March 6, 202000:25:51

Podcast: Google Cloud Unveils Strategy for Telecommunications Industry, Announces New Solutions, Customers, and Partners

“The key strategy element is to help telecom carriers to monetize the 5G revolution and create a portfolio of 5G solutions to be offered to enterprise,” says Shailesh Shukla, Vice President of Products and General Manager of Networking at Google Cloud. In this podcast Shukla discusses Google’s Global Mobile Edge Cloud (GMEC), which Shukla describes as Google’s “big picture vision”. Shukla then discusses GMEC in the context of Google’s strategy to work with the telecoms community in offering the enterprises fresh solutions and options. Shukla walks us through related announcements, including a strategic alliance with AT&T to develop a portfolio of 5G edge solutions in industries like retail, manufacturing, transportation, and more to help enterprises address real-world challenges. We hear about partnerships with Netcracker and Amdocs, two leaders in the communications market, to run their OSS and BSS software solutions on GCP. And we hear about Anthos for Telecom brings Google Cloud’s multi-cloud capabilities to the edge for 5G and network-centric applications. Shukla also discusses the transformative nature of these developments on industries such as retail. Shukla thinks that in this case the technology changes not only the way information is delivered, but could change entire customer experiences, and even how entire industries function. Visit https://cloud.google.com/

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