Apple building its own CDN – content delivery network?

As Apple continues to develop its new data centers in North Carolina, Nevada and Oregon, it could have greater plans to develop a content delivery network (CDN) to deliver content to its iTunes and iCloud users.
 

Analyst Dan Rayburn with Frost & Sullivan believes that Apple is looking to expand its CDN capabilities, but it isn't sure just how in-depth the system will be. Currently Apple uses Akamai and Level 3 to handle most of its distribution needs for the App Store, iTunes, and iCloud, though its data center initiative gives it a good base of operations for distributing content as well as storage for user data.


With iTunes and iCloud, Apple controls the data and the service, but must outsource the less visible and yet still incredibly important job of reliably delivering data packets to users. With hundreds of millions of users downloading apps, music, TV shows and movies, ensuring quality of service for all users will be essential.


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