The MEC Congress starts this week as the technology reaches almost as great a peak of enthusiasm (or hype) as its ETSI stablemate, and close ally, NFV. Rather like the 5G community – full of hopes and dreams about slicing and massive IoT, but in fact pursuing mobile and even fixed broadband use cases – MEC has tended, in real life, to leave behind its more radical possibilities and focus on a few low hanging fruits such as video caching. Yet a group of start-ups have been demonstrating a bigger vision for edge-based computing for several years now, and several of them will gather at the Congress to provide tantalizing insights into the potential of this technology. In particular, we…