Telecom is a fast-paced game. Communication service providers (CSPs) need to be agile to win. Imagine a toolbox overflowing with cutting-edge tech — that's what CSPs need. Flexible solutions that adapt to new innovations, cost-effective tools to maintain financial health and simple management for sprawling networks. The right arsenal empowers CSPs to not just survive, but dominate the ever-evolving telecom landscape. To discuss edge computing for telecom industry, inferencing at the edge, the increasing importance of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) … and how all this is built into Dell’s PowerEdge XR8000 purpose-built telecom edge server, SDxCentral CEO Matt Palmer is joined here by Manish Singh, CTO for Dell Technologies' Telecom Systems business unit. Before joining Dell, Singh was at Meta (formerly Facebook), where he headed the Wireless Ecosystems Program for Open RAN and Open Core Networks and was heavily involved with O-RAN Alliance and Telecom Infra Project (TIP). In the interview, Singh and Palmer also touch on the following, among other topics:

• Why edge computing, AI inferencing, and genAI are considered “big drivers” in the CSP space today.
• How the XR8000 specifically addresses these three drivers at the edge for CSPs, with examples of use cases.
• Why should CSPs choose the XR8000 for their edge use cases over other available platforms.
• How Dell's strong partnerships with companies like Ericsson, Nokia and Amdocs benefit CSPs who are considering the XR8000 for their edge deployments.
• How the Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab (OTEL) can help CSPs move faster with their NFV and cloud-native deployments, specifically when considering the XR8000 platform.