A Brief Understanding on Content Delivery Network System

There are many websites sharing numbers of contents on the web. Users just go there and clicks on the download button and download the contents for their own use. Sometimes, users think that he/she have got something to share and goes to any uploading websites or social network and just upload it with two three clicks. But have you ever thought, how this upload turns to a download link to other users or how the video recording going on elsewhere becomes viewable to you? A network runs in the background to let you find your downloads, view the text or graphics or see the live telecasts. This network is the Content Delivery Network System.

What it is?

It is a huge system of deployed servers located at numbers of data centers. Why multiple data centers? This is to provide you the proper bandwidth for upload and download. And why multi-severs? Providing you the high availability and superb performance is their motive.

What are the different contents that are delivered?

• The system delivers five major categories of contents.
• The first one is web objects. This includes text, graphics and scripts.
• The second thing is downloadable files. Under thus section comes the files, documents, media files and software’s.
• E-commerce, portals, online payment modes makes the third category.
• The fourth category is all about live video and audio streaming.
• Social networks come under the fifth and last category, although most widely used.

What is the technology used for CDN?

The technology widely used for the service is the cloud-based services. But in many regions, cloud is unavailable, and again in some places its too expensive. There Content Delivery Network is used with own capacity of server in GBps and own storage capacity in TBs.

What are the Devices or operating systems that are supported?

Among the wide variety of device supported, the most eminent are

• PC for both windows and Mac
• HTML5 players, Flash players and Silverlight players.
• Smartphones like iphones, android and symbian pgones.
• Smart TVs

Few key features that makes the process an unique one.

> Layer Distribution helps to make the download process faster by enabling multi-layer or simultaneous downloading.

> Unique Content protection adds an uniqueness in the entire process.

> Recent trend of hybrid model, where content is shared between two dedicated servers and the peers access the data and downloads in between. This gives the user an additional bandwidth to access the data quickly and smoothly.

So, this is how the assets are distributed on the web. You need a deep access in the system for making your clients get the most out of your products and their features? Then, stop waiting and simply go for it. Share your assets on web by this Content Delivery Network System or want to know more about it? Ok then try to learn something more about the system.

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The writer is an expert in the field of media services with focus on Content Delivery Network Services. For more information visit Visual Unity.

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