Qualcomm introduces wireless edge services
The Qualcomm wireless edge services, says the company, securely provision, connect, and manage long life-cycles of billions of intelligent wireless devices through their cloud platforms. The wireless edge services software is expected to be exposed through new APIs and available on select Qualcomm chipsets – initially the MDM9206, MDM9628, and QCA4020 – and later on, select Snapdragon platforms.
The new services platform is designed to assist large enterprise, industrial cloud providers, and users in provisioning and managing massive amounts of connected 4G and 5G devices in a trusted, security-rich, and scalable manner. It is also engineered to support a new “Chipsets as a Service” (CaaS) business model, says the company, where the value of certain chipset capabilities can be realized through services.
It is designed to facilitate the deployment of edge devices at scale, as well as efficient zero-touch life-cycle management through services such as plug and play onboarding, on-demand, over-the-air feature activation, emergency and routine upgrades, as well as third-party service enablement throughout the device life cycle.
“With the introduction of Qualcomm wireless edge services, we continue to evolve and augment our leading Snapdragon portfolio to better serve our expanding base of customers across many industries and unlock the potential associated with trusted wireless access to billions of increasingly capable edge devices” says Serge Willenegger, senior vice president and general manager, 4G/5G and Industrial IOT, Qualcomm Wireless GmbH.
“We are excited by the initial response from cloud, enterprise, and industrial companies and are looking forward to working with them as well as our traditional customers to accelerate the transformative opportunity supported by advanced security, intelligence, and wireless connectivity capability at the edge.”
The initiative is designed for and expected to be applicable across multiple segments and will initially be offered on Qualcomm’s MDM9206 LTE Modem for Industrial IoT products, MDM9628 LTE Modem for Automotive products, and QCA4020 for Home IoT products. The initial support of Qualcomm wireless edge services on these chipsets is anticipated to be available in the second half of 2018.