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What Is a CDN and Why Do You Need One?

Most websites and applications that we interact with every day are run out of one physical location, but content on the site (like images, text, and video) still needs to travel over wires to the entire world.

For example, if a website’s servers are based in New York City, people in Boston will get the content faster than people in San Francisco or Tokyo. The farther away customers are from a company’s data center, the slower the website or application loads — creating an inconsistent and frustrating user experience.

Content delivery networks can help solve this problem.

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Featured Tech / InfoTech

What Is a CDN and Why Do You Need One?

Most websites and applications that we interact with every day are run out of one physical location, but content on the site (like images, text, and video) still needs to travel over wires to the entire world.

For example, if a website’s servers are based in New York City, people in Boston will get the content faster than people in San Francisco or Tokyo. The farther away customers are from a company’s data center, the slower the website or application loads — creating an inconsistent and frustrating user experience.

Content delivery networks can help solve this problem.

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IT Infrastructure

Next-Generation CDNs: Extending Customer Applications to the Edge

Websites and mobile applications can’t afford to use outdated content delivery networks (CDNs), according to this new 10-page report from Gigaom Research: “Next-generation CDNs: Extending Customer Applications to the Edge,” by Ernie Regalado.

Traditional content delivery networks were designed to cache static content, and can’t handle the dynamic content of today’s web and mobile applications. This research report explains how you can get high performance, accelerated content delivery with a next-generation content delivery network.

Key Takeaways:

  • Next-generation CDNs are the answer to delivering dynamic content because they can purge dynamic content in real time, making them better suited to the needs of interactive web apps, mobile apps, and APIs.
  • Modern CDNs offer huge savings because they don’t have to deal with legacy infrastructure and are built for dynamic content acceleration.
  • Customers using a modern CDN can improve visitor metrics across all categories, including better conversion and retention, more interactions, and optimized page load times.

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ServiceNow ServiceWatch Economic Impact Study

These services underpin almost every business function, ranging from manufacturing and supply chain through to customer service and online sales. Because of their critical nature, business services need to be highly available and responsive – any disruption has a major financial and customer impact. For example, if an airline reservation system is down for as little as one hour, this can affect more than $2 million worth of customer bookings. Even a more modest failure, such as an outage that prevents a limited number of employees from working, can result in costs in excess of $30,000 per hour. This is in addition to intangible damages such as loss of customer goodwill.

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