ETSI's Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) Industry Specification Group has a new name, a new leadership team and a new scope that extends beyond its original focus.

March 29, 2017

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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France -- ETSI’s Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) Industry Specification Group has a new name, a new leadership team and a new scope that extends beyond its original focus on Mobile Edge Computing for mobile access networks.

At the 9th meeting of ETSI MEC, held on 13-17 March in Sophia Antipolis, France, Alex Reznik from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise was elected as the new chairman. Pekka Kuure and Sami Kekki, respectively from Nokia and Huawei, were elected as new vice chairs, while Adrian Neal, from Vodaphone, was re-elected as vice chair.

ETSI’s Mobile Edge Computing Industry Specification Group has been renamed to Multi-access Edge Computing to embrace the challenges in the second phase of work and better reflect non-cellular operators’ requirements. The scope of the group has expanded to address multiple MEC hosts being deployed in many different networks, owned by various operators and running edge applications in a collaborative manner.

Future work will take into account heterogeneous networks using LTE, 5G, fixed and WiFi technologies. Additional features of the current work include developer friendly and standard APIs, standards based interfaces among multi-access hosts and an alignment with NFV architecture.

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)

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