LEVERAGING INFRASTRUCTURE
TO OPTIMIZE THE EDGE
Moving Compute Functions to the Edge Makes Infrastructure More Critical
26 I ICT TODAY
The number of connected devices is growing. That rate of growth varies widely
depending on the organization doing the projecting. The Telecommunications
Industry Association (TIA) touts on its website a number of 29 billion globally
by 2022. In a recently published paper from the TIA’s Edge Data Center Working
Group, TIA Position Paper: Edge Data Centers, that group suggests that machine-
generated network traffic could dwarf current internet growth with a forecast
of one million new internet of things (IoT) devices sold every hour by 2021.
By Brian L. Kelly and
Mark Dehmlow