ETSI MEC Group Unleashes Phase 2 Specifications

The ETSI Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) group released its initial Phase 2 specifications that deals with architecture, framework, and general principles for service APIs. The standards body noted that the specifications broaden support for different access technologies and NFV integration. The Phase 2 specifications include three tranches. The first is ETSI GS MEC 002, which targets interoperability and deployments. This includes a focus on running applications at the mobile network edge and provides use cases and technical benefits of those deployments. The next is ETSI GS MEC 003, which tackles the deployment of MEC applications as software-only entities running on top of virtualization infrastructure near the network edge. This includes specifications for MEC-in-NFV reference architecture targeted at how MEC-compliant edge deployments are part of an NFV cloud architecture.