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- e.g., MEC APIs - Location info, Radio control info etc.
- e.g., Cloud APIs - IaaS/PaaS + Context Awareness (time, places, activity, weather etc.)
Edge Infrastructure Profiles
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- "5G CU-UP VNF location to be proximal to a specific physical DC based on 5G DU, bounded by a max wire latency from physical DC"
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Landscape for addressing aforementioned Challenges
- Cloud Providers
- Public Clouds such as Azure, Amazon, GCP do not support dynamic network function closed-loop fault management/placement optimization across multiple edge sites with single/multiple Cloud control planes
- Akraino Open Source
- Blueprints for Edge Cloud using OpenStacks (VMs) and K8S (Containers)
- Plans to use ONAP for VNF/Service Orchestration for addressing aforementioned challenges
Hierarchical (ONAP Central, Edge) Architecture
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