Mobile edge computing has been talked about for a couple of years now as the way to bring cloud computing downstream to the local processing needs of a variety of compute intensive and privacy concerned workloads. But without 5G, is it just wishful thinking? And can network operators create a market for their implementation of edge computing as a service?
Bringing compute resources to the edge means reducing the amount of data that needs to be sent up to the cloud. Indeed, for many data-intensive applications like video surveillance/security, natural speech recognition, health/wellness related monitoring, etc. the need to process data as close to the source as possible is mission critical.
