I had the great pleasure to represent the MEC ISG as ETSI MEC ISG chair and to present Mobile Edge Computing at the co-located 5G Observatory and Fog Networking conferences that took place on March 8-11, 2016 in Paris. Philip Lamoureux from Juniper represented the ISG at the MPLS+SDN+NFV world congress. Both congresses were endorsed by ETSI.
The congress attracted 1500+ attendees, coming from 65 countries, with a strong presence of service providers.
I also chaired the NFV track at the tutorial day, where the latest news from ETSI NFV were presented as well as the relationships with the industry standards bodies and open source projects (which is essential for creating an open interoperable ecosystem). Also the usage of SDN in the NFV architectural framework was discussed.
We enjoyed high quality presentations during the whole congress!
The MEC presentation was very well received and the value and opportunities with MEC were clearly acknowledged. There was no question of “if MEC happens”.
The key messages from the congresses were that:
At the Fog Networking the drivers, the applicable use cases and interesting PoCs were presented. The synergy with Mobile Edge Computing was acknowledged as well as the fact that the Mobile Edge Computing architecture smoothly satisfies their architecture principles and requirements. In Fog Networking they do not develop standards and they agreed to contribute to the development of the specification in ETSI MEC. Combining efforts will enable a larger market place for Mobile Edge Computing.