- [Narrator] 5G is the Ultrafast Wireless Network,
which has the potential to connect everything.
Additionally, customers can use 5G network APIs
to adapt the network to their needs,
such as quality on demand.
One example is Remote Assist
based on Microsoft HoloLens 2.
Siemens Energy is providing maintenance services
for their equipment and fleet
delivered to customers globally.
Current challenges for this maintenance are
global uncertainties, such as having the right skills
at the right time at the right location,
sustainability, high travel and training expenses,
and CO2 pollution, and productivity,
executing maintenance tasks in a short amount of time
to reduce outage time.
To solve these challenges, Siemens Energy
uses Microsoft's Remote Assist solution.
Junior technicians on site are supported by remote experts
using Remote Assist app on Microsoft HoloLens 2 headsets.
Siemens Energy can provide the necessary support
even if they're not physically present.
This solution has two critical success factors,
global availability and mobile connectivity.
These critical success factors only can be solved
if different industries work closely together.
One critical success factor is the mobile connectivity
between the HoloLens and the backend application.
High latencies and jitter prevent a good user experience,
the quality of the video is reduced
preventing a smooth collaboration with the remote expert.
To provide a good user experience,
Siemens Energy uses a quality on demand network API
from Deutsche Telecom and T-Mobile US.
This API prioritizes the data traffic
of the HoloLens in the mobile network,
and reduces latency and jitter to a minimum.
Siemens Energy engineers now can see the augmented video
in the HoloLens with a minimum delay in best quality.
It is critical to have seamless access to such APIs
across Telco networks and countries.
Deutsche Telecom and T-Mobile US have built T-DevEdge,
a global platform to expose APIs like Quality on Demand,
verify location, and device status.
Developers and partners from both sides of the Atlantic
can easily order and access the same APIs.
Both in Germany and in the US we have lab environments
for customers to use and test the APIs.
The APIs are all defined in Camara,
the Telco Global API Alliance.
To simplify access to network APIs,
Microsoft has developed Azure Programmable Connectivity.
This service provides the tools to write and deploy
edge-native applications that can access the intelligence
and programmability of today's networks.
Developers will have the ability to write applications
that can interact with different connectivity environments.
Azure Programmable Connectivity
is a network agnostic platform
that creates one unified way
to interact with multiple networks,
public and private 5G, satellite, and wired.
Azure Programmable Connectivity makes network APIs
accessible to developers with a consistent
and transparent experience
using the same tools they are used to
when developing applications in Azure.
Developers will only write code once,
networks will change, but code will not.
Deutsche Telecom and T-Mobile US Network APIs
made available by Azure Programmable Connectivity
ensure to Siemens Energy that remote assist runs smoothly
with best user experience.