Security has been a perennial concern for Wi-Fi. Early encryption methods such as Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) were quickly found to be vulnerable. While the subsequent WPA and WPA2 protocols offered enhanced security, they were not impervious to breaches. The introduction of WPA3 has aimed to address earlier vulnerabilities. However, Wi-Fi often remains susceptible to […]
ContinueSome customers wish to build their own private 5G networks and offer MEC to their customers only. Often, these customers are subordinate companies of an overarching conglomerate, or sometimes they are public sector entities. For instance, the State of California might decide to offer MEC services only to county- or municipal-level entities within certain geographies: […]
ContinueAs you’ll recall from Chapter 2, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) refers to architectures that exploit the opportunity presented by the convergence of two forces in 5G architecture. First is the prevalence of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) on commodity server hardware. Second is the fact that the User Plane Function (UPF) is distributed at the edge […]
ContinueThe following figure demonstrates a typical architecture for a mobile 5G core. A containerized NFV partner solution is installed into EKS-A, which, in turn, is deployed onto a single AWS Snowball Edge device. The RAN provided by the partner ISV in this particular case includes the RAN functions plus the RF equipment in a single […]
ContinueSome disconnected environments require the use of a specific server vendor’s hardware for one reason or another. In such cases, the EKS-A provider for bare-metal servers can be used similarly to the provider for the AWS Snow family: Figure 9.18 – EKS-A uses Tinkerbell to provision against the bare-metal provider The key difference between the […]
ContinueBecause disconnected environments do not participate in the network virtualization stack backing in-region VPC services, the VPC-CNI plugin is not available. Instead, EKS-A offers a choice of Cilium or Kindnet for container networking. Only one can be selected at deployment time, and it cannot be changed after deployment: Figure 9.16 – EKS-A encapsulating IP flows […]
ContinueCommanders need flexible, rugged compute horsepower that can be quickly deployed or torn down and moved. From an off-the-shelf server’s point of view, forward-deployed Command Posts (CPs) operate under less-than-ideal circumstances. Sometimes, they are semi-permanent structures that have HVAC, but even then, it is limited. CPs rarely meet the environmental requirements of the average rackmount […]
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