Source: CRN
The tech and carrier giants have joined forces to help enterprises run massive AI workloads over a secure, reliable private or 5G network, Verizon and Nvidia revealed Tuesday.
Verizon and Nvidia have come together to fuel real-time AI services for enterprises, each bringing along their respective strengths in networking and microservices to the partnership, the two companies revealed Tuesday.
The new offering, 5G Private Network with Enterprise AI, will allow a wide range of AI applications and workloads to run over Verizon’s 5G private network with private Mobile Edge Compute (MEC). The carrier giant is bringing its low latency 5G private network and private MEC to the partnership alongside Nvidia’s AI Enterprise software platform and its NIM microservices. The offering is designed to be plug and play for enterprises, the two companies said.
Verizon did not say whether the offering would be available through the channel initially.
“We are very excited to unveil this proof of concept today. While we are not announcing a commercialization date today, Verizon engineers will begin demonstrations of this solution in early 2025,” a spokesperson for the company told CRN.
The platform will be able to support multitenancy for multiple use cases or customers or can be deployed on a customer’s premises with a permanent private network on site or via portable private network connectivity. It will also be able to scale on demand based on the application requirements of the customer, the two companies said.
Verizon and Nvidia said that 5G Private Network with Enterprise AI is being built to handle compute- intensive apps, such as generative AI large language models and vision language models, video streaming, broadcast management, computer vision, augmented, virtual and extended reality, autonomous mobile robot and automated guided vehicle, and IoT.
“We’re leveraging our network’s unique strengths including private networks and Verizon’s global industry leadership in private MEC, combined with Nvidia’s AI compute capabilities to enable real-time AI applications that require security, ultra-low latency and high bandwidth,” Srini Kalapala, senior vice president of technology and product development at Verizon, said in a statement.
Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said during the carrier’s most recent earnings call in October that fixed wireless and AI are two big pieces of his company’s growth strategy heading into 2025.
