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Content Delivery

ALSO CALLED: Content Distribution, Content Caching, Content Delivery Networks, Web Content Delivery, Content Delivery Services, and Content Distribution Delivery
DEFINITION: On the Internet, content delivery (sometimes called content distribution, content distribution delivery, or content caching) is the service of copying the pages of a Web site to geographically dispersed servers and, when a page is requested, dynamically identifying and  … 
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CONTENT DELIVERY DEFINITION (continued): …  serving page content from the closest server to the user, enabling faster delivery. Typically, high-traffic Web site owners and Internet service providers (ISPs) hire the services of the company that provides content delivery.

A common content delivery approach involves the placement of cache servers at major Internet access points around the world and the use of a special routing code that redirects a Web page request (technically, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP … 
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