A survey conducted for Google Cloud by Omdia suggests North and South American; Asia and European enterprises and mid-market firms are planning on using at least one 5G or other edge computing element within the next year.
And up to 70 percent of respondents are looking at managed services, using 5G as a connectivity mechanism.
Though we are accustomed to suppliers issuing such forecasts (“demand for our product is skyrocketing”), in another sense it would be odd indeed if virtually any business was not already using some form of edge computing (local processors), or planning on adopting 5G to some extent.
Edge computing is what a PC, smartphone, tablet or a router does, for example. By definition, a 5G smartphone does some amount of edge computing on the device.
Of course, that is not what Omdia and Google Cloud were looking to explore. Instead, they were looking at a shift of business computing from some on-premise mode to remote computing at the edge.
Some use cases already are common among edge computing adopters. Video and other data analytics, as well as storage, are key use cases.
About 70 percent of the respondents say they are considering a managed service rather than “do it yourself.”
source: Google Cloud
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