Choosing Between Multiple Content Delivery
Networks and Load Balancing: Cotendoʼs CDN
Balancer
One of the new companies jumping into the Content Delivery Networking (CDN) arena is
Cotendo.
They are a fairly new CDN Service Provider and are solely...
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Choosing Between Multiple Content Delivery
Networks and Load Balancing: Cotendoʼs CDN
Balancer
One of the new companies jumping into the Content Delivery Networking (CDN) arena is
Cotendo.
They are a fairly new CDN Service Provider and are solely focused on the CDN market.
Cotendo s strategy is unique: break into the business by capturing some of Akamaiʼs market
share in the Dynamic Content area (Dynamic Site Acceleration).
Not a bad strategy.
If nothing
else, you have to give them some kudos for their uniqueness.
Theyʼve also added a wrinkle to that overall strategy by releasing a CDN Load Balancing product.
It s very adjustable.
The real time conditions for adjustment rules are:
• Weighted allocation
• Geographic location (region, country, state)
• Geographic distance (proximity to defined geographic target)
• Time of day
• DNS based rules / policies via XML configuration
• Any combination of the above
Letʼs examine some use cases:
Weighted Allocation – a customer can con
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