Edge Computing is closely related to next generation
Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Private CDN and Elastic Computing and
is deployed using load balancing. Edge Computing distributes
applications, static data and other computing services to the extremity
of a network.
How Edge Computing Works
Accessibility, Speed, Performance, Scalability of a Cloud Computing
Network can be increased to several folds deploying Edge Computing. It
bring a word, Node-less Computing. The data are fragmented to bit of
information and distributed throughout the cache of Internet. These all
points leads towards a single idea – increasing the Quality of Service
provided through the Internet or the Internet is used for some reason or
the other.
There are various types of deployment of the power of Cloud Computing.
To make the topic lucid, we are not using terminologies or difficult to
understand phrases. To make the application of Edge Computing clear,
take that we use Internet and Servers for 3 main reasons – One is to do
something in real time from one geographical point to another, Second is
to use a static data, Third is to use a real time data as a static
data.
Example of the first type can be a chat application, controlling a
server in US from India, controlling a robot in a University in US from
India. These applications has to do with Edge Computing but to a certain
point. Because they need the Load Balancing in a different way.
Examples of the Second group can be of loading a website on browser.
That is the most common use of Internet and Server and here Edge
Computing plays a great role. Third Example is like watching a streaming
Video. Edge Computing has to do here as well as the real time work is
becoming Static.
There are few providers of Edge Computing. Akamai, Limelight Network,
Exinda, EdgeCast are such examples who provides Enterprise level Edge
Computing. To give an impression Edge Computing, Akamai has one hundred
thousand servers over 75 countries to distribute a single cluster of
data for a particular service.
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