What is a CDN? A Content Delivery Network, commonly known as CDN, comprises of a group of geographically distributed servers focused on providing fast delivery of Internet content. The CDN plays a very important role in quickly transferring the assets which are required for efficient loading of content, e.g. javascript files, HTML pages, images, style-sheets, …
Round trip time (RTT) is a measure of the latency of a network, particularly in milliseconds. It is the time between initiating a network request and receiving a response. The higher latency times adversely affect the bandwidth and the end-user experiences in interactive applications e.g. web browsing. It’s a significant metric for measuring the efficiency …
An Internet Exchange Point can be defined as the physical infrastructure through which content delivery networks (CDNs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) exchange the Internet traffic between their networks. IXPs are not internet service providers but they allow various network operators to exchange traffic with other operators. An exchange point will not sell you anything …
An edge server is any type of server that resides on the logical edge of two networks, typically between a private network and the internet. It can serve many purposes depending on the context. The major purpose of the content delivery network is to store content at the closest location to the requesting client machine, …
An origin server processes and response to incoming internet requests from internet users. It is typically used in conjunction with the caching or an edge server. It is responsible for serving the content of an internet entity such as a website, or web app as long as the user traffic or a number of client …
From CDN to ADN The content delivery network (or content distribution network) is inspired and invented in MIT in the late ’90s and later became a successful commercial venture Akamai Technologies in early ’00. The goal of CDN is to distribute service spatially relative to end-users to provide high availability and high performance. As the …
There are various ways to implement and utilize Multi CDN, and it is critical to evaluate different factors due to factors such as bandwidth commitments, costs, overage charges, and many more. Here is a list of factors that can impact your Multi CDN strategy: Geo performance An important factor to consider while selecting CDNs is …
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Mitigate cyber attacks Multi CDN can directly mitigate and even out attack requests/traffics to all available CDNs to maintain uptime without affecting website operation. However, most IT experts find it challenging to manually manage CDN distribution under stressful attack scenarios. Most Multi CDN options on the market are still very manual-driven or are just using …
Single CDN A single CDN solution is recommended for companies that are only targeting certain geographic locations while the scale is still at its growing phase to distribute their website content globally. Single CDN solution may be suitable for most market needs if website content/applications are mostly static; media streaming, social media platform, or web-based …
With the growing demand for streaming video, online gaming, and download, and increasing expectations from a customer on the quality of experience (QoE) is causing an online business to rethink their content delivery strategies. Many businesses already rely on some form of content delivery network (CDN) to power their website performance and to improve reliability. …
