Apidays Paris 2023 - 5GFF: Network APIs to the Edge and Beyond, Kevin Smith, Vodafone

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5GFF: Network APIs to the Edge and Beyond
Kevin Smith, Networks Distinguished Engineer, Vodafone

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1. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General Network APIs to the Edge and beyond apidays Paris December 2023
2. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General 2 5G Future Forum promotes development using 5G & MEC 5GFF’s mission is to accelerate the delivery of 5G and MEC-enabled solutions for developers and multinational customers around the world.
3. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General • A mobile network has real-time visibility of cell-level congestion • …and knows the cell capability and the cell history • …and allocates frequency band per user How the network can help
4. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General Real example network requirements: Game developer • Packet round-trip delay: <75ms • Packet delay variation: <15ms • Packet loss: < 0.5% • Throughput to sustain 720p resolution: >4 Mbps HD video conference developer • Throughput > 1.2 Mbps • Packet delay: < 100 ms Meanwhile the application knows what it can tolerate Impact if not met: reduced user experience.
5. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General • Application developer tells the network its network tolerances • Network responds with the likelihood that those tolerances can be met. • Result: helps application deliver a ‘functional user experience’ (graceful fallback) as required Initial draft contributed to CAMARA, https://github.com/camaraproject/ConnectivityInsights Connectivity Insights API
6. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General • Edge deployment reduces propagation delay and packet loss. • Networks have multiple Edge sites per country, and end users are mobile • So which Edge site gives the best performance for a specific end user? Simple Edge Discovery API contributed to CAMARA (link) Edge APIs
7. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General • Discover all the Edge sites, their compute/networking capabilities, and state • Match these to your app server’s requirements • Retrieve the endpoint address of the closest server to a given user MEC Exposure and Experience Manegemtncontributed to CAMARA (link) Enhanced Edge APIs
8. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General • Discover Network Slices and how they can benefit a given app • Solving the problem of having to interact separately with cloud providers and networks • See blog post from AWS Ongoing API work
9. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General 5G MEC Acceleration Program Benefits to Developers: • Co-Marketing Opportunities • Global Application Showcases • Influence 5GFF API Development • Access to International Telco Leaders “To allow you to deploy your applications across territories…opens up a wide range of use cases allowing collaboration to be borderless…. This would not be possible without 5GFF.” -Julian McCrea, Open Sesame Co-Founder https://5gff.org/5g-mec-acceleration-program/
10. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General Open Sesame Demo Overview 5G Music Festival: World’s first music collaboration across continents showcasing 50 years of rock and roll, over 5 minutes, over 5G 5G Music Festival Video
11. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General 5G and MEC API in action: • Multi-network, multi-territory session where all users can benefit from low audio latency provided by SyncStage • Users from the same area can also benefit from reduced latency and jitter between them provided by MEC and the EDS API - latency (14% - 25% better than cloud) • More details here SyncStage (Open Sesame) AWS Wavelength AWS Outpost New York Toronto London
12. 5GFF confidential and proprietary. Unauthorized disclosure, reproduction or other use prohibited. C2 General