There’s broad consensus in the telecom industry that building out edge infrastructure will be key to delivering latency-sensitive 5G use cases, as well as enabling enterprise and industrial initiatives that fit under the umbrella of digital transformation. But who will lead that build out is still a nascent question in terms of whether operators will take charge or new market entrants can capitalize on the opportunity of providing edge as-a-service.
Vapor IO was an early-mover in the space, raising significant capital and securing key partnerships, and ultimately developing its Kinetic Edge, described by the company as an “infrastructure architecture that uses software and high-speed connectivity to combine multiple micro data center facilities into a single logical data center.
