Product Competitive Elements Integrating CDN

Since its birth, the Internet has gone through many stages of development. In order to promote the prosperity and development of the Internet world, there is an increasing demand for CDN.

• Stage 1: Direct access to the source site

All information distribution is on an information superhighway, and at the beginning, when there are few cars (fewer users), everyone can drive normally.

With the continuous popularization of information technology, the number of vehicles on this road increases exponentially, leading to very serious traffic jams (serious network delays). At this time, it is necessary to expand the road network and allow vehicles to be diverted. Cloud manufacturers and server companies have emerged as the times require.

• Stage 2: CDN manufacturers appear

Various manufacturers have established new network channels (cloud manufacturers and CDN companies are equivalent to highway construction and management companies), and have begun to form various road networks throughout the world. Users pay highway tolls and drive on highways. However, due to the fact that highways in the Internet world are not managed uniformly but managed by various highway companies themselves, many vehicles in this world can only choose one or several highway companies.

Problems: Due to the closure and fragmentation between multiple vendors, it is difficult to quickly identify and locate problems, and it is difficult to grasp the entire network status, resulting in users being stuck in traffic or being stuck in traffic, and it is also impossible to actually find the nearest highway intersection to get off (because it may be that the corresponding cloud manufacturer does not have an intersection nearby, only other families have one)

• Development Phase III: Convergence of CDN

Convergence CDN is equivalent to a navigation and integrated toll collection platform. Firstly, Convergence CDN assists customers in planning the optimal home route (similar to Baidu Navigation). Customers do not need to consider which highway company this road belongs to, but just need to drive home normally, and then pay a fee to the integrated CDN platform. Convergence CDN platform helps customers uniformly settle accounts with different highway companies (cloud manufacturers), The emergence of converged CDN has added great convenience to users.

The main considerations for distinguishing the quality of a converged CDN manufacturer are:

1. How many manufacturers are included

To establish business cooperation with more manufacturers, only if there are enough manufacturers to connect can customers have a greater probability of free passage, and it is also the most convenient for users. In the early stage, it is generally at least necessary to connect mainstream CDN manufacturers to ensure the basic use of users.

2.Predictive ability of network monitoring

Intelligent Convergence CDN does not require CDN nodes, but requires a sufficient number of monitoring nodes, coupled with professional network monitoring companies, channels, and customer monitoring systems, to be able to grasp the status of CDN nodes, operator backbone networks, customer sources, HTTPS certificates, DNS resolution, and other conditions in real time, and to collect sufficient data information. Real-time merging, denoising, and correlation analysis of the data collected by various monitoring methods can identify problems in the first time and form conclusions that can be used by the scheduling system or operators for decision-making.

Therefore, the key to integrating CDN is not to be able to switch, but to be able to control the quality of the entire network at any time, detect network traffic bursts or failures at the first time, quickly locate problems, and then make scheduling arrangements. The entire process is smooth and efficient. For example, there are many expressways from Longgang to Nanshan. Currently, most integrated CDNs provide you with a pass to ensure that you can walk on multiple roads. If you cannot walk on this road, you can switch to another one. However, a truly integrated CDN should have the navigation function of Baidu Map or Gaode Map, which can tell you in real time which roads are easy to walk with fewer cars, which roads are slow in case of accidents, and which roads are under renovation. Never go

3.Positioning ability of data analysis

The intelligent fusion CDN manufacturer’s big data system should not only be able to conduct real-time analysis of monitoring information, but also preferably be able to achieve learning evolution. For example, its threshold value will be automatically adjusted based on historical data, achieving automatic discovery of normal business fluctuations and abnormal changes. (There are possible variables in the analysis of period usage, job change reasons, historical big data, etc.)

4.Decision making ability of intelligent scheduling

The intelligent scheduling system is linked with the monitoring and analysis system to make intelligent scheduling decisions based on the fault level. For availability failures, node failures, abnormal status codes, etc., it automatically switches based on the set threshold value; Conduct manual optimization for abnormal situations such as network jitter, download speed, and response time.

The final feature of a user-friendly intelligent fusion CDN should be that due to its numerous channels, it can implement a quality first scheduling strategy after finding faults that are difficult to solve, automatically scheduling first, and then solving the problem, with almost no user awareness.

5.How to help customers reduce costs

A management system has been configured to control the operational status of the entire integrated CDN platform, achieving comprehensive control from basic data to operation, maintenance, and operation. Whether it is resources, services, status, task system, API system, or monitoring, scheduling, billing, and problem follow-up, it is globally controllable. For customers, this is reflected in ease of use. Whether it is to increase or decrease channels or change configurations, they only need to communicate with the Fire Umbrella Cloud platform.

At the same time, it can also optimize costs for users: for example, when all channels are open, intelligent optimization helps customers choose manufacturers with lower costs (lower traffic costs). Choose the most convenient channel to exit when the network starts to become congested.

At the same time, it can help customers save the cost of cooperating with multiple manufacturers at the same time (for example, many large manufacturers have the initial cost of cooperation), while cooperating with integrated CDN manufacturers only needs to pay the actual cost share.