CDN Manager

Overview

Bringing content to the edge is the most effective way to maximize an end users Web experience - using the Excedo DNS powered by Dynect Platform CDN Manager product is the most effective way for customer's to maximize the performance of their existing CDN (Content Delivery Network) and bring other CDN's into the mix. With the Excedo DNS powered by Dynect Platform's CDN Manager, customers can now take advantage of multiple CDN providers simultaneously for failover, load balancing, load shaping and distribution. Customers can use CDN Manager to adjust the amount of traffic each CDN is sent, allowing customers to test new CDN providers with some portions of their traffic and not cutting over 100% of traffic at a given time, risking their stability.

How does it work?

CDN providers assist organizations in delivering streaming video, audio, downloads and other rich media to users in the fastest way possible. These providers have done this by architecting and deploying worldwide, distributed computer networks capable of maximizing throughput to users by directing them to local servers rather than to one central server. Due to the complexity of these CDNs, many rely on IP routing technologies such as IP anycast as well as the global DNS system to optimize delivery to users, to provide geolocation services and to target users accessing these websites. For the customer (mid-business, enterprise, rich-media, or social media site), the CDN will provide a DNS hostname as the "entry point" into the Content Delivery Network. While this methodology affords Company X control of which CDN provider they choose to send requests to, it gives them no capability to send traffic to multiple CDN providers simultaneously by weight or in a failover scenario. CDN Manager does

What problems does CDN Manager solve?

Managed services like DNS are different from network engineering. While network services require their own expertise with routers and switching, this expertise rarely translates to expertise in services like DNS. DNS and other managed services are not only focused on the network availability but also server operating systems, software updates, load-balancing, customer interfaces, and physical server limitations.

Risks that are eliminated compared to using other solutions?

Limiting the customer to a single CDN.

Benefits achieved by using CDN Manager

Reduced costs, additional flexibility with network design and performance.