Telefónica goes to the edge with telco rivals to build European cloud alternatives
Telefónica España deploys first edge nodes in support of €1.2bn EU-funded effort to construct shared cloud infrastructure and services as the project gears up to test use cases later this year.
This article includes:
- Organisations: 4iG; Atos; Deutsche Telekom; EU; Orange; SAP; Siemens; Telefónica España; TIM; Tiscali.
- Geographic: Brazil; Europe; Germany; Spain.
- People: Cayetano Carbajo; Cristina Santana Casillas; Lara Grohe.
- Themes: AI-fuelled data; Cloud-edge continuum; Edge computing; Federated AI services; Federated edge computing infra; Federated network; IPCEI CIS programme; Lab8ra; Network APIs; Network slicing; Open Gateway; Sovereign cloud infrastructure; Tailored connectivity.
- Events: Mobile World Congress 2025.
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