Airties, the mesh WiFi pioneer turned management services platform, has released a whitepaper marketing the benefits of a hybrid cloud-edge architecture approach in service provider WiFi networks. With so many contrasting definitions of the edge, which can be located wherever your marketing department wants the edge to be on any given day, it might be helpful to start with how Airties defines the edge. In Airties’ case, the edge is the home gateway or a mesh extender. These are about as close as you can get to the edge before reaching the end device. Each CPE device then acts as a centralized controller to manage real-time WiFi adjustments for the home WiFi network – including steering, mesh topology optimization, and…