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SUMMARY:Let’s speed up the Internet\, fast! - Prof. Ankit Singla - ETH Z
 ürich
DTSTART:20171115T110000Z
DTEND:20171115T120000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:Content Delivery Networks reduce latency for Web services by l
 ocating Web content as close to users as possible. However\, this approach
  requires establishing and maintaining an expansive global infrastructure.
  The limits of such infrastructure\, together with poor last-mile latencie
 s in many parts of the World\, imply that for many users\, latency to even
  their nearest CDN nodes remains high. We thus explore the converse model 
 for Web page delivery: that of users establishing their presence globally 
 to form a Content Gathering Network\, and leveraging these points of prese
 nce to obtain faster Web page load times. This approach rests on a simple\
 , but crucial observation: most Web services are consolidated within a sma
 ll number of cloud data centers. We show that orchestrating proxies at the
 se data centers\, coupled with the use of simple transport optimizations\,
  can reduce page load times by more than 50% for users distant from Web se
 rvers. This design is immediately deployable\, without any changes to Inte
 rnet infrastructure or at Web servers\, at a cost of less than $1 per user
  per month. Further\, our analysis suggests that it can nearly match the p
 erformance of a well-optimized CDN\, without needing similarly extensive i
 nfrastructure.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Room \, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 21 Station Road\, 
 Cambridge\, CB1 2FB
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