A content delivery network distributes your video content across multiple servers in different geographic locations. Instead of every viewer connecting to a single origin server - potentially thousands of miles away - viewers connect to the nearest edge server that has cached a copy of the content. This reduces latency, improves startup time, decreases buffering, and distributes the bandwidth load across multiple servers.
AnubizHost streaming CDN hosting provides both the origin infrastructure and edge delivery network your video platform needs. Your origin server handles ingest, transcoding, and content management. Edge servers deployed in multiple locations cache your content and serve it to nearby viewers. The result is a professional-grade video delivery network that scales to audiences of any size while maintaining low-latency, high-quality playback everywhere.
For live streaming, CDN architecture reduces the load on your origin server by letting edge nodes handle viewer connections. Your origin produces the live stream once and distributes it to edge nodes that each serve hundreds or thousands of viewers. This means your origin server only needs enough bandwidth for the edge connections, not for every individual viewer - a dramatic reduction in origin server requirements.