The adoption of IoT is increasing rapidly. By 2021, it is expected that 35 billion IoT devices will be installed worldwide. While there is an opportunity for businesses to utilise all the benefits of IoT however, many traditional data centres don’t have the bandwidth to handle the large volumes of data collected by IoT devices. Furthermore, IoT applications require quality features such as low latency with high scalability, reliability and availability. To accommodate this, IoT deployments will need to operate within network infrastructures that have the capacity to deliver such demands.
As the use of IoT escalates, we see two universal requests from internet users across the globe – more and faster. As organisations from a wide range of industries clamoured for this, the edge was born.
Defining terms
So, what exactly is the edge? Traditional data centres are located at the middle of a network. Now, significant processing can be completed at smaller local sites which are effectively at the edge of the network. As the amount of data being used across IoT continues to grow, organisations are processing data closer to where it’s generated – the network’s edge.
Edge computing is all about location. IoT devices transfer data to a local connection point. Once the data has been processed on the edge, a portion or ..
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