February 25, 2019, the four-day 19th World Mobile Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain kicked off, 5G and edge computing become the conference's most popular theme.
Local time on February 26, "China Unicom MEC edge of the cloud to accelerate the commercial launch plan" NEXTech Theatre D (T4) in Hall 8 Hall grand opening of the General Assembly to "build eco-smart edge, enabling 5G digital transformation" as the theme, to the world China Unicom announced MEC edge cloud strategy and business plan layout. Cloud Kyushu 2018 China Unicom "MEC edge Gold Partner cloud champion" honors.
In addition to cloud Kyushu, the conference brought together experts from GSMA, Huawei, INTEL, ZTE, Microsoft, Alibaba, Tencent, VMware, HPE, Lenovo, wave, Redhat, ARM, Wind River, NVDIA, Telefonic, DoCoMo and many other the company's hundreds of industry leaders to discuss MEC edge cloud technology standard, platform architecture, networking solutions, landing practices and jointly build ecological edge, win-win cooperation.
Deputy general manager of China Unicom Group, Mr. Shaoguang Lu General Assembly opening statement: "Five new China Unicom adhering to the intensive, agile, open basis, to build CUBE-Net 2.0 full cloud network, network reconfiguration to promote and accelerate the commercial 5G, transformed into digital service providers .MEC edge of the wedge into the cloud as an important contact 5G vertical industry, 2018 China Unicom in 15 provinces to carry out pilot scale edge-cloud, to build wisdom port, smart driving, wisdom venues, intelligent manufacturing, video monitoring, cloud gaming, medical wisdom, more than 30 pre-commercial pilot project, which greatly promoted the development of the industrial chain. 2019, China Unicom will continue to thoroughly implement the focus, innovation, strategic cooperation, join hands ecology partners, in 31 provinces and cities nationwide to speed up MEC edge business scale deployment, expand trade cooperation, speed up industrial practice. "
在此次发布会上，中国联通为十家企业举办了隆重的“2018年MEC边缘云金牌合作伙伴先行者”表彰仪式，以表彰这些企业与中国联通在边缘计算合作发展方面作出的贡献，分别是九州云、华为、INTEL、中兴、阿里巴巴、腾讯、联想、星耀科技、华兴宏视、吉利汽车，共10家企业；九州云有幸成为此次十家联通边缘云金牌合作伙伴之一。截止到目前，中国联通MEC边缘云生态合作伙伴已达153家。
构建一个具备开放互操作接口、支持边缘生态应用、支持开放边缘互操作性，是边缘计算的重要方向之一，开源技术和开放架构的运用，有利于加速边缘平台的落地和实现，九州云和联通在边缘技术等多方面开展合作，探索符合国际框架规范、具备自身特色、支持边缘生态的边缘平台。
九州云作为国内领先的开源技术服务提供商，在多个和边缘技术相关的开源领域积累了雄厚的技术实力，2018年成为开源边缘项目StarlingX的发起单位之一，并在全球8个技术委员会中获得唯一的一席中国厂商席位。在边缘基础架构和边缘编排项目中都具备领先的技术实力，九州云是编排相关技术Tacker全球第一的贡献者，在边缘底层Undercloud部署和分发领域，九州云也参与了发起了基于Airship项目。
5G与边缘计算迎来蓬勃发展时期，九州云将继续坚持“开源.赋能变革”的理念，携手合作伙伴，不断精进技术，将核心技术与应用方案进行深入的契合，打造出最佳的边缘云方案，持续为推动中国边缘计算产业的发展贡献自身的力量。