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Choosing the right CDN architecture is no longer just about “having a CDN.” Today, providers use very different traffic steering technologies to decide which edge server (or even which peer) will serve each request. In this article we walk through the main models—DNS-based, Anycast, application-layer steering, multi-CDN, and P2P CDNs—explaining how they work, how they differ, and where each shines.
Modern CDNs are primarily differentiated not only by their footprint or capacity, but by how they decide which edge node [...]