Kontiki: Shortcuts for Content's Trip to the Edge

摘要

When electronic files get zapped from one location to another, you probably aren't thinking about the physical distance they must travel―or how that distance might affect the time it takes to get there. But if you work for CDN company Kontiki, this is just about all you think about. Championing a P2P-like "bandwidth harvesting" technology, Kontiki has figured out how to not only quickly distribute content to the "edge" but to utilize a combination of centralized servers and a network of end-user machines to collect, or "harvest," underutilized bandwidth and make redundant file requests more efficient.