According to the latest VNI forecast, global service provider networks are getting edgier.
By 2022, a third of service provider network capacity will be at the edge or within the metro, growing up from 27 percent in 2017. While the capacity in core regional networks will be 24 percent (down from 25 percent in 2017) and in the cross-country core will be 43 percent (down from 48 percent in 2017).
The increase in the edge network capacity is being driven by application trends that require more bandwidth, storage and data processing capabilities at the edge.
