1、 CDN market is booming
With the rise of the mobile internet, the increasingly obvious trend of the Internet of Things, and the explosion of high data demand formats such as live short video, the total amount of Internet data has increased exponentially. The continuous growth of the size of Internet users and traffic demand is the driving force and source of CDN’s rapid growth. Under the dual catalysis of the global 5G scale commercial use and the COVID-19, online office, teaching, entertainment, and games will become the norm. The demand for content distribution and traffic surge, thus promoting the rapid growth of the CDN market, and the rapid rise of cloud services and video enterprise CDN service providers. By the end of last year, 1278 enterprises in China had obtained CDN licenses, of which 446 had obtained nationwide business licenses. According to statistics, the global CDN carrying capacity in 2022 will reach 252 EB/month, with more than 72% of the global traffic carried in CDN networks, and the global CDN market size will reach 30.89 billion US dollars.
From the perspective of the global Internet development pattern, the future data center will present a two-polar layout trend of “cloud data center+edge data center”, and CDN will play an important role. The demand for the edge data center and the edge end user side will certainly make the CDN market overlap in the edge side, the edge data center, and the edge computing service capabilities, creating new growth points for traffic distribution. Under the background of 5G, IoT technology and digital transformation, CDN will evolve from content distribution to value transmission, and become a powerful driving force for enterprises to improve efficiency, optimize operation and intelligent application.
2、 Domestic and overseas manufacturers are booming
Enterprise internationalization has become an inevitable trend and an important strategic choice for the long-term growth of Chinese enterprises, and is the key for enterprises to build long-term competitiveness and become world-class enterprises. Achieving rapid growth, enhancing business resilience and helping cutting-edge innovation are the three main factors that drive Chinese enterprises to go global. In recent years, China’s enterprises are also at the peak of large-scale outward development. Whether it is manufacturing, gaming, e-commerce, short video, or new retail, more and more players are starting to join these tracks.
We also know that many Chinese enterprises have very mature services and reliable models in China. The first step to go out is to copy successful experience. These industries rely heavily on digitalization, so it is crucial to quickly build and use reliable servers and CDNs. For almost all overseas enterprises, the first hurdle to face may involve how to operate their websites/APP at high speed. If this aspect is not done well, the customer experience is poor, or the data cannot be unified, it will directly lead to difficulties in subsequent expansion, There are numerous Chinese enterprises that have suffered losses in this regard.
Different from the perfect network infrastructure in various aspects in China, the development of different countries in foreign countries is uneven. Even Amazon, the world’s number one company, cannot achieve full coverage. There are always many blind spots in nodes. This problem is common. Basically, it is difficult for a single manufacturer to achieve global coverage, which also leads to if only a single CDN manufacturer provides services for customers, Inevitably, there is a dilemma of imperfect coverage and incomplete service. With more and more domestic enterprises going to sea, domestic CDN manufacturers are also further expanding the construction of overseas nodes. However, due to the relatively late start of domestic mainstream CDN industry development (the giants in traditional CDN such as Netsu and Lanxun were mainly focused on domestic layout), the layout nodes of domestic manufacturers abroad are mostly not many, and only a brief layout has been made in key cities of mainstream countries. For large domestic manufacturers going to sea, There are certain risks in terms of coverage, stability and acceleration effect.
Based on this special situation, Umbrella Cloud is an enterprise that focuses on providing professional CDN services for domestic and overseas merchants. Umbrella Cloud’s integrated CDN integrates more than 30 top CDN manufacturers in the world. It is one of the few integrated CDN platforms in China that truly realize real-time monitoring, intelligent positioning analysis and intelligent scheduling decision-making, and is also one of the few enterprises in China that truly realize the official landing of the global integrated CDN acceleration business.
3、 Why does Umbrella Cloud choose to integrate CDN mode
Fire Umbrella Cloud has made a very detailed survey of the CDN industry. There are more than 40 well-known manufacturers in the world. The explosive development of the CDN market directly leads to a large number of idle resources in the entire CDN industry. If Fire Umbrella Cloud can integrate these resources well, it can achieve the so-called integrated CDN.
Unlike traditional CDN service providers and new public cloud service providers, Umbrella Cloud CDN products integrate high-quality nodes from mainstream CDN manufacturers around the world through technical means to achieve intelligent scheduling and accelerated management services with full business processing capabilities. The umbrella cloud fusion CDN adopts a fusion architecture, with larger bandwidth capacity reserves, more refined link control, and more intelligent scheduling management, which can meet the requirements of users for multiple types of content management and distribution, ensure the continuity of user services, and provide stable and fast network access quality. Convergence CDN breaks the dilemma of limited node resources and scheduling capacity of a single CDN manufacturer, breaks through the limitations of geographical time and different operators, and uses the above resources to solve the problems in actual scenarios through a powerful intelligent scheduling strategy, which can bring better service effects, more stable quality and relatively lower service costs.
Some people may ask why fire umbrella cloud should be fused? The core reason is that Umbrella Cloud believes that at present, there is almost no single manufacturer in the world market that can truly achieve full worldwide coverage, and such cost and energy cannot be achieved by a single manufacturer. In addition, the CDN industry has moved from the original blue sea market to the red sea of competing for resources and prices, so there are many advantages of adopting the integrated CDN model, including comprehensive coverage and no blind area (some gray areas appear in some marginal areas, that is, areas without node coverage). Through the idea of integration, it can achieve node coverage in any region and achieve node level mutual backup. Convergence can create CDN products stably and quickly, and at the same time, it can also reduce the traffic cost as much as possible, so as to optimize the quality and cost for users. In every international region, it is practically difficult for a single manufacturer to spread nodes to every corner. At this time, by adopting the integration method, the entire global network can be integrated together to provide high-quality CDN services for the whole network, so as to achieve the goal of Umbrella Cloud: to provide users with a comprehensive, stable and high-performance CDN.
