Delivering Enterprise AI Services on Multiaccess Edge Computing: Three Perspectives from NTT Group
, Director, Business Development – AI Factories & Applications, NVIDIA
, R&D Manager for Digital Innovation Department, NTT EAST
, Software Engineer, NTT Communications
, Software Engineer, NTT Communications
, Senior Manager, NTT DOCOMO
NTT has always been an innovator, and is now at the forefront of defining what multiaccess edge computing (MEC) should be. Learn from NTT DOCOMO, NTT EAST, and NTT Communications how different approaches to MEC come to fruition to enable AI enterprise applications. NTT DOCOMO has launched a new nationwide 5G MEC design for GPU-accelerated enterprise applications like IVA and graphics/XR that requires 5G high throughput/low latency. The solution includes an edge stack designed for high-performance applications based on NVIDIA GPUs, smart NICs, and switches. Learn more about the essential technologies of NTT Docomo 5G MEC to deliver accelerated applications. NTT EAST is enabling Enterprises to access new EdgeAI services through NTT’s Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) last-mile network. NTT-East enables Enterprises to choose and deploy IVA applications from a growing Digital Marketplace of ISVs into their MEC. AI developers can also tap into NTT’s East Platform leveraging NVIDIA Metropolis/TAO to build new applications and leverage capabilities like pre-trained models and Transfer learning toolkit. Let’s learn more of NTT-East FTTP MEC and how NVIDIA GPUs, Metropolis and TAO enables it. NTT Communications is helping Enterprises deploy “Hybrid EdgeAI solutions” for workloads that require local data processing due to a combination of low latency, data localization and /or security requirements. NTT-Communications and Microsoft collaborate closely to enable a Hybrid Edge AI approach leveraging GPU-accelerated Azure Stack and Arc product families. The solution enables the delivery of multiple use-cases including device management, management/operation of Hybrid Edge AI environments, update and management of AI models, IoT data pipeline statistical processing (RAPIDS cuDF) and Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) object detection. Learn more from NTT Communications on the challenges and building blocks of this solution.