Excerpted from CIR’s upcoming report on Edge Computing Processors. Although edge computing has seen a lot of developments in recent years, it is not a new concept. “Content delivery networks” or “content distribution networks” (CDNs) have been around a long time. CDNs work in the same way as edge computing—a geographically distributed network of proxy

In much the way that the past decade in datacom was defined by video applications, the next decade will be defined by smart systems – self-driving cars, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and AI (very smart systems).  At the infrastructure level, what CIR thinks this will mean is that the priority will be low latency; the video revolution

Edge computing routers are an integral part of the edge computing infrastructure but have received less attention from major supplier who remain largely focused on traditional routers.  In many current implementations of edge computing, fairly standard routers are being use but we expect that this will change. Traditional and core routers are not intended to

Edge computing (EC) embodies an old and simple idea – siphon of traffic with special characteristics from the main network to a local network.  The primary network now has more capacity for general traffic while the local network can be designed specifically for the needs of local users.  The newer concepts of edge computing are