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During the 2020s, the trend of increasing network regionalisation will continue, enabled by the use of infrastructure edge computing. This operational and deployment methodology for moving small data centres and their associated network infrastructure out to increasingly local locations, often 15 miles or less from their end users, augments all of the other regionalisation methods employed from the 1990s through 2020. This methodology and set of technologies results in a densification of the network and data centre resources at the access layer of the network, the closest to their end users.

Infrastructure edge computing enables the architecture of the internet to progress from its origins in the ARPANET of a handful of comparatively centralised locations to a highly distributed architecture that pushes network and data centre infrastructure out into urban and rural areas, building on what began as a network with four initial hosts back in 1969 into a regionalised and densified internet that brings the capabilities of the data centre in terms of application operation, data storage, and network interconnection to potentially thousands of micro data centre locations across even a single country.