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Blueprint overview/Introduction

Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge is an Akraino approved blueprint family, which intends to make a complete ecosystem for 5G Telco Edge Enterprise level platform. Platform which can be leveraged by various Telecom operators to give value added services to end users. 

The edge layer which this blueprint targets is the Telco Edge. 

  • Lightweight MEP Solution
  • Self managed 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. 

Use Case

Lightweight MEC platform, enable real time enterprise applications on 5G telco edge.

Applications: 

Diverse types of applications in various sectors, not limited to below:
● Gaming Applications, VR Live broadcasting
● Industrial park, Campus office etc.
● Video Orchestration and Optimization
● Latency Senstive Application for Enterprise scenarios Etc

Use Case 1 


Use Case 2

Use Case 3

Where on the Edge

Business Drivers

The EALT 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 deployed easily on the MEP sites. 

Overall Architecture

The Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge platform architecture consists of a MECM (Controller) Cluster  (Cloud) and single to multiple MEP Edge Sites .

The MECM Cluster is a Central Cloud Server which controls the deployment of applications on MEP Sites.  The MECM node can be a single node or a multiple node K8S Cluster.

MECM Components:

  • User Management Portal
  • Application Management 
  • Dashboard for Monitoring MEP Sites.
  • Workflow
  • IAAS Adapter
  • Policy
  • FCAPS
  • Host Selection

The MEP Sites are the components where the real action takes place. MEP components manages  the execution of various Telco Edge Applications, it provides various services which can be leveraged by edge applications for smooth functioning and its planned to provide additional aPaas services like Machine Vision, Video Analytics , IoT Analytics etc in future releases. The MEP sites will be a single node  or a multiple node K3S Cluster, on which applications will be deployed the MECM Application Management module. The MEP will be hosted on a light weight OS.

MEP Components:

  • MEP Services – Location , RNI , Bandwidth , DNS. 
  • Event BUS
  • Service Registry
  • Monitoring


Platform Architecture

The below diagram gives a overall architecture of the Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge blueprint.


Software Platform Architecture

<Software components with version/release numbers >

<EDGE Interface>

<ETSI MEC Interaction>

(TODO)


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

Hardware and Software Management

Hardware Management

Currently for this blueprint Huawei Cloud Virtual Machines are being used for development , testing and CD hence there is no specific hardware management to be done. 

Software Management

Gerrit Repo : EALT Gerrit Repo

Licensing

  • GNU/common license

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