[Edge-computing] [newbie question] what's edge computing

Sean McGinnis sean.mcginnis at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 17:17:22 UTC 2019


The Linux Foundation Edge community has a good "glossary project" that is a
community driven effort to define terms and scenarios for edge computing
that may help:

https://github.com/lf-edge/glossary

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 11:59 AM Chetan kumar <chetansk at aikaan.io> wrote:

> Hi Wesley,
>
> Edge computing is a computing paradigm, which process data on the edge of
> the network. Say, for example, video cameras generating video frame data,
> instead of sending the video frames to the cloud for analysis, it can be
> processed using a small form factor computer attached directly to the
> camera. This computer is located on-premise where the camera is installed.
>
> Content caching close to data consumption can also benefit from the edge
> computing paradigm.
>
> Expanding computing capabilities using mobile devices is also edge
> computing.
>
> IoT applications can leverages the edge computing paradigm.
>
> Thanks
> C
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 1:51 PM Wesley Peng <wesley at thepeng.eu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does edge computing means putting many nodes in different edge IDCs,
>> like what CDN does?
>> Or it means to expand computing capability using user's mobile devices,
>> IoT devices etc?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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>
> --
> Thanks
> Chetan Kumar S
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetansk/
>
> Co-Founder and CEO at Aikaan Labs Pvt Ltd
> www.aikaan.io
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