This report was published by the Telecommunications Industry Association in October 2022. When planning an Edge Data Center (EDC) deployment, the need to address the availability of planned workloads to ensure resiliency is a top priority. The key characteristics of an EDC can be significantly different from those that top the list for larger enterprise or multi-tenant data centers. To help balance the costs and operational aspects of any EDC strategy, this paper outlines a number of critical questions that should be addressed to ensure resiliency at the edge.

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Cloud & Data Analytics, Computer/Network Hardware, Construction/New Buildings, Intelligent Building, System Integrator, Edge Data Centers, resiliency, 5G, data set, TIA