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The opportunity: The Lockheed Martin-led military and defense 5G initiatives could result in the development of powerful cloud, edge-computing, and communication applications. The DOD will have secure 5G and computing solutions that it can use as a military advantage. Lockheed Martin retains the distinction of being the industry leader in defense-focused telecommunications and computing applications.

“People want to get out of Russia,” Roman Shaposhnik, the Russia-born co-founder and CTO of edge computing company Zededa, told TechCrunch. “Many don’t want to abandon their careers and hope that their exile will be only temporary. It’s something that they worked on for five to 10 years of their life. And now, the prospect of giving it up is brutal.”.

The bigger picture: 5G is starting to gain ground as a vital cog for edge computing applications and in-office business use. Microsoft is incorporating 5G and satellite internet connectivity into its Azure Cloud for business customers.

Better chips, edge computing, and 5G will all serve to shrink the size of the computers needed to generate AR and VR—as well as the latency or responsiveness of the devices. Better projection technologies will also shrink device sizes. More realistic experiences.

Multiaccess edge computing (MEC, formerly “mobile edge computing”): This shifts some data processing away from the centralized cloud and to local computing situated as close as possible to an end user, for example at a base station or other local node.

Multiaccess edge computing (MEC, formerly “mobile edge computing”): This shifts some data processing away from the centralized cloud and to local computing situated as close as possible to an end user, for example at a base station or other local node.

Multiaccess edge computing (MEC, formerly “mobile edge computing”): This shifts some data processing away from the centralized cloud and to local computing situated as close as possible to an end user, for example at a base station or other local node.

Multiaccess edge computing (MEC, formerly “mobile edge computing”): This shifts some data processing away from the centralized cloud and to local computing situated as close as possible to an end user, for example at a base station or other local node.

A major constraint of today’s wearables is their clunkiness, but new radio technologies can shift computing more seamlessly to the cloud or tethered devices—while also adding new capabilities. 5G: These cellular networks are much faster, with more computing done on the edge. That means a lot of the hardcore computing for things like AR can happen in the cloud rather than on a device.

Multiaccess edge computing (MEC, formerly “mobile edge computing”): This shifts some data processing away from the centralized cloud and to local computing situated as close as possible to an end user, for example at a base station or other local node.

Multiaccess edge computing (MEC, formerly “mobile edge computing”): This shifts some data processing away from the centralized cloud and to local computing situated as close as possible to an end user, for example at a base station or other local node.

Though Microsoft is reportedly interested in 5G cloud networks and AWS has explored 5G edge computing with Verizon in the past, the Dish deal marks the first true attempt to replicate the physical infrastructure of a telecom network in the cloud. If it works, AWS could take this model and apply it to other telecoms.