Intel® Smart Edge
Deploy High-Performance Edge Platforms
Optimize Networking, Security & Applications for Every Edge
Intel® Smart Edge is a portfolio of software offerings that delivers performant and optimized solutions for service innovation—on-premises and at the network edge. This portfolio helps you quickly and efficiently deploy edge-centric networks, compute capabilities, and workload convergence across a range of vertical industries.
Optimized Performance on Intel® Architecture
Enhanced Security
Simplified Networking
Workload Convergence
Ease of Use
Build Your Performant & Optimized Edge Platform with Intel® Smart Edge Open
Benefit from advanced edge capabilities that deliver powerful optimizations on Intel® architecture with the royalty-free Intel® Smart Edge Open software toolkit. Explore the flexibility and convenience of the use-case-specific Experience Kits and modular building blocks that help you commercialize your edge solutions faster.
Accelerate Time to Market with Turnkey Intel Smart Edge Commercial Software
Deploy Intel Smart Edge on Intel architecture and manage 4G and 5G private mobility, applications, and uCPE. Intel Smart Edge software supports multi-access edge computing (MEC) capabilities with zero trust architecture and is designed for simple integration, deployment, and management by global enterprises.
Capabilities and Workloads
The Intel Smart Edge portfolio supports and optimizes critical workloads and capabilities in 5G, AI, media, and security that are indispensable for networking and applications at the edge. All the capabilities are delivered with powerful optimizations on Intel architecture delivering improved outcomes for customers and partners.
Networking at the Edge
- Deploy a complete private wireless system with integrated 5G RAN, 5G core, and enterprise applications.
- Build O-RAN compliant access edge platforms with containerized network functions enabled by FlexRAN™ software.
- Implement your telecommunications edge cloud with containerized network functions for 5G control plane and user plane.
- Secure your enterprise applications with enhanced SD-WAN deployed on uCPE platforms.
AI at the Edge
- Easier onboarding your AI applications on any edge.
- Optimize your AI algorithms with the Intel ® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit.
- Jump start your commercial AI solutions with reference implementations from the Intel® Edge Software hub for industrial IoT, healthcare, smart cities, and more.
Media at the Edge
- Enable real-time communication (RTC) as a service with Intel® Collaboration Suite for WebRTC.
- Take advantage of microservices for media ingestion, control (real-time transcoding, stitching, content overlay), and distribution.
- Accelerate HEVC encoding with a motion-constrained tile set (MCTS) through Scalable Video Technology for HEVC.
- Get 3D frames analytics in real time using Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit to build metadata for the scenes.
Security at the Edge
- Implement zero trust security with advanced Intel security frameworks.
- Get platform integrity with secure boot, measured boot, platform attestation, and secure onboarding.
- Run your secure workloads in trusted execution environments and secure enclaves.
- Implement data confidentiality at rest, in motion, and in use.
Ecosystem
Intel® Network Builders & Intel Smart Edge
Meet the industry leaders and a growing ecosystem of partners that deliver edge innovation on Intel Smart Edge Open and Intel Smart Edge in the Intel® Network Builders community.
Explore how this ecosystem is guiding the next generation of edge solutions:
- Commercially available solutions based on Intel architecture
- Onboarded applications that are optimized and ready for deployment
- Technical trainings delivered by technologists at Intel
- Library of resources from technical publications to solution webinars
Commercial Application Partners
Explore the commercial applications portal to find leading independent software vendors (ISVs) and application partners across industries, including industrial, retail, smart cities, healthcare, and more. Using Intel Smart Edge Open and commercial software, they deliver focused solutions for critical capabilities at the edge in AI, network functions, security, and other use cases.