Multi-Access Edge Computing in the Emerging 5G Era
Edge computing is rapidly emerging as a key building block for the vision of 5G networks and the applications and services that they will enable. "MEC is an important concept being developed by the telecoms industry to not only build a network edge that will offer compute and storage resources, but the key building block through application programming interfaces (APIs) to driving a new ecosystem that could potentially generate significant new business opportunities and revenue streams for SPs," says Shiv Putcha, analyst, IDC Asia/Pacific.
- Executive Snapshot
- New Market Developments and Dynamics
- New Use Cases Are Driving the Shift from Centralized to Distributed Architectures
- The Emergence of Real-Time Apps and Surging Demand for Mobile Broadband
- Digital Transformation and the Emerging Internet of Things Ecosystem
- Increasing Demand from Industry Verticals
- New Opportunities for Telecom Operators
- What Is MEC?
- MEC Architecture and Deployment Scenarios
- Deployment Scenarios
- RAN sites
- Aggregation Sites
- Enterprise/Hub Sites
- Use Cases
- Consumer
- Optimized Delivery of High-Definition Video/Multimedia Content
- AR/VR and Gaming
- Localized Venue Services
- Enterprise
- Local Breakout for Private Networking
- IoT and Vertical Industries
- Connected cars
- Advice for the Services Provider
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- Related Research
- Synopsis
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