Verizon announced its deployment of Qwilt Open Caching in edge computing, mobile and broadband network infrastructure and emerging applications that depend on high performance, low latency network connectivity.
Verizon’s decision to deploy Qwilt Open Caching has an important tactical value in that Verizon is investing in a partnership with Qwilt to address today’s content delivery opportunity in their massive network.
The tactical opportunity is significant given Verizon operates a huge fixed and mobile network today as the largest wireless provider in the US with 149M subscribers (as of October 2017).
The immediate impact of this new architecture, which pushes content delivery to the network edge, is threefold: improved Quality of Experience (QoE) for Verizon consumers, expanded delivery capacity for content providers and reduced network buildout expense for Verizon.
In the announcement, Verizon reports experiencing 20% offload already through Open Caching. In other words, Qwilt’s Open Caching platform is already delivering one fifth of Verizon’s data traffic at peak where it is deployed in the network.
