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Edge Networking Reshaping

Education in MENA

By:
Gamal Emara
Country Manager UAE at Aruba

The education industry has undergone That technology is edge networking,
and far from being a technical
a technological revolution over the past concept, it’s something that
educational institutions and local
decade, but there’s still one major shift on governments rapidly need to
understand and implement. The
the horizon that brings together many of edge offers the potential to enhance
student performance, confidence,
the technologies that have been pegged and mental wellbeing.
as revolutionary (augmented reality for What is the Edge?

example) – in fact it is essential for their Gartner defines edge computing as
“a part of a distributed computing
success in the education sector. topology in which information
processing is located close to
the edge – where things and
people produce or consume that
information.”
Edge technologies allow the
processing of data by devices at the
edge of networks. Over time, these
actions at the edge will become
smarter.

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