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The Case for a Virtualized CDN (vCDN) for Delivering Operator OTT Video

Akamai’s Licensed CDN (LCDN) is a cloud-native solution that is seamlessly deployable on various physical infrastructures, virtual infrastructures, or a combination of the two. When instantiated as a virtualized CDN (vCDN), it can operate across a range of virtualized infrastructures such as public clouds, private clouds, conventionally virtualized data centers, as well as all types of network functions virtualization (NFV) deployments at different operator network vantage points. This paper motivates the case for vCDN by addressing specific challenges faced by operators in delivering OTT video, and how such challenges can be solved through a step-wise path to virtualizing network infrastructure.

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