A Multidisciplinary Project: Deploying Edge Computing to Augment Endpoint Functionality

Abstract

Dr. Ciprian Popoviciu has over 22 years of experience working in various technical and leadership roles in the IT industry. He founded and led Nephos6, the first company to enable OpenStack for IPv6 and deployit in production. Prior to starting Nephos6 he managed the architecture team of Cisco's Engineering Infrastructure Services organization where he defined the strategy and led the execution of the internal DC consolidation and transition to cloud. For the past 17 years Ciprian worked on the strategy, architecture, implementation and validation of IPv6 adoption by large service providers and enterprises worldwide. Ciprian worked with various governments on defining national level and agency level IPv6 strategies and standards. He also worked with product and test teams on specific IPv6 features and roadmaps towards IPv6 readiness. Ciprian authored two IPv6 books: "Deploying IPv6 Networks" and "Global IPv6 Strategies". He co-authored 5 IPv6 related IETF RFCs and multiple IPv6 related patents. Ciprian is an IPv6 Forum Fellow, he is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences and he is an active contributor to various technology and scientific publications. Dr. Popoviciu is currently a professor of Technology Systems at East Carolina University.

Deploying a Network Management Overlay for Education Video Conferencing Services

“…The nature of the service combined with the instrumentation provided by the Edge Computing [6] and the Monitoring platforms provide a unique opportunity for future research in IT Operations Management (ITOM) Automation for cloud-based services in highly federated environments. It is envisioned that this type of research can lead to automated monitoring-management systems that can help reduce the load of understaffed IT organizations supporting education institutions.…”

“…• The development of an Edge Computing platform that can support services and tools in support of the main service without requiring local IT departments to modify their own environment [6] • The development of a monitoring framework that enables effective yet simple management across multiple admin domains without requiring significant local IT resources…”

“…Managing cloud-based services across the entire service delivery path is becoming an important aspect of cloud adoption [7]. In this case, to gain the information needed to enable self-management of the service without having to request local resources or support its was decided to attach Edge Computing resources to the stands supporting the WebEx boards [6]. These local compute resources can be used to install tools for monitoring and troubleshooting the service.…”

“…The SaaS option avoids the need to install and maintain dedicated backend infrastructure for the management tools. The agent is installed on the Edge Computing (EC) platform built to support the monitoring service (Figure 4) [6]. The EC nodes are attached to the WebEx Board stands to provide a point of presence wherever the boards are deployed for both monitoring and troubleshooting purposes.…”

“…At the time of this writing data was actively collected only within the test environment as the system was still being prepared for deployment. The ECU-SciTech is the type of agent that will be deployed on all edge computing devices attached to the WebEx boards [6]. The external, cloud-based agent will be used in production as an off-premise reference however, it will be deployed a hosting location within the state.…”