Ongoing activities by TIM and its European partners continue to support the development of the European Edge Continuum, a distributed and federated infrastructure model enabling new digital services at a European scale.
The latest advancements concern in particular the 8ra project and the IPCEI CIS programme, two initiatives that are turning this vision into increasingly concrete solutions, as presented at the Mobile World Congress 2026.
Within the 8ra project, presented by Roberto Procopio together with Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone, the first operational milestone was showcased: the joint implementation of the Edge Federation. Already active in laboratory and pre-production environments, it enables the automatic, secure and transparent deployment of applications across nodes operated by different providers. This represents a key step forward, delivering tangible benefits for customers and developers: more efficient workload management, optimised performance, service continuity also in mobility, and greater data control—laying the foundations for a more integrated and competitive European digital market.
