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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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• 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
  • Defines Blueprints for Edge Cloud using OpenStacks (VMs) and K8S (Containers)
  • Plans to use ONAP for VNF/Service Orchestration for addressing aforementioned challenges

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• Cloud Provider Business Unit: 
  • Provides hosting of Workloads, ie., IaaS/PaaS
    • SP installs and manages ONAP in separate 'Management Cloud' instances
    • SP installs and manages Network Services + 3rd Party Apps in separate 'Services/Apps Cloud' instances
• Cloud Provider Business Unit: 
  • Provides SaaS, eg., Analytics/Closed Loop as a Service, LCM of Apps, etc. 
  • • ONAP Edge may not be needed
• Cloud Provider Business Unit: 
  • Types of virtualized cloud resource tenant and their characteristics
    • Virtualized Network Workload Cloud Resource Tenant Category
    • Network Management Cloud Resource Tenant Category
    • Virtualized Application Workload Cloud Resource Tenant Category
    • Application Management Cloud Resource Tenant Category 
  • Physical Network Function and their characteristics
    • Part of Edge Cloud Orchestrator
• Immediate interest to ONAP for Network Function use cases
  • Virtualized Network Workload Cloud Resource Tenant Category
    • Guaranteed
    • Burstable (with minimum guarantee)
    • Best Effort
  • Network Management Cloud Resource Tenant Category 
    
    • Burstable (with minimum guarantee) 

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