Loosing servers? Zen wouldn't lose any servers by paying Akamai. Akamai has it's own servers, the content is replicated to the local Akamai servers from your ISPs servers. From there it is then replicated out to various other Akamai nodes round the world. At the end of the day Zen is paying to have more servers in more countries around the world. Access to the content from Zen is faster since it has more routes to it and those routes may be shorter than going direct and thus more people want to use them. By using Akamai they are also gaining a certain level of stability, in that connectivity issues and downtime are less of an issue as the content is replicated to multiple locations on multiple ISPs.Blackmesa8 said:
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Roman4604
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Got to agree with Blackmesa8. To my knowledge the content publishers (e.g. MS, Apple, ATI etc.) are Akamai's customers and they are the ones paying. The value of the Akamai service to them is to provide their customers (the content downloader) a better quality of service.
ISPs hosting Akamai nodes are partners of Akamai, tho I'm not sure if Akamai pay the ISP to host or whether it's a barter agreement e.g. Akamai supply servers & ISPs provide hosting & bw.
The value for the ISP to partner is they give their customers a better quality of service as popular files are on their local network & they save their upstream bandwith, as each file is only transfered once (to the hosted Akamai server(s)).
ISPs hosting Akamai nodes are partners of Akamai, tho I'm not sure if Akamai pay the ISP to host or whether it's a barter agreement e.g. Akamai supply servers & ISPs provide hosting & bw.
The value for the ISP to partner is they give their customers a better quality of service as popular files are on their local network & they save their upstream bandwith, as each file is only transfered once (to the hosted Akamai server(s)).
Blackmesa8
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Roman4604 said:
Yeh now that sounds more logical, thats prolly whats happening. before i just couldn't see why zen would pay akamai for servers and bandwidth usage that wouldn't make THAT much diffarance for them as there users could access the contant anyway from akamai's costomers *quicktime nortan and microsoft* anyway from there own servers*.