Cotendo CDN Balancer
at-a-glance

• Flexible management of resource allocation by geography, time and weight
• Precise, granular control of performance and cost-of-delivery
• Load balancing across multiple CDNs and origins and support for multi-CDN strategy
• Real-time reporting and configuration changes
• Quick, simple deployment requiring no changes to your current systems

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Cotendo CDN Balancer

Precise allocation of delivery resources to balance performance and cost-of-delivery

The challenge

Many content providers lack the agility and control necessary to respond quickly to fluctuating global demands by adjusting delivery resource allocation, either within their own network or between different CDNs. When infrastructure limitations and Internet traffic conditions slow content delivery, you lose money, yet maintaining surplus delivery capacity to assure performance and business continuity has its own costs.

Cotendo’s answer

Cotendo CDN Balancer gives you the control and tools for savvy resource utilization based on rules and real-time conditions such as weighted allocations, geography or time of day. By using Cotendo CDN Balancer to optimally allocate content distribution across your own delivery resources, Cotendo CDN and other CDNs based on their unique advantages, you will mitigate risk through redundancy while balance performance and cost-of-delivery.

Features and benefits

Optimization of your content delivery resources

Cotendo CDN Balancer enables you to control costs and performance by optimizing utilization of your in-house resources, Cotendo Content Delivery and third-party CDNs, while assuring the reliably excellent user experience. To attain additional oversight and control, you can use Cotendo Site Assure to automate content balancing based on customizable measurements and rules.

Granular control based on criteria you define

Through Cotendo’s unified Web-based management interface, Cotendo CDN Balancer enables you to create customized rules for content delivery policies and resource utilization. For example, if your current infrastructure performs well but expansion into new markets has taxed its capacity, Cotendo CDN Balancer can shift content distribution to your CDN only during peak traffic in specific regions.

Real-time configuration changes, for capitalizing on business insights

Know now, act now. That defines Cotendo, and the Cotendo CDN Balancer is no exception. Configuration changes perpetuate instantly across the network. There’s no reporting lag or propagation wait. If your latest marketing campaign spikes afternoon traffic in Japan, shift resources now. If breaking news has the entire U.S. checking the Internet, shift resources now. Take sophisticated, real-time control over multi-CDN performance using Cotendo CDN Balancer.

Tools for orchestrating your multi-CDN strategy

A multi-CDN strategy can prove invaluable for resilience, expense control and business agility. Cotendo CDN Balancer empowers you to use redundancy more strategically, optimizing utilization of your own delivery capacity in conjunction with CDN providers that may have a geographic or scale advantage. You can set rules for how traffic is allocated based on geographic location, geographic distance from a defined target, time of day, weight and more. If you weight resource allocation—for example, 40% of total delivery through your own network, 40% through Cotendo Content Delivery and 20% through another provider—you can adjust that allocation instantly, at any time.

Quick, flexible implementation requiring no changes to your existing system

Cotendo CDN Balancer requires no modifications to your existing architecture or system outputs, so you can deploy it within minutes.

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