Rapid.Space is a resilient 5G edge cloud operator whose international, Fully Open infrastructure is based on principles of openness, transparency, portability and reversibility: open source software, open hardware and open operating procedures. Rapid.Space produces the EdgePOD, an out-of-the-box edge computing server designed to meet the resilience needs of enterprises for information systems, Industry 4.0 or virtualized 5G networks. Rapid.Space strives to be at the forefront of the development of an edge computing infrastructure capable of meeting the challenges of the splinternet, protection of trade secret and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Rapid.Space also produces an autonomous 4G/5G base station with RAN (eNodeB, gNodeB), embedded core network (epc, 5gc, ims) and edge computing services (local messaging, push-to-talk, video streaming, proxy, education library, IoT buffering, etc.). It is ideal for constrained environments such a remote villages in tropical areas, farms in low density areas, disaster relief areas etc.

The cloud computing market continues to grow because cloud can offer economies of scale, automate operation and increase flexibility. The cloud market size is projected to grow from $676.29 billion in 2024 to $2,291.59 billion by 2032 [RD]. However, cloud computing infrastructure often leaks data or sensitive information, accidentally or as part of extraterritorial legal procedures from other countries. There are numerous examples of this.

In 2011, the Hungarian unit of Deutsche Telekom, Magyar Telekom, was fined $95 million by the Department of Justice for bribing government officials in Montenegro and Macedonia.  How can this fall within U.S legislation ? One director of Magyar Telekom had only mentioned these acts in an email which transitioned via a server hosted in the United States. It was on the basis of this email that the SEC and the Department of Justice considered that there had been a violation of the FCPA and that legal proceedings were legitimate [RD] [RD].

Rapid.Space "Fully Open" EdgePOD has been designed precisely to meet simultaneously the need for privacy, transparency and digital resilience. Running Nexedi's Open Source SlapOS or your own OSS/BSS, the EdgePOD is a small and powerful device enabling seamless operations during cloud outages while reducing data congestion on main networks. With Rapid.Space EdgePOD server, deploy automatically your IT workloads at the edge. 

Ideally, three EdgePODs work together for maximum resilience. One EdgePOD is used for the main production, another is used for backup and keeps business processes active, while a third one keeps a copy of your work from a few days back. 

EdgePODs can be put anywhere in the world. As we offer three choices of CPU: 8-core Hygon, 16-core AMD or NXP, the EdgePOD is immune to extraterritorial jurisdiction and can be deployed in Europe, the USA and China. You can access your data anywhere using our CDN or your own clone of Rapid.Space CDN.

Using Nexedi's re6st SDN, we can circumvent all the problems of connectivity that exist on the Internet and optimize synchronised business operations between EdgePODs deployed across the world. For example, an international car manufacturer can easily synchronize business operations between its factories in Algeria, China and France.

Caucase is the technology at the core of Zero Knowledge. It is a tool to help manage security certificates, essential for secure communications on the Internet. These certificates encrypt data and ensure that communications are secure. Caucase monitors existing certificates and automatically renews them before they expire. Since the certificate issuance process is automated, there are no constrains related to a given certificate's purpose.

French companies have paid $14 billion in fines to the US Treasury these past few years [RD]. U.S extraterritorial legislation has even led to the arrest of senior executives of foreign companies, the arrest of M.Frédéric Pierucci being one of the well-documented case [RD]. 

The Fully Open EdgePOD can prevent this by choosing an adequate CPU model. For example, a Chinese company can pick an EdgePOD equipped with an Hygon processor to make it immune to U.S extraterritorial legislation [RD]. 

Keeping cloud costs under control is a top priority for most businesses. However, many are so reliant on a single provider that they are unable to migrate easily and constrained to accept price hikes and policy changes. Recently, Broadcom acquired VMware and increased prices tenfold. For organizations previously spending $100 000 on VMware services, the cost has now skyrocketed to $1 000 000 [RD]. This has a significant impact on companies or public institutions relying on VMware infrastructure.

Rapid.Space, on the other hand, is an open, reversible, interoperable cloud that can be deployed on other providers' infrastructure [RD].