In distributed systems, the control plane and the data plane have different responsibilities. Keeping those responsibilities separate makes architecture easier to understand and operate. The control plane is responsible for decision-making. It handles configuration, orchestration, policy distribution, service discovery, scheduling, and system health awareness. In short, it tells the platform what should happen. The data plane is responsible for execution. It carries requests, packets, events, and workloads through the system. This is where application traffic is processed and where end users experience performance directly. At the edge, that distinction becomes especially important. Teams often want centralized governance and visibility in the control plane, while keeping the data plane close to users, devices, or local sites. That approach supports operational consistency without forcing all traffic through a single location. MeteorEdge is designed with that separation in mind, helping teams think clearly about management paths versus live traffic paths when planning edge infrastructure.