Summary
This release of Enterprise Applications Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge) Blueprint focuses on giving a complete ecosystem and platform for Telco-Edge solution. The overall architecture abides to the ETSI Recommended MEC Platform, in addition given some more components as added on Service. The EALT Blueprint also focuses to give a Lightweight 5G Telco Edge which can be deployed on resource constraints hardware goingis a blueprint under 5G/MEC system blueprint family. It intends to provide a edge computing platform along with application orchestration & management to host enterprise applications on lightweight 5G Telco Edge. BP also intend to provide platform for enterprise application developers to develop, test, package & onboard their applications easily & quickly, thereby empowering developers to innovate & ship faster. Also eventually BP aims to provide platform capabilities and features for "MEC in an Enterprise Setting"
This release focus has been majorly to add following main components/features
- Application orchestration with support for Multi Tenancy
- Platform for Application Developer for faster development, test, packaging and onboarding
- Application repository to launch applications.
- Platform components & application for ROBO use case
- Add platform features like DNS, LB, Network Isolation.
Release Scope
The edge computing platform(s) (MEP) needs to be installed at the telco edge(s) and Application development/management related components (MECM (MEO+MEPM), AppStore, Developer Platform) needs to be installed in Telco's cloud (private/public). Edge computing platform (MEP) provides a platform as a service environment for running "Enterprise Applications"
In order to be useful in this release, BP requires following pre-requisites:
- 5G RAN & UPF to enable connectivity & have configurations based on use case need.
- Also 5Gc and OSS system needs to be in place with desired configurations.
- Additionally need following configuration on UPF
- DNS Redirection rules (for redirection to DNS server hosted on BP's Edge Platform)
- Traffic rules to enable communication with Enterprise application hosted on Edge Platform.
Note:
- 5G RAN, UPF, 5Gc, OSS are not in scope of BP.
- In order to test this BP functionality in LAB environment a 3 node setup with Traffic generator (or any IP based UE) direct connection with Edge Platform would be sufficient and same is done in BP validation Lab.
What is released
Components of the release (Akraino new)
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- Ansible-playbook based single command for EALT EALTEdge environment installation.
- Command Line Interface for installation of various components of EALT EALTEdge Platform.
CENTER Node Components
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- MEP Agent
- MEP Server
- Applcm (MEPM)
Note: For details, please refer to Architecture Document (R4 - Architecture Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)#PlatformArchitecture)
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