About Edge Computing and its Trends in 2020.
                     About Edge Computing and its 
Trends in 2020
Edge Computing- The Future
• The future of our digital economy depends on edge data 
centers, which alleviate the bottlenecks by enabling the multi-
directional traffic flows that must occur through the peering 
and smart routing of traffic at the edge. This, in turn, will 
deliver successful outcomes to businesses and end-users.
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What is edge computing?
• Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm which brings 
computation and data storage closer to the location where it is 
needed, to improve response times and save bandwidth. The 
origins of edge computing lie in content delivery networks that 
were created in the late 1990s to serve web and video content 
from edge servers that were deployed close to users.
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Need for speed
• Current network architectures were not built for the localized 
compute and distributed insights on which current and future 
connected devices and their latency sensitive applications will 
depend. Smart devices and other real-time cloud-based 
applications frequently require low latencies that traditional core 
network architectures and legacy data centers cannot provide.
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A connected planet
• Although core networks and centralized cloud architectures 
already support the use of smart devices to an extent, they will 
be unable to handle the vast amounts of data that will be 
created at the edge by the over 75 billion connected devices 
predicted to be active by 2025. 
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Cloud Growth
• With traditional network architectures, businesses typically must 
pay for network transit to Tier III data centers in Tier 1 and 2 
markets or directly to cloud provider server farms potentially 
hundreds of miles away. Edge data centers can help enterprises 
overcome these challenges by making it faster and more 
economical to connect to the cloud locally.
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Cloudified gaming
• Cloud gaming is where end-users will essentially receive a stream 
of their interactions with game files running on remote servers in 
a data center. For high quality experiences in cloud gaming, 
proximity and connectivity are key. Edge facilities can provide the 
low latency experiences gamers need while fulfilling the surging 
connectivity demands
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For AI
• If cloud gaming emphasizes connectivity, rising corporate 
investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning 
really shine a light on a growing global need for high power 
density data center solutions. High performance computing (HPC) 
applications involving AI may require much higher power 
densities of 30 to 35 kW per rack.
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Advantages of Edge data centers
• Edge data centers are a perfect vehicle for supporting AI/ML 
workloads because they enable high levels of computing power 
on smaller physical footprints. Thanks to technological advances 
in computing equipment, businesses can use high density 
deployments to leverage new, more energy efficient processors 
and servers that individually require less power
Streaming wars
• If there is one trend that will continue to have a significant impact, 
it is streaming media. Due to consumer demand for everything 
from 4K to VR/AR content, content providers need to further 
optimize delivery and distribution of content in order to stay 
competitive. The edge can help satisfy our need to access content 
whenever and wherever we want it
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