At the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center and Federal Mobility Group conference on Tuesday, government and industry experts discussed the impact of 5G on the cloud, highlighting how both technologies work hand-in-hand and can be used to further agency missions. Specifically, the experts noted both help improve agency efficiency, as integrating 5G with the cloud reduces latency, enhances communications and improves data processing and storage.
The panelists included: Dr. Thomas Osborne, director of the National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Brian Merrick, director of cloud programs at the Department of State; and Kevin McFadden, Cisco Systems’s chief 5G business architect for U.S. public sector/federal government.
Osborne noted the VA is using 5G to improve how it uses the data it collects. To accomplish this, he said the VA will “utilize these big infrastructures to move more data around faster, in order to allow us to do things that we are only doing now in a limited way, or in allowing us to do things that we could only dream of before.” … Read the full article here.
