Intel acquired Smart Edge in 2019 to continue to drive its vision of networks built on open, industry-standard edge computing. Built on OpenNESS (openness.org), the Intel® Smart Edge offering is a multi-access edge (MEC) platform commercialized for market use cases for on-premise enterprise deployments that require the following benefits:
Low Latency
When 5 milliseconds can impact a decision, edge computing delivers.
Private Mobility
Stand-up your own private LTE network to enjoy the security, service, and broad set of network services.
Simplicity
Stand-up and configure your network in minutes, tailored specifically to your needs and applications.
Open Architecture
As part of Intel, know that your device has built in open APIs, performance, and security for today and tomorrow.
What is Multi-Access Edge Computing?
Multi-access edge computing (MEC) enables a powerful cloud at the edge of the network. MEC decentralizes networks and allows any enterprise or mobile operator to place a cloud at the edge, adjacent to the user.
Retail
Stay competitive with the Intel® Smart Edge Software MEC solution.
Industrial / IoT
Get immediate analytics, caching, computation, and traffic routing at the edge.
Medical
Instantly leverage on-premise secure healthcare data.
Hospitality and Sporting Venues
Use the MEC platform API for dynamic management of the MEC cloud for specific applications.
Why Intel® Smart Edge?
Speed
A better experience
MEC puts applications one hop from the user, reducing latency and improving user experience.
Decentralization
Compute at the edge
Each MEC edge node enables applications to be deployed across the network instead of being run in the data center.
Intelligence
Faster analytics
MEC provides analytics, caching, computation and traffic routing at the edge, resulting in a far more intelligent and extensible network.
Flexibility
Leverage a robust API
The MEC platform introduces an API which allows dynamic management of the MEC cloud and it empowers application developers to leverage information about the user persona.
Integration
Microservices that work
The MEC ecosystem is built upon microservices, which means scalability and low-impact introduction of new features into the environment.
Security
Integrated protection
Encryption, authenticity, integrity and non-repudiation are inherent to the platform. We extensively use asymmetric keys and TLS mutual authentication for all aspects of communication.
Product Offerings
Intel® Smart Edge Software: MEC Controller
Centralized provisioning and management
This platform is comprised of five components, collectively providing the following core services to an Intel® Smart Edge Software solution:
- Centralized orchestration of hardware and software components of all edge computing nodes.
- Select aggregation and normalization of third party application programming interfaces (API) for services running on the edge.
- Lifecycle and configuration management of Intel® Smart Edge Software node firmware and software (including the operating environment), core software features, and 3rd party software.
- Centralized reporting and capacity planning.
- Role-based access control (RBAC) and user provisioning with integration into existing evolved packet core (EPC) modules and third party infrastructure.
Intel® Smart Edge Software: MEC Edge Node
On-premise network communications, microservices, and hosted cloud native applications
Managed by the Intel® Smart Edge Software controller, benefits of the edge node includes:
- Zero-trust security framework to ensure operational integrity.
- Management of all communication services.
- Use case-specific applications hosted on-premise.
- Policy enforcement.
- Wireless and wired interfaces.
Learn More
Interested in finding out how Intel® Smart Edge Software can revolutionize your enterprise cloud? We would love to connect.