Deutsche Telekom and Mavenir demo 5G MEC in novel network environments

German telco Deutsche Telekom wants to position itself as an edge services powerhouse, and to that end the telco and its partners this week shared their latest developments.
Working with Mavenir and MobiledgeX, Deutsche Telekom has produced a cloud-native, 5G user plane function (UPF) to support multi-access edge computing (MEC) applications in different networking environments.
“The UPF can run inside the operator’s owned network, inside a private 4G/5G network, inside the roaming n