1. Chapter 2
E-commerce Enablers
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2. 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
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4. (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
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