Building the Edge Interconnect Fabric

MEF Accelerator Hot Mongoose

As the result of the growth in 5G deployment, the telecommunications industry has been paying more attention to edge computing as a potential value-add service driving new revenues for both the telcos and cloud providers. Increasingly, enterprises need a larger edge computing footprint from their preferred service provider. Enabling retail service providers to supplement their own telco edge coverage with edge computing services from wholesale partners is the obvious solution.

The challenge is that business automation between telco edge operators is not currently based on open standardized APIs with standardized edge computing data schemas. The Hot Mongoose project brings together some of the world’s leading telco edge providers to reach consensus on using open standardized LSO APIs together with a MEF-endorsed data schema describing the required edge computing service.

Once agreement on such a MEF-endorsed product payload is reached, hundreds of operators around the globe will be able to dynamically participate in global-scale, high-value telco edge offerings thereby maximizing the availability of such services in the segments like manufacturing, retail, healthcare, mobility and government.