cotendo

Content Delivery
Cotendo Content Delivery provides high performance, cost-effective, global delivery for all web
content. Cotendo provides a consistently great experience to end-users while providing to the
content provider exceptional control over CDN performance and cost.

New Software

Rapidly increasing volumes of content and constantly evolving requirements for CDN applications
are stretching the limits of what traditional CDNs can effectively address. Cotendo has solved this
problem with a service based on new software. Cotendos agile CDN server software and platform
is built from the ground up for real-time content control and advanced functionality, while remaining focused on maximizing key CDN performance areas of delivery speed and system efficiency.

Cotendo CDN
Applications Suite
Content Delivery
Dynamic Site
Acceleration
Advanced DNS
CDN Balancer
RT Reporting

Benefits

Real-time content control

Advanced delivery control new approach using views & algorithms to manage delivery
Full site acceleration large & small objects, large & small libraries
Real-time reporting real-time traffic and audience view
Global delivery footprint with top-tier network deployment

Cotendo Views

Cotendo Views are a new innovation allowing advanced CDN and content control. Views allow
further content control refinement beyond the default CDN configuration. Cache behavior, content
TTL and browser headers can be variably controlled based on object type, directory, domain and
more with named Views. Views can be layered for sophisticated content control, and flexibly leveraged over any number of domains being accelerated by the CDN.

Real-Time

Management and reporting are via the web-based content delivery manager, Cotendo CASI.
Changes to the CDN via Cotendo XML settings are instantly reflected throughout the Cotendo CDN
service. Cotendo includes a staging function that allows you to easily test and validate new CDN
configurations without impacting production traffic. Reporting is actionable and reflects CDN activity in real-time. Content flush, when needed, is also effected instantly, solving the issue of delay
experienced by other CDNs.

Whole Site Delivery

Cotendo makes it easy to deploy by allowing whole site delivery - simply direct the site through
our CDN and set the desired cache or delivery behavior for the html pages and other data files.
No need to set up a separate CNAME or artificially divide the site, which can be
problematic for some content management applications and existing customer
workflows.

Integrated

Cotendo CDN is used for static object delivery, but it is easily combined with Cotendo DSA (dynamic site acceleration) for accelerated whole site delivery, from
a common platform. Used in conjunction with Cotendo CDN Balancer, Cotendo
CDN can work cooperatively with the content providers own delivery capacity
(Internet + other CDNs). Advanced DNS services are also available that further accelerate and optimize the viewers experience. All Cotendo CDN Applications are
tightly integrated for optimum performance and unified management.
XML configuration and views

Cotendo Content Delivery - Specifications

Origin Domain
Can be URL or IP
Subdomains (including wildcard for all subdomains)

Staging
Test new CDN configuration against current domain/origin
Real Time Reports
Bandwidth
Activity by URL
Activity by Geography
Events

Cache Setting
Methods

XML - set default for all objects

XML - set special settings by views

Custom headers
Settings

User TTL - ttl to send to user browser

Edge TTL - ttl in cache

Overide origin?

Specific folder/object/etc settings via Path Expressions
Set with specific time value, use response from origin, or dont cache on CDN or browser
Validated content set, invalidated content requires conditional-get to origin from cache-server
Whole site delivery, cache or proxy html pages and other data elements.
Path Expressions
Cache, do not cache, special TTL
Specify directories
Specify types of file (jpg, gif, swf, etc)

Flush
Hard Flush - deletes object in cache, forcing cache to fetch object from origin on next request
Soft Flush - tags object with conditional get, so that cache checks if object updated since being cached on next request
Flush by URL / file
Flush by expression instead of URL (includes ability to include or not include URL parameters)
Referrer Settings
Block or allow access to content based on referrer
Set default to block or allow
Views (override default)
Redirect URL - error page/notice on referrer block
Includes blocked URL as argument to track

Custom Header Tags

Custom header - CDN adds to request sent to origin
User Agent - pass user agent through to origin (what else)
Custom Reponse header fields - to send to end user

Management
Cotendo Content Delivery Manager web portal
Origin Control (new/edit/delete)
Origin Staging (publish, restore last published, view published)
Staging status

Not Published (origin created, but config not published)

Published (configuration published)

Published (modified), XML modified but not published

Last Published (last date/time origin published)
CNAME - cname for origin if not using Cotendo CDN Balancer
All configuration done via management web interface - direct server configuration never needed

Cotendo, Inc.
716 Laurel St Ste 3
San Carlos, CA 94070
1-866-749-6462

Cotendo, Ltd
4 Hagavish St, 2nd Fl
Netanya, Israel 42507
+972-9-8653888

www.cotendo.com
info@cotendo.com

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