(1) A network located on the periphery of a centralized network. The edge network feeds the central, or core, network. (2) The network provided by a content delivery service provider that ...

Edge computing effectively shortens the distance data has to travel, removing the need to send data to a central processing location, thereby alleviating a tremendous strain on network resources.

Unlike legacy VNFs — often monolithic and dependent on virtual machines — a CNF is designed from the ground up for cloud environments.

Intel claims a 1.4 times better performance than the previous generation across a wide range of enterprise workloads, including acting as a host node CPU ... Xeon 6 for network and edge, a system ...