The number of cellular IoT connections is expected to increase at an annual growth rate of 27 percent in 2024. Mobile service providers are adopting a similar approach to delivering services from thousands of edge clouds rather than from a few mega-capacity central clouds. New use cases are driving the evolution of traditional hierarchical service provider architectures to a flatter, cloud-based architecture where services can be offered from the edge of the mobile core network. New service use cases require support for extensive web-based application delivery frameworks, with a heavy emphasis on APIs.”]
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