Today’s enterprises understand that although their operations are increasingly global, their interactions with end users must take place locally. This is the only way to ensure the extremely low latency required by many modern digital applications. For this reason, most enterprises are investing in an edge computing strategy, with the intent of positioning IT infrastructure in close proximity to end users. However, this effort is complicated by the fact there’s no universally accepted definition for what the digital edge is and where it resides. From the Equinix perspective, there are a hierarchy of different digital edges, defined both by the…

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