Get Out of the Red Sea Dilemma, Integrate CDN to Help the CDN Industry Optimize and Upgrade

In 1998, Tim Berners-Lee and Tom Leighton invented the CDN. China's CDN development began in 2003, and there are nearly 30 CDN manufacturers in the entire market. These vendors can be divided into traditional CDN vendors, cloud CDN vendors, P2P CDN vendors and converged CDN vendors. The development of the first three types took more than ten years. The integrated CDN has only been developed in recent years, but it has developed rapidly in a short period of time. Vendors such as Yunzhidu, Qiniu, and Ucloud have successively made efforts to integrate CDN.

The reason why converged CDN appears is that there are some insurmountable difficulties in the traditional CDN service mode. Therefore, the integration of CDN is inevitable for the development of the industry. Why do you say that? Under normal circumstances, it is not enough for customers to purchase services from only one CDN provider. A single CDN service provider is too risky. If a major failure occurs to the service provider, the service will be interrupted and unavailable. In addition, resource reserves are limited in case of traffic bursts. In this way, the CDN industry has evolved a parallel mode of multiple service providers. Traditional CDN services generally use one master and multiple backups. The main CDN traffic is consumed on the master side. Once the master side fails, it will be switched to the backup side. This model has further led to the use of disadvantages, namely limited scheduling space, poor stability, and high management costs. These are the three major pain points for customers in the CDN industry.

And because of competition, while CDN manufacturers continue to use resources and technology to break through network restrictions, they also limit the CDN industry itself due to mutual resource closure. It is the status quo of CDN services to break restrictions while self-enclosed. In this state, the CDN service has a bottleneck that is difficult to break through.

An effective way to solve this problem is to break the restrictions of regions, time, and different operators, so as to solve network congestion and improve user experience. Every CDN manufacturer is emphasizing how many nodes it owns and its own scheduling capabilities. In fact, cross-platform scheduling can play its greatest role only if all manufacturers' nodes can be owned by users. Connect more and more nodes to an open scheduling platform, configure an intelligent scheduling system, and once connected, customers can enjoy multi-vendor high-quality resource services. Therefore, open integration can effectively resolve this contradiction, which is an industry trend and the logic behind the birth of integrated CDN.