Broadcom Inc. has announced significant advancements in its Software-Defined Edge product portfolio, aimed at enhancing enterprise support for Edge AI workloads. These innovations were unveiled at VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas.
Key Takeaways
Enhanced Connectivity: Support for combined Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and satellite connections in VMware VeloCloud Edge appliances.
Improved Security: Integration of VeloCloud SD-WAN points of presence (PoPs) with Symantec PoPs.
Simplified Management: Upgrades to VMware Edge Compute Stack for better deployment and lifecycle management.
Enhanced Connectivity for Edge AI Workloads
Broadcom has introduced enhancements to the VMware VeloCloud Edge 710 appliance and launched new VMware VeloCloud Edge 720 and 740 appliances. These devices now support a combination of broadband, FWA, and satellite connections, significantly improving real-time voice, video, and application traffic. This blended connectivity ensures redundant, always-on service for edge devices and workloads.
Communication Service Providers (CSPs) can also leverage these appliances to modernize their infrastructure and offer a premium, integrated SD-WAN, FWA, and satellite solution to enterprise customers. By running both VeloCloud SD-WAN and VMware Telco Cloud Platform, CSPs can program their WAN's real-time performance using insights from their networks.
Improved Security with PoP Integration
To enhance cloud connectivity for enterprises, Broadcom has integrated VeloCloud SD-WAN PoPs with Symantec PoPs. This integration automates cloud access while maintaining high performance and security. Customers of VeloCloud SASE, secured by Symantec, will benefit from greater bandwidth, availability, lower latency, and global reach to leading cloud and SaaS providers.
Simplified Edge AI Workload Deployment and Management
The distributed nature of edge computing poses challenges for enterprises, from managing edge devices and applications to overseeing infrastructure across multiple locations. Broadcom's VMware Edge Compute Stack offers solutions for zero-touch provisioning and application lifecycle management, simplifying the deployment of secure edge environments.
Key Features of VMware Edge Compute Stack
Zero-Touch Orchestration: Simplifies deployment and lifecycle management across multiple sites using GitOps and desired state management.
Pull-Based Architecture: Hosts initiate communication with the management plane to maintain connection and retrieve configuration updates, reducing the load on the management plane.
Edge Infrastructure and Application Monitoring: Configures the collection and transmission of metrics for infrastructure, virtual machines, and Kubernetes-based workloads. Enterprises can achieve comprehensive local edge monitoring in minutes.
These features make it easier for enterprises to deploy and manage Edge AI workloads, helping them quickly realize the business value of their Edge AI investments. The latest release of VMware Edge Compute Stack 3.6 introduces additional features that further simplify edge deployment and management at scale.
Industry Impact and Future Prospects
According to IDC, worldwide spending on edge computing is expected to reach $232 billion in 2024, a 15.4% increase from 2023. Edge computing is becoming central to the deployment of AI applications. Broadcom's innovations are designed to help enterprises handle the increasing demand for AI and non-AI workloads at the edge, improving operations, cutting costs, boosting sales, and ensuring compliance.
Broadcom defines the software-defined edge as a distributed digital infrastructure designed to connect, secure, and manage workloads across multiple locations, positioned close to the endpoints generating or consuming data. This infrastructure extends to where users and devices are located—whether in offices, on the go, at cell sites, in retail environments, or on factory floors.
Conclusion
Broadcom's latest innovations in its Software-Defined Edge product portfolio are set to revolutionize how enterprises manage and deploy Edge AI workloads. With enhanced connectivity, improved security, and simplified management, these advancements will enable businesses to quickly realize the benefits of their Edge AI investments.
Sources
Broadcom Innovations Accelerate Enterprise Edge AI Readiness, GlobeNewswire.
Broadcom Innovations Accelerate Enterprise Edge AI Readiness - Broadcom News and Stories, Broadcom.
Broadcom Accelerates Enterprise Edge AI Capabilities with New Innovations, DQ.
Broadcom Innovations Accelerate Enterprise Edge AI Readiness, Yahoo Finance.
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