Canadian tech firm Ubique Networks Inc.[1] has signed an agreement with Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) to launch a blockchain-based eSports platform. The agreement was signed[2] on November 14 at the official residence of the Canadian High Commission to Sri Lanka.
The SLT eSports Platform will be powered by Ubique Networks’ Swarmio platform, a decentralized competitive gaming platform that enables eSports enthusiasts to play and organize competitions on latency optimized game servers. Swarmio is the first third-party DApp built on the company’s Q Network[3]. It currently services over 25,000 eSports gamers across multiple geographies.
Vijai Karthigesu, CEO of Ubique Networks, said the SLT eSports Platform “will allow Sri Lankan gamers to raise their profiles to international levels.”
“SLT is using the Swarmio eSports platform and the Q network to deliver a powerful solution to the millennials in Sri Lanka,” he told CoinJournal. He added that SLT has also started, in parallel, a project to build a 5G mobile Internet-of-Things (IoT) DApp for Smart Cities using the Q Network.
The Q Network is a distributed computing network especially designed for interactive, real-time applications that uses unique, proprietary networking, latency optimization technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) to dynamically route data traffic to the point of need in real-time.
The core DApp on Q Network is Q Node, which allows anyone with a standard computer to rent out their excess computing resources, transforming their devices into micro datacenters that can act as hosts for game servers, IoT servers or video/voice conferencing servers.
When a user wants to run an application, Q Network’s “smart routing” technology selects the optimal micro datacenter, whether that’s a PC, a tablet or a laptop, to run the application on-demand, based on where the user is
