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@@ -199,10 +199,6 @@ Related project about acceleration: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cyborg
Edge Sites Conditions/ Deployment Scenarios
===========================================
-..
- Editors note: Any comments to this section should be added to https://gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/#/c/58959
- and not to this other reviews.
-
Latency and distance to customer are taken as two main characters to separate
different sites. The following figure shows three different sites.
@@ -210,16 +206,11 @@ different sites. The following figure shows three different sites.
:alt: Edge Sites Structure
:align: center
-
Small Edge
==========
-
-- Distance to base station: around 10km, closest site to end users / base station
-
-- E2E delay(from UE to site): around 2ms
-
+- Distance to base station: around 10 km, closest site to end users / base station
+- E2E delay(from UE to site): around 2 ms
- Maximum bandwidth can provide: 50 GB/s
-
- Minimum hardware specs: 1 unit of
- 4 cores (two ARM or Xeon-D processors)
@@ -232,141 +223,86 @@ Small Edge
- 64 GB RAM
- 1 * 1 TB storage
-- Power for a site: < 10KW
-
+- Power for a site: < 10 kW
- Physical access of maintainer: Rare, maintenance staff may only show up in
this kind of site when machines initialize for the first time or a machine
is down
-
- Physical security: none (Optionally secure booting is needed)
-
- Expected frequency of updates to hardware: 3-4 year refresh cycle
-
- Expected frequency of updates to firmware: 6-12 months
-
- Expected frequency of updates to control systems (e.g. OpenStack or
- Kubernetes controllers): ~ 12 - 24 months, has to be possible from
- remote management
-
-- Physical size: Not all the sites will have 36 depth capability. Some sites
- might be limited to 12 depth.
-
+ Kubernetes controllers): ~ 12 - 24 months, has to be possible from remote
+ management
+- Physical size: Not all the sites will have 36 inch depth capability. Some sites
+ might be limited to 12 inch depth.
- Number of edge cloud instances: depends on demands (3000+)
-
- Services might be deployed here: MEC, or other services which have strict
requirements on latency. Services deployed in this kind of sites have huge
regional deference
-
- Remote network connection reliability: No 100% uptime and variable
connectivity expected.
-
-- Orchestration: no orchestration component. MANO deployed in core site
- provide remote orchestration
-
-- Degree of virtualization: it is possible that no virtualization
- technology would be used in small edge site if virtualization
- increases structure/network complexity, reduce service performance,
- or cost more resources. Bare-metal is common in small edge sites.
- Container would also be a future choice if virtualization was needed
-
-- Storage: mainly consider local storage. Distributed storage would be
- used depending on services’ needs and site conditions.
+- Orchestration: no orchestration component. MANO deployed in core site provide
+ remote orchestration
+- Degree of virtualization: it is possible that no virtualization technology would
+ be used in small edge site if virtualization increases structure/network complexity,
+ reduces service performance, or costs more resources. Bare-metal is common in small
+ edge sites. Container would also be a future choice if virtualization was needed
+- Storage: mainly local storage.
Medium Edge
===========
- Distance to base station: around 50 km
-
-- E2E delay (from UE to site): less than 2.5ms
-
+- E2E delay (from UE to site): less than 2.5 ms
- Maximum bandwidth can provide: 100 GB/s
-
-- Minimum hardware specs: 2 RU
-
-- Maximum hardware specs: 20 RU
-
+- Minimum hardware specs: 2 Rack Unit (RU)
+- Maximum hardware specs: 20 Rack Unit
- Power for a site: 10 - 20 10 kW
-
- Physical access of maintainer: Rare
-
-- Physical security: Medium, probably not in a secure data center,
- probably in a semi-physically secure environment; each device has some
- authentication (such as certificate) to verify it's a legitimate
- piece of hardware deployed by operator; network access is all
- through security enhanced methods (vpn, connected back to dmz);
- VPN itself is not considered secure, so other mechanism such
- as https should be employed as well)
-
+- Physical security: Medium, probably not in a secure data center, probably in
+ a semi-physically secure environment; each device has some authentication
+ (such as certificate) to verify it's a legitimate piece of hardware deployed
+ by operator; network access is all through security enhanced methods (vpn,
+ connected back to dmz); VPN itself is not considered secure, so other
+ mechanism such as https should be employed as well)
- Expected frequency of updates to hardware: 5-7 years
-
-- Expected frequency of updates to firmware: Never unless required to
- fix blocker/critical bug(s)
-
-- Expected frequency of updates to control systems (e.g. OpenStack or
- Kubernetes controllers): 12 - 24 months
-
+- Expected frequency of updates to firmware: Never unless required to fix blocker/critical bug(s)
+- Expected frequency of updates to control systems (e.g. OpenStack or Kubernetes controllers): 12 - 24 months
- Physical size: TBD
-
- Number of edge cloud instances: 3000+
-
- Services might be deployed here: MEC, RAN, CPE, etc.
-
-- Remote network connection reliability: 24/7 (high uptime but connectivity
- is variable), 100% uptime expected
-
+- Remote network connection reliability: 24/7 (high uptime but connectivity is
+ variable), 100% uptime expected
- Orchestration: no orchestration component. MANO deployed in core site
provide remote orchestration.
-
- Degree of virtualization: depends on site conditions and service requirements.
VM, container may form hybrid virtualization layer. Bare-metal is possible in
middle sites
-
-- Storage: local storage and distributed storage, which depends on site
- conditions and services’ needs
-
+- Storage: local storage and distributed storage, which depends on site conditions
+ and services’ needs
Large Edge
==========
-- Distance to base station: 100*x km (0.8<x<3)
-
-- E2E delay: around 4ms
-
+- Distance to base station: 100 x km (0.8<x<3)
+- E2E delay: around 4 ms
- Maximum bandwidth can provide: 200 GB/s
-
- Minimum hardware specs: N/A
-
- Maximum hardware specs: 100+ servers
-
- Power for a site: 20 - 90 kW
-
-- Physical access of maintainer: professional maintainer will monitor the
- site
-
+- Physical access of maintainer: professional maintainer will monitor the site
- Physical security: High
-
- Expected frequency of updates to hardware: 36 month
-
-- Expected frequency of updates to firmware: Never unless required to fix
- blocker/critical bug(s)
-
-- Expected frequency of updates to control systems (e.g. OpenStack or Kubernetes
- controllers): 12 - 24 months
-
+- Expected frequency of updates to firmware: Never unless required to fix blocker/critical bug(s)
+- Expected frequency of updates to control systems (e.g. OpenStack or Kubernetes controllers): 12 - 24 months
- Physical size: same as a normal DC
-
- Number of edge cloud instances: 600+
-
- Services might be deployed here: CDN, SAE-GW, UPF, CPE and etc., which have
- large bandwidth requirements and relatively small latency requirements
-
+ large bandwidth requirements and relatively low latency requirements
- Remote network connection reliability: reliable and stable
-
- Orchestration: no orchestration component. MANO deployed in core site provide
remote orchestration
-
- Degree of virtualization: almost completely virtualized in the form of VMs
- (if take CDN into consideration, which may not be virtualized, the
- virtualization degree would decrease in sites with CDN deployment)
-
+ (if take CDN into consideration, which may not be virtualized, the virtualization
+ degree would decrease in sites with CDN deployment)
- Storage: distributed storage
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