Launching A Content Fabric

Distributing digital content, especially video, is the largest single use of the Internet. Content distributors have relied on a mix of central servers connected to a large storage library, combined with distributed edge content delivery servers. These edge-servers store the most active content, preloaded into them from the central server. This setup is shown below (from the eluv.io NAB show 2019 presentation) and is referred to as a content delivery network (CDN). CDNs are the backbone for most content delivery systems and…