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Siavash M. Alamouti
President & CEO
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You’re all
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Sufi Story… Elephant & Blind Sages by Blanca Marti for Equilibre. From wildequus
what is edge cloud?
Edge cloud can grow to be orders of magnitude larger than central cloud.
the computing architecture pendulum
application
monolithic
client
server
gateway
API
http request/response
with microservice
app μservice 1
gateway
API
http request/response
μservice n
app μservice 1
gateway
API
http request/response
μservice n
distributed
μservice 1
μservices
app μservice 1
gateway
μservice n
API
http request/response
μservice n
μservice 1
gateway
DEVICE
API
μservice n
CLOUD
CORE
“For many companies the cloud journey has just started. Only 20% of
businesses are on their cloud journey. The next 80% is about
unlocking real business value and driving growth. This is the next
chapter of the cloud. It requires shifting business applications to
hybrid private and public cloud offerings.”. Gartner
meritocracy
all nodes can
participate but
take different roles
based on
their merit
principles of edge cloud
proximity &
account
principles of edge cloud
clustering
based on scopes
network
proximity &
account
principles of edge cloud
microservice μ μ
communication
nodes can act as
servers to other
nodes
μ
principles of edge cloud
collaboration I need 5
Gbytes
I have 200
Gbytes
nodes can
collaborate
& share their I need LTE
resources
I have LTE
principles of edge cloud
I
dynamic
I need
bearer end need a
points signalling end
resource
instantiation
resources are I need nothing
made available
only as needed
principles of edge cloud
independence
nodes can
communicate
regardless of
operating system
network or
location
challenges of edge cloud
non-persistent nodes
a pragmatic approach to edge cloud
edgeBackend
• backend for global management,
registration, authorization,
authentication and security.
client-to-client communication with central cloud
edge cloud high level architecture
Global Registry /
Signalling Auth Service
Discovery Service
Service (mSS) (mST, mID)
(mDS)
https://request/response
Central Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP etc. or on premise
cloud deployment )
Reduces hosting & bandwidth costs by leveraging local edge servers rather
Cost
than servers in data centres.
Higher performance by enabling edge servers that are closer to the user
Performance
and providing direct, peer-to-peer communication with servers.
Global Registry /
Signalling Auth Service
Discovery Service
Service (mSS) (mST, mID)
(mDS)
http:// response
μS 1
Central Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP etc. or on premise
cloud deployment )
μS 2 μS : microservice
μS 3