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Multiaccess edge computing (MEC) overview

Multiaccess edge computing (MEC) overview

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Multiaccess edge computing (MEC) overview

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(bright music) - [Instructor] Imagine a robotic arm assembling a car. If it waits a hundred milliseconds for cloud processing, a misaligned weld could cost thousands, but what if the AI controlling it ran just 10 milliseconds away inside the factory? That's the game changing promise of multi-access edge computing, which is MEC. If we start with the problem of traditional networks, which send data to remote networks. The result would be higher latency, maybe going from 50 to 200 milliseconds, which is unacceptable for some real time applications like industrial robotics or autonomous vehicles, or even for virtual reality. Now, multi-access edge computing solve this problem. It moves the compute and storage to the edge of the network, which is more closer to the users and the devices. It co-locates with the audio, which is open distributed unit and OCU, which is open centralized unit in open RAN, or in fact with certain core nodes, such as user plane function in 5G code, which enables…

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