Overview
The family’s Provider Access Edge blueprint targets vRAN and MEC (e.g. AR/VR, machine learning, etc.) use cases. Its key features are:
- Lightweight, self-managing clusters based on CoreOS and Kubernetes (OKD distro).
- Support for VMs (via KubeVirt) and containers on a common infrastructure.
- Application lifecycle management using the Operator Framework.
- Support for real-time workloads using CentOS-rt*.
Architecture
Resource Requirements
Documentation
Release Notes
Project Team
Member | Company | Contact | Role | Photo & Bio |
| Andrew Bays | Red Hat | Committer | ||
Frank Zdarsky | Red Hat | Committer | Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Office of the CTO; Edge Computing and | |
Jennifer Koerv | Intel | Committer | ||
| Manjari Asawa | Wipro | Manjari Asawa <manjari.asawa@wipro.com> | Committer | |
| Mikko Ylinen | Intel | Committer | ||
| Ned Smith | Intel | Committer | ||
| Ricardo Noriega | Red Hat | Ricardo Noriega | Committer | Red Hat NFVPE - CTO office - Networking |
Sukhdedv Kapur | Juniper | Committer | Distinguished Engineer; Contrail Software - CTO Org | |
| Yolanda Robla | Red Hat | Yolanda Robla Mota | PTL, Committer | Red Hat NFVPE - Edge, baremetal provisioning |
Use Case Template
Attributes | Description | Informational |
|---|---|---|
Type | New | |
Industry Sector | Telco and carrier networks | |
Business Driver | ||
Business Use Cases | ||
Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective | ||
Business Cost – Target Operational Objective | ||
Security Need | ||
Regulations | ||
Other Restrictions | ||
Additional Details |
Blueprint Template
Attributes | Description | Informational |
|---|---|---|
Type | New | |
Blueprint Family - Proposed Name | Kubernetes-Native Infrastructure for Edge (KNI-Edge) | |
Use Case | Provider Access Edge (PAE) | |
Blueprint - Proposed Name | Provider Access Edge (PAE) | |
Initial POD Cost (CAPEX) | less than $150k (TBC) | |
Scale & Type | 3 to 7 x86 servers (Xeon class) | |
Applications | vRAN (RIC), MEC apps (CDN, AI/ML, …) | |
Power Restrictions | less than 10kW (TBC) | |
Infrastructure orchestration | End-to-end Service Orchestration: ONAP | |
SDN | Tungsten Fabric (w/ SR-IOV, DPDK, and multi-i/f); leaf-and-spine fabric mgmt. | |
| SDS | Ceph | |
Workload Type | containers, VMs | |
Additional Details |