# 4G Edge Components

Monogoto 4G Edge

## MME (Mobility Management Entity) * **Authentication and Security**: MME handles user authentication and security key management in a mobile network, ensuring secure connections. * **Mobility Handling**: It manages mobility-related functions, such as tracking and paging of mobile devices as they move through the network. * **Bearer Management**: MME is responsible for creating, modifying, and releasing bearers for user data traffic. * **Fault Tolerance**: Redundancy and failover capabilities are often built-in to ensure network reliability. ## UPF (User Plane Function) * **Data Forwarding**: UPF handles the forwarding of user data packets, ensuring efficient routing and low-latency communication. * **Edge Computing**: UPF can support edge computing capabilities, allowing the processing of data closer to the end-user for reduced latency. * **Scalability**: UPF can scale horizontally to handle increased data traffic loads. * **Quality of Service (QoS)**: It supports QoS mechanisms to prioritize and manage different types of traffic, essential for services like video streaming and real-time communication. ## SPGW-C (Serving Gateway Control Plane) * **Control Plane Functions**: SPGW-C manages control plane signaling for user data sessions. * **Session Management**: It establishes and releases data sessions for mobile users, ensuring seamless connectivity. * **Policy Enforcement**: SPGW-C enforces network policies and performs session-specific functions, such as IP address allocation. * **High Availability:** Redundancy and high availability features are often included for network reliability. ## HSS (Home Subscriber Server) * The HSS is the central database that contains information about all the network operator's subscribers. * Subscriber-related information held by the HSS includes user identification, security, location and subscription profile. * It stores subscriber information (such as service profiles, authentication ciphering, subscription state, device details, user's physical location, and more), performs user authentication and authorization ## LOGSTASH * Logstash is a light-weight, open-source, server-side data processing pipeline that allows you to collect data from a variety of sources, transform it on the fly, and send it to your desired destination. * Logstash acts as an aggregator -pulling data from various sources before pushing it down the pipeline into Elasticsearch ## QOS (Quality Of Service) * QOS is integral for evaluating data usage, packet loss, and latency directly from the network edge, contributing to performance optimization * QoS assesses data streams from the edge, relaying insights to the central HUB for reporting, debugging, and troubleshooting purposes ## API (Application programming interface) * **Network Customization:** Monogoto APIs allow businesses to customize their private 4G network settings and configurations to meet specific operational needs and performance requirements. * **Integration with Existing Systems:** Monogoto APIs facilitate seamless integration with existing enterprise IT systems, third-party applications, and cloud services, enhancing overall network functionality. * **Real-Time Monitoring and Management:** Through Monogoto APIs, businesses can access real-time data on network performance, enabling proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization of the private 4G network.