Bruce Maggs Duke University Akamai Technologies Carnegie Mellon University delivering content to the next billion
driving forces Next billion devices connected to the Internet will largely be cell phones 500 million people will be moving to cities in India and China by 2030 (?) Justin Bieber reportedly will release new music and videos only on the Internet
prologue In 1993, a man arriving in an undeveloped village…Pittsburgh… had a dream To run an X server at home But there was no broadband access at home… no cable, no DSL
WaveLAN
asymmetric networking
serving the masses Buoyed by his success, the man set out to improve the lives of the truly downtrodden… the graduate students in his department
Glenville, WV In 2003, set out to bring broadband to rural Appalachia
Motorola Canopy Pre WiMAX
installation on towers
deployment
Perryopolis, PA Began installation of Canopy-based system Within weeks, Verizon announced deployment of DSL
15 Akamai’s services Domain Name Services – FirstPoint Images appearing on Web pages Embedded downloads Streaming video Full site delivery - SiteShield
16 traffic statistics (2009) 30,000+ domains 1.1 Tbps daily peak traffic 274 billion hits / day 274 million unique client IP addresses / day in 2010 expect to deliver more bits than in combined
17 network deployment Servers 950+ Networks 67+ Countries POPs
18 deployment Initially deployed in large commercial co-location centers Today deploy and serve traffic mainly from partners: universities, large companies, small ISPs and ISPs in other countries
19 challenges for next 1B Need enough users sharing interests in commercial content to justify the cost of a server Streaming audio and video is more difficult to cache Web 2.0 content is more difficult to cache
20 hybrid CDN-P2P systems Akamai’s “Download Manager” Client side software utilized by certain content providers 10M active on any given day 20M+ installed? 3M+ active simultaneously 20% P2P downloads