Cisco seized the high ground when it came to catchy slogans for edge-based computing, when it dubbed this distributed approach ‘fog computing’ (fog being closer to the ground/source than cloud) and then extending that into ‘mist computing’ (even more diluted), which involves processing at the extreme edge or the device itself. All this sits well with Cisco’s view of the world, founded as that is on the distributed, ubiquitous Internet and all the network cogs that make that happen. Cisco predicts that 40% of IoT-created data will be processed in the fog by 2018 while over 25 of its network products are now enabled with its fog or edge data processing platform, IOx. And also true to the company’s historic…