"This new suite of technologies makes sure content distributors avoid overloading streaming servers, reduces pressure on their
origin servers from cache-misses, and makes sure all users have the highest-quality viewing experience."
The load monitoring functions monitors load of the
origin server and cache servers.
* Note: the term "CDN" is used throughout to mean any server based infrastructure in the form of dedicated streaming servers,
origin servers or traditional content delivery networks such as Limelight Networks.
If the cache ignores the Vary header, or if the
origin server does not send it, cache users can get incorrect responses.
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origin server and proxy cache enabling technology.
If not, it requests the page from the
origin server and saves the output of that page to the cache.
A proxy receives HTTP requests and forwards them to the appropriate server (referred to as the
origin server) for the request to be satisfied.
On TVB.com, a subsidiary of TVB, programming from TVB channels and external sources is ingested and stored on a video server for linear broadcast and replay TV, on an
origin server for VoD delivery, or both.
Each client issues the designated simultaneous accesses severally to a bulletin board system (ASKA BBS [9]) on
origin server. Each client generates designated number of threads.