Mobile CDN
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A mobile content delivery network or mobile content distribution network (Mobile CDN) is a system of computers networked together across the Internet that cooperate transparently that are designed and located to specifically deliver content to end users on any type of wireless or mobile network. Most often a Mobile CDN is used for the purpose of improving performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, like a tradition CDN, but with the added intelligence for device detection, content adaptation and technologies to solve the issues inherent to mobile networks which have high latency and higher packet loss and huge variation in download capacity.
[edit] Technology
Mobile CDNs have integrated mobile delivery services that optimize for live video streaming, on demand video and asset delivery. These services include device detection, image rendering, video transcoding and bit-rate adaptation.
CDN nodes are deployed in multiple locations, often over multiple backbones directly connected or peered with Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). These nodes cooperate with each other to satisfy requests for content by end users, transparently moving content to optimize the delivery process. Optimization can take the form of reducing bandwidth costs, improving end-user performance, or increasing global availability of content over a mobile network.
[edit] Commercial Mobile CDN's
- Cotendo Mobile Acceleration Suite (MAS)
- Mobilecdn
