Jan 27
Whats is Akamai

Content Distribution Networks

A content distribution network (CDN), or content delivery network, is a collection of resource services deployed in numerous data centers across the Internet in order to provide low latency, high performance, and high availability of the hosted content. CDNs provide the desired multimedia performance quality demanded by customers through the concept of distributed data hosts. Rather than having media content stored in a single location to be transmitted to all parts of the Internet, the media is distributed to numerous locations across the Internet. This results in a type of geographic and logical load-balancing. No one server or cluster of servers will be strained under the load of all resource requests, and the hosting servers are located closer to the requesting customers. The overall result is lower latency and higher-quality throughput. There are many CDN service providers, including CloudFlare, Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, CacheFly, and Level 3 Communications.  While most CDNs focus on the physical distribution of servers, client-based CDN is also possible. This is often referred to by the term P2P (peer-to-peer). The most widely recognized P2P CDN is BitTorrent.

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