Corporate and government momentum is building

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Multi-stakeholder progress is underway

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a multi-stakeholder group that coordinates the management of the Domain Name System, which ensures that all users of the internet can find all valid addresses. In August 2020, ICANN released a Hyperlocal Root Zone Technical Analysis focused on the use of more local, decentralized approaches to content distribution to reduce latency – including by using “hyperlocal root service deployments.” In essence, this analysis explored how to organize the logistics of internet content distribution, given the trend towards decentralization efforts like edge computing. Given ICANN’s role of maintaining internet addresses and domain names for the internet globally, their analysis should have wide influence.


Google Cloud recently partnered with SpaceX’s Starlink low-earth orbit satellite network, “to help facilitate network connections for customers who are on the edges of the footprint of existing network access.” And Kenya has recently licensed community networks, which should clear the way for edge computing-based network solutions.



Business Implications of the Growth of Edge Computing
The emergence of edge computing will present a number france whatsapp number data of challenges and opportunities to the businesses that aim to leverage it to boost rural internet connectivity and accomplish other development goals. I’ll explore some of these below.

One challenge to existing connectivity business models

Increasing edge computing capacity challenges current connectivity business models, which charge customers both for live services delivered only to individual users, such as calls or texts, and for videos, news, entertainment and other online content that’s accessed by many users. The more this widely accessed content can be preloaded or stored on an edge server on a cell tower, the less that content needs to be sent live all the way across the network. Caching content – i.e., storing a copy of it – in locally placed edge computing servers lowers costs and decreases revenues. That’s why the GSMA TEC taskforce executives are looking to create new revenue models, and why the oil industry comparison is accurate: Just as more people switching to electric cars will reduce demand for gasoline, more online services switching to edge computing will reduce demand for networks to deliver live content from the center to the edge of their coverage areas – reducing the amount of data revenue MNOs can earn.