge in minutes with one-touch provisioning from a single device, such as a PC, smartphone or tablet. Together, these capabilities overcome the complexities of remote computing to accelerate the large-scale deployment of AI workloads for businesses at the edge while improving total cost of ownership.
- The Telco Cloud and Orchestration solution with Lenovo and Rakuten works with the award-winning Rakuten Cloud Native Platform to help quickly orchestrate and deploy applications at the edge, reducing operating costs and complexity while accelerating delivery times for a lower total cost of ownership. The solution delivers more power to securely automate large, stateful edge workloads for telecommunications service providers, such as computer vision, voice AI, and generative AI.
Customer adoption
Combining AI-optimized infrastructure with its partner ecosystem, Lenovo’s comprehensive portfolio of edge-to-cloud solutions goes beyond the data center to enable leading service providers to quickly deploy a complete high-computing network. power to drive breakthrough efficiency and intelligence for their own customers and beyond.
“Together with Lenovo, Telefonica demonstrates how cutting-edge AI technologies can be used in an everyday multi-cloud environment, seamlessly bringing the power of the cloud to the data stage and opening the door to new applications, such as the use of computer vision in the data domain. the cutting edge of smoke and fire detection to reduce response time in an emergency,” said Felipe Jose Vicens Gonzalez, Hardware and Virtualization Infrastructure, Cloud and Infrastructure for Telefónica Global IT (GCTIO). “With Lenovo’s Edge-to-Cloud AI infrastructure, we are reimagining possibilities and building the future of telecommunications. »
With purpose-built AI infrastructure that extends beyond the data center to the edge, Lenovo is accelerating the new era of AI and helping businesses securely unleash the power of their data.
“Lenovo is working to drive a new era of hybrid AI and create an AI-powered future now by unleashing the power of data wherever it is created,” said Charles Ferland, vice president and general manager. , ThinkEdge and communications service providers, Lenovo Infrastructure. Solutions Group. “Innovations across the ThinkEdge portfolio are paving the way for a new era of cutting-edge automation that enables our ecosystem of partners and customers to simplify their path to AI and leverage it for game-changing applications.
Availability and support
Lenovo’s full range of edge servers, storage and AI-enabled solutions are also supported by the new Lenovo AI Professional Services Practice solution, which helps customers accelerate the implementation of AI, concept to results, and allows data management for high-performance workloads to be consumed via a pay-as-you-go model. Additionally, the Lenovo AI Innovators Program helps organizations access enterprise AI by partnering with more than 50 of the industry’s leading software providers.
Additionally, today at MWC 2024, Lenovo launched new PC hardware and software solutions that showcase its focus on AI-driven innovation and its commitment to a more sustainable future. These include the all-new ThinkPad and ThinkBook business laptops and a stunning proof of concept. Learn more in the Press release.
Visitwww.Lenovo.com/Telco to learn more about the Lenovo Edge ecosystem, available solutions, and customer adoption.
