Micro-Service Mesh

Technical Explanation

As the 6G Core transitions into fine-grained microservices, managing inter-service communication becomes critical. The Micro-Service Mesh deploys high-performance sidecar proxies (like Envoy) alongside every network function container. The sidecars transparently encrypt all traffic with mutual TLS 1.3, balance traffic across replicas, inject fault-tolerance retries, and export real-time OpenTelemetry distributed traces without altering application code.

Key Functions

• Transparent mutual TLS 1.3 encryption across all internal core microservice traffic
• Dynamic client-side load balancing and intelligent retry policies for failed requests
• Distributed tracing exporting end-to-end transaction latency breakdowns across microservices
• Fine-grained access control policies enforcing zero-trust micro-segmentation
• Zero application code modifications required to implement advanced routing logic