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THE MEC MARKET

The Over-the-Top Player’s Perspective

7.1 The OTT Approach to the Edge

The potential interaction between communication services providers (CSPs) and OTT applications and cloud providers has already been highlighted in Chapter 3. With MEC, the CSPs are in a position to offer its services to the OTT service providers. In this chapter, we examine this issue from the OTT provider’s perspective – why and how would they take advantage of the MEC services that the CSPs have to offer.

The “why” is rather straightforward. With few exceptions, ...

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