Measuring a commercial content delivery network

• DOI: 10.1145/1963405.1963472
• Publication Date: 2011-03-29T12:02:18Z
• Authors: Sipat Triukose; Zhihua Wen; Michael Rabinovich
• Keywords: Content Delivery; Content delivery network

Content delivery networks (CDNs) have become a crucial part of the modern Web infrastructure. This paper studies performance leading content provider - Akamai. It measures current Akamai platform and considers key architectural question faced by both CDN designers their prospective customers: whether co-location approach to platforms adopted Akamai, which tries deploy servers in numerous Internet locations, brings inherent benefits over more consolidated data center pursued other influential CDNs such as Limelight. We believe methodology we developed for this study will be useful researchers arena.