The cloud revolution has been and continues to be one of the most phenomenal success stories in computing history. However, demand is growing in a number of contexts to bring compute services—i.e., data aggregation, storage, access and analytics—back closer to the people or things that create the data and/or consume those services.

This demand represents significant opportunities for economic growth and innovation, but it also introduces significant security risks. This whitepaper provides insights into these risks and opportunities in six of the highest growth Edge domains:

1. The AI Edge: AI evolutions are enabling edge AI deployments that support needs for low latency, high availability, sovereignty, and/or lower data transfer costs.
2. The Wireless Edge: AI plus rollouts of wireless broadband are fueling use cases like immersive online gaming, smart factories, autonomous vehicles, and telemedicine.
3. The Secure SoHo Edge: Remote work, online education and smart home technology are boosting demand for secure small office/home office (SoHo) routers and gateways.
4. The Rugged Edge: Miniaturization is enabling increased edge intelligence in remote and/or harsh environments, like mines, offshore wind farms, and subsea networks.
5. The Space Edge: Satellites, space probes and drones are transitioning from relatively simple monitoring or relay stations to intelligent, multi-function edge network nodes.
6. The Sovereign Edge: Geopolitics and regulations are driving demand for local or air-gapped computing services in domains like healthcare, banking and government.