Benefits of Content Delivery Networks & Future Scope
In today’s digital and Internet age, websites serve as the first point of contact between an outsider and enterprises. Without having a dedicated website, it becomes quite difficult for organizations to establish trust among the potential end-customers. To drive in customer trust, all businesses, irrespective of their sizes, now have their website. Today, various organizations exist across industries like e-Commerce, video sharing, or OTT who run their businesses through websites only. For such organizations, a Content Delivery Network or CDN solution is necessary.
Defining PoP
A PoP or point of presence defines a physical location where multiple CDN Edge Servers are present. Multiple PoP present at different geographical locations forms the entire CDN network. Also, the number of PoPs of a CDN provider has a direct and huge impact on expanding the global reach. PoPs play an important for storing and caching the static content. The static content can be easily cached as compared to the dynamic content.
Rather than the user placing his request to a distant data center (PoP), he can easily do it with localized PoPs, having a much shorter distance. By feeding requests to the localized PoPs, there is a significant decrease in the RTTs (Round Trip Times), resulting in better performance of applications.
CDN providers like ESDS have deployed their multiple PoPs across India for delivering the fastest & cost-effective CDN Solution to their localized users.
Defining CDN Solutions
A CDN depicts a network of data centers along with proxy servers that are geographically distributed. A CDN solution’s core aim is to offer end-customers with localized servers, known as PoPs (points of presence), to reduce latency and enhance load balancing. Low latency in content delivery in real-time results in an improved and faster user experience. CDN providers like ESDS are playing an important role in the Internet domain by offering enhanced user experience. The advanced technologies adopted and applied by these CDN providers are focused on enhancing customer experience using numerous techniques.
How Do CDNs Benefit Websites and Other Online Platforms?
For any CDN Solution, the ultimate benefit they offer is enhanced user experience by reducing latency in fetching real-time data. Other added benefits of a CDN solution includes
1. Reduced Loading Time and Latency
Geographical locations play an essential role in download speed and latency since the CDN will receive and distribute traffic to the nearest available PoP. Hence, a strong CDN network helps reduce webpage loading time and increases the data transmission rate. Nowadays, CDN providers are also using other methods for faster data transmission. They are using advanced technologies for managing the caching servers. The cached content gets distributed as per demand, making it readily available to the user. CDN providers can also increase the user’s incoming requests’ response speed with the caching content placed closer to the customer.
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