[Term of the Day]: Empowered Edge

Term of the Day

"Empowered Edge"

What is Empowered Edge?

Empowered edge, also referred to as edge cloud is an architecture where "edge" refers to the endpoint devices that users are using.

The description "Empowered edge" comes from a computing topology in which information, content collection and delivery are processed in close proximity to its source to benefit from low-latency, and also to optimize the end-to-end network utilization for massively data intensive scenarios.

The key benefit to the empowered edge is that by keeping traffic and processing local, the network reduces a central clog that can lead to digital inertia and many believe this could become a dominant factor and surpass the use of cloud computing within a decade.

Though cloud computing is cost-effective, with billions of devices connected to the internet, faster and more reliable data processing will become crucial. The rise of IoT and mobile computing has put a strain on networking bandwidth or how much data can be transferred across a network in a given period of time.

Gartner estimates that by 2025, 75% of data will be processed outside the traditional data center or cloud.