A content delivery network is an interconnected distributed system of proxy or cache servers deployed across numerous data centers that use geographical vicinity of the user as a benchmark for delivering web content. The goal of a content delivery network is to allow effective functioning of internet by serving content to end-users with zero latency and high performance. Rapidly ballooning base of internet users has played a huge role in transforming the market of content delivery network service provision. Content delivery networks serve a majority of the internet content today, comprising of downloadable objects like media files and software, web objects like text, graphics and scripts, live streaming media, on-demand streaming media, and social networks. Content suppliers such as e-commerce vendors and media companies pay content network delivery operators to deliver their content to their batch of end-users. The content delivery network servers store multiple copies of content on strategically dispersed servers at different locations. Caching or replicating of such content help enterprises to remove the data load from source servers, thereby speeding up the delivery of content requested by plethora of clients at the same time, efficiently and in a secure manner.
Content Delivery Network Market: Segmentation
Content Delivery Network is segmented on the basis of solution, end-user, service provider and region. By solution, content delivery network market can be segmented into media delivery solution, web content optimization, cloud & content security, analytics & monitoring and other solutions. Content Delivery Network market can be segmented according to end-user which includes small business, medium business and large enterprises. By service provider, content delivery network market can be segmented into conventional CDN provider, telecom CDN provider and other CDN providers. Regionally, content delivery network market can be segmented into North America,...