Major CDN Challenges Businesses Should Know About

As the COVID-19 swept across the world, content delivery network providers were rapidly thrust into the spotlight.

FREMONT, CA: Most websites and applications that today's firms interact with every day are run out of one physical location, but the content on sites or applications (like images, text, and video) still needs to travel over wires to the entire globe. The main goal of CDN is to deliver content at top speed to users in various geographic locations, and this is done by process of replication. CDNs offer web content services by duplicating content from other servers and directing it to users from the nearest data center. CDNs are deployed in data centers to manage challenges with user requests and content routing. Here are the key CDN challenges firms should know.

Deliver high-Performance with Low Latency

People everywhere are demanding high-quality content and video without any speed bumps due to latency problems. Although software, hardware, networks, and bandwidth all impact the level of latency, the single significant factor that slows down content is the distance that light has to travel. That's because, for all the mind-blowing gains in technology, one thing firms haven't yet figured out is how to boost the speed of light.

Resiliency

If the demand for streaming increases at scale, there will be problems with maintaining the network resiliency across mobile and fixed and wireless. And so that becomes a problem for the CDN. How do firms deliver to all of these things and make sure that the signal is the same? Make sure that it's an interesting experience, even as firms grow.

Scale up to Meet a Growing Base

Every business needs more customers, but for CDNs, they should be careful what they wish for. Huge bursts in Internet traffic can bring an increased amount of peak usage. Videoconferencing will long remember the third week of March 2020, when a record 62 million downloads of videoconferencing applications were recorded. Once those apps were downloaded, they were rapidly put to use – and have only surged in usage time since then. Technology such as intelligent failover offers uninterrupted service even if one or more CDN servers go offline due to hardware malfunction. The failover can redistribute the traffic to various operational servers.