E176: Content Delivery Solutions from IBM Hungary

(Győző Nagy, IBM Hungary, Networking Solutions Services)

Solution Provider companies (like IBM, Cisco and others) proposed and implemented number of methods to cure the continuing problems of WEB service performance degradation, which can be characterised as network transport bottlenecks and WEB server weaknesses.

We briefly outline such new buzzwords such as 'Content Routing', 'Content Switching', 'Content Edge delivery' or 'Internet vs. Enterprise CDN', and point out how those can be used to implement scalable, cost effective, safe, reliable fast and user friendly WEB infrastructure - to satisfy the ever-growing demand of information hungry customers.

Finally, we give a concise information about IBM Hungary's offering in the field of Content Delivery Networking.