KUALA LUMPUR: Maxis has teamed up with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to be the first in the nation to offer multi-access edge computing (MEC) as a digital solution for enterprises.

       Maxis chief enterprise business officer Paul McManus said MEC will empower its "Rangkaian” of enterprise customers with next-generation technologies while enhancing its capabilities to provide secure, cost-effective, and on-demand network infrastructure for businesses of all sizes.

       "With the strong traction of digitalisation, enterprises must be able to generate insights from data faster to make critical decisions in a highly competitive operating environment," McManus said in a statement today.

       MEC is a technology that enables unprecedented single digit millisecond computing response time with data processed and stored at the edge of the network, bringing cloud resources much closer to the end-user than ever before.

       Maxis said the use of computing at the edge of the network will reduce the need to transfer massive amounts of data to a distant data centre.

       "The information is processed or stored nearer to the source, and the data transfer process is performed over secure and reliable high-speed access networks, such as fixed, 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi.

       "This makes MEC particularly attractive to businesses that operate time-critical edge applications such as data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and machine-learning since it significantly enhances efficiency and accuracy in real-time while minimising connectivity and data storage costs," it said.

       Currently, Maxis is developing a series of MEC trial use cases that leverage Maxis programmable network (MPN) technologies, cloud, internet of things (IoT), and smart solutions.

       Potential use cases for MEC include smart surveillance for high definition (HD) video security cameras and wearables that require real-time analytics, facial and object recognition, and augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) solutions with video analytics.

       Maxis is extending an invitation to all businesses to experience MEC’s potential use cases, beginning April 2022.

       Customers can visit https://www.maxis.my/edgecomputing to find out more about MEC. - Bernama