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The edge layer which this blueprint targets is the Telco Edge.
Below are the high-level features which this blueprint will go on to implement in phase-wise.
- Lightweight MEP Solution
- Autonomous MEP Edge Sites.
- Unified Portal for platform management and for App developers.
- Sandbox with SDKs and tools chains for MEC app developers
- Heterogeneous deployment on Multi-Arch.
- ETSI MEC Compliant Compliant.
Use Case
Lightweight MEC platform, enable real-time enterprise applications on 5G telco edge.
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Diverse types of applications in various sectors, not limited to below:
● Gaming Applications, VR Live broadcasting
● Industrial The industrial park, Campus office etc.
● Video Orchestration and Optimization
● Latency Senstive Sensitive Application for Enterprise scenarios Etc
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The EALTEdge Blueprint is for the Telco Edge, it targets the telecom operators to leverage this blueprint platform services and provide value added service, in return for better revenue generation. It also provide an Application Development Ecosystem by providing open SDK to developer community to develop application which can be tested and deployed easily on the MEP sites.
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Overall architecture diagram of the blueprint.
Figure 1 – EALTEdge R3 Architecture
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The below diagram gives a overall architecture of the Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge blueprint as given in Release 3.
Note: EALTEdge Blueprint Deployment has been tested on Cloud VM and is not tested on Bare-Metal Environment. Though, theoretically deployment should work work in bare metal, provided hardware and software prerequisites are met. Kindly refer R3 - Test Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge) to get details on the tested deployment.
MECM Components:
- Application LCM: Handles the application life cycle management of Applications.
- Catalog: Provides application package management
- Monitoring: Monitoring and Visualisation of platform and applications.
- Common DB: Persistent Database.
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The below image shows the software platform distribution and architecture for Release 3.0.
EALTEdge Software Components
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