Summary Bullets:
- Mobile edge computing (MEC) is often cited as central to 5G core network evolutions, supporting the key 5G use cases: Critical Communications, Massive IoT, and Enhanced Mobile Broadband.
- 5G use cases may require MEC and edge computing, but MEC deployment does not need to wait until 5G arrives as signaled by operator trials.
While it’s not exactly clear what a 5G mobile core will look like, two topics almost always get raised when talking about it: MEC and network slicing. We’ll talk about network slicing in a future post. In the meantime, I wanted to dig into MEC. Continue reading “Building 5G: Mobile Edge Computing”