Are you at, or near the Edge?! Well, it depends! Edge computing has recently been taking the market by storm. Fueled by the need for low-latency, today edge computing, including Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) technology, is expected to be widely used for services that require ultra-low latency such as AR/VR services, cloud gaming services, autonomous driving & fleet management, real-time live broadcasting. In addition, the need for data confidentiality and compliance is driving the use of edge computing in legacy segments, such as industrial automation and oil and gas installations. There is a strong historical basis for edge computing, growing out of the efforts by global CDN's in the 1990s to distribute the delivery of content to the network edge. However, the recent widespread growth and adoption of cloud native technologies is a primary enabler for a robust edge computing ecosystem. For example, the open source software Cloud Nativ...
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Autonomous Edge
"Applies to a communication node with Compute, Storage and/or Networking resources, of any size or purpose: IoT device with a BT or WiFi connection, a Gateway device (e.g. IoT Gateway, or Gateway for use in autonomous driving), or Cloud Edge device (Enterprise, wireless base station 4G/5G, and cloud provider edge). The device is autonomous in that it can decide on its own as to how to communicate with its downstream Clients, over wired or wireless links, and/or with its upstream Cloud network.