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The purpose of Public Cloud Edge Interface (PCEI) Blueprint family is to specify a set of open APIs for enabling interworking between multiple functional entities or Domains that provide services needed for implementation of Edge capabilities/applications that require close integration between the Mobile Edge, the Public Cloud Core and Edge as well as the 3rd-Party provided Edge functions. As Public Cloud Service Providers and 3rd-Party Edge Compute/Application Providers deploy Edge instances to better serve their end users and applications, Telco/Mobile Network Operator (MNO) Edge deployments offer many opportunities for collaboration by exposing their network capabilities to provide value added services (note that in this document the terms Telco and MNO are used interchangeably).
Currently, the challenges include (but not limited to):
- How to interwork the public cloud management interface with telco orchestration interface?
- How to open more MNO capabilities to Public Cloud (and visa versa) and enable the DevOps model?
- How to open MNO capabilities to 3rd-Party Edge Compute/Applications (and vice versa)?
- How to manage and monitor these different APIs in an efficient way?
- How to guarantee security such as avoid the DDOS or SQL injection attack to the telco core network?
- How to leverage interconnection and networking capabilities to provide value added services?
- How to leverage distributed Data Center infrastructure for instantiating Edge functions?
- How to enable orchestration of appropriate compute and network hardware resources for the use used by the Edge functions/applications (including the Mobile Edge)?
- How to enable a flexible API architecture for multi-MNO, multi-Cloud, multi-MEC (Multi-access Edge Compute) interworking?
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