April 11, 2001
Some users shift control from hosters to Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
Some users shift control from hosters to Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
CDNs deliver content from geographically dispersed servers (Akamai has 8,000) that sit on the edge of various networks (473 in Akamai's case). Not all CDNs are as big as Akamai, however, and there is the issue of how to deliver content over disparate CDNs, a concept known as peering.
Posted by rshah at April 11, 2001 12:00 PM