In this exclusive article, Andrew Green discusses the near edge and far edge, their response times, and how they function. The major distinction between near Edge and far Edge use cases is the flow of data. For the far Edge (Edge Platforms, CDNs, and Clouds), you would push data onto the end users. That means that you deliver videos, support real-time personalization of user sessions, optimize website performance, and deliver gaming experiences. For the Near Edge (deployment of hardware on-premises) data is generated and processed at the edge, and then it is pulled to a central system for other non-real-time use cases. For example, you would monitor and process in real-time an OT system for unexpected behaviors and then would pull the data from multiple Edge deployments to a central system for long-term analysis.