Summary

Recommendation ITU-T H.644.4 specifies a functional architecture for mobile/multi-access edge computing (MEC) enabled content delivery network (MEC-CDN). The functions and functional blocks within this functional architecture and the related reference points are specified in this Recommendation for matching the requirements in Recommendation ITU-T F.743.10. Particularly, this Recommendation also provides the deployment of virtualized content delivery network (CDN) service and the interworking between virtualized CDN functionalities and MEC management system, within a MEC-CDN ecosystem. In addition, a containerized solution of MEC-CDN is given in this Recommendation, followed by the basic information flows.