What is a CDN? | Akamai Our Thinking

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• challenges the demand for web content and applications create in terms of performance and scalability.

• the CDN uses its programmed knowledge of the necessary connections to overcome any challenges.

• end user’s ISP or mobile provider gets that content

• Latency is that annoying delay you experience when trying to access a web page or video stream before it fully loads on your device.

• educing the physical distance that the content needs to travel to reach you.

• cache content closer to users and their ISPs wherever they are in the world.

• A content delivery network can enable operators to provide a fast, secure, reliable online experience with the consistent quality that people expect on every web-enabled device.

• unseen backbone of the internet

• if you’ve done almost anything online, a CDN has probably helped provide you with a fast, reliable, and consistent experience.

• balances overall traffic to give everyone accessing internet content the best web experience possible.

• you get sent on that fastest regular route, but without getting bogged down in traffic

• load-balancing and fully using all available resources.

• provide a faster and more reliable experience for people accessing the internet

• content and application owners and network service providers

• faster page loads, faster transactions, and a more consistent online experience.

• improve customer experiences, lower abandonment rates, increase ad impressions, improve conversion rates, and strengthen customer loyalty.

• helping to absorb and mitigate a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

• many of today’s network service providers are finding it necessary to deploy their own content distribution networks.

• can reduce subscriber churn, facilitate the development of value-added services, reduce traffic on the core network, and enable operators to sell CDN services to enterprises and third-party content owners.

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