Nokia Edge Cloud Executive Summary
The benefits of implementing a telco-cloud infrastructure are now understood and accepted. This is
evidenced by the increasing number and scale of commercial cloud based network deployments. However,
as we continue to evolve the network architecture, simply emulating the traditional centralized IT-cloud will
not be enough. With the imminence of advanced machine communications use cases and 5G, low latency
will become a basic requirement, driving the further distribution of cloud capabilities across the network,
closer to the traffic, and by consequence building a layered architecture. This is the inception of the
concept of an Edge cloud.