Mobile Edge Forum

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5G supports multi-Gbps throughput, ultra-low latency, high reliability and support for massive numbers of connected devices. To ensure these advancements in latency aren’t offset by transporting data to centralized DCs for processing, compute and storage has to be distributed throughout the network. Investments at the mobile edge will enable 5G to meet the vision of real-time, responsive, network-based decision making and action. Without the mobile edge, enterprise 5G users won’t be able to gain the efficiencies associated with use cases like precision robotics, AGVs, computer vision, etc… At this event, we seek to explore the buy and sell side of mobile edge computing as it is today and as it will be in the near future.

Key topics to be discussed:

• Who builds out the mobile edge? 
• In some cases, is the mobile edge already in place, just underutilized? 
• The edge as real estate for the RAN and core
• Operator-owned and delivered as a service vs. enterprise-owned and operator managed
• How decentralized is decentralized enough?
  
• Is there a consumer angle for edge computing?
  
• Key use cases and lessons learned
  
• 5G can’t be real-time without the edge
  
• The relationship between edge and DCs; which data goes where and why?