SiteVision Serves Up Content Delivery Networking

Roanoke, VA May 2, 2010: It's a reality of life these days. Large, complex sites with complex content require new ways of delivering that content without stalls, hiccups, and tedious download times. For example, media or document intensive websites can slow to a crawl when user demand outruns server capacity.

A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is an innovative way to resolve many of the issues associated with high-demand websites. CDN is essentially a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network. A client accesses a copy of the data near to the client, as opposed to all clients accessing the same central server, so as to avoid bottleneck near that server. Content types include web objects, downloadable objects (media files, software, documents), applications, real time media streams, and other components of internet delivery (DNS, routes, and database queries).

The advantages of CDNs can be dramatic by dynamically distributing assets to strategically placed redundant core, fallback and edge servers. CDNs deliver automatic server-availability-sensing with instant user redirection and can offer 100 percent availability, even with large power, network or hardware outages.

Other technical advantages of CDN technologies include greater control of asset delivery and network load. They optimize capacity per customer, provide views of real-time load and statistics, reveal which assets are popular, show active regions and report exact viewing details to the customers.

While a few very large internet providers have their own CDN'S, it is fairly rare. As a provider of CDN services, SiteVision solutions reduce costs while dramatically expanding storage and bandwidth delivery. A customer solution can be virtually unlimited, and, surprisingly, can be set up quickly and efficiently.

Among specific CDN advantages are:
• Edge caching of media to 30 pops around the world
• On demand and instantaneous live event broadcasting and/or VOD and Flash and Windows media delivery solutions
• Dependable access to and delivery of large corporate media or file libraries
• The ability to distribute/deliver large amounts of content to a large and geographically dispersed user base
• Increased speed for large websites with lots of static content
• Granular control of and statistical analysis of content
• Quick and easy live streaming of content for live events, church webcasting, training and education.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions you might have about this advanced new option.