Converged Edge Platform

Gain hands-on experience with our Converged Edge Platform (CEP) environment to better understand use cases and vertical-specific requirements, and more quickly monetize 5G infrastructure investments moving forward. 

This CEP blueprint provides a pre-validated reference architecture with hardware and software optimizations to create deployment-specific builds.

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Designed from VMware's Telco Cloud Infrastructure (TCI) Reference Architecture and the VMware Telco Cloud Platform (TCP), WWT's CEP provides network/compute infrastructure solutions as close as possible to end-users in the mobile community and is capable of running native mobile applications needing low latency connectivity to the cloud, as well as delivering virtual network functions (VNF) and cloud-native functions (CNF).

The abstraction layers of the CEP solution include the infrastructure, virtualization, application platform and application layers. 

• At the infrastructure layer, VMware vSAN Ready Nodes provide the hardware solution for delivering compute and storage for edge nodes. 
• VMware's Telco Cloud Infrastructure makes up the virtualization layer, including VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) as the virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM), to allow legacy VNFs to be created and managed utilizing network optimization features such as DPDK, N-VDS Enhanced and SR-IOV.

The application platform layer is where the Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) runtime operates, as well as Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) for CNFs. The MEC Runtime delivers lifecycle management for low latency applications like augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, robotics and any other software designed for mobile networks. The MobiledgeX Cloudlet software is included in the CEP to deliver the MEC runtime component.

Because the Converged Edge Node will be deployed both in the enterprise and in the operator’s network, WWT is creating two integration and deployment approaches. 

• The shared infrastructure option, which is more suitable the enterprise edge, runs all of the services on top of the same server in a smaller footprint.  
• The dedicated infrastructure option, which is more suitable for the telco edge, runs on the same architecture but splits out mobile edge computing into one pod and core mobility into another.