Content Delivery Cloud

con·tent de·liv·er·y cloud [kón tènt di lívvəree klowd], noun

Definition:

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 end-user computers ("the cloud") to assist in the delivery of content.

Attributes:

  1. 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.
  2. Improves delivery performance by providing data from a virtually unlimited number of servers in parallel.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Utilizes a wide range of delivery strategies. Maximize performance and economics by optimially utilizing all available, appropriate data sources, including origin servers, CDN servers, 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.

See also:

  1. ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud by Reuven Cohen

    2. As we continue our long march from the desktop to the cloud, management of digital assets on a global basis will be a key component.. ... read more

  2. P4P and P4P Working Group

    3. Pando Networks and Verizon co-founded and co-chair the P4P Working Group, whose mission is to work jointly and cooperatively with leading Internet service providers (ISPs), peer-to-peer (P2P) software distributors, and technology researchers to ascertain appropriate and voluntary best practices for the use of “P4P” mechanisms to accelerate distribution of content and optimize utilization of ISP network resources in order to provide the best possible performance to end-user customers. ... read more

  3. Pando Content Delivery Cloud on PandoBlog.

    4. As Pando has worked with our partner content publishers, ISPs and CDNs, we have realized that we have become more than a p2p platform. Pando now provides a delivery platform that utilizes a wide range of delivery techniques and data sources to deliver content as rapidly and efficiently as possible. We call this strategy of utilizing peers, origin servers, CDN servers, and cache servers a Content Delivery Cloud, using a term coined by Reuven Cohen of Enomaly. We believe that this approach combines the benefits of traditional CDN performance and availability with the economics of traditional P2P delivery, and gives content publishers the control to optimize the delivery of their content in ways that have previously been unavailable. ... read more

  4. Content Delivery Cloud on WikiPedia