Integrated Edge Cloud(IEC) is an Akraino approved blueprint family and part of Akraino Edge Stack, which intends to develop a fully integrated edge infrastructure solution, and the project is completely focused towards Edge Computing. This open source software stack provides critical infrastructure to enable high performance, reduce latency, improve availability, lower operational overhead, provide scalability, address security needs, and improve fault management. The IEC project will address multiple edge use cases and industry, not just Telco Industry. IEC intends to develop solution and support of carrier, provider, and the IoT networks.  

IEC Type 3 is focused on SmartNic, which could accelerate network performance and provide more management convenience.

In general, the architecture consists of two layers:  Iaas(IEC), SmartNic layer.

Use Case

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<use case 3>

Where on the Edge

Business Drivers

Overall Architecture

<This could inform the non-technical audience, but now is more geared towards a more engaged, technical audience>

< Blue print's relation to Akraino generic architecture, how it relates to it >

< This section will use the Akraino architecture document as reference>

Platform Architecture

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Software Platform Architecture

<Software components with version/release numbers >

<EDGE Interface>

<ETSI MEC Interaction>

APIs

APIs with reference to Architecture and Modules

High Level definition of APIs are stated here, assuming Full definition APIs are in the API documentation

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• OVS-DPDK offload into SmartNic

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Overall Architecture

SmartNIC Datacenter Services across all Clouds 

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Platform Architecture

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For R3 Release, we haven't been using Kubernetes component. 

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Hardware and Software Management

The detailed hardware is itemized below

Licensing

• GNU/common license