Microsoft Edge Computing On Premises, On Mobile Network, Standalone

As edge computing features a few different deployment architectures, including computing on devices, on enterprise premises or at local remote locations, so Microsoft’s edge computing solutions span those choices of computing location. 

Microsoft’s Azure Edge Zones “with carriers,” where Azure services and infrastructure are deployed  directly on 5G networks in the carrier’s data center, says Yousef Khalidi, Microsoft VP, Azure Networking. Functionally, that means less than a 10-millisecond delay between the cell tower and the edge computing location. 

Microsoft also will deploy its own standalone Azure Edge Zones in select cities, arguably more of a regional edge approach. 

Azure Private Edge Zones are  private 5G/LTE networks combined with Azure Stack Edge on premises, and representing the “on the enterprise premises” form of edge computing. 

source: Microsoft

On device processing has almost no latency. An on-premises server might have latency of a millisecond or so.

Edge computing at nearby locations in a metro area might have latency as low as a millisecond, or as high as six milliseconds, depending on where the processing happens in a metro area. 

Far end processing at a hyperscale data center has latency between 50 milliseconds and 55 milliseconds.

source: Deloitte