Increasing Need for Video CDN
Thanks to the increasing interest in the digital world, many activities have transitioned to the internet environment.
Content such as videos and live streams became more common and became popular.
In addition to the increasing content, the audience watching this content started to increase at the same rate and reached large volumes.
The increasing quality of the content and the high audience capacity of live broadcasts make it difficult for content owners to respond to incoming requests with high performance.
The Video CDN service, which emerged as a response to this need, aims to facilitate the transmission of both VOD and live broadcast content.
What is CDN (Content Delivery Network)?
CDN ensures that requests for your content are answered as soon as possible. There are CDN servers located in many parts of the world. While these servers deliver your content to the end-user by transmitting the content received from your main server to the end-user, it also caches this response.
In this way, subsequent requests to the content are answered with caches hosted on the nearest server. The request travels less because it goes to the nearest CDN server instead of getting the content from the main server.
What Does the CDN Service Do?
As the distance between the request and the place where the content is answered becomes shorter, the RTT (Round Trip Time) value, which indicates the response time of the content, decreases. A decrease in this value indicates that your content loads faster on the client.
It can be expected that the increase in the response speed of the content will contribute positively to the SEO performance.
On the other hand, you can prevent a common cyber-attack such as DDoS that may come to your main server. Thanks to the high bandwidth of CDN servers, you will not be harmed even if such an attack is encountered.
In this way, you can save on the ‘maintenance and repair costs’ of your main servers which requires less maintenance.
What Does CDN Stand for?
CDN stands for "Content Delivery Network".
What is Video CDN?
Video CDN is an advanced CDN structure that enables content such as video and live broadcasts to be accelerated using CDN technology.
Videos are larger in size than HTML and other website content types. For this reason, it is just as difficult for the videos to respond to the incoming request.
The only difference between Video CDN, which has the same logic as the known CDN service, is that the service is for video content.
Video contents are kept on CDN servers, and the closest CDN server to the request point answers the request. Thus, Video CDN allows your videos to respond faster to incoming requests.
How Does Video CDN Work?
Like other types of content on your site, your videos, games, and live streams are also accelerated by CDN technology. Your content is kept on CDN servers by caching. After CDN service usage starts, requests start to be cached & answered from CDN servers.
In addition, you can improve the quality of your CDN service with the "Load Balance" feature in our Merlin Video CDN service. You can reply to your video content from the closest and most available CDN server with the "Load Balance" feature.
The Load Balance feature allows you to control the density of your CDN servers to which you send replies. In this way, incoming requests are answered from the other available CDN server instead of waiting in line on the same CDN server.
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How Does a Video CDN for Live Streams Work?
The functioning and structure of the CDN service, which is used in live broadcasts as well as in videos, are the same. Since live broadcast is a kind of video content, the only difference between the live broadcast content is that it appears.
What are the Benefits of Video CDN?
In general, many high-quality videos, games, and live broadcasts negatively affect the speed of websites. The reason for this is: The increasing size of the content is the factor that mostly affects the response time (RTT).
Watch Your Video Content on Your Site Without Freezing
Websites with high-dimensional content should use Video CDN to improve their user experience. It is difficult for the visitor to tolerate the sudden freezing of the image while watching the video on the site.
Video CDN will be a good tool to avoid video stuttering.
This is because websites with high dimensions need a good user experience. To achieve this goal, websites need to be as fast as possible.
In Video-on-Demand content, the content is pre-loaded on the relevant platform. Why Live Streaming Platforms Need to Use CDN?
Don't Let Your Broadcast Be Affected by a Sudden Audience Increase
As with any live broadcast, the number of viewers may increase suddenly and this can negatively affect the broadcast flow. For this reason, the technical team controlling the broadcast flow should determine the actions to be taken before the broadcast in order to control these sudden change in audience numbers. Otherwise, there will be no return during the live broadcast.
For this reason, the use of CDNs by live broadcasting platforms can be beneficial in minimizing the problems that can be caused by the sudden increase in live broadcast traffic. In this way, CDN services basically try to prevent live broadcast platforms from freezing or crashing.
Such negative cases both cause the viewers to have a negative user experience and reduce the quality of the live broadcast in general.
You Must Protect Your Live Stream From Cyber Attacks!
Digital meetings where collective communication is provided, such as webinars and conferences on certain topics, are of great importance. Such live broadcast meetings with valuable information exchange are also highly likely to be manipulated.
In order to ensure the security of live broadcast streams, CDN can organize a stronger broadcast stream against malicious people who want to sabotage live broadcast platforms, thanks to the firewall (WAF) it contains. In this way, there will be no disruption in the performance of the live broadcast.
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Uninterrupted Broadcasting Around the World
With the power of the Internet, communication becomes easier for people. Live broadcasts from one place can be easily watched all over the world. One of the most important points for live broadcasts addressing viewers from different countries is the uninterrupted progress of the broadcast stream.
Thanks to the CDN service, which is used for broadcasting without interruption, people participating in your live broadcast from different continents can watch the broadcast without any problems.
Visitors farthest from you can have a quality viewing opportunity by accessing the broadcast from the closest CDN server. This can help increase the likelihood of your live broadcasts getting more likes and followers. While popularity is an important point for live broadcasts, it increases awareness significantly.
Minimize Latency
Delay times, which are one of the factors that affect the user experience the most, can cause live broadcast viewers to lose their desire to follow the broadcast and leave the live broadcast.
Not being able to understand what is spoken during the broadcast, even for a short time, or to miss the sudden events due to high latency while watching, may cause the decrease of sympathy for the broadcast and the broadcaster gradually.
Do Not Depreciate Your Brand
The quality of the live broadcast in online seminars or such collective events that you will implement on behalf of your brand in the digital world may affect your brand name positively or negatively. Low-quality live streams can damage your brand or add another boost to your brand awareness after a successful event.
It should not be forgotten that organizing live broadcasts is a method that has important effects on expanding the customer portfolio and increasing brand awareness. It is known that customers give importance not only to products or services, but also to brand itself.
For this reason, it will be beneficial for you to use CDN service in order to ensure that your online broadcasts are safe and hassle-free.
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