What Is a Content Delivery Network?

1	What Is a Content Delivery Network? How does it work? content delivery what network asked Sep 22 '10 at 22:04 Craighton ♦♦ 16.6k●115●207●329

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Essentially, it's a bunch of servers holding the same data spread across the geographic network in order to provide content faster to you. Instead of getting a resource from Russia (for instance), you could get it much faster from within your own country, or at least the nearest server. So, instead of everyone using the bandwidth of a centralized server, the traffic load is inherently decentralized across multiple servers.

Source: Content Delivery Network on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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0	It is a means of transmitting information such as Cable tv, Satellite and internet.... answered Sep 22 '10 at 22:11 dudestein1958 1

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