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The processing power demands of customer devices, namely AR/VR, Drones, and Autonomous Vehicles are ever increasing and require very low latency, typically measured in milliseconds. The place where processing takes place plays a major role with respect to quality of user experience and cost of ownership. Centralized cloud decreases the TCO, but fails to address the low latency requirement. Placement at customer premises is nearly impossible with respect to cost and infrastructure. Considering the cost, low latency, and high processing power requirements, the best available option is to utilize the existing infrastructure like Telco’s tower, central offices, and other Telco real estates. These will be the optimal zones for the edge placement.
Akraino Edge Stack
The Akraino Edge Stack is a declarative configuration of solution components. The framework will allow multiple hardware and software SKUs to co-exist with complete CI/CD process. It will support VM, container and bare metal workloads. The Software SKU will be a combination of upstream software and components hosted in Akraino. Common components will be used across the SKUs, for example, ONAP. The gating process will ensure that SKUs are accepted only after if it passes through the guidelines/approval process.
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