PCEI Blueprint Minutes 2020.06.17

Owned by Oleg Berzin
Last updated: Jun 17, 2020
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Attendees

Agenda

  • Review use cases:
    • UPF Distribution
    • UPF Local Break-out for video traffic
    • Review example: Equinix et. al. demo at MWC19
  • Blog planning

Minutes

  • Welcome xinhuili and David Plunkett
  • Oleg Berzin provided a summary of work on PCEI to date
  • The team reviewed an example UPF Distribution and LBO use case based on the Equinix MWC19 demo
    • gao chen commented that in principle this use case is in-line with the China Unicom use case
    • There is a rough consensus that we can take the example use case as a basis and develop the details
    • cmti CA commented that the use case implementation will need to be carefully scoped in order to develop a reasonable set of capabilities in the PCEI code
    • Oleg Berzin agreed to create a PCEI Use Case Development page in the WiKi and populate the draft UPF Distribution/LBO use case material for further discussion
  • The team reviewed the draft PCEI blog (as per the TSC R3 recommendation to publish the blog)
    • Oleg Berzin provided a walkthrough of the draft blog structure. Sections include:
      • Introduction
        • Role of 5G
        • The Mobile Edge
        • The "Edge-in and Cloud-out" trend
      • PCEI Overview
        • Architecture
        • Use Cases
    • There is a rough consensus that the blog structure is reasonable
    • Oleg Berzin agreed to create a PCEI Blog page in the WiKi and move the contents of the draft into the blog page
    • The ask for the team is to review and provide edits/comments
  • Validation labs
    • Wei Chen Allen provided an update that the China Unicom lab location will be in Beijing
    • Oleg Berzin and Tina Tsou (Deactivated) are working on resource requirements for the Equinix lab in San Jose
    • Oleg Berzin commented that the Equinix lab does not have 4G/5G access capabilities and that it would be good to discuss with David Plunkett if AT&T could help with providing 4G/5G network access.
  • Next call
    • Continue use case discussion
    • Continue blog discussion