Content Delivery Network

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A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a way to provide content like HTML, images, and video to student browsers and apps.

CDNs use multiple servers in case one server or network goes down, another server can provide the content. In addition, CDNs try to use a server that is close to the client (student) so that they can get the data as fast as possible.

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