Content Distribution Networks (CDN) Flashcards
4.1.15
1
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Content Distribution Network
A
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.
Often referred to P2P (peer - to peer)
2
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Goals of Content Distribution Network
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Provide multimedia performance quality through the concept of distributed data hosts, geographically distributed, closer to groups of customers
Provide geographic and logical load balancing lower latency and higher quality throughput.
3
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Examples of CDN
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Video and Audio streaming
Software downloads
4
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How Vendors address security concerns
A
Offer DDOS protection
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
