The IoT will require serious network investments to make its innovation potential a reality. Take a closer look at fog computing and why it is essential to making IoT a success.
What Is Fog Networking?
According to FOGnetworks.com, fog networking is a network architecture that uses one or more end-user clients or near-user edge devices to carry out a substantial amount of storage (rather than stored primarily in cloud data centers), communication (rather than routed over backbone networks), and control, configuration, measurement and management (rather than controlled primarily by network gateways such as those in the Long-Term Evolution core). More simply, fog networking distributes computation functions closer to the endpoints generating the data. Fog networking is often used interchangeably with the more generic term "edge computing."