Demonstration of vCDN Scheme Based on Multi-Access Edge Computing and 5G Virtualizatin
Huazhang Lv, Dan Chen, Youxiang Wang · 2018
During the pilot project that is constructed based on the edge ecology incubation and edge service platform, China Unicom works along with ZTE, Intel, Tencent video to build an edge data center test bed in the university town located in Tianjin, China. This is a combination of OTT business and edge computing technology for the first time. This paper focuses on the full introduction of overall architecture and construction scheme of edge vCDNs. Also the introduction of infrastructure and business flow are included. The test results of vCDN demonstrate that the deployment of applications to the network edge not only reduces the bandwidth pressure (resulting in network transmission and multiple layers of forwarding) and latencies but also optimizes user experience and helps content providers reduce costs. This pilot project begins the edge computing collaboration between China Unicom and OTT, and is of great guidance value for the reconstruction of the equipment rooms of edge DCs and the commercial incubation of 5G innovative services.