Content Delivery
A special type of Internet service provided by “content delivery providers (CDPs)”
- A CDP stores Web files for its client closer to the client’s potential users
- Akamai, a CDP, operates 10,000 servers located near busiest NAPs and MAEs
- Servers contain most commonly requested web info for some busiest sites like yahoo.com
- When a user access a client’s site, a software in client’s server looks for an Akamai server (closer to the user)
- Akamai server sends the static files, the client’s server sends the dynamic files of the site