Mobile CDN
Encyclopedia
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.
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.
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
Internet backbone
The Internet backbone refers to the principal data routes between large, strategically interconnected networks and core routers in the Internet...
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
Bandwidth (computing)
In computer networking and computer science, bandwidth, network bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bits/second or multiples of it .Note that in textbooks on wireless communications, modem data transmission,...
costs, improving end-user performance, or increasing global availability of content over a mobile network.