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Don’t miss Upperside Conferences – Edge Cloud Summit 2019 from June 4 – 6, 2019 in Paris, France!
Delivering low latency services at the edge:
The history of network computing is a continuous up-and-down between the edge and the center. First we had computer terminals connected to mainframes. Then applications and services migrated down to the microcomputers. After that, they once again moved up to the center with the apparition and deployment of clouds. Today applications and services must climb down again on edge devices.
Indeed, current cloud-based networks rely on centralized architecture. The problem is that new revenue streams desired by the operators lie with new IoT and 5G low Latency services. These pose significant challenges to the operators who need to examine how to deploy these services and what network re-engineering aspects they need to act on.
Therefore, cloud capabilities must be distributed across the network to form an edge cloud, which places computing resources where the traffic is – at the edge of the network.