# Overview

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Enhance user experience with a fast and cost-effective CDN that accelerates
asset delivery, caches content across multiple locations, and ensures nearby
servers handle user requests. This CDN offers high availability to meet growing
demands, employing modern protocols and a robust global infrastructure for
optimal performance and security. Leveraging the Akamai Intelligent Platform's
extensive reach, content is delivered quickly and securely worldwide.
Ducksify's partnership with Akamai streamlines deployment, offering an
efficient and consolidated solution for edge delivery.


## Terminology

CDN (Content Delivery Network)
: A geographically distributed network of servers designed to deliver content
  efficiently to users based on their location.

Edge Server
: A server positioned close to end users that caches and delivers content,
  significantly reducing latency.

Origin Server
: The primary server where the original version of your content is stored and
  managed.

Cache
: Content temporarily stored on edge servers to accelerate delivery and reduce
  the load on the origin server.

Caching
: The process of storing content closer to the user to enhance performance and
  speed up access times.

Hit / Miss
: A *Cache Hit* occurs when content is found in the CDN cache, allowing for
  faster delivery. A *Cache Miss* occurs when content is not found in the CDN
  cache and must be retrieved from the origin server.

TTL (Time To Live)
: The duration for which cached content remains valid before it needs to be
  refreshed or revalidated.

PoP (Point of Presence)
: A physical data center location where CDN servers are deployed to improve
  content distribution.

Purge
: The act of removing content from the CDN cache, typically to force an update
  to the cached copy.

Latency
: The delay between a user's content request and the actual delivery of that
  content.

Throughput
: The volume of data transmitted over a network within a specified time frame,
  often used as a measure of network performance.

Request Routing
: The process of directing a user's request to the nearest or most optimal edge
  server to ensure efficient content delivery.


## Features

This CDN solution ensures 100% content delivery, boosts download completion
rates and supports modern protocols like HTTP/2 and IPv6 for enhanced
performance. QUIC support overcomes delivery challenges and enriches user
experiences. The Akamai Intelligent Platform delivers rapid assets from a vast
global server network. At the same time, Ducksify integration offers
a seamless, efficient edge delivery service.

Get Started Quickly
: Deploy CDN in front of your S3 compatible Object Storage buckets from the
  same interface you are already using.

Volume Based Pricing
: Zero fixed fees, no commitment - just a simple, three-tier pricing model.
  Flat rates across regions worldwide.

Leveraging Akamai Network
: Highly distributed CDN with more than 4,170 locations in 134 countries around
  the world

World-class Delivery Availability
: Align your brand with service predictability amidst increasing consumer
  expectations. Our CDN will serve your content 100% of the time.

Improve Download Completion Rate__
: Through better, reliable, and secure performance.

Modern Protocol Support
: Ability to leverage HTTP/2 to provide better efficiency, performance and
  security, as well as IPv6 for traffic routing across the internet.

QUIC Support
: Address the fundamental challenges of delivery over the internet to create
  a more engaging experience for all end users.

Leveraging the Akamai Intelligent Platform
: Instantly serve your assets from the most pervasive, highly-distributed CDN
  with approximately 300,000 servers in 134 countries and nearly 1,400 networks
  around the world.

Powered by Ducksify
: We have partnered with the CDN experts from Ducksify, member of the Akamai
  NetAlliance Partner network, to provide you with a simple, integrated service
  to the Akamai Edge Delivery Network.