Carrier services company BICS is providing private-to-public network roaming for enterprises installing private 5G networks from Microsoft. BICS said the pair have “collaborated to solve the challenges” of IoT roaming between private enterprise networks and public operator networks. The Belgium-based firm is providing roaming SIMs and a management platform for “partners building solutions with” Microsoft’s private MEC offer in its Azure cloud platform.
Microsoft has its own cellular core network proposition for private network installations, via its Metaswitch and Affirmed Networks businesses, which serve enterprises and operators, respectively. Its private MEC deal combines compute, networking, and application services from the enterprise-edge, via the network-edge, to the cloud-edge; management takes place in Azure. It is nominally targeted at operator and integrator channels, serving enterprises..