Digital Island was the first company to deploy Cisco LocalDirector and DistributedDirector together. LocalDirector maximizes Web site performance by supporting more than 1 million simultaneous TCP sessions, providing fault tolerance to Internet services and supplying more than 45 Mbps of throughput. By balancing user requests across multiple servers, Cisco LocalDirector helps Digital Island make good on its commitments to optimize responsiveness and system capacity, ensure scalability, and reduce the cost of providing large-scale Internet, database, and application services. DistributedDirector presents end users with a single link that transparently directs them to the best server. With DistributedDirector, Internet traffic to dispersed server sites remains localized.
Customers benefit from improved Internet service performance and transmission cost savings.
Mirroring Content Digital Island's content delivery services move content closer to the end user-an approach that fortifies the company's SLA guarantees. Mirroring technology replicates content directly in the receiving country, enabling Digital Island customers with noncacheable content, such as authenticated FTP files and encrypted and compressed software packages, to reach global end users. The company posts customers' content to a secure staging area that transparently replicates the content across Digital Island's network to content distributors for worldwide, simultaneous delivery. End users are transparently directed to the nearest mirrored site, making their online experience consistent, reliable, and fast. We're using Cisco DistributedDirector to find the closest mirrored location for a given customer site, and thus we maintain ownership of content.