Another day, another new lab, as Vodafone seeks an edge

Vodafone UK wants to show the people of Manchester what can be done with multi-access edge computing (MEC).
The operator on Monday opened what it calls an Edge Innovation Lab in MediaCity, Salford. It will  give enterprises in the region an opportunity to trial new use cases that rely on real-time connectivity. In addition to equipping the lab with dedicated MEC servers, Vodafone has also partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy a distributed MEC zone in Manchester, which will pre