OPEN EDGE COMPUTING

When the Open Edge Computing Initiative began in 2015, we were among the few in the industry who saw the value and potential of edge computing. Vodafone, Intel, and Crown Castle were among the companies who attended the very first OEC workshop in the summer of 2015. Our goal was to help edge computing grow, and to facilitate and encourage pre-competitive learning and open sharing of knowledge in this brand-new space. Looking back seven years later, it is gratifying to see how far we have come. We also believed that the industry needed help in two ways: understanding the edge computing business opportunity and addressing the key technical and business challenges impeding its broad adoption. Addressing those two challenges became the charter of our new initiative... At the same time, edge computing is still very young. It has a long, long way to go before it reaches the maturity and market size of cloud computing and there remain many technical challenges. Carnegie Mellon University..