Load Sharing
October 1, 2022
Load sharing is the practice of splitting utilization among a pool of resources. It can be implemented in an equal (“balanced”) fashion or one in which balance is not an objective.
Load sharing is the practice of splitting utilization among a pool of resources. It can be implemented in an equal (“balanced”) fashion or one in which balance is not an objective.
A type of proxy server that directs customer requests to the appropriate source server, providing a level of abstraction to the content source and ensuring smooth flow of traffic between client devices and servers.
Cache server located in front of the origin servers in order to enhance their capabilities and offer content to an increasing number of CDN origin access points without increasing the number of origin servers. The downstream CDN elements will fetch the object from the shield cache rather than pulling from
Unicast delivery in IP networks involves a 1:1 data transmission scheme where one host or endpoint is communicating with one other host or endpoint exclusively. Contrast with broadcast or multicast transmission models. Unicast has been heavily used in video with the arrival of ABR streaming, leveraging the HTTP protocol.
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