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We should probably focus more on defining the connectivity
characteristics between the associated entities between the edge
entities to make progress here. We could start discussion of the network
connectivity at high level as "black box" representation of the network
focusing on the latency, bandwith, drop rates, attachment redundancy,
maximum un-availability etc. characteristics in the context of various
specific use cases and/or connectivity constraints. These parameters can
vary widely depending on the specific deployment scenarios.

It is also possible to have connectivity from the e.g. "thick" vCPE edge
instance located in customer customer premises that has heterogenous
connectivity - to use the "LTE" example below, you can have a box that
has a single wired (say ethernet) connectivity that is used normally,
and wireless LTE connectivity that is used when the main connection
fails, but has dissimilar bandwith, latency etc. characteristics.

Also, top level separation should perhaps be at higher level constructs
at this early stage, e.g. "mobile" 4G/LTE...5G/eMBB/URULL/...,
"wireless" (802 stuff), "satellite", "wireline" (ptp fiber, xPON, Cable,
xDSL/g.fast, ...) rather than getting to technology specifics
(characteristics of connectivity vary a lot depending on the tech.).

So far it seems to me that there is not yet sufficient focus on the
cases for "edge" locations that are within the network, such as cell
sites, V/CRAN aggregation sites, COs, metro locations etc. - esp. 5G
vRAN edge has already three tiers of sites on many plans (i.e. radio
sites, distributed aggregation sites w/ low-latency connections to radio
sites and central sites, which all should be in the scope of the "edge").

Pasi 


On 01/05/2018 06:53 PM, lebre.adrien at free.fr wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> Following the LTE discussion, I'm wondering whether we should not try to classify the edge-site scenarios by level of the complexity (i.e., features/capabilities each scenario implies/requires).
>
> A possible classification can start with: 
> a) An edge infrastructure composed of several edge sites operated by a same organisation with WAN wired connections. 
> b) The same infrastructure but with LTE connections
> c) Scenario a) but where the edge infrastructure is spread over several edge sites belonging to different organisations/operators
> d) scenario c) but with LTE
> e) ..
>
> In parallel, we can try to identify w.r.t these scenarios what are the expected features/services from the administrator viewpoint and then from the developers viewpoint.
>
> I have the feeling that we all have relevant scenarios with specifics according to our targets. Having a classification can allow us to move forward by just focusing on classes instead of each particular scenario independently. 
>
> My two cents, 
> ad_ri3n_
>
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