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your phone , each and every time you do this , the information has to be relayed to a cloud server . The delay caused by this would render the technology both inefficient and impractical to use , and so it makes sense to house the data centre on the phone itself .
Unsurprisingly , data centres such as DataQube are primarily concerned with data , its storage and its transfer . To illuminate the not-so-obvious , though , data transfer is not as simple as going from A to B in a linear progression , like a vehicle traversing the highways .
Instead , the situation is better visualised as a superhighway - with millions of vehicles moving in different directions , at different speeds - which then narrows into streets , lanes and avenues near the beginnings and ends of their journeys , culminating in a sort of informational congestion . This deceleration of data as it nears its destination has come to be known as the ‘ Last Mile ’ problem .
But is it really a problem ? Not according to David Keegan . “ My view is that the edge is not yet defined ,” he says . “ We don ’ t know how it ' s going to be used . It ' s really in its infancy .”
In the same way that Keegan recognises that Data Centres have been around for at least 30 years , albeit in a different form , he also sees edge technology as still evolving , being constantly revised and redefined .
He says : “ I think we ' re going to have a different interconnected world . I think we ' re going to have the optical world ( the optical fibre networks ), which will continue to grow . And , inside that global ring of interconnect , we ' re going to then have satellite technology - 5G , 6G , 8G and Microwave - and you ' re going to be getting clusters of connectivity .”
Keegan ’ s position on so-called ‘ edgetechnology ’ reflects his approach to data centres as a model , which is that not only
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