MobiledgeX and World Wide Technology (WWT) announced a partnership to make it easier for service providers to deploy MobiledgeX’s mobile edge computing (MEC) platform — and more quickly create new revenue streams.

In addition to teaming up, the partners released their first MEC infrastructure blueprint, which uses Dell EMC hardware and VMware software. This blueprint includes Dell 14G servers with Intel Cascade Lake 2 processors and Optane persistent memory and VMware Integrated Openstack.

“It’s the first of many blueprints to come,” said Eric Braun, chief commercial officer at MobiledgeX, adding that additional blueprints will be available as they’re validated in WWT’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC), multi-vendor testing and validation lab. “We’re very active with all the major OEMs, and we will have a variety of them represented in the ATC. [Dell and VMware] just happened to be the starting point.”

German operator Deutsche Telekom founded MobiledgeX, which is based in San Francisco. The edge computing startup developed a global platform that connects developers to mobile operators by aggregating existing operator network resources.

Under the partnership, MobiledgeX will provide its cloud-native MEC platform-as-a-service (PaaS) software. Meanwhile WWT, MobiledgeX’s sole distributor, will deliver the fully integrated MEC infrastructure, on which MobiledgeX’s software will run and the validated customer-premises equipment (CPE) and in-network system resources required by enterprise customers to consume MEC services.

Both the MEC infrastructure and CPE will be available from WWT’s three global integration centers in St. Louis, Amsterdam, and Singapore.

The partnership will allow service providers to commercialize scalable MEC deployments much faster than MobiledgeX could do on its own, Braun said.

For service providers, “it’s all about execution and time to market. The ability to scale rapidly is what WWT does, and there are very few distributors that can do the scale that they do and the speed at which they do it with the same consistent quality,” he said. Additionally, WWT has a $12 billion value-added reseller business with strong ties to enterprises and service providers. “This relationship allows MobiledgeX to focus on what we do, which is being a software company.”

MobiledgeX says it now counts 30 “category-defining developer applications” — these are cutting-edge type apps — and 13 top-tier mobile operators as part of its global edge network initiative. In addition to Deutsche Telekom, these include SK Telecom and Telus. It hasn’t yet named the other 10.