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CDN investment for Fastly

We have spoken before about Fastly’s content delivery network and how it is revolutionising the CDN space. The unique service offers a software-centric as well as an innovative approach that improves data caching speeds through the use of high performance solid state drives on all their servers. These drives are much faster compared to traditional mechanical drives and can reduce seek times dramatically. Now Fastly are announcing increased CDN investment.

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Asian CDN growth for Highwinds

Asian CDN locations are fast becoming amongst the most popular means for content delivery network providers to boost their network performance. We have written extensively on the trend for large CDN providers to establish Asian CDN bases and point of presences (PoP), and now Highwinds is the latest big name player to expand their presence in the region.

Asian CDN

This month, Highwinds announced that they are developing their Asian CDN with a new point of presence in Manila,

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CDN downloads for Apple’s iOS 8

CDN downloads are renowned for their speed. Thanks to the way content delivery networks cache a website’s data to multiple points of presence around the globe, data is served to end users much more quickly as they are routed to the server closest to them. This reduces latency and increases bandwidth, resulting in high speed downloads and increased end user satisfaction.

CDN downloads

It is because of this that Apple has been developing a new in house CDN to replace their reliance on Akamai and Level 3’s networks.

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