Last autumn, the OpenStack Foundation’s executive director, Jonathan Bryce, said edge computing had emerged as a “surprise” use case for the open source platform. Enterprises which are using OpenStack as the basis of their private clouds are starting to consider how to distribute those cloud platforms to support services close to the user. This opens up a new opportunity for OpenStack in telecoms, where operators are increasingly using the technology for NFVi (infrastructure), and are also increasingly interested in integrating their connectivity with edge compute capabilities to enable new services. However, OpenStack’s acceptance in telco’s virtualization projects has been hard-won, and challenges remain with deploying it at the heart of such a demanding environment. So will it succeed in becoming…