Intel acquired Smart Edge in 2019 to continue to drive its vision of networks built on open, industry-standard edge computing. Built on OpenNESS (openness.org), the Intel® Smart Edge offering is a multi-access edge (MEC) platform.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/technologies-and-topics/edge-cloud-computing/smart-edge-software.html
Smart Edge Open Kubernetes Control Plane: This node consists of microservices and Kubernetes extensions, enhancements, and optimizations that provide the functionality to configure one or more Smart Edge Open Edge Nodes and the application services that run on those nodes (Application Pod Placement, Configuration of Core Network, etc).
Smart Edge Open Edge Node: This node consists of microservices and Kubernetes extensions, enhancements, and optimizations that are needed for edge application and network function deployments. It also consists of APIs that are often used for the discovery of application services.
Edge Multi-Cluster Orchestration (EMCO), is a Geo-distributed application orchestrator for Kubernetes*. The main objective of EMCO is automation of the deployment of applications and services across clusters. It acts as a central orchestrator that can manage edge services and network functions across geographically distributed edge clusters from different third parties.
https://github.com/smart-edge-open/specs/blob/master/doc/architecture.md
EMCO operates at a higher level than Kubernetes* and interacts with multiple of edges and clouds running Kubernetes.
https://github.com/smart-edge-open/specs/blob/master/doc/building-blocks/emco/smartedge-open-emco.md
You can build and deploy the EMCO components in your local environment (and use them to deploy your workload in a set of remote Kubernetes clusters).
Alternatively, you can build EMCO locally and deploy EMCO components in a Kubernetes cluster using Helm charts (and use them to deploy your workload in another set of Kubernetes clusters).
https://github.com/smart-edge-open/EMCO
Daniel Velasco (notes?) 