How Edge Computing Accelerates Innovation Across Hardware, Software, and Service Providers

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A growing number of companies are putting more emphasis on edge computing. According to a report from AT&T Cybersecurity, 75% of security leaders are planning, deploying, or have fully deployed an edge use case. This is largely attributed to the technology's ability to save bandwidth, speed up response times, and enable data processing with fewer restrictions. In fact, the Linux Foundation's State of the Edge study predicts that by 2028, enterprises will use edge computing more widely.

During VentureBeat's Transform 2022 virtual conference, David Shacochis, VP of Enterprise Product Strategy at Lumen, moderated a panel discussion to discuss how edge computing is transforming use cases and the strategies of some of the true industry giants, across hardware, software and service provider domains.

The discussion also featured Shacochis colleague Chip Swisher, who leads the Internet of Things (IoT) practice for Lumen; Rick Lievano, CTO for the Global Telecommunications Industry at Microsoft; and Dan O'Brien, CEO of HTC Vive.

Cycles of technological evolution

According to Shacochis, computing power has gone through evolutionary cycles that oscillate between centralized and distributed models. Looking through periods of technological achievement, Shacochis said steam power enabled mass production industries, while electrical distribution fueled the modern industrial economy that brought about the dawn of the power of computation in microprocessing. This, he said, led to this day and what is called the fourth industrial revolution.

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He further noted that the dawn of the mainframe is the original dawn of computing power, distributed to client server models, then aggregated to the cloud and bringing all business logic into more centralized postures.< /p>

"We are now seeing this explosion of all the different sources of data, different ways of processing that data, different types of sensor actuator cycles that can really add a lot of value to the customer experience and to industrial efficiency," says Shacochis. "All of these different types of business outcomes from the many different ways to leverage the advantage. So with these industry cycles happening over decades, IT cycles happening over even shorter time periods, really led us to this exciting time in the industry."

The fourth industrial revolution

Looking at the Fourth Industrial Revolution era from a hardware perspective, O'Brien said HTC started out as an original design manufacturing (ODM) company. He said HTC makes motherboards and chipsets for other companies and other products and PCs, using immersive silicon. He added that the company moved very quickly to application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips and GPUs that evolved into smartphone technology.

O'Brien noted that "a lot of people don't realize that was the dawn of what we see today in the extended reality [XR] world, the building of these new kinds of products It's actually evolved from a lot of chipsets and evolved so much from smartphones. What's in modern virtual reality [VR] headsets and displays is a panel of smartphone that was fueled by the need to have high...