The trends are increasingly innovative and the technologies and solutions involved steadily mature.
Henceforth we hear about isolated environment from the
rest of the network; access to local resources and data; distributed computing
infrastructure; mobile/cellular and edge Cloud environment; real-time
analytics, data management; mobile/wireless and IoT and more.
For those who are unfamiliar,
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a concept developed by ETSI (European
Telecommunications Standards Institute) that aims to bring computational power
into Mobile RAN (radio access network) to promote virtualization of software at
the radio edge. MEC enables the edge of the network to run in an isolated
environment from the rest of the network and creates access to local resources
and data.
While Fog Computing is a distributed computing infrastructure in
which some application services are controlled at the network edge in a smart
device and some application services are controlled in a remote data center.
According to Research and Markets, in a Fog Computing environment, a considerable
amount of processing may occur in a data hub on a smart mobile device or on the
edge of the network in a smart router or other gateway device. This distributed
approach is rising in popularity due to the Internet of Things (IoT) and the
immense amount of data that sensors generate.