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.
ForewordAcknowledgmentsAuthorsIntroductionPart 1 MEC and the NetworkChapter 1 From Cloud Computing to Multi-Access Edge ComputingChapter 2 Introducing MEC: Edge Computing in the NetworkChapter 3 The Three Dimensions of MECChapter 4 MEC and the Path toward 5GPart 2 MEC and the Market ScenariosChapter 5 The MEC Market: The Operator’s PerspectiveChapter 6 The MEC Market: The Vendor’s PerspectiveChapter 7 The MEC Market: The Over-the-Top Player’s PerspectiveChapter 8 The MEC Market: The New Verticals’ PerspectivePart 3 MEC Deployment and the EcosystemChapter 9 MEC Deployments: Cost AspectsChapter 10 The MEC EcosystemReferencesIndex