Mobile Edge Computing Software in Middle East and Africa

The Nokia MEC platform is implemented on an IaaS environment, which enables flexible deployment and management of MEC applications. The platform supports LTE networks as well as unlicensed wireless access technologies. The platform is highly scalable and facilitates the reach of MEC applications to specific zones, such as public venues and enterprise campuses, cities, and the entire network. Nokia offers a set of its own and certified third-party MEC applications and real-time services for these applications. The company offers technical and legal frameworks, and developer support through its AppFactory environment to deploy third-party applications onto the MEC platform. The MEC multi-radio connectivity enhances the proficiencies of the platform by providing an overlay approach for multi-operator and multi-access network integration.

Huawei registers its presence in the market with a MEC@CloudEdge solution, based on Huawei’s CloudEdge platform. The MEC@CloudEdge solution offers numerous network functions to meet the requirements for mobility, monitoring, billing, and operations and maintenance (O&M). Through the solution, the company delivers various benefits, such as quick prediction and detection of potential faults, and response within milliseconds through real-time service analysis, to different industries. Some of the other benefits of the solution are enhanced network performance and reliability, flexible deployment, better user experience, and optimum utilization of transmission resources.

The Saguna Open-RAN MEC platform features fully virtualized and scalable architectures that deliver ultrafast response times, support high volumes of messages, and enable broadband communications. Saguna Networks¡¦ MEC solutions add value to 4G networks today and are essential to achieve the goals of nextgeneration 5G networks. The Saguna Open-RAN MEC solution features three virtualized software nodes that operate on commercial off the shelf servers or NFV environments: ƒÞ Saguna vEdge, which is deployed at the RAN, creates an open ecosystem, enabling MEC applications to operate at the network edge.

Artesyn offers an extensive portfolio of MEC products instrumental in mapping an enterprise’s business requirements for the implementation of IT strategy. The company offers a variety of MEC hardware platforms, including MaxCore Micro, MaxCore Industrial PC (IPC), MaxCore Platform, MaxCore High Availability (HA), and MaxCore Hyperscale. The MaxCore platform offers a versatile and dense architecture to support MEC applications of third-party vendors. All functionalities of the platform are administrated through a management CPU that presents a graphical user interface to the system’s user. Additionally, MaxCore Micro is a highly economical, versatile platform that provisions various applications, such as video streaming and encoding, video surveillance and monitoring, and bump-in-the-wire appliances.

Juniper Networks is one of the prominent players in the MEC market. The company has partnered with Saguna to cater to the MEC market by delivering pre-integrated solutions to Juniper Networks’ highperformance routers and switches, and Saguna Open-RAN MEC platform. The company’s product portfolio consists of ACX Series Universal Access Routers, QFX Series switches, MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers, vSRX virtual firewall, and Contrail SDN controller. ACX Series Universal Access Routers, QFX Series switches, and MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers enable the MEC platform services, API layers, and MEC edge applications to run on the Juniper Networks’ hardware in a pre-aggregation/IP aggregation environment.

Brocade offers mobile edge virtualization infrastructure, powered by Brocade vRouter, to deliver MEC applications, network services, and content from the edge of the mobile network. The company offers MEC infrastructure capabilities that enable MNOs to extend the cloud to the mobile edge via hosting VNFs and third-party applications.

Advantech offers a versatile and scalable NFVI platform – Packetarium XLc, to easily deploy virtual network functions (VNFs), at the edge of the mobile network. The platform offers the flexibility of bringing network functions out to base station sites and enterprises. It enables the MEC applications to run at the edge of the wireless network, which improves the application response time and reduces the data volume and peak traffic levels. The platform also enables the easy deployment and expansion of new services, with the help of a sufficient processing memory, to meet the subscribers’ demands.