Index of edge/MEC building blocks: MEC platforms, UPF & slicing appliances, SmartNIC/DPU and accelerators, PTP/SyncE timing, PoE edge nodes, observability & security, grandmaster/time hubs, power & backup panels, and micro edge DC racks.
Compute & MEC
MEC Platform (Multi-Access Edge Computing)
x86/Arm SoCs, DPU/SmartNIC offload, PCIe switch/retimers, NVMe control, TPM/HSM and secure boot chain.
Edge UPF Appliance
Inline crypto/forward ASIC, Ethernet PHY/retimers, PTP/SyncE clock tree and PMBus-based power.
Private 5G Edge Appliance
Integrated SoC with DPU/NPU acceleration, Ethernet switch/PHY, secure element, watchdog and PMIC.
Near-RT RIC Controller
eBPF/P4/AI inference acceleration, Ethernet/PCIe interconnect, storage & timing with hardware root-of-trust.
SmartNIC / DPU
Programmable data plane with crypto/comp offload, PAM4 SerDes/retimers, DDR/PCIe power and monitoring.
UPF Inline Accelerator Card
FPGA/ASIC flow-table acceleration, timestamping unit, PCIe switching and PMBus telemetry.
Edge Gateways & Switching
Edge Network Slicing Gateway
Hardware slice isolation, multi-port PHYs, jitter-cleaning clocks and HSM integration.
Edge CDN / Cache Node
NVMe RAID control, Ethernet PHY/retimers, power-loss protection/logging and thermal/power management.
Edge AI Inference Server
GPU/AI accelerators, PCIe switching & power, DDR power/monitoring and clock distribution.
Edge Aggregation Switch (Campus/Industrial)
TSN switching silicon, hardware PTP timestamping, PoE PSE and thermal/power telemetry.
Edge Security / ZTNA Node
Crypto/firewall/NPU, Ethernet PHY, TPM/HSM with secure and measured boot.
Edge Observability / TAP / Probe
Lossless mirror ASIC, precise timestamp/buffering, storage control and management MCU.
Timing & Synchronization
Edge Grandmaster / Time Hub
GNSS reception, OCXO/CSAC control, hardware PTP timestamps and jitter-cleaning PLLs.
Timing & Power Panel at Edge
Clock distribution with redundant switchover, eFuse/hot-swap, PG/RESET fan-in and event logging.
Edge Boundary Clock Switch
HW timestamping & queue shaping, jitter-cleaning PLLs and redundant time-base alarms.
Optical/Backhaul & Panels
Edge Hybrid Fiber Panel
Optical power/loss AFE, relay/switch drivers and Ethernet-managed MCU.
Edge Backhaul Node (Microwave/mmWave/Fiber)
Up/down conversion with low phase-noise PLLs, Ethernet/OTN interfaces and precision timing.
Local Breakout Gateway (LBO)
Ethernet switching/NP, crypto offload, retimers and PMBus power with watchdog.
Edge Backhaul PoE++ Node
PoE PSE control, optical-electrical conversion/PHY, thermal protection and remote management.
Power, Backup & Enclosure
Micro Edge Datacenter Rack
PDU monitoring AFE, eFuse/high-side switches, environmental sensing and OOB BMC.
Edge Site Power & Backup
48V front-end hot-swap, digital power/PMBus, supercap/battery management and telemetry.
Edge Site Env & Security
Temp/humidity/door/vibration sensing AFE, low-power MCU, Ethernet/cellular backhaul and logging.
Fanless Edge Appliance
High-efficiency DC-DC, thermal design, power-gating, watchdog and abnormal-temp alarms.
Specialized Acceleration & Test
Whitebox Edge Switch (P4)
P4-programmable switch ASIC, PAM4 DSPs, retimers, and timing/power telemetry.
Lightweight MEC Storage Node
U.2/U.3 NVMe backplane management, PCIe re-timing and power-loss write protection.
Slice OAM / Test Unit
Programmable probe/loopback ASIC, precision timestamping and measurement AFE with optical/Ethernet.
Edge RAN Accelerator (FEC/UPF/TSN)
FEC/offload/TSN acceleration, PCIe x16, coherent clock tree and PMBus-managed power.
Edge Sat-Terrestrial Access
LNB/BUC control, modem ASIC, Ethernet/timing integration and crypto modules.
Ultra-Low Latency Switch Fabric
Fixed-function switch ASIC with SRAM-based queues, timestamping and jitter optimization.
Edge Secure Vault & Logs
Secure element/TRNG, key wrapping, power-loss retention and tamper detection.
