The sports industry is always looking for ways to reduce video delays to improve the experience for viewers, fans, and players. 5G networks offer a solution with the capability to deliver high bandwidth and reliability, as outlined next: Mixing: combining various audio and video sources to produce a cohesive program output. Traditionally, large and complex […]
ContinueISA units are devices that work very much like cruise control, except instead of limits being set by the driver, they are able to communicate with local infrastructure to modify the car’s throttle in response to road conditions. These could be things such as speed limits, upcoming traffic that the driver can’t see yet, icy […]
ContinueIn many countries, regulations requiring worker protections such as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are published by organizations such as the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) in the US. These regulations commonly require employers to do everything within their power to ensure that PPE is not only available but that it is used at all […]
ContinueSecurity 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: […]
ContinueThe following diagram illustrates an AWS Wavelength Zone and customers in the surrounding metropolitan area using it. AWS Wavelength is a public MEC solution, meaning any customer off the street can buy a SIM card from Vodafone, Verizon, KDDI, Bell, SK, or BT as appropriate and start using an EC2 instance or ECS/EKS container in […]
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 […]
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