The 1 Content Delivery Stock to Own Over the Next Decade
The population in most major cities has steadily increased over the years, eating up a vast majority of the available wireless bandwidth for commercial devices. As technological advances such as 5G and autonomous vehicles flourish, the information they send and receive will need to be hosted closer to the people using it to ensure better, more efficient performance. Content delivery network Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) could take advantage of both trends over the next decade.
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A network that doesn't use a CDN hosts information physically on banks of servers located multiple "hops" from the user attempting to access it. A CDN moves that information to servers closer to users, at the "edge" of the network. With fewer potential points of failure in between, CDNs give users quicker, more reliable access to the information they seek.
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