Data center executives surveyed on behalf of Vertiv believe 5G will broadly support applications such as smart cities, smart transportation, security, connected vehicles, smart power grids and digital health.
Edge computing use cases come in four main buckets, according to Vertiv, which surveyed 800 global executives with data center roles.
Data intensive use cases where the amount of data makes it impractical to transfer over the network directly to the cloud, or from the cloud to the point-of-use, because of data volume, cost or bandwidth issues, make sense for edge computing.
This category includes smart factories, smart cities, high-definition content delivery and virtual reality.
Human latency sensitive use cases are a second category. Examples include augmented reality, smart retail and natural language processing.
Machine-to-machine latency sensitive use cases nclude arbitrage, smart security and smart grid.
Life critical use cases that directly impact human health and safety include autonomous vehicles and digital healthcare.
Of participants who have edge sites today or expect to have edge sites in 2025, more than half (53 percent) expect the number of edge sites they support to grow by at least 100 percent.
Some 20 percent of respondents expect a 400 percent or more increase in edge computing sites. For the 494 respondents already using edge computing, the total number of edge sites supported is expected to grow from 128,233 today to 418,803 in 2025—a 226 percent increase, Vertiv says.
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