Architecture shift
Edge computing moves work from a single mega-datacenter to points in the network—cell sites, factories, or gateways. With 5G, latency budgets shrink enough for tight closed-loop control.
Industrial patterns
On-line visual inspection with local inference.
Vehicles and robots that must react in tens of milliseconds.
Mass sensor sync without saturating the cloud backbone.
Hard problems: software orchestration at thousands of sites, security patching, and distributed observability.