Vodafone has joined LF Edge, an umbrella organisation within the Linux Foundation dedicated to fostering an open, interoperable framework for edge computing, as a premier member.

This partnership is highlighted by Vodafone’s initiation of a pivotal project for LF Edge, designed to exchange and distribute data in real time between users in a certain geography through far-edge computing power.

Vodafone joins other existing LF Edge premier members AMD, American Tower, Arm, AT&T, Aveva, Baidu, Charter Communications, Dell Technologies, Dianomic, Equinix, F5, Fujitsu, Futurewei, HP, Huawei, Intel, IBM, NTT, Radisys, RedHat, Samsung, Tencent, VMware, Western Digital and Zededa. This membership empowers Vodafone to leverage the collective capabilities of open-source edge computing to develop networks designed for applications that require low latency and high reliability, such as 5G, IoT, augmented and virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles.

As a premier member, Vodafone will participate actively in the governance of LF Edge, with Sampada Basarkar, an engineering director at Vodafone, gaining a seat on the project’s governing board, technical advisory council and other committees. This position enables Vodafone to shape the direction of LF Edge projects and the development of industry standards.

The newly introduced InstantX project is a cloud and edge cloud platform to exchange and distribute data in real time between users in a certain geography through far-edge computing power. It solves the problem of asynchronous and instant data exchange across clients in the same region while offering those data for off-line processing and self-learning to derive further added values.

“We are thrilled to welcome Vodafone and their innovative project into our community,” said Arpit Joshipura, general manager for IoT at the Linux Foundation. “Vodafone’s active participation will propel our efforts to develop more robust and interoperable edge computing frameworks, particularly enhancing 5G and mobile private network connectivity. Their involvement ensures these technologies are tailored to meet the evolving demands of diverse industries.”

Justin Shields, CTO at Vodafone Business (www.vodafone.com), added: “I’m delighted that Sampada has been invited to join the board of LF Edge. As a premier member of LF Edge, Vodafone can bring its own source coding credentials in edge computing to a leading developer community so it can benefit many more organisations and individuals. Partnering with other companies and developers is the key to unlocking opportunities in edge computing to support ultra-low latency applications that will drive forward the industrial internet.”

To learn more about LF Edge and its impact across the open edge commuting ecosystem, visit www.lfedge.org.

The Linux Foundation (www.linuxfoundation.org) is building ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open-source community, it is solving technology problems by creating a shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, the foundation provides tools, training and events to scale open-source projects, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company.