What goes around comes around in ICT, and edge computing has been in vogue for some time now, though with actual business cases and value chain models for telcos remaining uncertain. A new global initiative called Seamster, centered around Deutsche Telekom’s existing edge spin-out MobiledgeX, has been formed to try to address that lack of clarity by focusing particularly on use cases for edge computing alongside 5G. This is addressing a new demand that has arisen from several trends. Initially, the rise of the cloud centralized data processing in big server farms. Two key drivers of distributing some of those resources closer to the user, at the network edge, were the growth in low latency applications and the proliferation of…