MAPPING ONTO EMERGING 5G CAPABILITIES Sample Clauses

MAPPING ONTO EMERGING 5G CAPABILITIES. The advance of emerging 5G infrastructures and the programmability of those infrastructures sees the trend towards increasingly deploying localised infrastructure capabilities in the form of so-called ‘private network deployments’ that even include localised radio spectrum for high bandwidth applications. Specifically, local event sites, such as squares (e.g., as in Bristol), cities (e.g., as in Barcelona) or buildings (e.g., at KCL in London) can therefore enter direct business relationships with service platform providers as well as media service providers for optimised localised experiences along the aforementioned trends for new media services. The FLAME platform targets such private network deployments, enabling the deployment of these new media services localised on the city facilities, while enabling the orchestration and management of media services, optimising both compute and network resources. This is achieved through a distributed, virtualisation enabled platform capability that is being realized over the localised infrastructure, while aligning the core FLAME technologies with 5G standards and solutions, as outlined in [1]. In order to support with the aforementioned media trends, the FLAME platform allows for an intuitive description of the network service as service function chains (SFCs), offering the programmability, deployment and management of media services, while enabling a service DevOps process for faster new media service creation and deployment. The average ‘service creation time’ is one of the main KPIs defined by the European 5G PPP initiative targeting a reduction ‘from 90 hours to 90 minutes’. Through its infrastructure replication toolchain, the FLAME platform itself can be deployed within this outlined KPI, while media services themselves are deployable in a few minutes or less. The FLAME capabilities [10] optimise the performance of media services, including an innovative routing solution. The overall FLAME benefits for service deployment are: low latency compute and delivery (key to new interactive media services at the far edge of the network), fast and dynamic service request routing (key to personalised and mobile services), multicast delivery of HTTP responses (key to scalability), network-level indirection (key to replication of content based on local relevance), and more secure content objects (key to content replication while preserving content security and end user privacy).