U.K, Dec. 25 -- Business travellers were among tens of thousands of passengers affected when drones flew over Gatwick Airport grounding flights. A breach of security over airports and other secure sites could now be averted due to a partnership between Vodafone Business and Amazon Web Services (AWS) who are coming together to offer Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) for the company Dedrone.

But what is MEC and how can it improve security at sites such as airports? For Vodafone UK this means reducing the time it takes for machines to respond to digital instructions and therefore, organisations can respond quicker to a drone threat - which is just one example of its use.

"When things go wrong, the sooner we're alerted to the problem the quic...