A couple of weeks ago the West’s
bête noire, Huawei, held its annual Analyst Summit and, as might be expected for a company with a growing number of fingers in a growing number of technological pies, it had a lot to talk about. Bleeding edges of development were to be found in every direction, and one of them in particular caught my ear.
This was in one of the opening keynotes, the presentation by William Xu, a Director of the Board at Huawei and president of its Institute of Strategic Research. The part of it that tantalised my tympanic membranes contained an implicit validation of my current pet theory – that developments now starting to appear in the domain of edge computing will grow in such strength and importance that they will work up through the communications networks and into the data centers themselves.