Google has acquired MobiledgeX, an edge computing company set up by Deutsche Telekom in 2018.

The company will become part of Google Cloud, which plans to make the company’s code open source.

MobiledgeX founder Jason Hoffman is understood to have left the company but COO Leah Maher is now employed by Google. The MobiledgeX web site has been closed down.

In February this year, California-based MobiledgeX announced version 3.1 of its edge-cloud platform, introducing federation between any standards-based mobile edge computing platform. This gave edge application developers a write once, deploy everywhere experience in mobile network environments.

To date, MobiledgeX has worked with more than 200 software developers delivering use cases that span consumer and enterprise applications across every major vertical, including media and entertainment, manufacturing, automotive, healthcare and retail.

“We’ve deployed edge clouds all over the world but not every site interconnects with every edge cloud ever deployed by any operator,” said Michael Lochead, senior vice president for MobiledgeX.

MobiledgeX’s GSMA standards-based edge cloud federation introduced an east-west interface that supported automated migration of edge application backend workloads between the edge clouds of different operators. This ensures mobile users of edge native applications receive a consistent quality of experience on different edge networks.

MobiledgeX works with global mobile operators to deliver full control over multi-cloud edge deployments. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California.