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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 on 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 the Telco Industry. IEC intends to develop solution and support of carrier, provider, and the IoT networks.
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1. OVS-DPDK offload into SmartNic to accelerate the network performance and save computing resources which is much valuable important in the edge cloud environment
2. part of the UPF functions like load balance, forwarding, dpi, etc offloaded into SmartNIC to enhance the performance of UPF who will be deployed in carrier's edge cloud datacenters
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For R3 Release, we haven't been using used the Kubernetes component.
For the hardware components information:
Qty. | Item | Comments |
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| 2 | x86 servers running CentOS 7.5 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz / 40 cores / 2 numa / 64G memory |
| 1 | ConnectX-5 NIC (FW: 16.24.0328 and up) | - |
| 1 | BlueField 25GbE SmartNIC with Arm processor (FW: 18.24.1000 and up) | ARMv8 16 cores / single numa / 16G memory/ 25G bandwidth |
| 1 | 25GB/s SFP28 networking cable | - |
| 1 | QSA28 Adapter (100GB-to-25GB Adapter) | - |
| 1 | UART-to-USB cable | For SmartNIC USB console access |
| 1 | Mini USB Type B cable | For SmartNIC USB Console Access |
| 1 | bfb image to be loaded on the BlueField SmartNIC Arm. | Image contains:
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Software Platform Architecture
| System | Software | DPDK | |
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| Machine 1 | Centos 7.5 | OVS-DPDK 2.12 | version 19.11 |
| Machine 2 | Centos 7.5 | OVS-DPDK 2.12 | version 19.11 |
APIs
Not Applicable
Hardware and Software Management
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Licensing
GNU/common license
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