Multi-Access Edge Computing

What is MEC in telecom? Multi-Access Edge Computing has a great role to play in organizing the telecommunications network itself, but it also creates many new services for end-customers, and facilitates the use of autonomous devices. For the first time, telecommunications technology is not just about communicating with people and machines. Based on experience in providing services, the telecommunications system was built from the very beginning to meet the needs of various areas of economic activity and the needs of people (and, in a way, machines) based on use cases.

5G MEC architecture takes full advantage of distributed and cloud systems, adding value by building a new class of high-quality services. We have made significant advances compared to earlier telecommunications technologies, but 5G technology provides the basis for the dissemination of this type of service. 5G and edge computing are especially important for machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence, such as image recognition, speech analysis, and large-scale use of sensors. Specific use cases can include video surveillance, automated driving, connected industrial robots, predicting traffic and congestion in a smart city, and so on. In the case of industrial IoT or autonomous cars, lag in processing between the device and the cloud can lead to disaster.