Mobile operators are likely to find the value of edge computing for internal use driving higher value than edge computing as a service offered to retail or wholesale customers. To the extent that 5G is supported by a virtualized core network incorporating edge computing, one might attribute the value of 5G connectivity revenues to the 5G edge computing infrastructure, even if none of those facilities support retail edge computing customers.
In the 5G era, essential network computing functions will be conducted at the edge of the network, not entirely in the core, as was pre-internet telecom network architecture. Network slicing, for example, will require edge computing at the radio sites. That cloud native architecture also will use virtualized and edge resources.
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