Larry Peterson
Nick McKeown
Jennifer Rexford
Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Abstract
The cloud and telecommunications industry is in the midst of a transition towards the edge. There is a tremendous opportunity for the research community to influence this transformation, but doing so requires understanding industry momentum, and making a concerted effort to align with that momentum. We believe there are three keys to doing this: (1) focus on the intersection of the cloud and access networks, (2) contribute to the relevant open source projects, and (3) address the challenge of operationalizing the results. The paper puts forward a concrete proposal for all three, and discusses the opportunity to influence how the Internet evolves at the edge and enable innovative edge applications.
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Index Terms
- Democratizing the Network Edge
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