Recently, China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), SDN/NFV/AI Standards and Industry Promotion Committee, IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group and Huawei jointly held the 5th MEC Ecological Construction Roundtable. Representatives from all parties shared and discussed the current 5G technology and MEC industry application practice at the meeting. They agreed that the MEC infrastructure of operators is an irreplaceable choice for the industry and the cornerstone of the new 5G infrastructure. It will be deeply integrated with industry applications to meet the needs of the industry. The ultimate demand for 5G networks in practical commercial applications.

Group photo of conference guests

CCSA, SDN/NFV/AI Standards and Industry Promotion Committee, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huawei, Beijing Microvision New Era Technology Co., Ltd., Liangfengtai (Shanghai) Information Technology Co., Ltd. and other organizations , unit representatives attended the meeting.

In the opening speech, Wang Zhiqin, Vice President of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, pointed out that the future success of MEC also depends on the construction of the industry application system. The MEC platform interface standard is promoted through the MEC open source community to help operators build a unified APP system and help global operations. To lay a solid foundation for the development of the MEC industry of commercial enterprises, maintain the competitiveness of the telecommunications industry, and promote the development of the MEC industry. Qiu Xuefeng, President of Huawei's Packet Core Network Product Line, said that this year's "new infrastructure" in my country has pressed the fast-forward button for the construction and development of 5G. The infrastructure of the operator's MEC is an important part of the new 5G infrastructure and a powerful tool to enable the digitalization of the industry. . Operators, partners, and equipment vendors jointly build a unified MEC standard system, a unified application certification system, and a unified security system, which will facilitate the large-scale commercial deployment of MEC.

Zhou Yan, Director of the NFV Research Department of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, pointed out in the 5G MEC technical route and industry practice sharing that UPF and MEC will develop in a diversified and serialized manner in the future, and UPF and MEC will affect communication systems, industrial systems, and the Internet. It is recommended that operators give full play to their unique network advantages to build competitiveness, and use connectivity as the starting point to achieve cloud-network-side-end collaboration. Reasonable certification in industry application entry, so as to create a safe, reliable and socially responsible brand image in the ToB vertical market. Build core competitiveness with four solution capabilities of high availability, public-private collaboration, enhanced connectivity, and simplified operation and maintenance to meet the diverse needs of typical industries.

Afterwards, representatives from all parties had a heated discussion and sharing on the topics of "Construction of Operator MEC and Core Network Infrastructure" and "MEC Boundary between Operator and OTT". Wang Changling, Chief Architect of Core Network of China Unicom Intelligent Network Innovation Center, Chen Dan, Senior Director of Edge Computing of China Unicom Group, Wen Liangsheng, Director Researcher of the Network Institute of China Mobile Research Institute, Xia Xu, Deputy Director of Standards of China Telecom Research Institute, and all parties at the meeting agreed that Telecom The network is the core competitiveness of telecom operators. The network drives the cloud and the cloud helps businesses. While doing a good job in network construction, we actively build an open and win-win edge computing application system. Through the alignment of MEC architecture standards, it provides a unified MEC application and API certification platform, and strictly selects applications that can provide industry customers with reliable, safe and responsible applications, and jointly provide end-to-end solutions for industry customers to achieve a win-win network.

Ma Junfeng, Deputy Secretary-General of the SDN/NFV/AI Standards and Industry Promotion Committee and Chief Engineer of the Technology and Standards Research Institute of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, shared the latest progress of the SNAI Alliance MEC Promotion Group and the establishment of the MEC APP certification project, and expressed the establishment of a unified MEC application The certification system is conducive to promoting the development of the entire edge computing industry. The SNAI Alliance hopes to work with operators, equipment vendors, open source communities and application partners to jointly build an MEC application certification system, create a win-win industrial ecosystem, reduce MEC application fragmentation, and accelerate MEC application deployment. At the same time, it was announced at the meeting that the 3rd China MEC Open Platform Hackathon Application Development Competition in 2020 was officially launched. This competition will focus on industry commercial scenarios, showcase innovative applications of edge computing, and further promote unified APP certification and unified API interface definition.