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With the internet now firmly established as a constant in the lives of billions of people across the world who rely on it every day for essential services; connectivity to work, family, and friends; and their primary source of entertainment, the same pressures which drove the evolution from the first to the second act of the internet are mounting once more. More users – now including both humans and machines which will both be essential users of the internet – and a range of new use cases that demand real‐time decision making are pushing the current generation of internet infrastructure beyond its original design intentions and capabilities from both a technical and business standpoint.

For these reasons, the 2020s are the first decade of the third act of the internet, a transformation of the network and data centre infrastructure which supports the internet on a global scale towards a new methodology of design, deployment, and operation which heavily relies on infrastructure edge computing to achieve its aims of improving performance, lowering operational costs, and enabling a new class of use cases which are impossible or impractical to support without this continued push towards new levels of network regionalisation and less reliance upon centralised infrastructure.

Now that the three acts of the internet have been established, it is worth considering additional detail in regard to network regionalisation and some early examples of this methodology being applied to the infrastructure of the internet in response to the emergence of the second act itself.