Internet content delivery is a core service that runs on the RollingThunder network. Highwinds' content delivery network includes nearly half a Terabit per second of server capacity, distributed geographically in North America and Europe, and has worldwide delivery capabilities. The network serves content in all leading industry formats - Windows Media Server, Adobe Flash Streaming Server, and HTTP downloads.

A Powerful, Reliable Way to Move Content

The Highwinds content delivery network comprises a robust network infrastructure and user-friendly software that, working together, optimize and vastly simplify content delivery.

Our content delivery network enables web content, file downloads and streaming media to be efficiently distributed to caches at various locations around the world, and then accessed from those caches. This distributed architecture enables users to access content faster by obtaining it from a cache that is geographically closer to them and also less heavily loaded than the web server where the content originates.

The primary components of our content delivery network include:

• RollingThunder™. A high-performance network that consists of state-of-the-art routers and multiple 10 Gbps fiber connections between all data centers.
• RollingThunder DFS™. Reliable and trusted file management software developed over five years - providing high-speed replication with proven scalability.
• RollingThunder Doppler Server™. Routing software that automatically delivers content through the fastest, most efficient route.
• StrikeTracker™. An intuitive browser-based dashboard application that interacts with our network to provide content management and reporting functions.
• Peering Relationships. We have peering relationships in place with major ISPs and cable MSOs, which lower delivery costs and improve network efficiencies.

Proven Distributed Messaging Bus Technology

Highwinds' content delivery network incorporates our proven and highly scalable distributed messaging bus technology. The Highwinds messaging bus is both high-volume and high-speed. It sustains traffic loads of well over 1 Gbps and reliably propagates messages around the world in a matter of seconds. Fault-tolerant, better-than-linear scaling permits the entire network to rapidly resynchronize after a network outage, with no intervening loss of service.

Highwinds' advanced technologies underlie critically important advantages of the RollingThunder network over the competition in the areas of peering, real-time analytics, instant account provisioning, rapid content deployment, complete content control, and massive scalability.

Tap into Highwinds' Advanced Technologies to Meet Your Content Delivery Requirements