Google Announces Private Network Solutions on Distributed Cloud Edge

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Google announced a new private networking solutions portfolio yesterday designed to further accelerate adoption of private cellular networks. Based on Google Distributed Cloud Edge and leveraging its ISV ecosystem, the company said these solutions address the distinct performance, service-level, and economic needs of key industry verticals by combining dedicated network capabilities with full edge-computing application stacks.

Google stated that existing networking solutions struggle to deliver the connectivity, control, and scalability while private networks based on cellular technologies like 5G offer a variety of benefits over WiFi for several enterprise use cases. They offer the example of WiFi “being noisy and delivering inconsistent performance in terms of both latency and bandwidth,” which, the company says, impacts its ability to deliver the Quality of Service needed for real-time applications like video monitoring and robotic manufacturing. WiFi, Google contends, has a hard time providing capacity and coverage in large areas like entertainment venues and is not suited for connecting large numbers of sensors and IoT devices.  

Private networks, in Google’s view, allow organizations to introduce local private cellular networks to complement existing WiFi and public cellular connectivity. Again, they offer an example of manufacturers deploying a private network across a large factory site bridging operations, automation, and IoT devices, with baseline connectivity and support. Building and venue owners, the company says, can use private networks to improve occupant safety, reduce costs and lower energy consumption via smart-building applications with cellular networks providing built-in security.

The new portfolio Google is offering, built upon its Distributed Cloud (GDC) Edge and new partnerships, has been engineered to allow customers to rapidly adopt turn-key, private network solutions with the flexibility to deploy management, control, and user plane functions both in the cloud and at the edge. 

“GDC Edge has access to Google Cloud services and is backed by Google’s security best practices,” said Amol Phadke, MD and GM of Global Telecom Industry, Google Cloud. “By building on a mature, cloud-native management experience, powered by Anthos, enterprises benefit from a consistent developer and operational model across their entire IT estate. In addition, Distributed Cloud Edge offers the flexibility to scale to other use cases that need low latency and Quality of Service for critical applications.”

Phadke said Google’s Distributed Cloud Edge provides a centralized control and management plane for secure networks, scaling from one to thousands of locations. 

“With GDC Edge, customers can run private networks including virtualized RAN for connectivity and edge applications in a single solution. Our partnerships with Communications Service Providers further enable enterprises with roaming connectivity while retaining control of their private environments,” Phadke said.

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