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Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge is a blueprint under 5G/MEC system blueprint family. It intends to provide a an edge computing platform along with application orchestration & management to host enterprise applications on lightweight 5G Telco Edge. Provided edge computing platform and management is meant to be implemented in reference to ETSI MEC (please refer ETSI MEC for further details - https://www.etsi.org/technologies/multi-access-edge-computing) For details kindly refer "Targeted Architecture section". BP also intend to provide platform for enterprise application developers to develop, test, package & onboard their applications easily & quickly, thereby empowering developers to innovate & ship faster. Also eventually BP aims to provide platform capabilities and features like Multi-Tenancy, Network-Isolation, Dynamic Orchestration, Network Capabilities exposure, enhanced identification etc. as needed for "MEC in an Enterprise Setting"

BP plan is to leverage EdgeGallery (http://www.edgegallery.org/) as its upstream project to provide Edge Computing platform, Application Management and platform for application developers. It is also planned to leverage EdgeConnector & EdgeGateway of another BP in same BP family (https://wikilf-akraino.akrainoatlassian.orgnet/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1199569913665318&src=contextnavpagetreemode) to enable features like dynamic & flexible traffic offloading. BP also have plans to add platform capabilities, sample enterprise applications and some features specifically needed for Enterprise use case through new development/integration of other open sources.

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By leveraging upstream projects like EdgeGallery and In collaboration with other BP in same family "5G MEC/Slice System to Support Cloud Gaming, HD Video and Live Broadcasting" (5G MEC/Slice System to Support Cloud Gaming, HD Video and Live Broadcasting Blueprint - Tentative roadmap of integration other BP is Q2 2022), this BP intends to deliver targeted architecture.. 

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EALTEdge BP will leverage other BP in same BP family "5G MEC/Slice System to Support Cloud Gaming, HD Video and Live Broadcasting Blueprint" for dynamic Traffic routing & steering. Kindly refer that BP for any related SDO references/compliance.

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In this release, BP has been upgrade from EdgeGallery version 01.9 1 to version 1.5.1. Also have enhanced Smart shelf in retail sample application.

EdgeGallery in version 1.5.1 has been added following new features.

• Edge Portal
• Application test platform
• UPF integration framework for DNS redirection and traffic rules configurations 
• VM based workload support (Partial)Profile Management of southbound IoT devices
• Added image file management service to solve the problem of image file sharing between EdgeGallery central node modules
• Edgegallery unified portal for Developer, Appstore and MECM. application incubation process optimization in developer portal
• All modules support data persistence capability

Details can be found in below EdgeGallery link:

https://docs.edgegallery.org/zh_CN/release-v1.5/Release%20Notes/EdgeGallery_RN_zh.html

Smart Shelf application enhancement:

• Enhanced UI
• Notification and Alerts

Below is release 6 architecture for details kindly refer platform architecture section.

Note:

1. In release 6 to use BP, Either
   1.  UPF (external entity to this BP) needs to be pre-configured with DNS redirection rules and traffic rules to ensure connectivity.
   2. UPF integration via UPF adaptor for DNS redirection and traffic rules configurations 

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For Application Enablement API compliance details kindly check httphttps://docs.edgegallery.org/zh_CN/release-v1.5/Projects/MEP/MEP_Interfaces.html#mep-server

Platform Architecture

The below diagram gives a overall architecture of the Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge blueprint as given in Release 6. 

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• Tools: Developer tools are used in Plugin Management, Plugin Life Cycle and grading systems making it more convenient for developers to develop applications and integrate them into the edgegallery platform.
• Workspace: Developers manage their own Application development process by creating projects or migrating projects. Developers can manage project, app package and test task management.
• PG DB: PostgreSQL database version 12.2 is being used.
• Portal: Provides user interface for application developer to interact with developer platform.
• Sandbox: Test environment for application developers to test their applications.
• ATP: application test platform for configure and  testing application against set of test cases. 

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• Profile Management of southbound IoT devices: Profile management for support IOT devices. Integrated Fledge for IOT data collection, kuiper for data filtering and TDEngine for offline data store on edge. NorthBound exporter for data export.

EDGE Node Components:

MEP: 

• aPaaS:
  
  • Object Detection Service: This service can be used by developer app for various Object detection for example Bottle detection and count for Retail store inventory.
• PaaS:
  • Secret Management: Platform services and developer apps can use this service for sensitive info storing like password, cert etc.
  • Cert Management: Platform services and developer apps can use this service for automate certifications management.
  • DB: common DB for applications data 
  • Monitoring: system and apps health monitoring. 
  • CNI: k8s based networking for multi interface support in a POD for SFC scenarios, network policies etc.
• MEP Server:
  • DNS: DNS server and DNS record management service
  • Service Registry: Service registry and discovery, availability notifications
  • AppLCM: applications life cycle management
  • Network Isolation:  Provides separation of control, management and data plan
• API Gateway: Provides secure End points for MEP services as well as producer Applications.
• Edge Portal: Portal for autonomous edges.

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• Tools: Developer tools are used in Plugin Management, Plugin Life Cycle and grading systems making it more convenient for developers to develop applications and integrate them into the EdgeGallery platform.
• Workspace: Developers manage their own Application development process by creating projects or migrating projects. Developers can manage project, app package and test task management.
• Postgres DB: PostgreSQL database version 12.x is being used.
• ATP: application testing platform.
• Profile Management of southbound IoT devices: Profile management for support IOT devices. Integrated Fledge for IOT data collection, kuiper for data filtering and TDEngine for offline data store on edge. NorthBound exporter for data export.

EDGE Node Components:

MEP:

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