Introduction

Edge computing is a method of optimizing cloud computing systems by performing data processing at the edge of the network, near the source of the data. This reduces the communications bandwidth needed between sensors and the central datacenter by performing analytics and knowledge generation at or near the source of the data. This approach requires leveraging resources that may not be continuously connected to a network such as laptops, smartphones, tablets and sensors. Wikipedia

Fog computing or fog networking, also known as fogging, is an architecture that uses one or more collaborative 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 the internet backbone), control, configuration, measurement and management (rather than controlled primarily by network gateways such as those in the LTE core network). Wikipedia

Fog Computing A horizontal, system-level architecture that distributes computing, storage, control and networking functions closer to the users along a cloud-to-thing continuum. OpenFog Consortium

Open Source Projects

• Openstack

• OPNFV

• OpenDayLight

• OpenContrail

• ON.Lab

• Open Container Initative

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation

• Open Compute Project