KUALA LUMPUR: Committed to supporting the nation's digital ambitions, Maxis announced that it has formed one of the largest 5G alliances in Malaysia to accelerate technology breakthroughs and IoT enterprise solutions.
Comprising global and local technology and industry partners, innovators and lighthouse customers from diverse industries, the Alliance will co-create, commercialise and scale 5G use cases and innovative solutions across industries to drive digital transformation and innovation.
"There is no doubt that 5G will bring exciting benefits to individuals, businesses and government in strengthening Malaysia's competitiveness in the region. At Maxis, we are committed to fostering and investing in innovation in the country and we are proud to have an esteemed group onboard which will enable members to work together to grow and leverage this symbiotic ecosystem to unlock the lucrative value of IR4.0 technologies like IoT, cloud, Edge Computing, VR and AR," said Maxis' chief enterprise business officer Paul McManus adding that the alliance currently has 16 initial members and they are Advantech, Amdocs, CrescoNet, Cisco, Google Cloud, GSMA (APAC 5G Industry Community), Huawei, LLVision, Microsoft, MIMOS, Motorola Solutions, NEC, Omron, Realwear, SAS, and Vodafone.
Intended to be an open collaboration, the Maxis 5G Alliance hope to have participation from across all organisations that can help to turbo charge the adoption and deployment of innovation that will be enabled through 5G and ubiquitous converged network connectivity and are structured according to three streams – technology and industry partners, innovators, and strategic client partners.
With the diversity of partners within the ecosystem, Maxis believe business customers will benefit from this network through three different programmes and they are sell and grow programme, engage and exchange, and innovate and build programme where members get to leverage, collaborate, network and get support needed to co-create and commercialise new solutions among the strategic partners.
As members of the Alliance, MIMOS will provide access to its 5G and AI Innovation Hub to develop and test use cases, while Maxis will provide an experiential journey by showcasing the use cases at the recently opened, world class Maxis Business Innovation Centre.
Through its collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Maxis invites enterprises to trial Multi-access Edge Computing use cases. GSMA will facilitate knowledge transfer and training via its Quarterly Forum and 5G insights.
All solutions and use cases will be powered by Maxis Programmable Network, Malaysia's most advanced, programmable software-defined network.
The telco will also provide its wide range of converged ICT solutions that cater to the full spectrum of business needs that is fully supported with the right expertise through professional and managed services.