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+Introduction
+============
+
+The purpose of this Requirements Project is to articulate the capabilities
+and behaviours needed in Edge NFV platforms, and how they interact with
+centralized NFVI and MANO components of NFV solutions.
+
+
+Problem description
+-------------------
+
+Edge NFVI location has certain specific requirements related to:
+
+1. Appropriate Tunneling for User Traffic across WAN (Ethernet, IP/MPLS) links
+#. Appropriate Tunneling for Management Traffic across WAN links
+#. Including reachability requirements to the compute platform (‘eth0’ resilience,
+ this also include backup path through other media e.g. 4G/5G)
+#. Extending Multi-DC management to address many small "DC" locations
+#. Monitoring Capabilities required for a remote Compute Node
+#. Squaring Bare Metal with remote survivability and whether IaaS is more appropriate for remote locations
+#. Security. As demarcation technology is operated in an un-trusted environment (CSP perspective)
+ additional means need to be implemented. Similarly, the enterprise might have concerns if
+ the security architecture is impacted as VNFs provide functions at different locations than
+ the precious hardware; topics like authentication, authorization, securing the traffic.