Layer commoditization is now consensus. The harder question is what a defensible AI business looks like afterwards: a vertical slice fusing data and workflow to a device fleet, a jurisdiction, or a regulatory regime.
Edge AI is about autonomy and survivability, not just latency. When connectivity drops or round-trip time matters, the edge has to make decisions on its own. That changes how you architect AI systems and who controls them.
Broadband gateways are becoming service-defined edge compute platforms. Open standards like USP, open-source communities, and cloud-native management are turning connectivity hardware into programmable infrastructure.
A panel on open source in customer premises equipment. Why container lifecycle management is worth having for the operational change rather than the applications, and where USP adoption is heading.
Shipping a whole firmware image for every small fix is why devices in the field run old software. The case for modular package management, a standards-based management plane, and unprivileged containers at the edge.
Residential gateways have had spare compute for years and almost nothing runs on them. What the memory ceiling, the build chain and the lifecycle problem actually demand before that changes.