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Those are important questions and nobody knows for sure yet. Another of the challenges is capacity planning. Since the footprint is so much smaller, there will
by daxfohl 6y ago
Those are important questions and nobody knows for sure yet. Another of the challenges is capacity planning. Since the footprint is so much smaller, there will presumably be much more significant spikes in traffic and load. Like when CIS is in town or something. Throw in all the variations like GPU or FPGA (which may be more common on edge), and it becomes challenging to balance available capacity vs cost.
My guess is edge business model will be more like long term commitment than spin up and down at will.
- fierro 6y agothis is a great point.
- fulafel 6y agoYep... 5G edge computing has been in the making for a while, it was talked about 10-ish years ago (maybe not with that name) when 5G was an upcoming thing and it must have been in r&d drawing board collecting justifications before it. So marketing has had a long time to build use cases already. Of course a "build it and they will come" argument can be made in favour of something we haven't yet been able to imagine but it's starting to feel far fetched. Or maybe it's just a question of how far-edgy it makes sense to be vs cost (the original idea IIRC was building capacity colocated with the base stations).
- daxfohl 6y agoThere was interest from several large companies in reserving capacity in several different locations while I was there. So it's definitely happening on some level. That said, that's kind of "boring edge", companies that just want one closer datacenter to run stuff. But, that's probably where the most money is. I wouldn't be surprised if it takes a while to open up to general public where you can dynamically scale up and down though (beyond what e.g. Cloudflare workers provides) due to the capacity challenges I mentioned elsewhere.