Kinetic Edge’s opening of two edge data centers in Chicago tells you something about the way some edge suppliers are going about deployment.
The Wrigley Hub features 150 kW of edge data center capacity and is located about a mile from Wrigley Field and close to the densely-populated areas of north Chicago.
A tower-connected site, the Wrigley Hub provides low-latency interconnection capability plus software-defined management, security and configuration via the Vapor Edge Portal and highly-automated lights-out operation for optimal performance, reliability and cost at the wireless edge. Vapor IO says.
The Edens Hub, also featuring 150 kW of active capacity and expansion potential up to 300 kW, serves the area near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. It also is positioned at a tower-connected site.
So does that mean Kinetic Edge sees tower sites as places most of its infrastructure will be placed? No. Those locations are simply in high-density, potential high-use areas. Vapor IO obviously will deploy first in areas where it believes it has the best chance of generating revenue, and those sites simply happen to be colocated with macrocell sites.
Vapor IO already says it does not envision putting edge computing centers at every macro cell site.
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