Mercury Systems
March 28, 2024

Have you heard it? The steady drumbeat of technology operating at the "edge" or edge computing. But what does that mean? What is the edge? In technical terms, it is the deployment of computing and storage as close as possible to the data itself. It's about quickly getting information to where it matters most.

Today, exponentially more and more data is being created and collected. And that's great. But if you aren't able to capture and process it quickly for analysis and decision-making, what good is it?

Gone are the days of remote data centers. We've moved beyond the cloud. But more bandwidth and more computing power isn't always enough; latency, bandwidth, and connectivity are increasingly becoming obstacles to critical decision-making. Bring on the edge.

Lots of industries are moving to edge computing. But at Mercury, we go a step further because the edge simply means more to us. In service of the aerospace and defense industry, we put our products and solutions at the literal edge where it has to survive and be protected from compromise: on a satellite in space, subjected to radiation; in a Humvee speeding and bouncing its way across mountainous terrain, far from any connectivity; on a ship in the middle of the sea, pushing through waves, salt, and fog; on a soldier, who needs to be agile, working in every imaginable weather condition under the weight of their gear.

What if there were one source to supply the technology needed to not only perform flawlessly, but also survive and thrive at the edge? Well, there is: The Processing Platform from Mercury - the flexible combination of innovative technologies in signal, compute, networking, storage, and display, delivered from silicon to systems, that supports mission-critical decision-making from RF front end to the human-machine interface. Purpose built. Trusted and secure. Open and modular. Software defined. Mercury is breaking down the barriers to deployment at the edge with uniquely designed, rugged, reliable, and SWaP-optimized solutions, enabling more processing power in more critical places, shortening the time from data to decision.