Does the fact that CDNs have to store multiple copies of the same information pose a scaling problem? It seems like the amount of data needed to be stored would be very large.
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@eourcs, yes, and so Akamai specializes in having huge servers for replicating data across regions.
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The average coast to coast network latency in the US is about 71 ms, which could be a noticeable delay when viewing something like a high resolution video. This is the reason why physical locality of CDN servers is important
Does the fact that CDNs have to store multiple copies of the same information pose a scaling problem? It seems like the amount of data needed to be stored would be very large.
@eourcs, yes, and so Akamai specializes in having huge servers for replicating data across regions.
The average coast to coast network latency in the US is about 71 ms, which could be a noticeable delay when viewing something like a high resolution video. This is the reason why physical locality of CDN servers is important