On the other hand, integrated CDN is also much more stable than a single manufacturer. For example, most customers with a bandwidth of tens of gigabytes or more do not choose only one CDN. There may be many reasons, such as mutual backup, introduction of competition, better service quality, or some manufacturers’ CDNs have no resources in some areas, poor service quality, etc. While Umbrella Cloud can evaluate the node performance of each CDN manufacturer’s region through its own fusion technology and evaluation criteria, so as to improve the overall network performance.
4、 Intelligent scheduling enables real-time and accurate distribution of CDN
When a user needs to access the CDN, when the data needs to be accelerated, it will enter the acceleration process of integrating the CDN. For example, in a certain place in Southeast Asia, Umbrella Cloud will first judge, find the most suitable manufacturer and manufacturer nodes in the current region, and allocate them to customers. If the corresponding nodes do not perform well, Umbrella will try to use intelligent scheduling to access the resources of other manufacturers.
In order to achieve the accuracy of scheduling, the scheduling method adopted by Umbrella Cloud is also the most mainstream scheduling method in the market that combines DNS scheduling and HTTP DNS scheduling. Umbrella Cloud ensures user experience through real-time monitoring, fusion scheduling, and quality operation, and removes the nodes with poor performance in time, and selects the best resources together.
At the same time, Umbrella Cloud has spent a lot of technology in building monitoring systems. If you want to do a good job of intelligent scheduling, you must first do a good job of monitoring. Because if you don’t know what’s wrong with your CDN, you can’t schedule it. However, since the nodes that fuse CDN are not their own, how to achieve monitoring? How to monitor without even knowing IP? Umbrella Cloud uses Spider capture here. A set of resource coverage is defined according to the CName assigned by the manufacturer after configuration. Umbrella Cloud will use Spider to capture the global coverage node distribution. Although the local DNS of the entire Internet can not transmit IP, it can still be captured with Spider. In Shenzhen, you can also simulate the IP of the United States, Europe and other regions, and request the authoritative server. Then you can know how many nodes these physical addresses are covered. With this data, you can count the authenticity of the coverage provided by the manufacturer.
5、 Umbrella cloud can provide customers with comprehensive node coverage
The previous article also said that a single manufacturer can hardly achieve the worldwide coverage of nodes without blind spots. However, because of integrating the resources and nodes of the world’s mainstream CDN manufacturers, the umbrella cloud fusion CDN can maximize the user’s needs in node coverage.
As the first CDN manufacturer in China that focuses on serving overseas customers, Umbrella Cloud has achieved the maximum distribution of nodes in CDN at present, and will also be able to provide customers with better CDN services.
List of countries and cities where the Umbrella Cloud Fusion CDN nodes are distributed:
（1） Europe and America
North America
United States (Los Angeles, California, Miami, New York, Seattle, San Jose, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Santa Clara, Washington, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, San Francisco, Boston, Denver, Portland, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Vancouver, Nashville, Detroit) Mexico (Mexico City, Cretaro) Canada (Toronto, Montreal)
Europe
Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Boli), Ukraine (Kiev), Belarus (Minsk), Britain (London, Manchester), France (Paris, Marseille), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Spain (Madrid), Italy (Milan, Rome, Palermo, Lombardy), Sweden (Stockholm), Germany (Frankfurt, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich) Austria (Vienna), Poland (Warsaw), Finland (Helsinki), Denmark (Copenhagen), Belgium (Brussels), Ireland (Dublin), Romania (Bucharest), Portugal (Lisbon), Moldova (Chisinau), Bulgaria (Sofia), Latvia (Riga), Switzerland (Zurich), Czech Republic (Prague), Hungary (Budapest) Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Greece (Athens), Norway (Oslo), Croatia (Zagreb)
（2） Asia Pacific (except Chinese Mainland/Middle East):
East Asia: Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, China (Taipei, Kaohsiung), Japan (Tokyo, Osaka), South Korea (Seoul, Seoul), Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
Southeast Asia: Singapore (Singapore), Thailand (Bangkok), Philippines (Manila), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Myanmar (Yangon), Cambodia (Phnom Penh), Laos (Vientiane), Indonesia (Jakarta, Surabaya, Batam), Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi), Brunei (Sri Lanka)
South Asia: India (Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Nagpur, Patna), Bangladesh (Dhaka), Nepal (Kathmandu), Sri Lanka (Colombo), Pakistan (Islamabad, Hyderabad)
Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek), Kazakhstan (Almaty), Georgia (Tbilisi), Armenia (Yerevan), Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Cyprus (Nicosia), Azerbaijan (Baku)
Australia: Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Perth, Adelaide), New Zealand (Auckland), Fiji (Suva)
（3） Middle East/Africa/Latin America
Middle East: Kuwait (Kuwait City), Qatar (Doha), Oman (Muscat), Israel (Tel Aviv), Türkiye (Ankara), Iraq (Baghdad), Saudi Arabia (Jeddah, Riyadh), United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Fujairah), Lebanon (Beirut), Bahrain (Manama), Yemen (Sanaa), Jordan (Amman)
Africa: South Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town), Djibouti (Djibouti City), Kenya (Nairobi), Madagascar (Antananarivo), Mauritius (Port Louis), Egypt (Cairo), Tanzania (Dodoma), Ghana (Accra), Angola (Luanda), Nigeria (Abuja)
South America: Brazil (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza), Colombia (Bogota, Valencia), Peru (Lima), Ecuador (Quito), Chile (Santiago), Argentina (Buenos Aires)
