Diving Deep in the Tech at MWC
Most people are thrilled by the glamour of MWC. Holographic images, building-sized mobile gaming, and corporate taglines blazing future promises.
What AI was meant to be!
AI Inside for a New Era!
Let the Transformation Begin!
Taste the Rainbow!
Ok, just kidding on that last one. While marketing, with magic to misery on display in Barcelona, I was digging deeper for the pure tech stars of the show. What were the standout use cases and tech innovations that would both carve the industry conversation for the upcoming months, and frame targets for next gen deployments. Here's what I found:
Agentic AI is Arriving for the Network
A recent blog post covered enterprise AI adoption and how much of enterprise deployments today are focused on traditional use cases, such as image recognition and natural language processing. Yesterday, in my fireside chat with AMD's Salil Raje, we discussed when the edge would have its “Chat GPT” moment with true adoption of Gen AI. Today, I had a chance to walk through Metrum's agentic AI platform for network management, and while not a traditional chatbot (in fact much more exciting), this demonstration showed a next level of AI application at the heart of IT control. What the Metrum team has pulled off showcases the power of telemetric oversight of a broad array of infrastructure, with automated delivery of recommended actions to solve real time problems. These recommendations, soon enough, can be delivered as fully automated network control with the right trust and reliability, and are a quantum leap from the endless sea of network help desk chat bots that littered MWC demos in 2024.
Cloud to Edge Public Safety
The folks at Oracle know a thing or two about data analytics, and so it's not shocking that they've applied their expertise to this critical use case. Using Oracle's Enterprise Communication Platform, first responders can tap technology across on-body, in-vehicle, overhead drone, and back to the cloud, with Oracle's Public Safety Suite to deliver real-time analysis of crisis situations. Teams have the benefit of multi-video feeds simulcast simultaneously, alongside broader environment data streams, to improve decisions and actions that can save lives.
Telephonic Fraud Control
We have all got those calls...scammers phishing for our data, challenging us to divulge private information, or simply being an annoyance. It's often made me wonder why the telco industry doesn't do more to identify and alert fraudulent connections for customers. New tech by Neural Technologies provides sweeping identification of devices and connections that have high chance of fraud risk. With legislation gaining momentum across the globe to hold carriers partially accountable for fraudulent engagement, this type of analytics should be seen as a cornerstone of network security platforms in the near future.
Humanoid Robots: Edge AI Personified?
There’s always one use case at MWC that seems to capture the collective conversation, and this year’s topic was humanoid robotics. These life-like machines, integrated with all of the intelligence of the latest LLM, have been bequeathed THE innovation that will propel Gen AI at the edge, and solve pressing challenges, such as healthcare and teacher shortages in underserved communities. We may all be cohabiting with Rosie Jetson sooner than we think.
Hats off to the true innovators from companies large to small here in Barcelona. It's engineering breakthroughs like these that make MWC a highlight of every year's tech landscape.
Most people are thrilled by the glamour of MWC. Holographic images, building-sized mobile gaming, and corporate taglines blazing future promises.
What AI was meant to be!
AI Inside for a New Era!
Let the Transformation Begin!
Taste the Rainbow!
Ok, just kidding on that last one. While marketing, with magic to misery on display in Barcelona, I was digging deeper for the pure tech stars of the show. What were the standout use cases and tech innovations that would both carve the industry conversation for the upcoming months, and frame targets for next gen deployments. Here's what I found:
Agentic AI is Arriving for the Network
A recent blog post covered enterprise AI adoption and how much of enterprise deployments today are focused on traditional use cases, such as image recognition and natural language processing. Yesterday, in my fireside chat with AMD's Salil Raje, we discussed when the edge would have its “Chat GPT” moment with true adoption of Gen AI. Today, I had a chance to walk through Metrum's agentic AI platform for network management, and while not a traditional chatbot (in fact much more exciting), this demonstration showed a next level of AI application at the heart of IT control. What the Metrum team has pulled off showcases the power of telemetric oversight of a broad array of infrastructure, with automated delivery of recommended actions to solve real time problems. These recommendations, soon enough, can be delivered as fully automated network control with the right trust and reliability, and are a quantum leap from the endless sea of network help desk chat bots that littered MWC demos in 2024.
Cloud to Edge Public Safety
The folks at Oracle know a thing or two about data analytics, and so it's not shocking that they've applied their expertise to this critical use case. Using Oracle's Enterprise Communication Platform, first responders can tap technology across on-body, in-vehicle, overhead drone, and back to the cloud, with Oracle's Public Safety Suite to deliver real-time analysis of crisis situations. Teams have the benefit of multi-video feeds simulcast simultaneously, alongside broader environment data streams, to improve decisions and actions that can save lives.
Telephonic Fraud Control
We have all got those calls...scammers phishing for our data, challenging us to divulge private information, or simply being an annoyance. It's often made me wonder why the telco industry doesn't do more to identify and alert fraudulent connections for customers. New tech by Neural Technologies provides sweeping identification of devices and connections that have high chance of fraud risk. With legislation gaining momentum across the globe to hold carriers partially accountable for fraudulent engagement, this type of analytics should be seen as a cornerstone of network security platforms in the near future.
Humanoid Robots: Edge AI Personified?
There’s always one use case at MWC that seems to capture the collective conversation, and this year’s topic was humanoid robotics. These life-like machines, integrated with all of the intelligence of the latest LLM, have been bequeathed THE innovation that will propel Gen AI at the edge, and solve pressing challenges, such as healthcare and teacher shortages in underserved communities. We may all be cohabiting with Rosie Jetson sooner than we think.
Hats off to the true innovators from companies large to small here in Barcelona. It's engineering breakthroughs like these that make MWC a highlight of every year's tech landscape.
