Content Management White Papers
Survey of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
Overview
Application of content delivery networking, one of the hot topics in the networking and the biggest IP trends going, are quickly branching out. Content networks leverage high-layer network intelligence to efficiently manage the delivery of data, which is becoming increasingly multimedia in nature. They were initially built on top of the public
Internet to accelerate Web site performance. With the success of content networks for this purpose, network engineers realized that the intelligent network tools could be applied in other beneficial and lucrative ways.
Several definitions are floating around in the marketplace. Some people think of it as the delivery of streaming video or television over the Internet or private networks. Others define it as web switching or content switching. Still others simply see it as a way to
improve Web site performance. The truth is, it’s a bit of all of these and then some. A CDN is a network optimized to deliver specific content, such as static Web pages, transaction-based Web sites, streaming media, or even real-time video or audio.
| Publisher | Boston University | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 7 |
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