A screen shot of EdgeCast's Application Delivery Network interface
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — CDN provider EdgeCast Networks (www.edgecast.com) announced on Thursday it has launched the beta of its Application Delivery Network, a delivery service that optimizes performance of sites running applications and serving content that changes in real time.
Built on the company’s distributed global content delivery network, EdgeCast Networks claims the Application Delivery Network will improve the speed and availability of dynamic content and web applications.
The beta testing shows performance improvements in the 200 percent to 400 percent range “for applications that would not have benefitted from traditional edge caching.”
EdgeCast Networks says it is testing the platform with several customers and expects the service to be widely available by the first quarter of 2011.
“Providing the performance benefits of a distributed CDN platform to non-cacheable applications is in high demand for interactive, personalized, and commerce-oriented websites,” Ted Middleton, vice president of product management at EdgeCast Networks said in a statement. “We have made significant R&D investments in new technology, software optimizations, and network tuning to extend our leading performance into this space.”
EdgeCast Networks says it has made investments in new infrastructure, including updated server configurations and increased memory, to support the new service.
The new platform supports SSL acceleration and includes best practice optimization techniques based on RFC-compliant tuning of TCP/IP and HTTP integration.
“This combination of many small improvements leads to a dramatic leap in capability and enables new classes of service for previously unaddressable applications,” Middleton said.
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