What is Unique about Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC)?

Sunku R
6 min readOct 15, 2021

Some of the popular terms in Edge computing we get to hear — MEC Edge, MEC node, MEC App, MEC platform, MEC host, etc. When I first heard about Multi-Access Edge Computing, I was looking to figure out if each of these terms have a specific list of attributes. Why is it named Multi-Access and not something else? Why is it so popular today? Many consortia are working on Edge architectures, what is so unique about this one? If you are someone looking to know more about MEC, this article is for you.

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