MobiledgeX, the independent group into which Deutsche Telekom (DT) placed its edge activities, has announced some significant milestones, including the first release of its Edge-Cloud developer solution, which is also powering a public mobile edge deployment by DT. The Edge-Cloud R1.0 solution connects mobile users to containerized cloud applications, which execute close to the user in order to boost performance and responsiveness. Developers can deploy their application back end on the edge in the same way they would on the public cloud. Coming from the telco heritage, DT and MobiledgeX see 5G as an essential part of this highly distributed cloud environment – and the edge cloud as a driver for 5G success. While many players in the edge landscape…