Microsoft made big telco moves ahead of its earnings call last week with the acquisition of Affirmed Networks and announcement of Azure edge products for both carriers and enterprises. And, on the April 29 call with analysts, CEO Satya Nadella provided commentary on Microsoft’s ambitions around supporting 5G applications at the network edge.
On March 31, Microsoft announced Azure Edge Zones and Azure Private Edge Zones, the former an Azure cloud service meant to connect directly to 5G networks and the latter a private LTE/5G network combined with on-prem Azure Stack Edge.
