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2 市场驱动力 Market Drivers

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The growth of mobile traffic and pressure on costs are driving a need to implement several changes in order to maintain quality of experience, to generate revenue, and optimize network operations and resource utilization. The Internet of Things is further congesting the network and network operators need to do local analysis to ease security and backhaul impacts. Enterprises want the ability to enable and engage with their customers with more efficient, secure and low latency connections. Application and content providers are challenged with the latency of the network when connecting to the cloud.

The market drivers of MEC include

• business transformation
  • New Market
  • Faster time to market
  • Revenue Generation

Mobile operators need to shorten the time to launch new revenue generating applications for current customers but also for specific industries and sectors, such as but not limited to automotive, industry automation and welfare industries. Business transformation based on collaboration with the different players in the value chain can help in facing these challenges.

• technology integration
  • Low latency
  • Proximity
  • Virtualization

Technology improvements which provide low latency, better flexibility, agility, usage of virtualization, network and context awareness, etc. can provide the opportunity to increase the Quality of Experience of end users and make network operation more cost effective and competitive.

• industry collaboration
  • Cloud
  • Network
  • Standards

Smart phone applications and content are moving to the cloud. The access to the cloud needs to be optimised to guarantee a rich experience for consumers of an application or consumers of content and a tight collaboration is essential between network operators and application and content providers. This collaboration can lead to the deployment of applications/content at the edge of the mobile operator’s network, providing awareness of the network and context information. Standardization will be essential to support this collaboration and the hosting of cloud or internet based applications within a multi-vendor environment.

Figure 1: MEC market drivers

The market drivers of MEC include business transformation, technology integration and industry collaboration (as illustrated in Figure 1). All of these can be enabled by MEC and a wide variety of use cases can be supported for new and innovative markets, such as e-Health, connected vehicles, industry automation, augmented reality, gaming and IoT services.