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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2010
Timothy N. Weller, Cambridge, MA (US);
Charles E. Leiserson, Cambridge, MA (US);
Timothy N. Weller, Cambridge, MA (US);
Charles E. Leiserson, Cambridge, MA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Boson, MA (US);
Abstract
A CDN service provider shares its CDN infrastructure with a network to enable a network service provider (NSP) to offer a private-labeled network content delivery network (NCDN or 'private CDN') to participating content providers. The CDNSP preferably provides the hardware, software and services required to build, deploy, operate and manage the CDN for the NCDN customer. Thus, the NCDN customer has access to and can make available to participating content providers one or more of the content delivery services (e.g., HTTP delivery, streaming media delivery, application delivery, and the like) available from the global CDN without having to provide the large capital investment, R&D expense and labor necessary to successfully deploy and operate the network itself. Rather, the global CDN service provider simply operates the private CDN for the network as a managed service.