Date:Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Time:10:30–11:00
Location:Online & Tapa 2 & 3
WEB_DESC:Smart cities would appear to be a sweet spot for edge and 5G applications, due to the favorable economics of deployment density. However, some researchers have suggested that cloud computing architectures are sufficient for most applications. So, is edge really needed? The answer has profound implications on cloud and edge growth rates, data center size and location, network transport infrastructure and intelligence, and interconnection bandwidth architecture and growth.