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ETSI adds edge compute to recent NFV Plugtests

July 29, 2019

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute announced on Monday the results from its fourth ETSI NFV Plugtests, which took place last month in France.

For the first time, ETSI included multi-access edge computing (MEC) in its interoperability test sessions. The experimental MEC track covered testing in routing, application lifecycle, and MEC API.

MEC is being touted as one of the key technologies for 5G, and ETSI said it was important to assess the level of interoperability of NFV and edge solutions while also validating implementation’s of NFV and MEC specifications and APIs.

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