Multi-Access Edge Computing in Action

This book provides a complete and strategic overview of Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC). It covers network and technology aspects, describes the market scenarios from the different stakeholders? point of view, and analyzes deployment aspects and actions to engage the ecosystem. MEC exists in and supports a highly complex "5G world" in which technologists and non-technology decision makers must act in concert and do so within a large interconnected ecosystem of which MEC is just one, albeit an important, part. Divided into three sections, with several chapters in each, the book addresses these three key aspects: technology, markets, and ecosystems.

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Authors

Introduction

Part 1 MEC and the Network

Chapter 1 From Cloud Computing to Multi-Access Edge Computing

Chapter 2 Introducing MEC: Edge Computing in the Network

Chapter 3 The Three Dimensions of MEC

Chapter 4 MEC and the Path toward 5G

Part 2 MEC and the Market Scenarios

Chapter 5 The MEC Market: The Operator’s Perspective

Chapter 6 The MEC Market: The Vendor’s Perspective

Chapter 7 The MEC Market: The Over-the-Top Player’s Perspective

Chapter 8 The MEC Market: The New Verticals’ Perspective

Part 3 MEC Deployment and the Ecosystem

Chapter 9 MEC Deployments: Cost Aspects

Chapter 10 The MEC Ecosystem

References

Index