Singtel and Bridge Alliance partner to bring Singtel’s GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offerings to Southeast Asian enterprises. Bridge Alliance member operators (BMOs) can access the GPUaaS offerings from Singtel as part of the partnership.
“Our collaboration with Bridge Alliance and telcos in the region will help democratise and accelerate the use of AI by enterprises across all industries, giving them the tools to achieve greater productivity and business value with our next-generation digital infrastructure and solutions. This reinforces our goal of being a catalyst for innovation and supporting the digital transformation of Southeast Asia’s digital economies,” Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit, said.
Bringing AI to the 5G edge
Singtel will become the first telco to bring AI to the 5G edge in the 5G@Sentosa trials for Singapore government agencies through Singtel’s patented Paragon platform, which orchestrated a multi-edge compute and NVIDIA GPU environment while allowing the deployment of 5G use cases at speed and scale.
“With more telcos deploying 5G network services, we see this real-time AI offering powered by GPUaaS at 5G edge at low latencies as a key growth driver for their enterprise businesses,” Chang added.
AI servers
NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU-powered clusters will power Singtel’s GPUaaS of Singtel at launch. Singtel sets out to be among the world’s first to launch NVIDIA’s GB200 AI Servers. The service will expand to run in new sustainable, hyper-connected, AI-ready data centres by Nxera, Singtel’s regional data centre business, across Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia once it begins operating on mid-2025.
