Content Distribution Networks: An Engineering Approach

by Dinesh C. Verma

Content distribution networks (CDNs) are the most promising new techniques for coping with the huge and swiftly growing volume of Internet traffic. In essence, CDNs are groups of proxy-servers located at strategic points around the Internet and arranged so as to ensure that a download request can always be handled from the nearest server. In this, the first reference in the field, a recognized CDN pioneer describes the various technologies involved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471443417
• ISBN13: 9780471443414
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 9.1"