![AdvantEDGE-logo](https://github.com/InterDigitalInc/AdvantEDGE/blob/master/docs/images/AdvantEDGE-logo_Blue-01.png)

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AdvantEDGE provides an emulation environment, enabling experimentation with Edge Computing Technologies, Applications, and Services.  The platform facilitates users to explore edge / fog deployment models and their impact to applications and services in short and agile iterations.

## Motivation

- [x] **Accelerate Mobile Edge Computing adoption**
- [x] **Help Discover new edge application use cases & services**
- [x] **Help answer questions such as:**
  - Where should my application components be located in the edge network?
  - How do network characteristics (such as latency, jitter, and packet loss) impact my application or service?
  - How will my application behave when the user moves within and across access networks?

## Getting Started

Complete AdvantEDGE documentation is available in the [AdvantEDGE Wiki](https://github.com/InterDigitalInc/AdvantEDGE/wiki)

To get started using AdvantEDGE, the following steps are needed:
- Set up runtime environment (Ubuntu/Dockers/Kubernetes/Helm)
- Clone AdvantEDGE repo
- Install & Configure meepctl tool
- Deploy AdvantEDGE micro-services

Step-by-step details are available in the [Wiki](https://github.com/InterDigitalInc/AdvantEDGE/wiki#getting-started)

## How to Contribute

We welcome feedback and improvement suggestions.  Please open a Git issue in the repo to report bugs or request enhancements.

At this time, we are not ready to accept pull requests.  However, we plan to do so in the future.

In the meantime, if you have interest in becoming an AdvantEDGE contributor, we would like to hear from you.  

We can be reached at <AdvantEDGE@InterDigital.com>

## Licensing

AdvantEDGE is licensed under under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://github.com/InterDigitalInc/AdvantEDGE/blob/master/LICENSE.md)