Making Your Content Available to a Global Market

The Planet’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) service, delivered via our partnership with EdgeCast, offers a superior, cost-effective global solution that gives our clients competitive advantages in the delivery of digital media. This world-class content delivery system provides customers the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery network, while liberating them from, capital investments and operational hassles.

What is a Content Delivery Network?

Rapidly Distribute Web Content

A Content Delivery Network is an interconnected network of computers that rapidly distributes web content to end-users by caching that data on multiple servers and delivering it based on the user’s geographic location. Since the edge-caching servers are placed near end-users, latency and delivery times are lowered.

Increase the Maximum Number of Concurrent Users

A Content Delivery Network drastically increases the maximum number of concurrent users that can access your data. If your Web site is on a server with a 1Gbps connection to the Internet, only a gigabit of data can be delivered per second. When your data exists on 10 edge servers, each with a 1Gbps connection to the Internet, the total amount of data that can be delivered to end-users increases to 10 gigabits per second. This is an order of magnitude more than your server alone.

In a Content Delivery Network deployment, your server acts as the origin server for your data. The Content Delivery Network edge servers cache the digital content on your origin server based on parameters that you define within your content delivery system interface.

The EdgeCast Network

Global Footprint

The Planet content delivery system is distributed to strategic global locations from which to store and serve our clients’ content. We maintain content caching Points of Presence (POPs) in San Jose; Los Angeles; Ashburn (Virginia); New York; Chicago; Dallas; Atlanta; Seattle; London; Frankfurt; Hong Kong; Tokyo; and Sydney. All POPs are strategically located near primary Internet Exchange Points. This places our servers at the center of global network peering and traffic exchange, and puts your end users just milliseconds away from your content.

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