Challenges in Edge Computing

As the 5G and IoT infrastructure are transforming toward unified set of architectures, they deliver brand new set of experiences and use cases using unprecedented compute power and distribute the intelligence across various devices.

Distributed Edge Computing (source)

Traditionally limited set of hardware vendors and service providers, controlled end to end deployment of communication infrastructure. With the transformation towards distributed architecture and 5G advances multiple new business models and service delivery models are being enabled across different types of edges.

Products and services from multiple infrastructure and software vendors could need to be working together providing a cohesive interoperability between various network functions and seamless scale up and scale out from across edge to cloud infrastructure. This brings forth various challenges to deploy, scale and manage the edge computing paradigm.

Some of the challenges in utilizing edge computing are described below.

1. Software Infrastructure

Infrastructure Components in an Edge environment (source)

Transformation towards virtualized and cloud native models has essentially converted edge infrastructure to as-a-service…