Watch for these 6 wireless networking trends in 2020

While mobile edge computing options were much hyped in the beginning, they are starting to proliferate as suppliers — both startups and existing — offer new products and as-a-service offerings. The primary driver for edge computing is the growth of IoT applications with large data sets and low latency requirements. These IoT applications need compute processing and storage near where the information is gathered — i.e., edge computing — instead of transporting this information to faraway centralized data centers.

A few of the leading use cases for edge computing include smart grid, oil and gas monitoring, traffic management, remote video processing, and manufacturing monitoring and analytics.

Vendors to watch: Celona, EdgeConneX, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Saguna, Vapor IO, VMware and Volterra