Chapter 2 E-commerce Enablers Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc.

E-commerce infrastructure companies: E-commerce Enablers E-commerce infrastructure companies: No discussion of e-commerce business models would be complete without mention of a group of companies whose business model is focused on providing the infrastructure necessary for e-commerce companies to exist, grow and prosper. We can say that, these companies are the e-commerce enablers Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc.

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(Left) Traditional scheme of distribution (Right) CDN scheme of distribution A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the Internet. What Does Akamai Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc.