Content delivery cloud

A content delivery cloud is a system of computers networked together across the internet that are orchestrated transparently to deliver content to end users, most often for the purposes of improving performance, scalabaility and cost efficiency. Extending the model of a traditional Content Delivery Network, a Content Delivery Cloud may utilize the resources of multiple CDN networks as well as end-user computers ("the cloud") to assist in the delivery of content.

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* Utilizes the unused collective bandwidth of the audience. Every content consumer becomes a server, offloading bandwidth demand from central CDN servers, thus cutting bandwidth costs and boosting media monetization margins.
* Improves delivery performance by providing data from a virtually unlimited number of servers in parallel.
* Scales with demand. The more consumers demand a particular piece of content, the larger, better performing and more cost efficient that content's delivery cloud becomes.
* Benefits all participants in content delivery value chain. To be successful, a Content Delivery Cloud must provide value for the content publisher, the Content Delivery Network, the Internet Service Provider, and the content consumer.
* Utilizes a wide range of delivery strategies. Maximize performance and economics by optimially utilizing all available, appropriate data sources, including origin servers, CDN servers from one or more CDNs, streaming servers, cache servers, and peers. Participants in the delivery cloud can include not only desktop computers but also set top boxes, file servers, mobile devices, and any other internet enabled device that produces or consumes content

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