Determine key trends that are driving the need for cloud-edge deployments in order to institute viable business models .
Identify core technologies that technology suppliers can use to design and develop their cloud-edge offering.
Guidance for telecoms decision makers and C-Level executives to identify, and leverage, key cloud-edge control points for new value creation.
Critical Questions Answered
How are cloud-edge deployments unfolding in the market in light of cloud tools and hyperscalers’ encroachment in telecoms.
Who are the cloud-edge providers and what challenges do they need to address for widespread deployment of cloud-edges in a 5G era?
What are some unique characteristics that differentiate hyperscalers’ business models?
Research Highlights
Summaries of key elements that technology suppliers must consider as they bring to market cloud-edge solutions to accelerate the ongoing digitalization journey of enterprises.
Analysis of key cloud-edge control points for hyperscalers vis-à-vis communications service providers (CSPs).
An overview of cloud-edge ecosystem landscape, relevant industry projects and associated commercial dynamics.
Who Should Read This?
Innovation leaders and strategy makers for CSPs who need to understand the value of cloud-edge deployments and how they fit into their strategic growth plans.
Chief Marketing Officers and other C-Level executives who are responsible for marketing and developing edge solutions.
CSPs, telco vendors, operational technology (OT) vendors and system integrators who need to understand how cloud-edge deployments fit into the broader market trends.
Table of Contents
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2. RECOMMENDATIONS
3. OVERVIEW OF CLOUD- EDGE COMPUTE AND NETWORKING
3.1. Genesis of Cloud-Edge Computing
3.2. Definition of Cloud-Edge
4. DRIVING FACTORS FOR CLOUD-EDGE IN ENTERPRISE
4.1. Drivers and Trends
4.2. Challenges for Edge Deployments
5. DEPLOYMENT ARCHITECTURE FOR CLOUD-EDGE SITES
5.1. Deployment Architecture
5.2. Key Components of Cloud-Edges
5.3. Network Properties of Cloud-Edge Deployments
5.4. Cloud-Edge Control Units
6. EDGE COMPUTING ECOSYSTEM LANDSCAPE
6.1. Industry Players for Cloud-Edge Solutions
6.2. Commercial Utility of Cloud-Edge
6.3. Cloud-Edge Industry Projects
7. USE CASES AND DEPLOYMENTS OF EDGE IN ENTERPRISE
7.1. Cloud-Edge Deployments for Enterprise Environments
8. MARKET FORECASTS
9. SELECTIVE KEY COMMERCIAL PLAYERS FOR CLOUD-EDGES
