Content Delivery Networks

Frontispiece

Provides the reader with comprehensive insight into the structural decisions that can to be made when architecting a content distribution system that uses IP‐based networks

The narrative of this book draws on a wealth of real‐world and practical experience that the author has accrued through two decades of coalface experience architecting and delivering large, mission critical live video, webcasts, and radio streaming online, over both the Internet and private IP networks.

From this loosely defined “tradeperson’s” standpoint, rather than the often explored tightly academic or business‐sales point of view, this book takes a broad, humored, and at times pencil‐sucking look at the art of building content delivery workflows.

Topics Include

• Delivery of live, catch‐up, scheduled, on‐demand, TVOD and SVOD
• CDN topologies including edge‐caching, stream‐splitting, Pureplay, Operator, Satellite, and Hybrid
• Computation hosting and orchestration in models such as dedicated appliances and virtualization
• Format considerations and achieving adaptive, format resilient operator networks and backbone infrastructure
• General comments on market forces over cycles and eras of evolution of these technologies

This book aims to talk in backroom engineers’ English about the challenges faced in the real world, and to stimulate the reader to think extremely broadly about the options and problem spaces, and how to ensure that delivery is always, at the least, “good enough” for the ...