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I always thought edge computing was driven more by IoT applications where wireless access is the bottleneck. For IoT at least, ingress bandwidth is free in most
by anonymousDan 8y ago
I always thought edge computing was driven more by IoT applications where wireless access is the bottleneck. For IoT at least, ingress bandwidth is free in most cloud datacenters so I don't see that WAN bandwidth would be an issue? Or are enterprise use cases of edge computing more concerned with 'download heavy' traffic?
- wmf 8y agoNote that this article is somewhat crackpot and it doesn't represent any sort of industry consensus. WAN bandwidth (on the office side, not the data center side) has been a real problem for many enterprises; it spawned the entire WAN Optimization and SD-WAN industries. Some vendors are pushing enterprise edge computing (e.g. Riverbed SteelFusion) but I don't know how much adoption it's getting.