Building and maintaining a robust connected Edge
Chapter 12, Network Connectivity at the Edge, explored the synergies between Edge computing and secure enterprise networking. We refer to this as the connected Edge.
Other than alluding to IBM’s Hybrid Cloud Mesh, we did not cover the specifics of building out that network. Unfortunately, we don’t have the space to cover that in much detail here either. Nonetheless, we will take this moment to make a few key points.
How do software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs), secure access service edge (SASE), and zero-trust network access (ZTNA) apply to edge computing?
As already discussed, you can’t have an Edge computing solution without a corresponding connected Edge. Likewise, you can’t build a robust connected Edge without some form of Edge computing – at least enough to create secure connections, encrypt network traffic, and to manage failure and congestion between computing nodes and locations...
