Overview [1]#

Content Delivery Network or content distribution network (CDN) is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers.

Content Delivery Network goal is to distribute service spatially relative to End-Users to provide high availability and high performance.

Content Delivery Networks serve a large fraction of the Internet content today, including web objects (text, graphics and scripts), downloadable objects (media files, software, documents), applications (e-commerce, portals), live streaming media, on-demand streaming media, and Social Websites.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• AWS CloudFront
• Akamai
• CDN
• Cloudflare
• GCP Networking Products
• State of the Internet-Security Report

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• [#1] - Content_delivery_network - based on information obtained 2017-07-17-