Edge computing is considered next frontier in distributed computing. However not everyone knows what it is or the fact that there are multiple types of Edges! Simply put Edge computing enables connectivity between plethora of devices (usually called User Equipment UE in 5G terms) and core of telecom datacenter by…

Live list of abbreviations & Acronyms from O-RAN Specification — O-RAN specifications are fast gaining prominence as Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) across the world are implementing the specifications. However there are lot of abbreviations & acronyms that comes along with the specifications. …

Industry Consortia accelerating V2X & 5G for Automotive Adoption — 5G-ACIA — 5G Alliance for Connected Industry and Automation To make 5G a success for industrial applications, 5G-ACIA [1] brings together widely varying 5G stakeholders to include organizations of the Operational Technology (OT) (include industrial automation enterprises, machine builders, end users), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) (includes manufacturers, network infrastructure providers or mobile network operators), academic institutions and more.

Projects & Initiatives by Open Networking Foundation (ONF) — The mission of Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is to transform access and edge networks by cross collaboration between academia and industry to build next generation mobile and broadband infrastructure. ONF provides solutions leveraging disaggregated and white box hardware, open-source software for SDN, NFV and cloud technologies. Figure 1 indicates current…

Working Groups & Initiatives of O-RAN Alliance — O-RAN alliance has been founded by operators across the world, AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DOCOMO and Orange and have become a world-wide community of mobile network operators, vendors, and research & academic institutions operating in the Radio Access Network (RAN) industry. O-RAN alliance’s mission is to re-shape the…

Drowned in the Sea of Acronyms?This might help you! — The set of specifications around 5G and in general 5G protocol standards, has a complex list of acronyms that might be intimidating for the first time reader. This article is intended to help you understand the full forms to start with. I presume not everyone has to work with every…

How are Service Mesh & Edge Computing Related? Can they help each other? — Latency being primary driver for edge computing, applications and services need to be developed leveraging the capabilities of edge compute platform. These applications are expected to be cloud native, microservices based, leveraging helper services available on the platform, while providing secure multi-tenant configurations. The partitioning of the functionality must leverage…

Scenarios & Options for using Service Mesh — Kubernetes, a de-facto software and toolset for orchestration and management at the Edge [1] has the ability to customize its functionality similar to Lego blocks and has enabled application developers to develop and deploy edge services using microservices approach with various Container Network Interfaces (CNI) like Calico, OVS-DPDK, etc and…

Towards Six Nines Availability of Cloud Infrastructure — Service Assurance (SA) and telemetry are increasingly relevant in 5G networks and Edge deployment as network architectures evolve to become more distributed. 5G and Edge networks introduces dynamic network architectures that require a level of closed loop automation and contextual service assurance for meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) establishing itself…