Have you heard the term MEC in Edge computing? Do you know its not Mobile Edge Computing?
Why are vendors & MNOs following MEC?
Few details from ETSI MEC standards:
Network edge is in, and the core is out.
Edge compute, edge networking, Telco Cloud – all mean one thing: the content of the network.
This means that cloud instances are moving to the edge of the network to be closer to subscribers that consume the content.
Perfect definition.
Hi Carlos,
What you shared is THE definition of Edge computing, which is why we need Edge.
The article here is referring to Multi-Access Edge Computing which has a standards way of implementing and looking at Edge Computing deployments.
You can deploy Edge without following MEC way as well, however it becomes a question of compatibility and interoperability when you look to scale your Edges.
There is a brilliant whitepaper from Spirent on the true latency performance of MEC. They compared latency of MEC is various city with public cloud and came to interesting conclusions.
https://www.spirent.com/campaign/cutting-through-the-edge-computing-hype
• 5G non-standalone (NSA) implementations with dependency on 4G networks have additional latency overhead.
• Air interfaces can pose challenges, especially during scheduling and handovers.
• The wired transport networks used for fronthaul and backhaul are not always optimized for routing efficiency(bufferbloat)
• Applications themselves can insert latency due to processing overheads.
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