Edge Compute can help you unlock new innovations to thrive in a sustainable, digital future.
Edge Compute
Support Internet of Things (IoT) and co-create Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities by bringing near-real-time data analysis closer to where it’s needed.
Support Internet of Things (IoT) and co-create Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities by bringing near-real-time data analysis closer to where it’s needed.
Do business smarter
Do business smarter
Innovate with a BT-managed ‘edge cloud’ platform that moves computing power to wherever it’s needed.
- Achieve low latency and rapid data analysis for IoT and AI applications.
Improve operational performance
- Cut data traffic to core clouds, avoiding network congestion and reducing costs.
Reduce congestion – and costs
- Achieve practical solutions for remote commercial locations with expensive, limited, or zero cloud connectivity.
Solve connectivity performance issues
- Achieve low latency and rapid data analysis for IoT and AI applications.
Improve operational performance
- Cut data traffic to core clouds, avoiding network congestion and reducing costs.
Reduce congestion – and costs
- Achieve practical solutions for remote commercial locations with expensive, limited, or zero cloud connectivity.
Solve connectivity performance issues
More about Edge Compute
Simplify your processes
Streamlining multiple sites into a unified Edge Compute solution can reduce costs, and simplify control, monitoring, and security – helping you avoid the complexity and scaling difficulties of implementing individual use cases.
Streamlining multiple sites into a unified Edge Compute solution can reduce costs, and simplify control, monitoring, and security – helping you avoid the complexity and scaling difficulties of implementing individual use cases.
Streamlining multiple sites into a unified Edge Compute solution can reduce costs, and simplify control, monitoring, and security – helping you avoid the complexity and scaling difficulties of implementing individual use cases.
Streamlining multiple sites into a unified Edge Compute solution can reduce costs, and simplify control, monitoring, and security – helping you avoid the complexity and scaling difficulties of implementing individual use cases.
Customise your solution
We start with consultancy workshops to help you understand how edge computing can benefit your whole organisation. You can choose the technology you want as a part of your solution – and with our bespoke global delivery programme, you’ll be up and running in no time.
We start with consultancy workshops to help you understand how edge computing can benefit your whole organisation. You can choose the technology you want as a part of your solution – and with our bespoke global delivery programme, you’ll be up and running in no time.
We start with consultancy workshops to help you understand how edge computing can benefit your whole organisation. You can choose the technology you want as a part of your solution – and with our bespoke global delivery programme, you’ll be up and running in no time.
We start with consultancy workshops to help you understand how edge computing can benefit your whole organisation. You can choose the technology you want as a part of your solution – and with our bespoke global delivery programme, you’ll be up and running in no time.
End-to-end managed service
Once Edge Compute is up and running, we’ll continue to maintain and manage it, building in continuous improvement and increasing its cost efficiency as innovations accelerate. With our end-to-end managed service, you’ll have all the expertise you need to design, deliver and manage the solution.
Once Edge Compute is up and running, we’ll continue to maintain and manage it, building in continuous improvement and increasing its cost efficiency as innovations accelerate. With our end-to-end managed service, you’ll have all the expertise you need to design, deliver and manage the solution.
Once Edge Compute is up and running, we’ll continue to maintain and manage it, building in continuous improvement and increasing its cost efficiency as innovations accelerate. With our end-to-end managed service, you’ll have all the expertise you need to design, deliver and manage the solution.
Once Edge Compute is up and running, we’ll continue to maintain and manage it, building in continuous improvement and increasing its cost efficiency as innovations accelerate. With our end-to-end managed service, you’ll have all the expertise you need to design, deliver and manage the solution.
Get closer to your sustainability goals
Improve the performance of your operations and sustainability outcomes with Edge Compute's lower latency and improved bandwidth efficiency – optimising your energy usage and carbon emissions. We hold a platinum EcoVadis rating, and have pledged to be a net zero and circular business by 2030.
Improve the performance of your operations and sustainability outcomes with Edge Compute's lower latency and improved bandwidth efficiency – optimising your energy usage and carbon emissions. We hold a platinum EcoVadis rating, and have pledged to be a net zero and circular business by 2030.
Improve the performance of your operations and sustainability outcomes with Edge Compute's lower latency and improved bandwidth efficiency – optimising your energy usage and carbon emissions. We hold a platinum EcoVadis rating, and have pledged to be a net zero and circular business by 2030.
Improve the performance of your operations and sustainability outcomes with Edge Compute's lower latency and improved bandwidth efficiency – optimising your energy usage and carbon emissions. We hold a platinum EcoVadis rating, and have pledged to be a net zero and circular business by 2030.
Give your business the competitive edge it needs
With Edge Compute, you are saying yes to:
- industry-leading certified partnerships – key partners such as Dell and QiO give you access to advanced hardware and software to support innovative environments
- interoperability – with your existing cloud
- easy, centralised management – control of distributed environments from the core
- rapid global scaling – backed by our global reach and efficient processes.
With Edge Compute, you are saying yes to:
- industry-leading certified partnerships – key partners such as Dell and QiO give you access to advanced hardware and software to support innovative environments
- interoperability – with your existing cloud
- easy, centralised management – control of distributed environments from the core
- rapid global scaling – backed by our global reach and efficient processes.
With Edge Compute, you are saying yes to:
- industry-leading certified partnerships – key partners such as Dell and QiO give you access to advanced hardware and software to support innovative environments
- interoperability – with your existing cloud
- easy, centralised management – control of distributed environments from the core
- rapid global scaling – backed by our global reach and efficient processes.
With Edge Compute, you are saying yes to:
- industry-leading certified partnerships – key partners such as Dell and QiO give you access to advanced hardware and software to support innovative environments
- interoperability – with your existing cloud
- easy, centralised management – control of distributed environments from the core
- rapid global scaling – backed by our global reach and efficient processes.
Why choose BT for edge computing
Global reach
We can install and manage Edge Compute sensors, wherever you need them, supported by a full-service wrap.
An extensive partner ecosystem
Providing a wide choice of partners and technologies to build your tailored solution.
A flexible, customer-focused approach
We centre our solution on helping you meet your business goals, enabling your choices of suppliers.
Industry Insights
Discover more about edge computing from our industry experts.
Sustainability
June 06, 2022
FAQs
What is edge computing?
Edge computing focuses on bringing computation and data storage closer to where it is needed. In traditional cloud computing, data is sent to big data centres for processing. But with edge computing, the processing happens on or near the device or ‘edge’ of the network where the data is created.
What does edge computing do?
Edge computing reduces delays, enhances performance, and makes things more efficient by processing data closer to the source. This is especially important for tasks that need real-time or near-real-time processing, like Internet of Things (IoT) devices, self-driving cars, augmented reality, and other applications that are very sensitive to delays.
Edge computing vs cloud computing: what are the differences?
Edge computing involves processing data near its source, minimising latency and reducing the need for centralised cloud servers. In contrast, cloud computing relies on centralised data centres for processing, introducing potential latency due to data transmission.
Cloud computing is better for applications with less stringent latency requirements and extensive storage needs, while edge computing excels in scenarios where bandwidth usage needs to be optimised, as it processes data locally and transmits only essential information to the cloud.
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