Azure for Operators (AFO) Research
Projects
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Programmable RAN and Platform Check our latest MWC 2024 announcement and the demo videos: Virtualization of telco networks is beginning to happen in Radio Access Networks (RAN), especially regarding Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN). However, there are some obstacles to…
As part of the Network Stack for 2030 initiative, we are rethinking the network stack, which was designed about 30 years ago, when the networks, and the applications they supported, looked very different.
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We are building networking & distributed systems technology to support 5G traffic on the Azure global Wide Area Network.
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Industries ranging from manufacturing to healthcare are eager to develop real-time control systems that use machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve efficiencies and reduce cost. We are exploring this new computing paradigm by identifying and addressing emerging technology and…
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HybridKube provides Kubernetes extensions which allow for optimal placement utilizing cost functions for "pipelines", which are a collection of micro-services that communicate with each other (multiple deployments in Kubernetes terminology). In addition to placement, we aim to provide optimal request…
The System for Highly Adaptive and Resilient Edges (SHARE) is a suite of services and programming abstractions that simplify the development of adaptive edge-cloud and multicloud applications.
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Affordable connectivity in the TV white space spectrum with cellular radio technology Motivation Unlicensed wireless is ubiquitous, by some accounts carrying over 80% of overall mobile data traffic. However, today’s unlicensed wireless technologies are effective only over short distances. The…
Project Rocket's goal is to democratize video analytics: build a system for real-time, low-cost, accurate analysis of live videos. This system will work across a geo-distributed hierarchy of intelligent edges and large clouds, with the ultimate goal of making it…