Bi-Directional APIs: Advancing MEC

This whitepaper aims to increase industry awareness of the value of Bi-Directional APIs beyond
the NaaS APIs exposed to application developers. The purpose of Bi-Directional APIs is to
enable information sharing between TSPs and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), empowering
each to deliver innovative MEC services to their customers at the right location and with the
right compute power and network performance and to take full advantage of the capabilities
that MEC has to offer. The whitepaper intends to stimulate discussion of Bi-Directional APIs
with MEC service deployment models, Developer-TSP-CSP interaction models and several use
cases. It seeks feedback from the GSMA Open Gateway and developer communities and Cloud
Service Providers. Only when the Bi-Directional API use cases are recognised and requirements
are solidified can progress on Bi-Directional API specifications begin.