A closer look at a Content Delivery Network implementation

Abstract-- Success in Internet applications involves user interactions whose quality is mainly affected by application response time. Content Delivey Networks (CDNs) have shortly appeared as a distributed solution to serve content faster than contacting a centralized server. Their effectiveness has been showed by larger com panies such as Akamai and Speedera. However, there is currently a certain gap about implementations issues of this technology, and only arquitectural designs and performance reports are published. This article tries to describe a CDN from a different point of view, paying much attention on the implementation process of a CDN. I