Evolution of the edge, what about the internet?

Abstract

As the requirements for high bandwith and low latency grew the Internet evolved and brought computing and storage closer to the consumers. As the need for hight throughput and low latency increases new communication infrastructure with different properties than that of the Internet are being introduced. In this article we raise, but not answer a few questions around the evolution of the Internet towards edge computing. Questions of which the anser may help us in understanding if the evolution of the edge will subsume the Internet itself, marking the rise of a new communication infrastructure with different properties? Or will the Internet exist and prosper as an essential foundation for other network architectures and applications?.