Mitel, a business communications technology and services provider, today announced Mitel Edge, an intelligent communications architecture that enables mission-critical workloads to run locally while extending AI, automation, and centralized governance across hybrid environments.
Mitel Edge includes a cloud-linked edge architecture built specifically for regulated and high-availability environments that require local custody for sensitive data transmission and residence. It is built on a unified control plane powered by cloud-linked microservices. Mission-critical voice and workflow services run locally. Organizations can keep sensitive communications data streams and data sources under local custody when required, while AI, automation, analytics, and centralized management operate through a unified services layer spanning local and cloud environments.
"Mitel Edge represents a fundamental shift in how hybrid communications are architected," said Martin Bitzinger, senior vice president of product management at Mitel, in a statement. "Mitel Edge complements Mitel’s hybrid and private cloud deployments through a common services layer. Customers can run mission-critical workloads locally and keep select communications data streams under local custody when required, while seamlessly extending intelligent capabilities and centralized governance across their hybrid environment. All of this operates within a unified communications foundation that strengthens resiliency and simplifies operational management."
Mitel Edge is built on a unified control plane through Mitel's Common Communication Framework, complementing Mitel's private cloud and Mitel Secure Cloud deployments through cloud-linked microservices as part of an integrated hybrid environment. This enables the following:
- Resilient communications continuity: Critical voice and workflows remain operational during outages, service disruptions, or network instability.
- Operational control without isolation: Sensitive communication workloads remain local while benefiting from centralized policy enforcement and visibility.
- AI and workflow intelligence in local environments: Organizations can extend automation and analytics to distributed environments without compromising performance, latency, or security, while keeping sensitive communications data local when data residency or governance requirements apply.
- Integrated hybrid: Communication workloads operate under an AI-enabled common control plane, across on-site and private cloud environments, ensuring localized data custody and performance for critical communications workflows.
"For many industries, communications are no longer a support function; they are operational infrastructure," said Mike Robinson, CEO of Mitel, in a statement. "With Mitel Edge, communications infrastructure follows employees and critical workflows wherever they operate, leveraging the latest emerging technologies like AI, while also maintaining the security, resiliency, and control that enterprises demand. We’re empowering customers to modernize with AI and automation without surrendering oversight or data sovereignty."