Eventually, we might find that avoiding local access bottlenecks and high bandwidth bills is as big a driver of edge computing as the need for ultra-low latency processing speed. “If you need to analyze a large amount of data, your internet connection might not be able to cope with the data flow, and it would result in your inability to extract real value from data,” says Riccardo Di Blasio.
In other cases, WAN bandwidth charges might be the issue. “If you are an oil and gas company which is drilling in Angola and requires computing, today the alternatives are to either build your own data centers like in the 90s, (with all the cost, and scale limitations associated with) or to use a cloud provider (where the nearest datacenter will be probably in the UAE or South Africa, at least 5,000 miles away) with enormous costs and pretty lousy SLAs,” says Di Blasio.
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