Inel Smart Edge

Question 1

What is Smart Edge

Answer 1

Website/webpage location within the Intel Network Builders website. The website is designed to allow end customers (Communications Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers and Enterprises) a location to easily identify commercial applications (horizontal like database/storage or vertical like Smart City) that have been optimized for Smart Edge and can easily be deployed on their networks. For our ISV partners or application vendors this portal provides visibility, co-marketing, business opportunity and all of the benefits inherent in the Intel Network Builders program.

Question 2

Value proposition for Participating Partners

Answer 2

· Visibility of the partner application on the portal targeted to Communications Service Providers
· Co-marketing benefits through the Intel Network Builders program (solution brief, microsite page, social, etc.)
· Potential matchmaking opportunities where Intel introduces the partner to end-customers or other ecosystem members (done through account managers). Preference will be given to early adopters.
· Access to Intel Network Builders virtual Lab environment for testing/enablement
Access to Intel Network Builders training programs (university)

Question 3

Intel® SecL-DC

Answer 3

Intel® Security Libraries for Data Centers

Question 4

Intel® SGX

Answer 4

Intel® Software Guard Extensions

Question 5

uCPE

Answer 5

Universal Customer Premises Equipment (uCPE) is a general purpose “white box” networking device, usually distributed by a telecommunications or networking service provider and located at the customer edge (such as a branch office or house), hence the name “Customer Premises Equipment”.

Question 6

vRAN

Answer 6

Virtualized radio access networks (vRANs) are a way for telecommunications operators to run their baseband functions as software.

Question 7

OpenVino

Answer 7

OpenVINO is a cross-platform deep learning toolkit developed by Intel. The name stands for “Open Visual Inference and Neural Network Optimization.” OpenVINO focuses on optimizing neural network inference with a write-once, deploy-anywhere approach for Intel hardware platforms.

Question 8

DPDK

Answer 8

Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) greatly boosts packet processing performance and throughput, allowing more time for data plane applications.