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 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 Telco Industry. IEC intends to develop solution and support of carrier, provider, and the IoT networks.

IEC Type 3 is focused on SmartNic, which could accelerate network performance and provide more management convenience.

In general, the architecture consists of two layers: Iaas(IEC), SmartNic layer. But in R3 , we have two simple layers: Host Layer , SmartNic Layer.

Use Case

OVS-DPDK offload into SmartNic

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Overall Architecture

SmartNIC Datacenter Services across all Clouds

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Platform Architecture

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For R3 Release, we haven't been using Kubernetes component.

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Hardware and Software Management

The detailed hardware is itemized below

	CPU+Memory	SmartNic	System	Software
Machine 1	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz / 40 cores / 2 numa / 64G memory	Blue Field	Centos 7.5	ovs-dpdk
Machine 2	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz / 40 cores / 2 numa / 64G memory	Blue Field	Centos 7.5	ovs-dpdk

Licensing

GNU/common license