Strategies for Connecting the Edge: 2019 Heavy Reading Survey

Edge computing brings high-performance compute, storage, and networking resources closer to users and devices than ever before, with goals including lowering the cost of data transport, decreasing latency, and increasing locality. It affects all areas of communications, including wireline and wireless applications and connectivity, and as it redefines the future of data centers, it must also redefine the future of metro network connectivity.