Edge tiers and multi-access edge computing.

Technologies

• Device edge Compute inside sensors, gateways, vehicles and robots that acts on data with no network round trip.
• Far edge Servers at cell sites, towers and customer premises that host DUs, local breakout and latency-critical apps.
• Near edge Aggregation sites and central offices serving a town or district with shared compute and CU/core functions.
• Regional edge Metro and regional data centres that host heavier AI, storage and core functions for a province or region.
• MEC application enablement Platform services that let applications register, discover services and receive traffic rules at the edge.
• MEC service APIs Radio network information, location and other APIs that let edge apps adapt to network conditions.
• Application mobility and edge federation Moving app state between edge sites as users move, and sharing edge capacity across operators.
• Edge-cloud continuum Placing each workload at the device, edge or cloud tier by latency, cost, energy and data rules, and moving it when conditions change.
• Data residency and jurisdiction controls Policy controls that keep data processed and stored in the locations a contract or law requires.