VK is developing its own CDN (“Content Delivery Network”) to prepare for increased traffic in case YouTube is blocked in Russia. Forbes writes about it citing sources from the telecommunications market and from the company itself.
CDN is a geographically distributed network of servers that store copies of content on demand. It helps to download content from a nearby point, rather than from a central server that may be located far away.
VK is currently negotiating with major operators to install the company’s caching servers. Creating a CDN is supposed to speed up users downloading video content. VK itself claims that the construction of the CDN is due to the growing popularity of the company’s service. Last year, the traffic of the VKontakte social network more than doubled.
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