Meta operates a globally distributed Edge CDN and Edge Cloud infrastructure, responsible for providing L4 and L7 protocol termination and proxying which power core user/server communications for all major Meta use cases, ranging from news feed, media delivery, to messaging, VOIP, Cloud Gaming and MetaAI.
The recent growth of non-cacheable, unique AI generated content coupled with the real-time requirements for interactive experiences and the metaverse drives the evolution of our Edge.
We are re-architecting the Edge to be a decentralized, multi-tenanted compute platform providing optimal user experience for graphics rendering, hosting gaming applications and running AI inference while offering secondary benefits of saving backbone bandwidth.