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A Network Architect's Guide to 5G
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A Network Architect's Guide to 5G

by Syed Farrukh Hassan, Alexander Orel, Kashif Islam
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
14h 42m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 7

Essential Technologies for 5G-Ready Networks: DC Architecture and Edge Computing

As alluded to throughout the book thus far, data centers (DCs) play an important role in hosting critical applications and components that enable full-stack services for mobile subscribers. Historically, DCs have included packet core components, management functions, authentication, and authorization tools, as well as security apparatus such as firewalls. Until recently, network architectures were developed to administer these functions from a few central locations, dubbed the main DC or central DC. However, the evolving service requirements as well as the mobile core and radio access network (RAN) decomposition have led to distribution of these data centers ...

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