As of now, industry analysts and executive leaders at companies with stakes in edge computing are having trouble coming up with a coherent vision of edge computing as anything other than a scattered collection of limited scope implementations. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Perhaps that’s all the edge will ever be: a bunch of small data centers, each serving some distinct use case in isolation.
Is there a bigger picture? Many, including me, believe there is. Though visions vary greatly, the main idea is that there will be a universal edge computing capability. It will be conceptually similar to today’s cloud. Just as it is now possible to set up an AWS account and deploy digital assets to the ...
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