AIS keep enhancing digital infrastructures to support potentiality of both public and private sectors in Thailand, especially intelligent 5G network and platform. AIS announces its partnership with Thailand’s Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa) to establish the first 5G innovation center and laboratory, AIS 5G NEXTGen Center at Thailand Digital Valley (TDV) in Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). AIS also launches the first 5G platform in Thailand, AIS Paragon Platform. Moreover, AIS extends its 5G ecosystem with additional leading global partners namely Singtel, NCS, and Siemens. The 5G ecosystem with a concept of “AIS 5G NEXTGen for Business” aims to bring innovative solutions and services to enable and accelerate digital transformation of businesses in Thailand. Those were announced in Thailand 5G Summint 2022, an event to exhibit commitment and collaboration to strengthen national 5G ecosystem for the future.

 Mr.Tanapong Ittisakulchai, AIS Chief Enterprise Business Officer stated “AIS keeps investing digital technology infrastructure to support Thais’ well-being. AIS has collaborated with various industries to enable and accelerate their digital transformations effectively to gain more competitive advantages. Our key objective for this year is to bring 5G benefits to large enterprises, SMEs, and public agencies. One of our initiatives is the partnership with depa to establish AIS 5G NEXTGen Center in EEC. We will utilize 100% 5G network coverage there to generate business opportunities by learning, idealization, and realization to develop 5G use cases or solutions together. This is crucial to complete 5G ecosystem to Thailand digital economy.”

 Asst. Prof. Dr. Nuttapon Nimmanphatcharin, President/CEO of the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa), commented “depa aims to build network of partners with 5G technology competence in Thailand. This will lead to 5G innovation/use case development and 5G adoption to strengthen competitive advantage and growth in various industries such as manufacturing and service. Thailand Digital Valley in Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) at Sri Racha, Chonburi is one of key action plans.”

Asst. Prof. Dr. Nuttapon added “In Thailand Digital Valley, there is TDV2 building or “Digital Startup Knowledge Exchange Center” with area of 4,500 square meters. This building is designed for collaboration and exchange of digital technology and innovation, digital business networking, and residence of digital developers and Thai startups to become the largest Startup community in Thailand. depa and AIS will establish 5G NEXTGen Center in this building to enable Digital Tech cluster to test their 5G use cases with AIS 5G network and platform to enhance new digital solutions or innovative business models in the future.”

Tanapong added “AIS as a leading digital platform and service provider including Cloud, Cyber Security, IoT (Internet of Things) and ICT solution today launches Thailand’s first industry leading 5G and MEC (Multi-access Edge Compute) platform – AIS Paragon Platform enabling easier, faster, more efficient, and cheaper deployment of 5G applications that requires low latency, fast response, local sovereignty or mission critical infrastructure.

• AIS Paragon Platform: aggregates 5G network, network slicing capability, edge compute (MEC), leading Cloud hyper-scalers, and application altogether in an automated fashion making it easier, faster, cheaper, and more efficient for enterprises, government departments, application providers, solution providers, and system integrators to integrate and deploy end-to-end 5G solutions with low latency.
  • Ability to deploy and manage applications in any location: Customers can use AIS Paragon Platform to deploy applications on a private 5G network and MEC on their campus or a local shared private 5G network and MEC or at leading public clouds. Customers can also deploy and manage applications in a hybrid fashion spanning across the edge and the cloud leveraging AIS Paragon Platform.
  • “End to end visibility” – Customers can monitor the performance and utilization of the MEC infrastructure, MEC applications and the resources consumed by the MEC applications in a granular fashion using the analytics dashboards inbuilt in AIS Paragon Platform, offering them unparalleled control and visibility of their application deployments.
  • Enterprise Application Marketplace. AIS collaborates with industry leading partners domestically, regionally, and globally to bring 5G applications onto AIS Paragon Platform such as Metaverse, Video Analytics, AI Computer Vision, Quality Inspection, Drone, AR/VR, Robotic etc. Customers can seamlessly discover applications from the marketplace to solve their business problems and rapidly deploy applications on the edge or cloud using AIS Paragon Platform. Application and solution providers can replicate such deployment easily to other customers. Do one time and serve many.

Tanapong said “AIS Paragon Platform will also be used as a testbed tool at AIS NEXTGen Center to facilitate 5G solution development by customers and solution co-creation between AIS and customers/partners.”

Tanapong “emphasized “AIS has continuously expanded 5G partnership to collaborate in delivering end-to-end solutions to enterprise as well as government customers. Today AIS announces new partnership with leading world-class partners as following:

• Singtel: AIS and Singtel collaborate in joint development of the 5G and MEC platform capabilities and will operate similar technology in their respective country to make it seamless for enterprise customers to deploy applications to respective MEC regionally. The partnership also extends to take domestic 5G applications in Thailand to regional market in Asia Pacific.
• 5G Transformation Solutions with NCS AIS signed MoU of partnership with NCS Telco+ to jointly provide digital services to Thai businesses for their digital transformation including 5G solutions developed by NCS such as Robot, AR/VR, Open Video Analytics.
• Siemens Smart Manufacturing AIS partners with Siemens to serve Industry 5G solutions. Siemens is an innovation leader in automation and digitalization with comprehensive industrial solutions including Industrial 5G, Cybersecurity for Industry, Digital Factory Solution, and Energy Management.

“As we have consistently underlined, we are ready to enable and accelerate digital adoptions of businesses in Thailand to transform and create competitive advantages by leveraging 5G technology and ecosystem from us and our partners in various verticals, both locally and globally. This will foster Thailand digital economy to keep growing sustainably.” concluded Tanapong.

For more information about the services of AIS business, please contact the sales team member looking after your company, or visit the website https://business.ais.co.th/5g/

Published 16 June 2022