ABSTRACT

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.

part 1|90 pages

MEC and the Network

chapter 2|17 pages

Introducing MEC

Edge Computing in the Network

chapter 3|24 pages

The Three Dimensions of MEC

chapter 4|22 pages

MEC and the Path toward 5G

part 2|62 pages

MEC and the Market Scenarios

chapter 5|18 pages

The MEC Market

The Operator’s Perspective

chapter 6|13 pages

The MEC Market

The Vendor’s Perspective

chapter 7|6 pages

The MEC Market

The Over-the-Top Player’s Perspective

chapter 8|22 pages

The MEC Market

The New Verticals’ Perspective

part 3|40 pages

MEC Deployment and the Ecosystem

chapter 9|20 pages

MEC Deployments

Cost Aspects

chapter 10|17 pages

The MEC Ecosystem