You develop Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) applications because you want the lowest latency and highest throughput between your client devices and your Edge services. There's more to it, though, than just deploying some of your application services to Edge locations and hoping devices connect to the right ones. The Edge location that is geographically closest to a client device may not be the optimal endpoint for a variety of reasons.
The Verizon Edge Discovery Service API can direct your application clients to connect to the optimal service endpoints of your Edge applications for every session. The Edge Discovery Service takes into account the current location of a device, its IP anchor location, current network traffic, and other factors to determine which 5G Edge platform a device should connect to.