Also in today s EMEA regional roundup: Orange lands transatlantic cable near Bordeaux; Cambridge Wireless and Huawei launch 5G testbed; CityFibre, Virtual1 team up for business fiber services.
Telefónica is working with Mavenir and Amazon Web Services (AWS) on what it describes as a pre-commercial managed IoT connectivity service. The service, which will be managed by Telefónica Tech s IoT Kite platform, seeks to combine Mavenir s Packet Core with AWS s cloud infrastructure to offer Telefónica s customers worldwide faster access to the Internet from the closest AWS region, allowing companies in various industrial sectors to better control their IoT connectivity. The operator believes that a less centralized approach to IoT will bring a number of benefits, not the least of them lower latency.